Fw: Impeachment Movement Responds to Bush's Speech

Don't forget- Alameda/Contra Costa impeachBush meetup will get together Monday evening Sept 26th, at the Temescal Cafe, 4920 Telegraph Ave, in Oakland.  Email me if you are coming.  Tell your friends, bring a group.

 

Impeachment is peaceful, legal, democratic. 

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace, Carol Wolman

 

Subscribe Impeachment Movement Responds to Bush's Speech We need your support to bring Impeachment to the White House door! Please make a much needed contribution now for the growing costs of this demonstration - from many thousands of signs and flyers to buses to help get people to DC. Help us fill the streets with ImpeachBush banners and placards - and people! Click here to donate. Dear Carol , George Bush went to New Orleans tonight. In the devastated city, he brought generators to provide electricity solely for his elaborate photo-opportunity. Those guilty of criminal negligence rarely have an opportunity to go on national TV for nearly a half an hour to camouflage and conceal their criminal conduct. This is precisely what George Bush did tonight on prime time national television. Two weeks after the fact, Bush and the spin doctors at Fox News and other corporate media are now attempting to do damage control - that is, political damage control, not human damage control. Bush's handling of the Katrina catastrophe, and the actions of the administration prior to the hurricane, constitute a clear pattern of criminal negligence and gross misconduct. Here are just a few of the facts that highlight the criminal negligence and Presidential misconduct: The Bush administration is spending $200 million each day or $1.4 billion each week for its criminal war of aggression in Iraq Despite the fact that scientific experts had widely publicized predictions of the coming catastrophe in New Orleans, the Bush administration was hell bent on diverting resources to the Iraq war, while it slashed funds for flood control operations in New Orleans. Bush's war on Iraq left the Corps of Engineers only 20% of the needed funding to protect New Orleans from flooding from Lake Pontchartrain. Before the Iraq war, FEMA officials warned of a looming disaster in New Orleans. The Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA) is authorized by Congress to protect the people of New Orleans and the port facilities as well as oil refineries. After the start of the shock and awe invasion of Iraq however, SELA's monies were diverted. The Times-Picayune, the daily newspaper of New Orleans, published numerous articles during the last two years citing the danger caused by the loss of hurricane protection funds to the war in Iraq. Bush has taken the money needed to protect and serve the needs of society and spent it on his war of aggression against the people of Iraq, on multi-billion dollar contracts for his corporate friends, and on tax cuts for the super-rich. Although he turned away as hundreds of people - including babies and the elderly - drowned and starved, now he is compelled to at least pretend to take action. This is not out of concern for the well-being of the suffering people, but concern for his popularity - the people of the United States have turned against his criminal administration. The impeachment movement has responded powerfully to the criminal neglect and subsequent charade of the administration. Thousands of organizers around the country are preparing to make the trip to Washington DC on September 24. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark will be speaking at the White House on the Ellipse calling for Impeachment. You can help mobilize a massive contingent for the September 24 National March on Washington DC. This is a demonstration initiated by the peace movement and is shaping up to be the largest demonstration since the beginning of the Iraq war. We will make the demand "Impeach Bush" highly visible throughout the day. The ImpeachBush movement will be assembling at the south side of the White House (an area called the Ellipse at 11:00 am). You can pick up ImpeachBush banners, placards, signs, literature, hats, and petitions. We need volunteers to help us dispatch people and materials starting in the early morning of September 24. If you can help out, please send an email letting us know your availability to be an ImpeachBush.org volunteer. We have one week left - we need your help today to make impeachment resound at the White House and throughout the streets of Washington on September 24. In the last few weeks, 30,000 new people have voted to impeach in our grass-roots referendum. Every day people are taking petitions and literature and spreading the word. Others are making generous donations to help this work continue. We are asking you to make a contribution today. If you have never made a donation please consider doing so now. If you have donated before, please help again. You can make a donation by clicking here where you can also get information to write a check. -All of us at VoteToImpeach/ImpeachBush.org

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Fw: people's clinic in NO- inspiring! MD's needed

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Anna Marie Stenberg

To: Recipient list suppressed

Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:24 PM

Subject: Algiers Clinic Update and Important Info. For Clinicians coming to New Orleans

