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Fri, 2 September 2005  Hello Zedcast listeners. I have provided these links so that you can donate to the relief agencies who are working hard to ease the suffering of the people of the gulf coast of the United States that were hit by hurricane Katrina. The Regular Zedcast Show will be up tomorrow.
Please contribute to the organizations listed below:
The American Red Cross
The Salvation Army
Doctors Without Borders
The International Committee of the Red Cross
*Or call to donate 1(800) HELP NOW
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Dear Bruce,
Thank you for your kindness and support. I am writing from a motel in Memphis, with my beloved father sleeping next to me. Words are difficult to come by at this moment. I have slept maybe 2-3 hours per night this whole week because ... you know why... Jesus! this is so hard to bear! ... cry...
I barely escaped from New Orleans, my beautiful Crescent City, my home, with my life. Unlike many of my friends and fellow New Orleaneans, I am very lucky that my family is OK. If you saw CNN footage of the mayhem in the French Quarter, where victims of this holocaust were taking food from the WinnDixie grocery store, my mother was right there and almost didn't make it out alive. She was zig zagging the streets in her junky old Toyota (she is an art teacher and cannot afford a decent car) as water gushed in from the break in the levee .. looters tried to carjack her ... it is a horrific tale and difficult to relate, especially since I didn't know if she was alive until two days ago... I still cannot sleep because my dogs are slowly dying in my back yard ... cry ... as I believe my neighbor, who promised to care for them, may have left (understandable). All of my calls and emails to local SPCA have gone unanswered.
This afternoon, I watched my neighborhood on fire and wondered about a friend who lived accross the street from the inferno, and was likely still there since he is a Costa Rican exchange student and has no transportation... so many of my friends are lost... my people are dying right before my eyes on TV... it is unbearable! ... cry ... why has the US government forsaken us???
I lost most of my material possessions... my musical instruments, 20 years worth of sheet music and music books from around the world that I have collected, all of my university work and research, and music compositions... I was finishing my second masters degree in anthropology this semester and also working on a PhD in Urban studies, but my university is now under water. My mother is an incredible artist and she has lost 40 years of art, plus paintings by my grandmother and her mother before her ... so much prescious art gone ... cry...
Here's a website hosted by a gallery in Connecticut that has some of her work, so you can see her awesome artwork:
http://www.morganlehmangallery.com/dynamic/artwork_display.asp?artistid=23
I must sleep for a couple of hours now, but somehow I knew you would be concerned about me and I finally got to check your website just this hour. I was right. You are a kind-hearted soul, something I knew instinctively upon hearing your voice the first time.
I will check in later... please post your show because I really need levity at this time, and I find your work very entertaining. It would be a relief from this mental anguish... angst. Please do what you do, because I love it.
If the US government refuses to help us rebuild my city, as some legislators have already indicated, the Soul of America, I will leave this country and, perhaps, come to Canada, where I KNOW there are kind people... humanists.
Please, my Canadian brothers and sisters, pray and/or send kind thoughts/help on behalf of all those folks in New Orleans who are literally dying at this moment because this federal government... insert expletives_________!!!! ...cry... has forsaken us.
Oh the humanity!!!
peace
Thank you for your kindness and support. I am writing from a motel in Memphis, with my beloved father sleeping next to me. Words are difficult to come by at this moment. I have slept maybe 2-3 hours per night this whole week because ... you know why... Jesus! this is so hard to bear! ... cry...
I barely escaped from New Orleans, my beautiful Crescent City, my home, with my life. Unlike many of my friends and fellow New Orleaneans, I am very lucky that my family is OK. If you saw CNN footage of the mayhem in the French Quarter, where victims of this holocaust were taking food from the WinnDixie grocery store, my mother was right there and almost didn't make it out alive. She was zig zagging the streets in her junky old Toyota (she is an art teacher and cannot afford a decent car) as water gushed in from the break in the levee .. looters tried to carjack her ... it is a horrific tale and difficult to relate, especially since I didn't know if she was alive until two days ago... I still cannot sleep because my dogs are slowly dying in my back yard ... cry ... as I believe my neighbor, who promised to care for them, may have left (understandable). All of my calls and emails to local SPCA have gone unanswered.
This afternoon, I watched my neighborhood on fire and wondered about a friend who lived accross the street from the inferno, and was likely still there since he is a Costa Rican exchange student and has no transportation... so many of my friends are lost... my people are dying right before my eyes on TV... it is unbearable! ... cry ... why has the US government forsaken us???
