14 settembre - "Rosa Clemente e` stata arrestata a Los Angeles per aver scritto la verita` sulle condizioni delle sistemazioni per i rifugiati [deportati] vittime di Katrina."

Wed Sept 14-ROSA CLEMENTE WAS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT
FOR REPORTING ON CONDITIONS OF THE
SHELTERS HOUSING KATRINA VICTIMS
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"[...] quando siamo arrivati a New Orleans siamo stati fermati a due check
point, da militari che ci puntavano addosso i loro M16 [...]

[...] quando siamo andati in Canal street i danni erano surreali, c'erano
barche nella strada, materiali tossici per strada, quel che abbiamo subito
notato era il numero di poliziotti, militari e mercenari della Blackwater
che porteggevano la proprieta` [...]

[...] siamo arrivati al Convention Center che, nonostante tutta la
ripulita, continuava a sembrare un inferno vivente, l'odore dei cadaveri
era insopportabile, ma cio` che era piu` folle e mostrava la disumanita`, la
violazione dei diritti umani [...] e la condotta criminale di questi
diavoli [...] era l'abbondanza di hotel , il Marriot, il Wyndham, l'
Holiday Inn, che erano completamente abitabili. [...]

[...] vorrei far sapere alla gente che c'erano 4 o 5 hotel nel raggio
di un
isolato che erano completamente intatti, questi hotel avrebbero potuto
ospitare migliaia di persone [...] un uomo di circa 40 anni, bianco,
ci ha
detto " non posso credere che abbiano sparato a quei giovani che stavano
cercando di portare gente dentro gli hotel" [...] ha detto che tre giovani
neri stavano cercando di penetrare nell'hotel per renderlo un centro
medico
di fortuna, ed evacuarci bambini ed anziani in condizioni piu` sicure,
appena hanno approcciato l'hotel gli hanno sparato addosso e li hanno
assassinati [...]"




REPORTING FROM NEW ORLEANS
by Rosa Clemente


DEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

After a twenty one hour drive, we, Brad a videography and King, arrived in
New Orleans, as we crossed the border of Mississippi we spoke to folks
displaced, white middle class folks who have not seen a FEMA or RED CROSS
vehicle since the hurricane hit, many Mexican and Honduran immigrants just
wandering, one thing the Latino brothers and sisters treesed was the fear
they are facing from white vigilantes trying to "move them out the city?
and ICE-the federal immigration police who are down here in force,
speaking
to the white middle class man whom lost everything he told us , "America
died to me on Tuesday Aug 30th, I voted for Bush and that rapper was
right"(:-) go KANYE!

As we approached New Orleans after two military checkpoints with M16's
pointed at us we found our way to Canel Street,

As we went down Canel street the damage was surreal, there was a boat in
the street, toxic sludge in the streets, what we immediately noticed, was
the number of police, military, contractors, and Blackwater mercenaries
protecting property,

We came up on the Convention Center, and after all the clean up, it still
looked like a living hell, the smell of dead bodies was overwhelming, what
was more crazy and shows the inhumanity, the VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as
defined by the Internatinal Convention on Human Rights and the CRIMINAL
MISCONDUCT of these devils, and that includes, Condi and Alberto, is that
there were plenty of hotels, The Marriot, The Wyndham, The Holiday Inn,
that were completely habitable, if this @#%$ supreme court can take my
house on some eminent domain @#%$, why didn?t they declare eminent domain
and take corporate property for the public good,

As Brad stated "This, the Convention center is our modern day slave vessel
and our people are in the midst of the Middle Passage" meanwhile five feet
from this hell were the castles; The Marriot, The Wyndham, Holiday Inn,

If one thing I would like people to know now is that their were four to
five hotels within a one block area that were completely intact, these
hotels could have housed thousands of people, as we were outside the
Convention Center looking in, a man about the age of 40, white man,
said "I
can't believe they shot these young men as they were trying to get people
into the hotel,? as we spoke with him, he said that three young black men,
were trying to take over the hotels and make it a makeshift medical
center,
and evacuate the elderly and babies into safer conditions, as they
approached the hotel the were fired upon and murdered, this had not been
confirmed by anyone, but we know that this is possible,

Outside all the hotels you could see makeshift camps where people had
lived, the conditions were atrocious, as we continued to document and talk
to people, we were approached by two military people that said we had to
leave now, that we were not official, when we began to question this, and
say there are all kinds of people walking around, the entire city of N.O.
they informed us we could follow orders or be arrested, as we left we
saw a
few black man and women still wandering around the city, dazed and
physically exhausted, we talked to them and asked them ?Are you
leaving and
they said no, this is our only home?

As we traveled into Algiers, the destruction kept going, as much as folks
want to talk about looting, we ran into many white folks who said, "of
coursed we looted, we had to survive,? we saw four different WINN DIXIES
and WALMARTS in white communities that were completely destroyed,

We then met up with brother Malik Rahim and Errol Maitland from WBAI, and
met up with over 30 organizers that are organizing here, they are
committed
to staying fro three weeks, so folks need to come and try to spend a
couple
of days, every skill is needed

Malik Rahim and his wife Sharon are the peoples command center, in
Algiers,
it is amazing to see the people helping the people, self-determination has
manifested here, they have opened up their own media clinic, there are 50
bikes that are being given to anyone who wants them, anyone can come and
sleep here, eat, take a shower, etc., Algiers did not have to deal
with the
flooding but many houses were destroyed, and in a community that numbered
in the thousands there are only five kids and about 100 adults left here,
but they are refusing to leave, the military is trying to cajole people to
leave, by telling them soon electricity will be shut down, there is no
gas,
so even for the survivors they are being forced out

Algiers is the hub for Black people, and we need to support them, the
young
cats part of the alternative media world, have set up a community media
command center, today the five young people in the neighborhood came and
got bikes, crayons, paper, and bubbles, yes bubbles because everyone
who is
a child should skip rope, blow bubbles and be allowed to be a child

As New Orleans is under marshal law, last night around 6:30pm the military
informed us that anyone on the streets would get a warning shot, and after
that be shot on the spot, throughout the night, we saw groups of white men
riding around in pickup trucks, vigilantes, along with the NOPD and the
@#%$ NYPD, yes, yes yall the NYPD is in the house, this is the battle
ground, this is the BATTLE FOR ALGIERS, we are on our way to Baton Rouge,
Houston, TX and Jackson, MI, more to come

Lastly, I love my people, I love my people more everyday, check out these
pictures even in the midst of hell on earth, cats are politically clear on
what they want and need, many have expressed they don?t want to se no more
press conference, no more marching they want action and long term
strategy,
?GET DOWN HERE AND HELP US?

Dispatches from the South
Rosa Clemente
September 13, 2005