Day 3 Hurricane Katrina Relief provided by Veterans For Peace Impeachment Tour Bus members Pat, Freddy, Gordon and Dennis

Day Three kicked off fast and furious. We woke up to a trailer sent in from Crawford, Texas The Peace House loaded up the stuff and Michael and his daughter made the drive. When Michael left Covington to go home, he took one passenger to Hammond, where the VFP Mendocino President Pat Tate put a hundred of his own dollars out to get our guy to Memphis; Michael also took a mother and daughter to Houston on his way back.

We are hearing offers from as far away as Cleveland for housing. And after Michael arrived, Ian arrived from Texas, and a bus load of supplies arrived. The names elude me now, the driver is from Santa Cruz. he bought a bus in Kentucky. After stocking it up, he drove here. Than.... he went out and evacuated victims from the Airport and got them to our shelter. He is now out restocking the bus and bringing it back. James, from Camp Casey, is here. He took a crew into New Orleans and did boat evacuations. Footage is hopefully coming soon from the journalists he transported. He is a wonderful point man, a veteran for peace, and he can show you the way to Lake Orleans. He came back full of Spirit, and we are preparing an evacuation tomorrow with all vehicles on premise. Trucks arrived throughout the day. Fred Danforth oversaw the collection of thousands of tons of food and supplies, while Alex, Ella’s mom from Camp Casey, ran the outreach programs for the communities. We were able to distribute food in Covington and Folsom today. The Mayor of Folsom has been AWOL for over a week, and they are in desperate need of support. This is only day three, and we can expect to find more communities all over this region like this when the dust settles. On location here at Casey we were able to distribute an incredible amount of food to local residents in the Covington Community as well. Now that they know we are here and have something to provide other than MRE’s, they are visiting us at our base camp and have obtained everything from Toothpaste to Pinto Beans, and they are talking about places we need to go, and people who need supplies. VFP donations replaced a starter for Jaime’s truck, from Camp Casey who is here with her step son Wally, as her truck is the one that has made all the food distributions that have been done. VFP donations paid for the water pump and fly wheel replacement for a local resident who needed a few dollars to get on the road. We continue to request support from the world, we think the failure of this government to address the basic human needs of its citizens is not only criminal but it is beyond treason.