The archive for Infoshop News' coverage of Hurricane Gustav and related relief and solidarity projects.
Hurricane Gustav Breaking News
- Infoshop News will be posting updates from New Orleans all week.
- Infoshop News reporter Jamie "Bork" Loughner was briefly detained on Monday night by the Gretna police who questioned her reporter credentials. She was released after questioning on the scene. Loughner is reporting for Infoshop News on the post-hurricane situation in New Orleans.
- New relief website: Gustav Solidarity
- Infoshop is seeking donations to go towards general hurricane relief and to send a photojournalist to New Orleans to document the aftereffects of the hurricane and the evacuation. Please note in your donation if it's for "relief", "journalism" or "both".
- Infoshop collective member Jamie "Bork" Loughner weathered the hurricane with no problems.
- National Guard and local cops going around harassing residents for curfew violation. Government telling residents that curfew violators will be sent to Angola high security prison.
- Electrical fire spotted in back of *office* for Common Ground Health Clinic (1400 block of Teche) during storm, but rains put out fire.
- Around 15 residents stayed at home during hurricane in Common Ground neighborhood.
- 5pm: Some residents are on streets cleaning up damage from storm. Sidewalks are already dry.
- Minor flooding and damage in Algiers.
- Electrical power was out between 5am and 4pm in Algiers.
- Common Ground Relief has posted a list of supplies and materials that they will need after the storm clears. Some Common Ground volunteers have evacuated and a few are staying put.
- Canadians begin evacuating New Orleans residents as hurricane Gustav nears
- Most people who aren't evacuating are elderly who feel they couldn't handle the stress of the evacuations.
- Computers for evacuation effort crashed on Saturday. Names on the waiting list were lost and people were never called about evacuation transportation.
- Food Not Bombs is looking for servers to help serve food and run first aid clinics after the storm passes.
- Common Ground will be open AFTER the storm. They are currently gathering volunteers and supplies.
- People living in towns and villages along the coast will need critical assistance after the storm passes.
- Hurricane evacuation in New Orleans seriously lagging, reports I-News collective member. Disabled people who are on the top of the list haven't been evacuated, with 24 hours to go before the hurricane hits.
- Mayor Nagin tells people to "get the hell out," yet most poor residents of New Orleans don't have the money to travel, because it is the end of the month. The government didn't send aid checks this week and with stores closing this weekend, New Orleans residents left behind will have no access to food and water.
- Homeless are being denied access to evacuation transportation if they don't have ID.
- Make a donation to help out our collective member in NOLA by going to Paypal and sending a donation to jamieandjoe@hotmail.com
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