FYI

please pass to medical people you know.
thanks
am

Dear everyone,
  I'm posting an update on the Algiers Clinic, and how things have been going in New Orleans. We're now calling the clinic Common Ground, and we're referrring to the staffing as part of the Mutual Aid Collective of Algiers.  The clinic is located on 1401 Teche St, and our phone is 504-361-9659.
  The clinic is coming together amazingly well. We've had many drop-offs of medications, herbs, and other first aid/healing supplies from folks all over the country, including Cindy Sheehan, who came by yesterday with her colorful peace caravan. We have at least five working glucometers, plenty of BP cuffs (though we could use more to hand out to residents in the community), a million gloves, bandages, and a medicinal formulary that is now quite comprehensive, including insulin and many other common and not so common prescription drugs. In short, we are not lacking basic medical and first-aid supplies. We have several experienced massage therapists, an accupuncturist, and multiple herbalists on site, who've been kept very busy. We have alot of other basic supplies for folks in the communty, including ensure, diapers, flashlights--you name it--and folks have been coming by to pick things up throughout the day. We're taking every opportunity to incorporate community members into the working of the clinic, offering lessons on taking blood pressure, chart organization, and multiple other clinic tasks, and we're hoping to expand this work as more displaced residents return the neighborhood, which still remains quite empty. We want to start free classes on health care and healing, and maybe other topics as well. Malik has been totally inspirational in his leadership and experience, guiding us in outreach to other parts of the West Bank section of New Orleans, and hopefully soon the East Bank, where we hope to establish other satellite clinics. We have an active home outreach program going on, involving EMT bicycle patrols, in which we visit people who can't make it into the clinic, and for folks who have medication needs that we can't provide in the clinic, we've been making runs to the emergency pharmacies to procure the needed supplies. We've been having basic planning meetings with the whole Common Ground collective in the morning, and clinic staff meetings in the evening, and the whole process of cooperation and brainstorming has been about the most rewarding of any action medical process that I've been a part of.
   What remains uncertain is how the clinic will be positioned with other facets of the public health system when they start working again, which I imagine will be over the next week or two. Our collective hope is that this clinic, Common Ground, will become a sustainable clinic, setting a beautiful example for grass-roots organizing, mutual aid, and self-sufficiency, and that it will also provide a case for activists to develop solidarity skills with the people of New Orleans and beyond who have been so marginalized by the deplorable U.S. health care system, and the whole grand corporate political structure.  What this clinic is demonstrating is that it is possible for a fully functioniong health care center to rise out of the ashes of a disaster, fueled by the energy and creativity of compassionate activists in solidarity with spirited compassionate community members. We've witnessed the utter failure of government to respond to the needs of people at a time of natural tragedy, institutionalized and individual racism at its worse, as whites throughout New Orleans received preferential and early disaster response, leaving people of color behind to fend for themselves in the early days of the deluge. Of the delayed government response, we've witnessed an awfully militarized operation replete with military helicopter fly-bys, troops in combat fatigues, and more guns than an NRA convention. If you are sick, injured, and if you lost your home, would you rather go to a military relief center surrounded by troops packing M4s and M16s, or would you rather go to a friendly community clinic that prohibits all guns from its premises and that is run by local community members who know about the needs of local folks? This clinic means alot to all of us--especially to the people of Algiers. I hope its meaning will be respected by members of the established public health system, and that it can survive in tandem with other health clinics and public health programs when they start working again. We've already initiated outreach to the Department of Health and Healing Services, and invited them to come by and see what a grass-roots mutual aid collective can accomplish!
   I wanted to end this post with some important information for clinicians coming down to help. As you all know, the Governor of Louisiana issued an emergency order that lifted credentialing requirements for out of state MDs, enabling physicians with active medical licenses and DEA numbers to come into the state and provide emergency medical support. All this is evolving. Currently now all physicians need to check in with health department officians in Baton Rouge, and to present credentialing paper work in person. The number there is 1-225-763-5766, or 225-763-5770. I went through this process myself, so if anyone has questions, they can call me at: 415-702-5872. Finally, the emergency order was only arranged up to Sept 28. It is entirely unclear if the order will be continued after then, so out-of-state MDs will have to check in at those numbers. I do not know if the emergency order applies to PAs and/or NPs, so please call that number to ask these questions. We do, however, need more MDs at the clinic. I return to SF on Monday, and we need to have MDs in place after I leave to continue offering prescription meds. 

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