A Letter From Michael Moore

[Geek_Girl]

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My staff and the vets spend their 18-hour days delivering food and water throughout the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. What they have seen is appalling. I have asked them to post their daily diaries on my website (www.michaelmoore.com) along with accompanying photos and video so you can learn what is really going on. What the media is showing you is NOT the whole story. It is much, much worse and there is still little being done to bring help to those who need it.

Our group has visited many outlying towns and villages in Mississippi and Louisiana, places the Red Cross and FEMA haven't visited in over a week. Often our volunteers are the first relief any of these people have seen. They have no food, water or electricity. People die every day. There are no TV cameras recording this. They have started to report the spin and PR put out by the White House, the happy news that often isn't true ("Everyone gets 2,000 dollars!").

The truth is that there are dead bodies everywhere and no one is picking them up. My crew reports that in most areas there is no FEMA presence, and very little Red Cross. It's been over two weeks since the hurricane and there is simply not much being done. At this point, would you call this situation incompetence or a purposeful refusal to get real help down there?

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I really wish the Media would do it's job

:grr::grr::grr::grr:

[Matariki]

1. someone I know from New Orleans trying to get the much needed $2000

says all she gets are dead ends. no money. no help. no kidding.

[benburch]

2. I think we need to EVICT Bush from his cozy mansion...

and MAKE him work in the relief areas.

[pitohui]

3. can she get online?

some ppl are getting it by going online

they'll direct deposit it to yr acct

i didn't get it, my insurer has not replied to tell them what is not covered, so they don't know what if anything i qualify for, but i got a fast reply and instructions for how to appeal after i get my insurance settlement

for those w. no insurance turn-around *should* be much faster if she can get online & give a temporary address, i gave a relatives of the same last name

some ppl w. homeowner's were denied, yet found the money in their acct a couple days later, presumably after fema got the insurer on the phone

keep tryin