Relief In The Wake Of Global Warming & Our President's Classism/Racism/Stupidity.
Please! If you weren't doing it before, use your car less! Eat locally grown, organic food, and if you're not at least veggie, start eating less meat! This is NOT about a hurricane, this is about global warming.
FARM SANCTUARY NEEDS YOUR HELP IN THEIR RESCUE EFFORTS FOR HURRICANE KATRINA
Farm Sanctuary needs people from all over to go down to the areas hit by the hurricane to transport the animals to safe homes. They are focusing on the birds- all those thousands of factory-farmed chickens that are being left to slowly die or trucked to the slaughter-houses. Here's what they need:
* Volunteers for rescue down south
* Volunteers to truck the animals back up to the Sanctuary and other areas
* Volunteers across the United States (especially in the Northeast!) to transport the animals to safe homes/sanctuaries
* Volunters to home the animals - temporarily or permanently.....at this point anything is good, as thousands will die if nothing is done.
*Outreach
*Financial support
CONTACT INFO:
Megan at Farm Sanctuary
607-583-2276 x 223
sheltar@farmsanctuary.org
Boston Area:
Jessica
Jhiemenz@gmail.com
Article taken from HSUS:
http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/hsus_disaster_center/recent_activities_and_information/the_animal_victims_of_katrina_reports_from_the_field.html
Farm Animals
In a single year, more than 3 billion chickens, pigs, cattle, egg-laying hens, and other farm animals are raised in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana-the five states suffering the brunt of Katrina’s wrath. With widespread power outages, flooding, high-speed winds, and sweltering temperatures, animals in meat, egg, and dairy industries are adding to the mounting death toll.
Carroll County was hit hardest in Georgia, as a tornado spawned from Katrina devastated the community. Preliminary assessments in that county alone range from 374,500 to more than 500,000 broiler chickens. High winds flattened eight warehouse-like broiler sheds at a single factory farm, crushing the 240,000 chickens kept inside. At another facility, the tornado’s winds ripped away five chicken sheds, killing an estimated 75,000 birds.
Factory farming structures could not withstand the hurricane-force winds and tornadoes. Roofs blew off, and the structures simply crumpled to the ground in heap of metal. Already in Mississippi, one million pounds of processed chickens-and one million pounds of chicken manure-have turned the Mississippi Sound into what The Washington Post has called “a huge vat of biohazards.” Mississippi-based Sanderson Farms, the nation’s fifth-largest broiler chicken company, was directly in the storm’s path. As of this update, Sanderson was unreachable via phone or Internet, but industry representatives are speculating that the company’s operations “have been severely disrupted.”
Thousands of cattle in southern Louisiana are stranded in floods of salt water, and food is fast depleting. Officials are scrambling to organize transport of the cattle out of the area-and even the state-while working to deal with the many decomposing corpses of those who did not survive Katrina.
Widespread power outages throughout Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia wreak havoc in industrialized farming, as most animal factories are highly mechanized with automated waters, feeders, ventilation systems, and, in the case of egg-laying hens, egg collection belts. Without power, the sheds housing thousands if not hundreds of thousands of animals will simply shut down, leaving the animals inside to suffer severe temperatures without food or water.
"We are dealing with a calamity of monumental proportions,” said Pacelle. “We will do all we can to reach and save every animal we can locate and rescue. And most importantly, we are here for the long haul - whether it’s weeks, months, or even years.”
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Aniz, Inc. Relief Effort
Aniz, Inc, is an Atlanta-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides holistic, therapeutic education and prevention for HIV infected and affected children and families, to decrease the incidence of HIV and to encourage healthy life choices. Aniz has begun accepting donations to do relief work in the New Orleans area. Their staff has over 40 years combined experience in social services work and is in a unique position to aid the relief efforts. You can donate to them by making a wire transfer from a bank. You will need the following information, and if you tell your bank that you are making a donation to the hurricane relief efforts, most will waive the fee.
Beneficiary Name: Aniz Inc.
Address: 233 Mitchell St., SW
Atlanta, GA 30303
Acct. .. 2000140846575
Routing .. 061000227
Bank Name: Wachovia
Address: 615 Peachtree St. NE
Atlanta, GA 30308
To read more about Aniz, visit their website, www.aniz.org
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Louisiana Domestic Violence Victim’s Hurricane Relief Fund
The Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (LCADV), a private 501c3, not-for-profit organization incorporated in 1982, is establishing a Louisiana Domestic Violence Victim's Hurricane Relief Fund to assist victims of domestic violence and child victimization who are displaced and affected by Hurricane Katrina.
LCADV is a network of 20 domestic violence programs/shelters throughout the state. Four of our shelters and two nonresidential programs are completely closed at the time and two or three may be completely destroyed. Sad to say, domestic violence and child victimization are social problems that do not stop during this natural disaster we are experiencing and with cessation of all direct services in the gulf coast region, the increased need for relocation and basic monetary assistance is essential for these women and children.
