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Hurricane Katrina Survivors in Madison, WI Speak Out
by Nathan Moore
Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2005 at 9:01 AM
newsfac@wort-fm.org
New Orleans has been almost completely evacuated. Several former Big Easy residents have moved up to Madison, WI in the last week. Some of them spoke at a benefit concert for the Katrina survivors Monday night at the Orpheum Theater in Madison.
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New Orleans has been almost completely evacuated. Several former Big Easy residents have moved up to Madison in the last week. Some of them spoke at a benefit concert for the Katrina survivors last night at the Orpheum Theater. The concert - and these speeches - were broadcast live on WORT-FM Community Radio on Monday, Sept. 12.
Speakers include (in order):
Jesse Holst - Orpheum event organizer
Rita Adair - Madison social worker who brought people to Madison from the Astrodome
Ronald Hanson - former New Orleaner, now living in Madison
Darrell Dwayne Williams - former New Orleaner, now living in Madison
James DeAngelis - former New Orleaner, now living in Madison
Brian Nurse - former New Orleaner, now living in Madison
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New Crisis Search Engine To Help With Diasters
by Sir Seek
Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2005 at 3:13 PM
I have made a customized EMERGENCY type search engine that links only to crisis situation type websites (like relief aide, evacuation planning layouts, crisis management setup and others relating to disasters caused by terrorism, natural disasters, poverty, disease and man-made war), see http://www.CrisisSearch.com ... This niche portal was made after the Katrina devastation (NOW THEY HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HURICANE RITA) and hopefully it will assist humanity in/during the next disasterous crisis...
Please add related crisis blogs and websites to the database, already 1,000 websites spidered for meta data (fetched meta tags for description, title and keywords, plus we then grab the text from page and cache it for further searchable data)...
Also a portal as at the bottom of every search page has external links. Also a 'Suggestion Bot' that tries to suggest similar terms to use in further queries... Blogs/forums are on the way (being created so people can find more personalized one-on-one advice/help) for people to post missing friends, family, pets or post about volunteering or possible stradegies for Emergency Planning for current crisises or Clean-Up plans for past disasters.
My first ever nonprofit humanitarian project was http://www.SpareSomeChange.com which only covers resources for those living homeless (I had suffered homelessness a few times as a youth). I will try to come up with other helping humanity type portals as I can afford too...
www.SirSeek.com
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