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These local charities and legal aid centers are established organizations that have been working for years with poor people in areas hardest hit by Katrina, or in areas where the survivors are now seeking to rebuild their lives.
Grassroots Charities | Legal Aid Organizations
These charities are nonpartisan, not faith-based, and not paying directors hugely inflated salaries. They have worked with the people hardest hit by Katrina for years. If you know of more, send the info to deb (at) debocracy.org
get out your checkbook! Open it up, write a check, address an envelope, put a stamp on it, drop it in a mailbox to:
Southern Relief Fund
c/o Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights
PO Box 1223
Greenville, MS 38702-1223
Or use Paypal to send money securely with encryption via checking account or credit card
Plenty's Hurricane Relief Efforts
From its headquarters in southern Tennessee, Plenty International is sending relief supplies, food, water and medicines to survivors living in the hurricane Katrina battered Delta regions of Louisiana. On September 2nd, a volunteer from California flew out to Nashville and purchased a full-size diesel school bus which was then stocked with supplies. It left on September 3rd for its first run to Alexandria, New Orleans, and Covington Louisiana. Before returning to Plenty headquarters, the bus transported 40 people from the New Orleans airport to Baton Rouge to reunite with family members. On Monday, September 5, the bus left again with a second load of supplies, which will be transported to the Veterans for Peace soup kitchen and base in Covington.
We are especially targeting the people who inevitably are falling through the cracks of the larger scale relief efforts being mounted by such agencies as the National Guard, FEMA and Red Cross. We hope to continue to transport people from over-crowded temporary quarters or other situations to better and more permanent facilities such as the college dorms and homes that are being offered. We will continue to make these bus runs as long as we can and they are needed.
This is one of those disasters that has been predicted for many years, but now that it has come crashing down, it's difficult to comprehend the human devastation. We hope that you, our friends in the Plenty network, will help with financial support for these efforts.
Community Labor United
Activists and organizers from New Orleans, through Community Labor United have set up a People's Hurricane Relief Fund that will be directed and administered by New Orleanian evacuees. Money donated to this fund will pay to coordinate activities directed at helping the evacuees in the shelters today, reuniting and rebuilding families tomorrow, and making sure the reconstruction of New Orleans meets the people's needs down the road. They need your help right now.
Checks can by made to Vanguard Public Foundation - People's Hurricane Relief Fund, 383 Rhode Island St., Ste 301, San Francisco, CA 94103.
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