Please Please! People on the ground at Bogalusa need

[illuminaughty]

media attention. Volunteer through VFP and others are begging to get some light shined on this area. It is one of the most desperate areas. Nothing and nobody. If you have the time, please blast the media for some coverage from Bogalusa, LA. They still need even the most basic items.

[Karenina]

1. Kick!

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[marions ghost]

2. kick

[wildflower]

3. Recommended. Articles on Bogalusa:

City collecting relief donations for residents of Bogalusa, La.
...
Currently, the city of Fayetteville is collecting goods to load onto a tractor-trailer to be sent to Varnado, La., a small rural community north of Bogalusa. Nevers’ staff and community members will receive these items and will oversee the distribution throughout the district.

Because of their rural location, these smaller communities are not receiving the immediate aid and assistance that other larger more metropolitan areas are getting. Communication is still difficult in many of these areas, and they are having trouble locating and accessing the resources they need.

Nevers’ request includes the following items:

• Baby food, clothing, formula, diapers and wipes.

• Adult diapers and hospital pads.

• Toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap and deodorant.

• Toilet paper, paper plates, napkins and paper towels.

• New men's underwear.

• New women's underwear.

• Canned food items.

more http://nwanews.com/story.php?paper=nwat§ion=News&storyid=32252

Urgent Call for Doctors for Washington Parish (Bogalusa), LA

Any available medical personal are needed in Washington Parish, LA. Red Cross not able to help victims of Katrina because of shortage of doctors and nurses.

The State of Louisiana has issued a call for medical personnel to come to Louisiana to help. Any doctor can come and practice in Louisiana simply by faxing their credentials to the State and carrying those credentials with them while in LA helping the victims.

An urgent plea was put out on the Internet on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2005 for medical personnel to come to Bogalusa, LA, near Slidell, which has only received sporadic medical attention for the past two weeks.

more at http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=25703

[crispini]

4. kick

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[phusion]

5. kicked and recommended

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[Mairead]

6. YAB&R

[MADem]

7. And remember, Bogalusa has its OWN GOVERNMENT!

There will be no blaming of Mayor Nagin for what is happening there--the Federal government is neglecting this municipality, like they neglected NOLA...why??? Is it that they simply do not CARE????

[Karenina]

8. No they do not.

This community does not fit into their PR agenda and is being ignored.

[MADem]

9. UH, YES they friken DO

Bogalusa indeed has its own mayor -- his name is JAMES McGhehee.

Try reading the posts, and most specifically, what the poster is actually SAYING, before you respond with a broad brush assessment, it is always helpful. My comments were more directed towards those who want to blame Mayor Nagin of NOLA for everything.

RIF!!!!

Read this article too, you may find it enlightening: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/national/nationalspecial/17fema.html?hp&ex=1127016000&en=f3c0a5321cb09237&ei=5094&partner=homepage

An excerpt: James McGehee, the mayor of Bogalusa, a small Louisiana city near the Mississippi border, could barely contain his rage in an interview on Thursday.

"Today is 18 days past the storm, and FEMA has not even put a location for people who are displaced," he said. "They are walking around the damn streets. The system's broke."

ON EDIT--maybe RIF is MY PROBLEM...were you responding to my subject line, or the comments posed in the body of the post? If the latter, let me apologize forthwith and hope you will forgive me for being a bit shirty with you...

[Karenina]

12. Sorry, Sweetie, I wasn't clear

I meant they do not CARE!!! :hug:

[MADem]

17. Heh!!! Neither was I, for that matter

These durn internets...sometimes I just miss the nuance!!!

[Suich]

10. Please let us know what happens...

:kick:

[shireen]

11. who's in charge of relief operations there?

A lady told me her friends spent 5 hours driving to Bogalusa with supplies -- when they got there, they could not find anyone who would take it. WTF???

They were able to distribute it at New Orleans when the city opened. It was snatched up fast.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. That is a very good question. Someone needs to take charge

[donheld]

13. How many other smaller towns/cities have been forgotten?

:shrug: :kick:

[Nothing Without Hope]

14. This is such a horror. EVen in New Orleans there are people with nothing

and bodies lying unburied in the streets as well as the wreckage and in houses. Some of them died very recently, some have been there since the storm:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4832252

The Powers That Be don't give a damn about places like Bogalusa. And I'm afraid there are many other places just as forgotten.

We need to Media blast this - it's unspeakable and obviously racist as well.

[Nothing Without Hope]

15. Meanwhile, rags like the WSJ are saying the initial delays are all taken

care of:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4826393

Bogalusa and the hundreds of other little communities like it have NOT been forgotten. They have been deliberately left off the list of people who receive any care or aid. There's no other explanation at this late date. All the agencies have received calls - but they have not responded.

It is deliberate. The people are supposed to either die or move.

They are human garbage - worse than garbage since that's ususally picked up once a week and there are STILL bodies lying in the streets after three weeks in New Orleans:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4832252
and who knows how many more - some of them only recently dead of dehydration and starvation - inside houses in New Orleans and all over the South. The powers in Washington and the rich GOP in their states literally do not give it a thought. It's genocide, truly genocide.

[ladylibertee]

16. Sent e-mail to CNN