Rainbow help for Katrina-displaced folks

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The following comes from Turtle, a volunteer at the
Welcome Home Cafe in New Orleans.

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Hey all!
As Rainbow Family, I'm emailing you because there is a
serious need on the Gulf Coast due to Hurricane
Katrina and we need your help! Make no mistake, this
disaster is FAR from over and the hurricane victims
need our support more than ever.

If you don't already know, several kitchens, the
CALM/MASH unit from the gatherings and dedicated,
focused brothers and sisters came down to Waveland, MS
and shortly after, New Orleans, to set up a rainbow
emergency management assembly to give support and
relief.

There have been thousands and thousands of people
helped, and even more are on their way (in the case of
New orleans). However, the work is intense and
constant and our crew people can only go on for so
long. So, as a result, we are putting a CALL out to
you, our Family, for SEASONED, DEDICATED,HEALTHY,
RAINBOW SAAVY brothers and sisters, AND, functional,
MOBILE KITCHENS, to come down and HELP! The time is
NOW to take what we've learned from all those years of
Gatherings and put it into practise in Waveland and,
especially, New Orleans.

If you are one of those brave individuals who wish to
plug in, please R.S.V.P. at this email
turtlebambam@yahoo.com

The need for mobile kitchens is solely for New
Orleans, as more people are returning to the city,
only to find that they don't have utilities, or simply
can't even live in their own home. So, they are
turning to us.

We need to set up several sattelite relief stations
thruout the hardest hit neighborhoods. SOOOO, if you
are wise in the ways of focalizing a hygenic, large
community kitchen, people who have the ability to work
people thru post traumatic stress disorder,
psychological councelors, social workers,working at
dessiminating and gathering information (INFO. at the
gatherings), have knowledge about focalizing main
supply at gatherings (i.e. ordering and acquiring
large amounts of supplies, or are simply one of those
kind, family members who just knows how to plug in and
fill in the holes when needed, PLEASE CALL OR E MAIL!

We can provide a place to stay and food, if you are
dedicated to being a full time volunteer while you are
down here. Please remember that one of our greatest
threats to a peaceful and unified future being made
for these victims, indeed all of us, is apathy and
complacency. The time to exercize what we have learned
from the gatherings and the Earth is NOW!

Love and strength,
New Waveland and Welcome Home Relief Stations
Waveland, MS & New Orleans, LA
Turtle

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Thanks for Your Loving Support
Arjay sutton
New Waveland Cafe


email: newwavelandcafe@yahoo.com
www.newwavelandcafe.blogspot.com
Donations: www.REMARelief.net

 

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New Waveland Cafe to Close After Thanksgiving, Parade
New Waveland Clinic Needs Doctors & Nurses
Many Volunteers & Resources Heading to New Orleans
Call for Donations to Deal With Move
No Need for S. Florida Response



Greetings

When we first landed in Waveland back in early
September, no one figured we'd stay here for more than
a couple of weeks. Personally, I thought I'd be home
in Asheville by October 1. Then Mike Sweeney of the
Hancock County EOC asked us to stay until
Thanksgiving. That seemed very remote and far off
until now.

The New Waveland Cafe 8pm Meeting addressed this issue
in detail tonight, as many individuals had expressed a
desire to remain in Fred's parking lot and continue to
assist the good folks of Waveland beyond the date
agreed upon. However, with numbers declining
(800-1200 meals/day) and the community showing signs
of recovery, the New Waveland Cafe will completely
disappear--every tent, box, tennis shoe, pot, pan, and
burner--by December 1, as agreed upon with the Hancock
County EOC back in September.

After a huge Thanksgiving Day Feast followed by a
parade the next day, that is. It's a difficult time
here at the New Waveland Cafe. We've formed a Family
and made some really good friends here in Waveland.
The cultural landscape will never be the same and
neither will the people who served the good folks of
Waveland.

In the meantime, the New Waveland Cafe will continue
to serve the best hot free meals on the MS Coast, give
dance lessons, entertain the masses, provide a
community center, and treat many many patients at the
New Waveland General Clinic.

