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Leenie Halbert & Andrea Garland of the New Orleans Green Party need help with post-Katrina relief work in New Orleans.

They've established a relief center to feed 250 people a day (with help from Food Not Bombs), and they're planning to set up a medical clinic. They're also involved with a 'pirate' radio station that features health and self-help information, news, and music. It's the only radio station currently broadcasting in New Orleans.

Here's what they need: Donations of non-perishible vegetarian food (beans, dried fruit, grains, etc). Vitamins, toiletries, water Rechargeable batteris, cell phones, computers, mobile cards for cell phones. They also encourage people to send caravans of
supplies (as some Greens have done already). Donations can be made on-line at
http://www.Getyouracton.com

and
http://www.RebuildGreen.org

Or contact them directly:

Leenie: 225-615-4905, leenie@leenie.com
Andrea: 254-640-8441, andrea@getyouracton.org


==> Malik Rahim, a Green Party member who lives in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans, continues to need help. Malik, who ran as a Green candidate for New Orlean City Council, has been organizing in New Orleans to develop medical clinics and self-help operations, deliver food and water to those who need it, clearing blockages, and helping people deal with FEMA and the police, which have been trying to force and
intimidate people into leaving.

Read more at http://www.commongroundrelief.org and http://rebuildgreen.org Malik invites people to call him in New Orleans at 504-368-6897 for information about how to send help.

Assistance can also be sent to:

Common Ground,

PO Box 3216,

Gretna, LA 70054.

==> On the scene coverage by Pat LaMarche (2004 Green candidate for Vice President) in New Orleans, in the Times Record (Maine)
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/5DCF90A0E8DB7F20052570850\05DE120?Opendocument

http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/87DE5F0198DC078D0525708A005738C7?Opendocument