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  •  Need to document refugee stories, help please (none / 0)

    Hi Timeline people,
      You've given me an idea.

      We need to document refugee stories, and we need to start right now. They're all over the web in bits and pieces, but imagine how powerful they'd be all together on one site. So that anyone could come and see over and over again the pain and the horror and destruction people suffered through because of this storm.
      We can't let these stories be lost.
      This is our indictment of George Bush & Co. -- all these people's stories.

      Can someone put up a site? Where anyone can come and post stories of what they went through? Where people who are in contact by e-mail with people can post their stories. Where we can go to shelters and take down people's stories there and post them?
      This could be a very powerful tool in making sure the world knows and doesn't forget, as powerful as the timeline.

      I don't know enough about web sites and don't have the bandwidth to do it, but I'm sure someone here does.

    •  Yes, we need something (none / 0)

      similar to sorryeverybody.com, remember from the day after the 2004 election?  Where people went and posted photos of themselves regretting that America had "re-elected" Bush, for the world to see.

      We need something like a katrinastories.com or something.  Something easy to remember so word of mouth spreads easily.  A site that is organized in some way for ease of reference.  At the moment, everything is splattered all over the web and we need it instead to be a clear, single picture so that we can put a stop to this kind of thing forever.  I have no idea how to do it though.

    •  "survivor stories" (none / 0)

      goodness knows i am never one to fall on the PC side of the fence.  but i hafta agree with al sharpton and say that "katrina survivors" is the best terminology to use here.

      peace

      "Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise." Thomas Paine, Common Sense

      by Cedwyn on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 03:12:38 PM PDT

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