[Imc-katrina-convergence] wireless in hurricane area

[sing and dance]

people do use the media center....mainly to fill out their fema forms - 
which, by the way, can ONLY BE FILLED OUT USING INTERNET EXPLORER.....we 
gotta challenge FEMA on that shit

we want to set up another bunch of computers at a church down the 
street, real cool folks that are a much bigger center than this.....they 
are working with an airborne division of soldiers handing out aid - 
basically they are our warehouse of goods.......lots of folks in and out 
getting supplies -  our space has become more a base for volunteers to 
work out of....

but we need more tech heads...like you, salaud.....and anyone else who 
wants to help

anyway, here is audio i've collected so far:
bad-quality audio of residents in port sulfur --- south of here.  there 
is NOTHING BUT WATER south of there.......the five towns listed on the 
map as south of port sulfur are gone.
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/6870.php


hurricane survivor lawrence hallaron
by indymedia Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2005 at 11:24 AM
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/5477.php

Interview with Dr. Michael Kozart in Algiers, LA
by indymedia Monday, Sep. 19, 2005 at 7:58 AM
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/5437.php


i have no time to produce or edit, so just dumping this audio....hope it 
can get used somewhere

love
jenka
salaud wrote:
> Good news.  Thanks for the update.  This sounds like a good start for  
> sure.  Any chance to get folks off the street in the media center?   Are 
> they using it that way?
> 
> I'll try to come that way, if possible.
> 
> love=solidarity,
> salaud
> 
> 
> On Sep 19, 2005, at 1:39 PM, sing and dance wrote:
> 
>> ok here's the deal with the algiers space....
>>
>> we have a media space and convergence - two houses next to each  
>> other, then a few streets down is a big distro center we are  working 
>> with at st. amry's church....
>> also the free clinic, several blocks the other way....
>> there is internet in the media center and clinic, and we're working  
>> on getting it in the st. mary's space....
>> the main use for internet is to help people fill out the FEMA form  to 
>> get a registration number (the phone number they give is  impossible 
>> to get through on), and to go through the missing/found  persons 
>> databases to look for lost relatives
>>
>> next for internet (and voip phone, hopefully) will be 9th ward and  
>> downtown new orleans, but we need generators to keep that going.   
>> here in algiers there is spotty electricity.
>>
>> it's hard to get photocopies, even printouts.....the media space is  
>> small, but has internet (for the moment...and we are working on  
>> getting more)....electricity is on in some places, not  others....so, 
>> for example, the media center and convergence space  are two homes 
>> next to each other on the same street - one has  electricity [the 
>> media space], the other doesn't.
>>
>> now, about wireless internet and etc - there is a group of techies  
>> that organized with a small ISP in northern louisiana right after  the 
>> hurricane hit - they went to relief centers setting up wireless  and 
>> voice-over-IP phones, as far as their range would allow -- they  
>> called themselves radioresponse.org - they were servicing red  cross, 
>> fema, military and anybody else who wanted it, self-funded  and doin 
>> it cuz no one else would....
>> well, apparently they've been coopted, taken over by a combo of  
>> military and cisco/intel/microsoft interests that have taken over  the 
>> infrastructure set up by the original techies and taken it over  
>> themselves.  some of the techies are with us, fed up and  
>> frustrated....some are still working under the new  umbrella......and 
>> some of them are fed up and frustrated  too.....anyway, they are able 
>> to get us equipment - basically any  wireless and voip stuff we need, 
>> but we're not working directly  with them. http://www.radioresponse.org
>>
>> common ground now has a website - a few bloggers are keeping  updates 
>> going http://www.commongroundrelief.org
>>
>> apparently the veterans for peace operation in covington has been  
>> shut down....they are working on re-grouping and starting up again
>>
>> as far as i know the rainbow kitchen is still serving in waveland,  miss.
>>
>> and food not bombs is now serving in new orleans
>>
>> we will soon have lpfm in both algiers and new orleans itself
>>
>> lots of love!
>> jenka
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