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Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
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10:05a - addresses updated
addresses updated...
Sheila Jozami
11423 Birchwood
Humble, TX
77338
Sheila and her friends are volunteering at the Astrodome and will distribute donations to teens relocated there and to other locations in the Houston area.
and
Daniel Hyde Schexnaydre
17120 Hwy 73
Prairieville, LA
70769
Daniel is a student at a Baton Rouge high school that has gotten 300 new students in the past week. He will distribute music directly to new students at his school. You can also contact him at starsandlemonade@hotmail.com about booking house shows.
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Lauren Culwell
923 W Sycamore #11
Denton, TX
76201
Lauren is a good friend of mine who will be distributing donations to teens who have been relocated to the Denton/Dallas area.
http://www.kimyadawson.com/reliefthroughmusic
reliefthroughmusic@gmail.com
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6:05p
Carmen is willing to have people in Europe ship donations to her in Germany and she will put together big packages and pay shipping to the United States!!!
Carmen Gottschall
Ederstrasse 3
63303 Dreieich
Germany
Her email address is cargo78@gmx.de
http://www.kimyadawson.com/reliefthroughmusic
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7:51p
alicia (vohs) allard just emailed me this thing she wrote. and i want you to read it. i read it and cried. i wish my arms were long enough to wrap them around every single person who has been raising their voice all along, even when it seemed like noone was listening. i put the link to alicia's myspace page because after you read this you are going to want to tell her you love her too.
love kimya
FROM ALICIA:
Ever since Bush and his cohorts came into power many of us have known just how dangerous they are. We spoke out against their politics, theology as a way of governance, tax breaks for millionaires, raiding the budget and repealing decades of environmental regulations in favor of their personal investment interests. We spoke out against the war on "terr-r" and the hemorrhage of American jobs to third world slaves. The media has called us "chicken littles" and liberal special interest groups out to bring Satan and Allah into public schools. For me personally it has been cold comfort that history will bear us out, only after tens of thousands of deaths and backasswards foreign policies that will keep most of the middle east as an occupied territory long after the "war on terr-r" is over. And then comes a big shit storm, er... hurricane to expose the fact that the emperor wears no clothes.
Today, 8 days after the storm of the century wiped out a good portion of the southern coast, the toxic flood waters are receding enough to expose the real cause of the disaster, red tape and the ever inefficient government approach of "what a big mess, someone really ought to do something!"
The endless preparations to halt the next 9/11 have not only kept Americans on the verge of panic for years, but have funneled billions of dollars, man power and public attention away from the ever deplorable conditions that many people live in here at home. For those who rely on FOX news to learn about the world I am sure it is shocking to realize what a thin margin divides many American towns and cities from becoming third world moonscapes that make post-tsunami Thailand look like the picture of order and efficiency. The simple fact is that all Americans should be shaking in their shoes and hoping that the next big disaster doesn't happen in their town. This hurricane has laid bare the complete breakdown of any government agency to act either independently or as a team to bring even a bottle of water to a city drowning in its own filth. When NBC cameramen accidentally discover 20,000 people trapped in the middle of a city 4 days after the storm with no supplies, relying on 1 nurse and self rule and still have it take 3 more days to drive in a convoy with food and water, who is to blame? When there are orders for a mandatory evacuation and those without car or money are left to die, who is to blame for not sending busses to the nursing home, or the projects? When 2 New Orleans cops kill themselves in one day because they were ordered to guard Kmart while their families drowned in shit and children were raped in the shelters, who is to blame? Sadly, everyone is. Bush, with his empty words of hope and his promise that "Trent Lott's home will be rebuilt, and he and I will sit on the porch and have a drink." Cheney, in Montana, hiking and enjoying nature. Condi Rice shopping for GODDAMN shoes on Fifth Ave. And the rest of them, FEMA director, HOMEland security, whose homeland do you secure exactly? And whomever ordered the troop to point machine guns at American families knee deep in water while their babies cried for water.
I could go on but for once I don't need to, the news is actually reporting the real story and realizing that their job can and should be used for good and not evil. For those of us who saw the need for change long ago, there is no sense of victory in the exposure of the empty promises and lies, only the empty knowledge that it did not have to be this way.
Alicia
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