Stone has informed me that we have an immediate need
for doctors and nurses at the Clinic. After Saturday,
no doctor has made a committment to be in the clinic,
which is treating 50-100 patients every day. So if
you are a doctor or nurse, or if you know of any
doctors or nurses who can come volunteer for any
amount of time, please contact Stone at 773-407-0254.

Following the next three weeks and cleanup, many
volunteers plan to either plug into continuing efforts
to help Waveland recover or move on to the new focus
of great need: New Orleans. As shelters close and
FEMA stops paying for apartments in other places, a
wave of New Orleans residents has begun to flock into
the city. Many of these people have lost
everything...homes, cars, family members. Their homes
are uninhabitable and there's nowhere for them to go.
And to continue the perfect storm, winter's close at
hand. Outside the Potemkin Villages of the French
Quarter and downtown, no one has basic services like
water, sewer, and electric, whether their homes are
destroyed or not.

I cannot stress enough the scale of the humanitarian
crisis blooming in NOLA. The situation is compounded
by a complete breakdown in civil authority as the
mayor was forced to lay off most city workers. The
resulting power vaccuum has left an environment rife
with corruption and chaos that threatens to explode.

It also creates a unique opportunity for everyone to
work together; not to build a cross between Disney and
Las Vegas (as envisioned by some seriously misguided
individuals), but to re-build communities that work
for everyone because everyone has a stake. We can
help everyone to work together by providing a
community space where communities can pull themselves
back together, share food with one another, and help
each other recover.

Now for the Good News. Welcome Home Cafe continues to
grow, serving the local community, the blossoming
activist community, workers and volunteers. Now
Diamond Dave has shown up in NOLA and seems to be
setting up a kitchen in the Upper 9th Ward. (More on
this when I have it). The call has gone out for more
Rainbow style free kitchens and volunteers for New
Orleans.

As the New Waveland Cafe breaks down, more and more
resources have been made available for folks in NOLA.
Some of our volunteers have been delivering overflow
goods to the Welcome Home Cafe, Common Grounds, Mama
D, and other grassroots efforts helping New Orleans
recover. We're also offering the last three weeks of
the New Waveland Cafe as a training center to educate
volunteers and others on how to create small,
community-based kitchens to serve residents,
volunteers, and workers in stricken areas.

One result of breaking down will be the sudden
dispersal of our volunteers. Many of us--especially
those who will have been here for three months at
dearture--will return to our homes and need to pick up
the pieces of our existence pre-Katrina. There are
long overdue bills to pay. Travel expenses. Many
everyday costs that were covered in Waveland.
Vehicles used in service to the Cafe that need repair.
Personally, I'd like to see these folks (and I'm one
of them) not go home hobbled.

Also, when we break down, a lot of materials, gear,
and people will move to New Orleans and other places.
The quantity is staggering and will require resources
we do not currently possess. The job ahead is a huge
one. Many obstacles still remain, including goverment
gridlock and many competing forces that must be
appeased or circumvented. And it's gonna cost money.

Most folks want to believe that Katrina recovery is
over. It's not in the news so it's not happening.
But it is far from over and if we've learned anything,
we've learned not to count on the government or the
huge operations to handle it. The crisis is simply
too large and the potential for large populations to
slip between the cracks too great. It's time to dig
deep. For all of us.

The donation pages are at www.REMARelief.org.
Everyone down here appreciates your generosity.

One final note: I spoke with Barry Sacharow last
Friday and he informed me that a community kitchen
would have been useful for the first three days after
Wilma sucker punched the southeast Florida coast. But
things were slowly getting back to normal, power
restored to many residents, and many businesses were
back up and running by last weekend. Barry spent
Wilma's aftermath serving in a FEMA Pod handing out
MREs, water, and ice.



