New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are STILL disaster areas, almost two years after Hurricane Katrina, despite reports of progress coming from charitable organizations and the government. See this article:
http://www.tiny.cc/... Common Ground Relief is making a difference in New Orleans. This 501c3 organization, listed with Guidestar, started with $50 and three people. Common Ground relief runs medical and legal clinics and four distribution centers offering food, water, and clothing. Common Ground volunteers do everything from tarping, gutting, and cleaning homes to "bioremediaton" of soil contaminated by sewage and toxins. So far, Common Ground has offered relief to 50,000 residents in four parishes. If every American gave just $1 to this group to say Thank You to New Orleans for music, food, Tabasco Sauce, or a moment of enchantment, the City That George Forgot could soon be put to rights.
Image: Marie Laveau. All profits from sales of this product go to benefit the Common Ground Collective in their work, rebuilding New Orleans.
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I was thrilled to see the first buyer is in Australia! $5 goes from this sale to Common Ground Relief. I will also put up products to benefit the Common Ground Collective at http://Goodstorm.com and at Spreadshirt (Europe).
Watch the Common Ground video, Katrina's Child, here:
http://www.commongroundrelief.org/...
To see a video of New Orleans, 20 months after Katrina, go to The Brad Blog
http://bradblog.com
Here is a photo of Common Ground's community garden and bioremediation crew -
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Please get out the word about how things really are in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast, and support the Common Ground Collective. Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen, will thank you - and so will the good folks of New Orleans.
Click here to donate:
http://www.commongroundrelief.org
Any donations, contributions, checks should be made out to:
CFC/COMMON GROUND
Common Ground Relief
P.O. Box 6128
New Orleans, LA 70174
PHONE & FAX: 504.861.5017
www.commongroundrelief.org
Common Ground Health Clinic
http://cghc.org
Thank You.