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The Aftermath of Hurricanes in the Caribbean and Hwo to Help
10:53 am By Maegan La Mala · Cuba| Haiti| Weather · Comments Off
9 Sep 2008Yesterday, we wrote about the rising death toll in Caribbean island nations, as they bear the brunt of a series of hurricanes and tropical storms. Some images from Haiti:
Read after the jump to find out how you can help.
Ike’s Unwated Visit to Caribbean
10:01 am By Maegan La Mala · Cuba| Dominican Republic| Haiti| Weather · 1 Comment
8 Sep 2008
Hurricane Ike plows it’s way through the Caribbean today, with Havana, the capital of Cuba in it’s path.
Ike already went through Haiti and the Dominican Republic as a category 3 hurricane, killing at least 58 people in Haiti alone and one reported death in the Dominican Republic. Ike has since been downgraded to a category 2 storm, with 105 mile-per-hour winds.
Haiti has been hit particularly hard, with a death toll of at least 319 people from an unrelenting four storms in a row.
”With the others we lost houses, we lost animals and we lost plantations. Never bodies,” said Lisemene Ferry Raphael, 46, standing across from her dead 12-year-old god daughter.
There are bodies on almost every other corner inside the town, where two rivers and the torrential rain of Ike swallowed houses and swept children and old women downstream, according to The Miami Herald, which has the only international reporter at the town along Route 1 on the road to the city Gonaives.
Franzt Samedi’s 5-year-old adopted daughter, Tamesha Jean, was among the dead.
”I’m the one who she calls Papa. I’m the one who is responsible for her. If she were with me she would not have died,” Samedi said.
Via / Citizen Orange
Homeland Security Says Immigrants Have Nothing to Worry About As They Escape Gustav
4:54 am By Maegan La Mala · New Orleans| Politics| Weather · 1 Comment
1 Sep 2008Hurricane Dolly, earlier this year, raised fears of just how far the Department of Homeland Security would go in terms of it’s mistreatment of immigrants.
Hurricane Gustav is raising those same fears as it heads into the Gulf Region and a mandatory evacuation order is in place.
According to the New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice:
We have won an important assurance from DHS. Immigrants evacuating the path of Gustav will not be targeted by immigration checkpoints.
Urgent Community Action Needed in the Gulf in the Face of Gustav
5:18 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Justice| States| Weather| housing · Comments Off
30 Aug 2008
One of the lessons of Hurricane Katrina was that people of color can not trust that government will protect and take care of our communities. So while we must demand that they do, we also have to prepare.
Hurricane Gustav is building strength and headed to the Gulf Region. Already, thousands are evacuating the area.
From an email :
In the attempt to learn from preparedness shortcomings of Hurricane Katrina, a network of New Orleans activists, some whom have evacuated already and others whom are intent on staying are in the process of creating a support network which is in need of all our help.How you can help (outside of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast):
1. Serve as a point of contact in your area for evacuees.
2. Help create safe and accessible relief networks and stations in your city/region. This is particularly going to be crucial for allies in Northern Louisiana, Jackson, and Memphis, where it appears most of the evacuees are going to be stationed. We hope to have identified the rest of the specific cities by this evening.
3. Serve as a media liaison for the support network and the forces staying in New Orleans.
If you or your organization can serve in one or more of these capacities please contact one of the following individuals and send your name, cell phone, land line, email address and relevant address information for relief stations.
Kali Akuno 510.593.3956 (please text if no answer if possible) or kaliakuno@gmail. com
Lydia 314-537-0537 (C) 770-559-1461 land line
Molly 510-847-6101 (C)
Opening this Weekend in NYC & LA : Trouble the Water
8:38 am By Maegan La Mala · Los Angeles| Movies| New York City| Weather| housing · Comments Off
22 Aug 2008This weekend, Trouble the Water, a film that follows a New Orleans couple through and after Hurricane Katrina, opens in New York City and Los Angeles. It won the Grand Jury prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and serves to remind us all that Hurrican Katrina was one horror, how the U.S. government treated its own in the aftermath was another.
Aftermath of Hurricane Dolly
2:08 pm By Maegan La Mala · Weather| houston| mexico · Comments Off
24 Jul 2008Hurricane Dolly has calmed down into a tropical storm, but this doesn’t mean Texas residents are in the all clear zone. The Houston Chronicle is reporting that thunderstorms are expected all day today, and that over 200,000 residents are without power.
Communities outside of Texas are also dealing with the after affects: Mexican residents faced mass evacuations and several people enjoying at a day at the beach in Florida almost drowned due to waves caused by Dolly.
Hurricane Dolly : Those Left Behind
11:33 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Blogs| Immigration| Texas| Weather| mexico| race · Comments Off
23 Jul 2008Yesterday la Macha brought up some unresolved issues in terms of Hurricane Dolly, currently hitting the Mexico/Texas border.
One of the questions that many people asked in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was why did people not evacuate. For many, the answer was simple: there was no place to go. Noemi over at Hermana Resist reminds us:
Who was left behind? Who couldn’t afford to evacuate? Let’s see you need money, car, transportation. And coming from a person who lives in a place where 3-4 months out of the year is hurricane season, I could not afford to leave. I could not afford to drive off (if my car made it more than 50 miles), I could not afford hotel stays, I could not afford buying gas and food for the family of 3-5 that I support. I could not afford to leave my job everytime there was a hurricane heading to the valley, that would be 3-4 days without pay and that is half a bill, 1/8 of the rent. I never have been able to cough up the money to board up the windows, tape the windows down, go on a spending spree buying canned food, bottled water, butane, batteries. I know all the precautions of a hurricane and all the things I should buy and should. Do you know how expensive that is? People blame the parents who stayed behind in NOLA, who put their kids at risk. And I’ll tell you, they don’t know what the fuck they are talking about.
Buenos Aires sees snow for the first time in 90 years
8:15 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina| Weather · Comments Off
10 Jul 2007
The capital of Argentina, the lovely Buenos Aires, is experiencing an historic winter this year. A wave of extreme cold has hit Argentina, leaving several dead in other parts of the country, but in Buenos Aires, the city received a treat yesterday when the first snowflakes in nearly 90 years fell on the city:
The strange meteorological phenomenon, unseen in BsAs since 1918, is likely to put fear into those who believe that global warming will be the end of us, but in the city Porteños got out and enjoyed the snow.
More photos after the jump.
Punxsutawney Phil Predicts An Early Spring
2 Feb 2007
Why are these gringos so happy? Because Punxsutawney Phil, the Pennsylvania groundhog who either raises or smashes warm weather hopes, didn’t see his shadow this morning.
According to German lore this means that we will have an early spring.The Germans believed that if a hibernating animal cast a shadow Feb. 2 – the Christian holiday of Candlemas – winter would last another six weeks. If no shadow was seen, legend said spring would come early. Since 1886, Phil has seen his shadow 96 times, hasn’t seen it 15 times and there are no records for nine years, according to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. The last time Phil failed to see his shadow was in 1999.
I hate, and I mean hate, the cold and the winter which is why I heart Punxsutawney Phil.
Does anyone know how to say groundhog in Spanish?
Via / NY Post
Image Via / USA Today
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