Thanks for Your Loving Support
Arjay sutton
New Waveland Cafe


email: newwavelandcafe@yahoo.com
www.newwavelandcafe.blogspot.com
Donations: www.REMARelief.net

 

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Volunteers, Materials No Longer Needed
Some Volunteers Seeking New Location Elsewhere
We Need Help to Get Outta Here

Greetings!

As things begin to wind down here in Waveland, we are
happy to announce that the New Waveland Cafe is no
longer in need of more volunteers or materials. We
wish to thank you all for your generosity with your
time, prayers and donations. We really made a
difference here on the Mississippi Coast and we
continually remind folks here that we're only the face
on a much larger effort.

The New Waveland Cafe will serve its last meal on
Thanksgiving, followed by a day of rest, then a Party
complete with Parade on Saturday, November 27, down
Hwy 90 through the middle of Waveland. By December 1,
we expect to leave an empty parking lot and lots of
good memories in the Fred's parking lot.

Many of our volunteers are currently seeking a
different venue where hurricane survivors still
require services. Some have formed a new non-profit
organization called Emergency Communities to carry on
the work we started here in Waveland, serving people
in a good way in cooperation with anyone who will work
with us regardless of political or religious views or
affiliation. We'll pass on the information as it
becomes available.

Others are heading for home after what will be nearly
three months to pick up where we left off back in
September. I'm trying to address some special needs
for volunteers who have donated all their energy for
the past couple of months. Perhaps folks out there
could help. (Note: No one asked me to do this. I
just hope we can find these things).

Theodora and Leviticus arrived a few days after the
New Waveland Cafe opened, on foot because their van
blew up on the way under the strain of the supplies
they were hauling. (The supplies made it, btw). They
have become the heart and soul of the kitchen
operation in that time. It would only be appropriate
if they drove away from Waveland in their own van.

If you have a van within 1000 miles of here (and/or
that you will deliver) with a clean title that runs
well to donate, please contact me. To make a cash
donation to the van effort, just use our donation
page, http://www.welcomehome.org/REMA//?q=node/26, and
note that you are donating to the van effort.

Anne, who many of you know from Camp 44/Everybody's,
etc., Kitchen, arrived eight weeks ago hasn't stopped
working in the kitchen since. While making a produce
run to the farmer's market in Jackson, her
transmission died on her Suburban. The estimate is
$2000, which is more than we have in the bank right
now. To make a cash donation to the transmission
effort, just use our donation page,
http://www.welcomehome.org/REMA//?q=node/26, and note
that you are donating to the transmission effort.

Additionally, we need to provide travel expenses for
25-30 volunteers who, due to their service, have no
means to pay for their transportation out of here. We
hope to be able to help them along their way.

This would be a good time for folks in undestroyed
places to hold fundraisers in order to help us with
these needs.

Stay tuned.


Thanks for Your Loving Support
Arjay sutton
New Waveland Cafe


email: newwavelandcafe@yahoo.com
www.newwavelandcafe.blogspot.com
Donations: www.REMARelief.net

 

we are on our way south as of now and if there is any more need of volunteers anywhere in the affected area it would be an honor to help out. i have good carpentry skills, exp. and mad kitchen exp for years.we are self sufficient though on foot, bus, etc. i would love to hear that no more help is needed, but am sure it is, pm or email me in the next couple of days if you are in a spot that still needs voluteer labor. peaceandloveallways fuzzElogic and Dee
pebblesandmarbles@hotmail.com

 

turn out the lights the parties over,,but hey we made npr,,an they actually interveiwed a kid we know,,kiki...


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5025313

 

Oh I love kiki, she is sunshine! Just saw her yesterday morning.
We are excited about whats going on down there, LA Times, Chicago Tribune,
front pages man!

Glad I got to be a part of it all, since going down the first time in September,
and the tours of duty that followed, the cafe has grown amazingly.

I met so many new brothers and sisters, had about 8 come to my house
for Halloween, and some coming to vacation with us after its all over.

I love what the cafe is, and i am sad that yesterday was my last time to see
it again.

 

was dan with her???

 

Guess not, i dont remember a dan. I met Kiki about a month ago in Waveland, and dont know who she was with really, just new that she has the most beautiful smile ever.

