Comments on: What the hell?? http://www.tangodiva.com/blog/2006/08/22/what-the-hell/ Follow some jet setting Divas who take the world by storm Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:32:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Teresa http://www.tangodiva.com/blog/2006/08/22/what-the-hell/#comment-2819 Teresa Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:46:05 +0000 http://www.tangodiva.com/blog/2006/08/22/what-the-hell/#comment-2819 Just after Hurricane Katrina hit, MoveOn members and others stepped up to provide a roof, a bed and hope to more than 30,000 evacuees as part of MoveOn's Hurricane Housing effort. Today, we're launching our new book—It Takes A Nation: How Strangers Became Family—which tells the stories of the families involved. It's a beautiful book, featuring amazing and moving first-person interviews with Katrina evacuees and the donors who took them in, and evocative photos of the folks involved and the aftermath of the flood. Senator Barack Obama wrote the forward—and a note to all of you about it, below. To commemorate Katrina, we're donating every cent of the profits to the progressive group ACORN, which is working to protect evacuees' rights and rebuild New Orleans right. If you donate $20 today to help Katrina relief efforts, we'll send you a copy of It Takes a Nation (which retails for $25) for free. You can learn more about the book, check out some of the photos and interviews, and make a donation, at: https://civic.moveon.org/ittakesanation/book.html?id=8606-2211233-s2UEKb5ox8R4Jpufg5XxdA&t=3 Thanks for all you do, –Eli Pariser, Executive Director MoveOn.org Civic Action Monday, August 28th, 2006 Just after Hurricane Katrina hit, MoveOn members and others stepped up to provide a roof, a bed and hope to more than 30,000 evacuees as part of MoveOn’s Hurricane Housing effort.

Today, we’re launching our new book—It Takes A Nation: How Strangers Became Family—which tells the stories of the families involved. It’s a beautiful book, featuring amazing and moving first-person interviews with Katrina evacuees and the donors who took them in, and evocative photos of the folks involved and the aftermath of the flood. Senator Barack Obama wrote the forward—and a note to all of you about it, below.

To commemorate Katrina, we’re donating every cent of the profits to the progressive group ACORN, which is working to protect evacuees’ rights and rebuild New Orleans right. If you donate $20 today to help Katrina relief efforts, we’ll send you a copy of It Takes a Nation (which retails for $25) for free.

You can learn more about the book, check out some of the photos and interviews, and make a donation, at:

https://civic.moveon.org/ittakesanation/book.html?id=8606-2211233-s2UEKb5ox8R4Jpufg5XxdA&t=3

Thanks for all you do,

–Eli Pariser, Executive Director
MoveOn.org Civic Action
Monday, August 28th, 2006

]]> By: Jen A http://www.tangodiva.com/blog/2006/08/22/what-the-hell/#comment-2816 Jen A Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:29:28 +0000 http://www.tangodiva.com/blog/2006/08/22/what-the-hell/#comment-2816 After organizing a diaper/clothes drive at work last fall and donating money, I, too have since been distracted by the war and my sheer horror at our current administration. But a photo essay in this week's Time magazine ("Reaching for the Light", August 28) reminded me how much we still need to do. Among the stats cited were that 353,000 homes in the Gulf Coast Region were destroyed and more than 113,000 families still live in FEMA-provided trailers. But I saw a wonderful segment on the news the other day about the efforts of Hands On in New Orleans. The Hands On Network is helping organize long term rebuilding efforts in areas affected by the hurricanes, and the majority of the work is done by volunteers. And if you don't have time to help build, you can still donate: http://www.handsonneworleans.org/ After organizing a diaper/clothes drive at work last fall and donating money, I, too have since been distracted by the war and my sheer horror at our current administration. But a photo essay in this week’s Time magazine (”Reaching for the Light”, August 28) reminded me how much we still need to do. Among the stats cited were that 353,000 homes in the Gulf Coast Region were destroyed and more than 113,000 families still live in FEMA-provided trailers.

But I saw a wonderful segment on the news the other day about the efforts of Hands On in New Orleans. The Hands On Network is helping organize long term rebuilding efforts in areas affected by the hurricanes, and the majority of the work is done by volunteers. And if you don’t have time to help build, you can still donate: http://www.handsonneworleans.org/

]]> By: Teresa http://www.tangodiva.com/blog/2006/08/22/what-the-hell/#comment-2757 Teresa Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:30:05 +0000 http://www.tangodiva.com/blog/2006/08/22/what-the-hell/#comment-2757 Oh and we are spending $8 billion a month in Iraq. That's $2 billion each week, $267 million each day, or $11 million each hour. For what we spend in three weeks, we could make needed improvements in order to properly secure our public transportation systems. For what we spend in five days, we could put radiation detectors in all of our ports. And for two days in Iraq, we could screen all air cargo. Oh and we are spending $8 billion a month in Iraq. That’s $2 billion each week, $267 million each day, or $11 million each hour. For what we spend in three weeks, we could make needed improvements in order to properly secure our public transportation systems. For what we spend in five days, we could put radiation detectors in all of our ports. And for two days in Iraq, we could screen all air cargo.

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