http://www.global-villages.info/ Global Villages Information Portal en-us Tue, 04 Oct 2005 22:46:00 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Global Villages Information Portal News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.global-villages.info/images/logo.gif http://www.global-villages.info/ http://www.global-villages.info/News/article/sid=87.html My staff has been down in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast for nearly a month now setting up and running our own relief effort with Veterans for Peace. The overwhelming response from so many of you has directly affected the lives of thousands of people. Here's what we've been able to do with your help: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 22:46:00 GMT http://www.global-villages.info/News/article/sid=86.html Many colleges, high schools, and youth or student organizations plan to deploy groups of students or students and faculty to serve in hurricane affected areas during school breaks. The Corporation for National and Community Service has established the Katrina Resource Center to help groups who want to serve to connect with organizations and projects in need of service. The Katrina Resource Center wants to help you. Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:11:45 GMT http://www.global-villages.info/News/article/sid=85.html Decades from now, when the toddlers who were corralled into the putrefying Superdome have children of their own, we will know whether the decisions made in the first months after Hurricane Katrina helped to rejuvenate New Orleans or ruin it all over again. Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:07:07 GMT http://www.global-villages.info/News/article/sid=84.html Where America is most vulnerable and how the nation can better manage the risks ahead. Dr. Irwin E. Redlener is in Baton Rouge, La., setting up mobile medical units. He has been in Louisiana and Mississippi for many long days helping people deal with the horror of Hurricane Katrina, and his voice is full of anger and despair. "The country is really just not prepared for a major catastrophic event," says the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. "Whatever it is -- the Big One in San Francisco, a terrorist attack -- it doesn't matter. The unfortunate truth is our ability to imagine and plan for catastrophic disasters is woefully inadequate." Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:42:16 GMT http://www.global-villages.info/News/article/sid=83.html In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn't registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:04:11 GMT http://www.global-villages.info/News/article/sid=82.html BATON ROUGE, La. – At Rapides Parish Detention Center 3 in Alexandria, La., which normally holds convicted felons, there are now 200 new inmates who arrived from flooded jails in New Orleans. They have no paperwork indicating whether they are charged with having had too much to drink or with attempted murder. Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:21:46 GMT http://www.global-villages.info/News/article/sid=81.html Inquiry of evacuees called 'out of order,' given situation Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina are getting more than food, water and a cot to sleep on when they arrive at Wisconsin State Fair Park. 58799Hurricane Katrina Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:07:27 GMT http://www.global-villages.info/News/article/sid=80.html HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Refugees from Hurricane Katrina are arriving in Pennsylvania without many of life's most basic needs and hoping to find a safe place to live, food to eat, education for their children and jobs to help them start moving on. Some are also encountering an even less welcoming prospect — having the police check into their backgrounds. Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:34:31 GMT http://www.global-villages.info/News/article/sid=77.html WASHINGTON - The federal official with the power to mobilize a massive federal response to Hurricane Katrina was Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, not the former FEMA chief who was relieved of his duties and resigned earlier this week, federal documents reviewed by Knight Ridder show. Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:13:03 GMT http://www.global-villages.info/News/article/sid=76.html ST. JAMES, Louisiana (Reuters) -- Compared with many others forced from their homes by Hurricane Katrina, residents of Sugarville have comfortable new houses, complete with amenities like soft beds, DVD players and full refrigerators. Of course, "Sugarville" is actually a huge dirt lot on the grounds of the Royal Dutch Shell Sugarland Terminal in this southeastern Louisiana town. The "houses" are Fleetwood Enterprises trailers supplied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house oil workers and their families displaced by the storm that devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast. Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:25:17 GMT