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For those of you looking to donate time, money, food, etc., for victims in the Gulf region please consider the following webpage as a source of:
Grassroots / Low-income / People of Color-led Hurricane Katrina Relief
Where to donate to organizations who are:
- Organizing at the grassroots level in New Orleans, Biloxi, Houston and other affected areas
- Providing immediate disaster relief to poor people and people of color
- Directed by, or accountable to, poor people and people of color
- Fostering the democratic inclusion of poor people and people of color in the rebuilding process
Grassroots / Low-income / People of Color-led Hurricane Katrina Relief
By Mike Ferner
In the “old days” of the U.S. peace movement, when many people focused on the threat of a global nuclear “exchange” an organization called Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) postulated what would happen if a major American city was actually blasted by an atomic bomb.
The doctors described utterly horrific scenarios extending far beyond the numbers of dead and severely wounded. In plain words they described what the few survivors would experience: a landscape that not only had sustained unimaginable casualties, but which had also suffered the destruction of its transportation and health care infrastructure. No ambulances would arrive with lights and sirens to whisk away the suffering. Doctors, nurses, blood plasma, pain killers, antibiotics, bandages – all would be destroyed along with the hospitals and highways.
As difficult as it was to picture such a reality, the hardest thing to imagine was that in a nuclear war there would be no “outside” from where help will come. When every major city suffers the same fate as yours, no one “out there” can help you. “Out there” is all gone. Instantly, in city after city, life becomes a contaminated, pre-industrial struggle for survival.
By Monica Benderman
www.bendermandefense.org
War is promoted. Anti-war responds.
Anti-war protests. War counters.
Somewhere in the middle is the truth.
Peace.
Freedom to make a choice.
Sgt. Kevin Benderman sits in confinement at Ft. Lewis, Washington. His crime? Making a choice. He chose Peace.
Our friend Vicki Johnson has sent Voices the following 2 poems about our other friends Um Haider and her son Mostafa who live in Basra, Iraq.
Vigil on behalf of 3 “prisoners of conscience” to be held in Lawton, OK — Event is planned to show support for soldiers being jailed for refusing to fight in Iraq.