If i knew what dan looked like, then maybe, but by name, not sure.

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louis...s-21/1132684752201020.xml&storylist=louisiana

Thats a great AP article, and there are several more good ones,
and Arjay says MSNBC is down there, and doing a piece on it.

 

http://seattle.tribe.net/template/p...o&nextpage=http://actionhero.tribe.net&page=1

lots of cool pictures

 

This just in from New Waveland Cafe:


New Waveland Cafe on NPR during All Things Considered: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5025313


Audio feed from Windows Media Player http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ATC&showDate=23-Nov-2005&segNu...


Real Audio http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ATC&showDate=23-Nov-2005&segNu...
We also made the front page of the LA Times today.


The Associated Press paid us a visit this past week.? Here are a couple
of versions of that story:


That Chicago Tribune article was also on the front page last
Wednesday.? Apparently, this story has gone to the newswire and was
published in several other papers, including one in Taiwan:


MSNBC was here again, so keep your eyes on them.? We've been kind of
inundated by reporters recently.? It's a little weird.


Thanks for Your Loving Support
Arjay sutton
New Waveland Cafe


here's more:


One last installment of the Media Blitz, this one
compliments of MSNBC.? Check out the "Quote of the Day."? And by way of
clarification, I will be cooking the Veggie Turkeys today.


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Greetings from Waveland!? There is so much to be grateful about today.?
Let me count just a few of the blessings that allowed the New Waveland
Cafe and Market to happen with such beauty:


Organic Valley, who provided us with regular shipments of organic
produce, milk, cheese, butter, and other good stuff we were able to
serve to the good people of Waveland.? In addition to helping exhausted
crew with R & R in Florida, they contributed one of their old fleet
vans to Levitikus and Theodora.? That's all, of course, on top of them
sending Clovis down here in the first place!? Oh, yeah, and 173
homemade pies.? OV just freakin' rocks!


All those groovy church folks from the Bastrop group, especially Jim
(actually from TN), Pete, Fay, Steve, and Shaun, not to mention a cast
of thousands of Texans and others we know contributed to the success of
the New Waveland Cafe and Market.? Let's start with The Big Miraculous
Generator That Changed Everything, the red and white tent covering the
kitchen that shows up in all the pictures, the innovative sink setup
that encompasses the soapy seas sailed upon by our merry dish pirates
in our dish pit, lots of other sundry equipment.? But we'd be no less
thankful for our neighbors if they had brought nothing.? Their
committment to and faith in the Cafe and crew, regardless of how weird,
never wavered.? We have made new friends for life.


Youth Initiative High School in Viroqua, WI, for sending us many
wonderful teenagers to cook us breakfast every day.? They taught us a
thing or two about hard work and our own process.? We also love them
all very much!


Sanderson Farms, for leaving a reefer truck full of chicken and ice for
the past six weeks.


The Generosity of the American People, without which, we would not have
experienced such bounty.


The Hancock County EOC and especially Mike Sweeney, who was able to fit
this round peg into a square hole.


FEMA, who ultimately pays for all of this (out of your pocket, I would
add) and the Red Cross, who made sure we never ran out of cutlery and
saved us a couple of times in our early days.


Everyone who kept us in their prayers, sent us donations of food,
stuff, cash, whatever.


All of the magnificent people who put their lives on hold, volunteered,
and made this place so special.? Specfically:


