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Katrina & The Antiwar Movement: Lend Our Hand and Our Voice

Grassroots Organizations Providing Aid and
Supporting Justice in the Gulf Coast

• People’s Hurricane Relief Fund & Oversight Coalition
• Louisiana Environmental Action Network
• Katrina Information Network
• Color of Change
• Common Ground Relief
• Labor Movement Relief and Reconstruction Efforts
• Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
• Veterans for Peace "Camp Casey"
• Oxfam America
• NAACP Disaster Relief Fund
• The Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights
• Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC)

People’s Hurricane Relief Fund & Oversight Coalition
The Fund is composed of Gulf Coast residents, organizations and supporters from around the country and the globe who are working to see that the area is reconstructed with the input of low-income communities of color; respect for their families; sustainable improvements in jobs, wages, housing, education and health; and justice for those who have suffered at the hands of the neglectful U.S. government. www.communitylaborunited.net/

Donate at https://secure.truemajority.org/03/clu/ or

Send checks, made payable to "The People's Hurricane Fund," to:
The People's Hurricane Fund
c/o Vanguard Public Foundation
383 Rhode Island St., #301
San Francisco, CA 94103

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Louisiana Environmental Action Network
LEAN was founded to help Louisiana citizens change the balance of power and challenge the insanity of continued economic and ecological suicide as practiced Lousiana-style. By empowering more than one hundred grassroots, community organizations, and countless individuals, LEAN has already helped in gaining a tremendous foothold in the war to make Louisiana's communities safer, healthier places to live. LEAN's expanded efforts will allow the progress already made to continue.

Send checks, payable to "LEAN" (put Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund in memo line), to:
LEAN
P.O. Box 66323
Baton Rouge, LA. 70896
(225) 928-1315
http://www.leanweb.org

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Veterans for Peace “Camp Casey”
On September 2, 2005 the Veterans for Peace Bus from Mendocino County, CA took a detour to help the victims of hurricane Katrina. We arrived in Covington, LA with food and supplies that Camp Casey had sent from Crawford, Texas. We are moving some of the Camp Casey operations from the Pine View Middle School to The Green Room at 521 Boston Street in Covington . We are supporting The Red Cross with power and medical supplies and kitchen service, food bank, and distribution and Internet communications.We are using the school to support Veterans For Peace hurricane relief efforts from Covington, LA.

This petition is to the US government to open closed military bases to house the Hurricane victims- please sign and pass on http://www.petitiononline.com/10000008/petition.html

Donate at http://www.vfproadtrips.org/

Or send checks, payable to Veterans For Peace Chapter 116, to:
Redwood Credit Union
Veterans For Peace Chapter 116 account
195 S. Orchard Ave.
Ukiah, CA 95482

Oxfam America
Oxfam America is distributing emergency grants and relief supplies to poor rural and urban residents, many of whom are immigrant dock workers, African-American farmers, and migrant farm workers. They are also planning ways to help communities with their long-term recovery.

Send checks, payable to "Oxfam America," to:
Oxfam America
Hurricane Katrina Relief and Recovery Fund
P.O. Box 1211
Albert Lea, MN 56007-1211

Donations also accepted via phone at call 800-77-OXFAM and fax.

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NAACP Disaster Relief Fund
The funds raised will be used to: 1) provide immediate assistance to the worst affected victims, 2) mobilize resources to feed, cloth and shelter displaced victims, and 3) to ensure the equitable distribution of money and resources from Federal, state and local government and other relief agencies.

http://store.yahoo.com/naacp-donate1/
4805 Mt. Hope Drive
Baltimore Maryland 21215

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The Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights
The Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights is a worker advocacy organization that sees as its mission, providing organizing support, legal representation and training for low-wage, non-union workers in the state of Mississippi. They have developed a local relief fund.

Send checks, payable to "Southern Relief Fund," to:
The Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights
PO Box 1223
Greenville, MS 38702

http://www.msworkerscenter.org/
662-334-1122 or 888-949-9754

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Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC)
Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) is a statewide membership-based organization dedicated to creating a better life for all of Louisiana’s youth, especially those who are involved, or at risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system.

Make checks payable to:
FFLIC Hurricane Relief Fund
920 Platt Street
Sulphur, LA 70663

http://www.jjpl.org/

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Katrina Information Network
The Katrina Information Network is an information and action clearinghouse. KIN shares expert viewpoints and action from the communities that have been devastated by Katrina, with up-to-the minute news and analysis.

http://www.katrinaaction.org/

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Color of Change
ColorOfChange.org exists to strengthen Black America's political voice. Our goal is to empower our members—Black Americans and our allies—to make government responsive to the concerns of Black Americans, and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone. Using the Internet, we will enable our members to speak in unison, with an amplified political voice. We will keep them informed about the most pressing issues for Black people in America and give them ways to act. We will lobby elected representatives using email, the telephone, and face-to-face meetings.

http://www.colorofchange.org

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Common Ground Relief
Established in the first week after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, Common Ground has been providing direct relief to thousands of low-income New Orleans residents and returning evacuees. The organization has set up highly-regarded relief distribution networks, a free health clinic in Algiers, a mobile health clinic, and home clean-up and repair services, and it has helped prevent public housing evictions.

http://www.commongroundrelief.org

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