I lost most of my material possessions... my musical instruments, 20 years worth of sheet music and music books from around the world that I have collected, all of my university work and research, and music compositions... I was finishing my second masters degree in anthropology this semester and also working on a PhD in Urban studies, but my university is now under water. My mother is an incredible artist and she has lost 40 years of art, plus paintings by my grandmother and her mother before her ... so much prescious art gone ... cry...
Here's a website hosted by a gallery in Connecticut that has some of her work, so you can see her awesome artwork:
http://www.morganlehmangallery.com/dynamic/artwork_display.asp?artistid=23
I must sleep for a couple of hours now, but somehow I knew you would be concerned about me and I finally got to check your website just this hour. I was right. You are a kind-hearted soul, something I knew instinctively upon hearing your voice the first time.
I will check in later... please post your show because I really need levity at this time, and I find your work very entertaining. It would be a relief from this mental anguish... angst. Please do what you do, because I love it.
If the US government refuses to help us rebuild my city, as some legislators have already indicated, the Soul of America, I will leave this country and, perhaps, come to Canada, where I KNOW there are kind people... humanists.
Please, my Canadian brothers and sisters, pray and/or send kind thoughts/help on behalf of all those folks in New Orleans who are literally dying at this moment because this federal government... insert expletives_________!!!! ...cry... has forsaken us.
Oh the humanity!!!
peace
Hi Aram,
we don't know each other obviously but that is the beauty of Podcasting I think it brings together people who without it would probably never have known each other at all.
I thought that I was gaining an understanding of the situation through the mainstream media, I realized that I most certainly was not when I read your post. I must thank you for putting your experience down in writing although clearly it was a very difficult thing for you do. Reading your post gave me an insight that I could not have gotten any other way and I simply
do not have the words to explain how deeply it reached me.
Learning that you and your loved ones, whom you mentioned, are safe was the best news. My hopes are with you that more news will come of safety for anyone that you are still worrying about.
As difficult as this tragedy has been so far clearly there are more challenges which lie ahead, I wish and hope for you all of the courage that you will need to take each day one at a time and to get through this. Please try to gather
strength from each other and to support each other as best you can through this terrible time. I will be sending positive vibes and energy (my personal equivalent of prayer) to you and to everyone going through this terrible disaster.
Should there be anything more tangible that you are needing at this time, please let me know and if I can help I certainly will.
Betty
we don't know each other obviously but that is the beauty of Podcasting I think it brings together people who without it would probably never have known each other at all.
I thought that I was gaining an understanding of the situation through the mainstream media, I realized that I most certainly was not when I read your post. I must thank you for putting your experience down in writing although clearly it was a very difficult thing for you do. Reading your post gave me an insight that I could not have gotten any other way and I simply
do not have the words to explain how deeply it reached me.
Learning that you and your loved ones, whom you mentioned, are safe was the best news. My hopes are with you that more news will come of safety for anyone that you are still worrying about.
As difficult as this tragedy has been so far clearly there are more challenges which lie ahead, I wish and hope for you all of the courage that you will need to take each day one at a time and to get through this. Please try to gather
strength from each other and to support each other as best you can through this terrible time. I will be sending positive vibes and energy (my personal equivalent of prayer) to you and to everyone going through this terrible disaster.
Should there be anything more tangible that you are needing at this time, please let me know and if I can help I certainly will.
Betty
posted by: Betty on Mon, 9/5 01:32 PM EDT
Hi again Aram,
I found something that might help in locating your pets, a lot are being found and rescued there may still be some hope.
They have also set up two hot-lines so residents can report animals they had to leave behind in homes or boarding facilities that need to be rescued. Again, this is for New Orleans residents only, please call 225-578-6111 or 888-773-6481.
Betty
I found something that might help in locating your pets, a lot are being found and rescued there may still be some hope.
They have also set up two hot-lines so residents can report animals they had to leave behind in homes or boarding facilities that need to be rescued. Again, this is for New Orleans residents only, please call 225-578-6111 or 888-773-6481.
Betty
posted by: Betty on Mon, 9/5 08:41 PM EDT
Hello Aram,
I was so saddened to hear Bruce reading your email. How tragic that you have lost so much.
Kind thoughts at this difficult time,
Kenn in Toronto, Canada
I was so saddened to hear Bruce reading your email. How tragic that you have lost so much.
Kind thoughts at this difficult time,
Kenn in Toronto, Canada
posted by: Kenn on Mon, 9/12 01:44 AM EDT
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