Katrina Volunteer & Housing Opportunities

This is a housing services hub for Katrina victims. You can offer up housing space for victims, or hurricane survivors can search for available rooms/houses/apts/etc. This site is working in cooperation with support organizations. Please distribute this website widely...

Emergency housing drive at www.hurricanehousing.org (Pass it on)

Received in my email:Dear MoveOn member,Hurricane Katrina's toll on communities, homes and lives has devastated the nation. Now victims must face the daunting question of where to go next—and we can help.Tens...

FEMA: Web site open for companies to give Katrina victims relief

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up a Web site for companies that can offer goods and services like food, water or shelter for hurricane victims.Company officials can visit...

About Donating Goods to the Red Cross for Areas Impacted by Hurricane Katrina

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 -- When a disaster of the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina strikes and the news broadcasts images of broken, battered and destroyed homes, it is natural for the public to be eager to help...

Citizens and Experts Discuss Honest Elections at Black Box Voting Forums

A week of special guests meeting on-line where all can watch and anyone can register to ask questions and participate. Topics include paper ballots, real recounts, proportional representation, being a voting...

Why Everybody Is a Reporter

Paul Chenoweth never leaves home without his digital camera or video camera. A graduate student at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., he shoots video and photos around town and posts them to his...

Fla. Woman Dies of Flesh-Eating Bacteria - Yahoo! News

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 45-year-old Jacksonville woman has died from flesh-eating bacteria that she contracted while riding a personal watercraft on the St. Johns River, officials said. Candace Scott died Aug. 3, Duval County health officials said.

The School Lunch Lobby by RON HASKINS - Education Next - Summer 2005

Kids may not like the peas and carrots served up by the nation’s school lunch program, but many of the country’s leading food companies enjoy the billions of dollars in sales that bring those vegetables to their plates. Behind the overcooked vegetables and steam-table...

Antibiotics Used by the Ton in Animal Feed Every Year

According to a report released yesterday, 25.6 million pounds of antibiotics are mixed with farm animals’ food every year -- almost all of it concentrated in just 23 states, mainly in the Mid-Atlantic and the South. Nearly 70 percent of all the antibiotics used in the US...

The deserters: Awol crisis hits the US forces

JE McNeil, who heads the Centre for Conscience and War in Washington DC, a Christian group whose members also staff the GI Rights Hotline, said many troops she spoke with had been lied to by recruiters. "I had an 18-year-old who was told he did not have to serve in...

2005's Hurricane Season

FLORIDA / SOUTHEAST U.S. -- Local Florida news stations are running stories about preparing for the 2005 Hurricane Season after a record-setting 2004 season. They are discussing issues such as supplies being...

I-95 Closed For Hours By Fatal Accident By Kyle Meenan (First Coast News)

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- At around 8:30 a.m. Sunday they were rolling south on I-95 from the Canadian town of Plessisville, located between Quebec and Montreal.

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