Latest United Peace Relief Journal for Ukiah Newspaper
02/25/2006 18:16
Lynn
Meadows, who started United Peace Relief to support
hurricane
recovery efforts, recently returned from her third trip to the Gulf
States since Katrina. This is a continuation of the diary she kept
during her last visit in November and December. This entry also
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recovery efforts, recently returned from her third trip to the Gulf
States since Katrina. This is a continuation of the diary she kept
during her last visit in November and December. This entry also
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Hello From Pass Christian, Mississippi
02/21/2006 18:14
Hi
Everyone
Checking In. Carol and I are here in our Americorps army tent hooked
up on the wireless connection. Bob and Mike just took off to do some
building projects for an elderly person and a disabled person. Carol
and I are going to run a clinic together today. They have set up a
beautiful well stocked facility in an army tent, so now we are making Read More...
Checking In. Carol and I are here in our Americorps army tent hooked
up on the wireless connection. Bob and Mike just took off to do some
building projects for an elderly person and a disabled person. Carol
and I are going to run a clinic together today. They have set up a
beautiful well stocked facility in an army tent, so now we are making Read More...
Niki here-On the Bayou
02/10/2006 18:04
Good
Morning Good Friends,
The sun is just rising on the Bayou. Not a cloud in the sky. I saw some fish jumping this morning in the shadow of the reeds on the far bank. The ripples moving rapidly into the sun - -Brilliant with color....Emerald green patch's of soft grass line the camp's shore, while darker shades peek through the dry reeds across the way. Birds are coming back too. We have seen Read More...
The sun is just rising on the Bayou. Not a cloud in the sky. I saw some fish jumping this morning in the shadow of the reeds on the far bank. The ripples moving rapidly into the sun - -Brilliant with color....Emerald green patch's of soft grass line the camp's shore, while darker shades peek through the dry reeds across the way. Birds are coming back too. We have seen Read More...
Kate's letter on Phoenix- Incredible!
02/09/2006 18:06
Phoenix
La. was founded in the early 1800's by the current
matriarch's grandfather. For a Black man in the
1800's to purchase land big enough to be turned
into a small town of 600 people in Southern
Louisiana, is amazing to me; especially since bearing
witness to some of the most racist institutions
and practices in America down in areas of the
Gulf Coast., in 2005. I didn't stay
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My stay at UPR camp in Slidell La. 1/3 to 1/29 From Detroit Kate
02/02/2006 18:47
Time
does strange things down in the Gulf Coast. So much
happens so
quickly yet so slowly you are never really sure what day it is.
Twenty-six days feels like three months or three days.
I arrived to the camp in the dark. The "Looters Will Be Killed " sign
Lynn spoke of was still up and it's eery to see at night.
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quickly yet so slowly you are never really sure what day it is.
Twenty-six days feels like three months or three days.
I arrived to the camp in the dark. The "Looters Will Be Killed " sign
Lynn spoke of was still up and it's eery to see at night.
Read More...