LCADV is accepting donations that are specifically earmarked to assist battered survivors and their children who have been directly affected/displaced by the hurricane. The donations will be used to assist battered victims from the following parishes in Louisiana: Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines.
The donations will be used for the following purposes:
1. Relocation of domestic violence victims
2. Purchasing of basic needs, i.e. baby formula, diapers, food, clothing, etc. that could not be met elsewhere
3. Deposits on houses, electric bills
4. Car repair, gas, public transportation
5. Medical/prescription needs
6. Other basic, life sustaining needs
All donations go directly to victims of domestic violence affected by this hurricane and will not be used for any administrative or other purposes.
The Louisiana Domestic Violence Hurricane Relief Fund Account is setup with AmSouth Bank which is located in the following states: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. If you live in one of these states you could make a donation at the local AmSouth Bank Branch to the LCADV Domestic Violence Hurricane Relief Fund Account number: 0020085338. Donations from other states can be made through wire transfer to this account.
If you would like to make a donation using MasterCard or Visa, you may contact the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence office at 225-752-1296 with your credit card information. Donations may also be electronically deposited into their account by faxing a voided check with the amount of the donation to (225)751-8927. LCADV will setup an electronic deposit and you will receive confirmation of your donation with the tax-deductible receipt.
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3. Increasing Abortion Access for Women Affected by Hurricane Katrina (From the Abortion Access Project)
The Abortion Access Project extends our condolences to everyone impacted by the devastating hurricane. We are particularly concerned about access to reproductive health care for women in these areas. The devastation and despair that has taken place impacts every person, and has created a situation that is especially desperate for women needing timely access to reproductive health care. Abortion providers and women's health advocates across the country are working to ensure that reproductive health care is available to hurricane victims. Our goal is to ensure abortion access to these women by distributing information on what services are available and how you can assist these organizations and clinics who are doing the work that is so imperative right now.
Clinics in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Alabama are offering free abortion services for women from the affected regions. You can go to www.gynpages.com and click on one of these states for more information and the numbers to call.
Some regional and national funds can help cover the cost associated with abortion services. These costs can include transportation, daycare, lodging, and procedure costs. Donations earmarked for the hurricane victims will be distributed to funds working with the victims. Please call the National Network of Abortion Funds at 800.772.9100 or visit www.nnaf.org for more information or to make a donation.
In addition, Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeastern Texas is offering a complimentary month of birth control pills or package of emergency contraception to women in the Louisiana and Mississippi Delta. For information, call 1.800.230.PLAN.
FARM SANCTUARY NEEDS YOUR HELP IN THEIR RESCUE EFFORTS FOR HURRICANE KATRINA
Farm Sanctuary needs people from all over to go down to the areas hit by the hurricane to transport the animals to safe homes. They are focusing on the birds- all those thousands of factory-farmed chickens that are being left to slowly die or trucked to the slaughter-houses. Here's what they need:
* Volunteers for rescue down south
* Volunteers to truck the animals back up to the Sanctuary and other areas
* Volunteers across the United States (especially in the Northeast!) to transport the animals to safe homes/sanctuaries
* Volunters to home the animals - temporarily or permanently.....at this point anything is good, as thousands will die if nothing is done.
*Outreach
*Financial support
CONTACT INFO:
Megan at Farm Sanctuary
607-583-2276 x 223
sheltar@farmsanctuary.org
Boston Area:
Jessica
Jhiemenz@gmail.com
Article taken from HSUS:
http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/hsus_disaster_center/recent_activities_and_information/the_animal_victims_of_katrina_reports_from_the_field.html
Farm Animals
In a single year, more than 3 billion chickens, pigs, cattle, egg-laying hens, and other farm animals are raised in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana-the five states suffering the brunt of Katrina’s wrath. With widespread power outages, flooding, high-speed winds, and sweltering temperatures, animals in meat, egg, and dairy industries are adding to the mounting death toll.
Carroll County was hit hardest in Georgia, as a tornado spawned from Katrina devastated the community. Preliminary assessments in that county alone range from 374,500 to more than 500,000 broiler chickens. High winds flattened eight warehouse-like broiler sheds at a single factory farm, crushing the 240,000 chickens kept inside. At another facility, the tornado’s winds ripped away five chicken sheds, killing an estimated 75,000 birds.
Factory farming structures could not withstand the hurricane-force winds and tornadoes. Roofs blew off, and the structures simply crumpled to the ground in heap of metal. Already in Mississippi, one million pounds of processed chickens-and one million pounds of chicken manure-have turned the Mississippi Sound into what The Washington Post has called “a huge vat of biohazards.” Mississippi-based Sanderson Farms, the nation’s fifth-largest broiler chicken company, was directly in the storm’s path. As of this update, Sanderson was unreachable via phone or Internet, but industry representatives are speculating that the company’s operations “have been severely disrupted.”
