Chuck0 posted:
Military requests medics from anarchist relief project
By Chuck Munson Infoshop News (news.infoshop.org) September 16, 2005
New Orleans (by way of Kansas City) – Several activists with the Common Ground Clinic visited central New Orleans on Thursday, as officials announced that Algiers would be “open” on Monday and the central business district later next week. They made contact with mutual aid groups that have been organized by locals and attempted to make contact with people in the many areas that haven’t been assisted by the Army, Red Cross or FEMA. The volunteers with the Common Ground Clinic are hoping to set up some satellite street medical clinics around the devastated city. Jamie “Bork” Loughner, a volunteer with the Common Ground Clinic, criticized the authorities for their willingness to sacrifice the health of city residents in order to open a few hotels next week.
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Chuck, thanks for posting these reports and for the work you're doing with community run and focused relief agencies.
Around here, you and your anarchist colleagues take a lot of flak for being, allegedly, 'pie-in-the-sky'ers' but the aftermath of Katrina has shown the effectiveness of the grassroots, mutual aid model.
What's most impressive to me is that even while the neo-libs make their plans to turn New Orleans into a "free market" mecca, others, such as Common Ground, are decisively moving, with at least as much dedication, to put their own dreams into action.
.d.