Thousands of cattle in southern Louisiana are stranded in floods of salt water, and food is fast depleting. Officials are scrambling to organize transport of the cattle out of the area-and even the state-while working to deal with the many decomposing corpses of those who did not survive Katrina.
Widespread power outages throughout Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia wreak havoc in industrialized farming, as most animal factories are highly mechanized with automated waters, feeders, ventilation systems, and, in the case of egg-laying hens, egg collection belts. Without power, the sheds housing thousands if not hundreds of thousands of animals will simply shut down, leaving the animals inside to suffer severe temperatures without food or water.
"We are dealing with a calamity of monumental proportions,” said Pacelle. “We will do all we can to reach and save every animal we can locate and rescue. And most importantly, we are here for the long haul - whether it’s weeks, months, or even years.”
-----------------------
Aniz, Inc. Relief Effort
Aniz, Inc, is an Atlanta-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides holistic, therapeutic education and prevention for HIV infected and affected children and families, to decrease the incidence of HIV and to encourage healthy life choices. Aniz has begun accepting donations to do relief work in the New Orleans area. Their staff has over 40 years combined experience in social services work and is in a unique position to aid the relief efforts. You can donate to them by making a wire transfer from a bank. You will need the following information, and if you tell your bank that you are making a donation to the hurricane relief efforts, most will waive the fee.
Beneficiary Name: Aniz Inc.
Address: 233 Mitchell St., SW
Atlanta, GA 30303
Acct. .. 2000140846575
Routing .. 061000227
Bank Name: Wachovia
Address: 615 Peachtree St. NE
Atlanta, GA 30308
To read more about Aniz, visit their website, www.aniz.org
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Louisiana Domestic Violence Victim’s Hurricane Relief Fund
The Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (LCADV), a private 501c3, not-for-profit organization incorporated in 1982, is establishing a Louisiana Domestic Violence Victim's Hurricane Relief Fund to assist victims of domestic violence and child victimization who are displaced and affected by Hurricane Katrina.
LCADV is a network of 20 domestic violence programs/shelters throughout the state. Four of our shelters and two nonresidential programs are completely closed at the time and two or three may be completely destroyed. Sad to say, domestic violence and child victimization are social problems that do not stop during this natural disaster we are experiencing and with cessation of all direct services in the gulf coast region, the increased need for relocation and basic monetary assistance is essential for these women and children.
LCADV is accepting donations that are specifically earmarked to assist battered survivors and their children who have been directly affected/displaced by the hurricane. The donations will be used to assist battered victims from the following parishes in Louisiana: Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines.
The donations will be used for the following purposes:
1. Relocation of domestic violence victims
2. Purchasing of basic needs, i.e. baby formula, diapers, food, clothing, etc. that could not be met elsewhere
3. Deposits on houses, electric bills
4. Car repair, gas, public transportation
5. Medical/prescription needs
6. Other basic, life sustaining needs
All donations go directly to victims of domestic violence affected by this hurricane and will not be used for any administrative or other purposes.
The Louisiana Domestic Violence Hurricane Relief Fund Account is setup with AmSouth Bank which is located in the following states: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. If you live in one of these states you could make a donation at the local AmSouth Bank Branch to the LCADV Domestic Violence Hurricane Relief Fund Account number: 0020085338. Donations from other states can be made through wire transfer to this account.
If you would like to make a donation using MasterCard or Visa, you may contact the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence office at 225-752-1296 with your credit card information. Donations may also be electronically deposited into their account by faxing a voided check with the amount of the donation to (225)751-8927. LCADV will setup an electronic deposit and you will receive confirmation of your donation with the tax-deductible receipt.
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3. Increasing Abortion Access for Women Affected by Hurricane Katrina (From the Abortion Access Project)
The Abortion Access Project extends our condolences to everyone impacted by the devastating hurricane. We are particularly concerned about access to reproductive health care for women in these areas. The devastation and despair that has taken place impacts every person, and has created a situation that is especially desperate for women needing timely access to reproductive health care. Abortion providers and women's health advocates across the country are working to ensure that reproductive health care is available to hurricane victims. Our goal is to ensure abortion access to these women by distributing information on what services are available and how you can assist these organizations and clinics who are doing the work that is so imperative right now.
Clinics in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Alabama are offering free abortion services for women from the affected regions. You can go to www.gynpages.com and click on one of these states for more information and the numbers to call.
Some regional and national funds can help cover the cost associated with abortion services. These costs can include transportation, daycare, lodging, and procedure costs. Donations earmarked for the hurricane victims will be distributed to funds working with the victims. Please call the National Network of Abortion Funds at 800.772.9100 or visit www.nnaf.org for more information or to make a donation.
In addition, Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeastern Texas is offering a complimentary month of birth control pills or package of emergency contraception to women in the Louisiana and Mississippi Delta. For information, call 1.800.230.PLAN.