*Hydration station masters Jules, Raymond, and Ivan
*Rampaging trash haulers and table washers Floppy and BW
*The crazy looking guy who makes sure the handwashing stations stay
full of water, soap, and towels--the Next President of the United
States of America--Vermin Supreme
*Our sailors on the soapy seas (too many to name, but Dirty Momma,
Jason,? and Marissa immediately come to mind)
*Levitikus and Chicken the Kid, who will serve no pork before it is
smoked (and ARRRRRRed over repeatedly)?
*Amber, for all she is becoming here, including cook, accountant,
shanti sena, and BANG BANG, nifty slogan maker
*Stone, for running a first-rate clinic with excellent and professional
staff that treats up to a hundred patients every day while somehow
still having the time to watch Star Trek and MASH in my Bus all day
*Ann and Clovis for continuing to wake up every day at 5:30am to make
breakfast, even though they are both obviously completely burned out
*Mysha, who still has time to look at his neighbor's paper with his
busy schedule (oh, yeah...doesn't he also run supply?? Yeah, him and
Goat).
*All those folks giving massages all day every day, especially Rainbow
Robin and Brighid, who plug in in so many ways
*Gene, who will find you whatever you need and bring it to you
*Then there's the Best Cooks in Southern Mississippi, most notably
Jessica, Kiki, Lali, Theo, Shaney, Grace, Valesa, Flowers and I'm sorry
if I forgot anyone.? We're extra thankful for everyone who cooks!
*All the hundreds of folks who stand on the serving line day after day
with those smiling faces.? Becky is especially cute on her step up and
never misses a meal.? Alice has religiously kept track of our numbers
and anchored the line for weeks.
*And last but not least, me compadre, the man who made the first call
to The Dread and the second call to your humble narrator thereby
setting these deeds into motion.? He's a dance instructor from
Berkeley, CA, Master of Ceremonies at the Granola Funk, the Doctor of
Dance himself, Aaron Funk.? I had no idea someone could be so
versatile.? Security, Banking, Japanese chef, government liason, parade
plannin', float buildin', quote machine who teaches folks how to move
thier asses.


9.? The Good People of Waveland, who are the bravest people I've ever
met.? I'm so inspired by them all.


10.? And finally, We Thank Our Creator (or Random Chance for our
atheist friends out there), who, indeed, works in mysterious ways.


It's a time for celebration here in Waveland.? Thanksgiving for two
days followed by the Thanks for Giving Parade on Saturday.? Then it all
disappears.? I miss everyone already.


Gobble Gobble!


Thanks for Your Loving Support
Arjay Sutton
New Waveland Cafe

 

Thought I'd add another audio article:

http://risingfromruin.msnbc.com/2005/11/hippies_say_goo.html



Peace,

David


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thanks!............peace. and hoouldru.......

 

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Hey, I'm a lost rainbow kid....I'm stuck in a little town in michigan and I want people that are like me in my life. I want to live with other loving people....I need musical, free-thinking, open minded people in my life....I'M LOSING MY FUCKING MIND WITH SO MUCH NEGATIVITY IN MY LIFE....I NEED HELP!!! I WANT TO TRAVEL, I WANT TO SEE LOVE!!!! I WANT MONEY NOT TO BE A PART OF MY LIFE!!! HEEEELLLLLPPPP!!!!! ARGHHHH!!!!!!! ARGHHHH!!!!!

 

hey scarlett,
just wanted to point out that on democracy now! the people in new orleans clarified that the people who were shooting were not shooting AT the rescuers, they were firing shots into the air to let them know where they were. it seems like just another way the media has distorted what is going on. good lovin irie precious

 

I'm from New Orleans and I am going back for the first time since Katrina in April. I live on Long Island now. I have been plugging in around here. I feel the need to connect with displaced folks. I want to help. I have all this energy to share. Anyone got any ideas?

 

camp second helping is in need of volunteers in waveland,ms. emergency communities is in arabi, la. though it isn't a rainbow movie there are quite a few rainbows helping out. there are numerous other projects going on in the new orleans and south MS areas with clean up, repair, mucking etc. it shouldn't be hard to find a place to plug in.

 

we also just got this email from a brother who is in New Orleans.... was working with a kitchen type set up but now...

"Just a short note to keep you up to speed with events here in the Big Easy. I have relocated to downtown to a huge warehouse that used to be an arts cooperative and was destroyed by Katrina. Common Ground which is one of the many relief groups here is restoring the building and it will eventually become a learninging center for ecoloigy related things like permaculture,photoelectric development,solar heat and power and things like that."

so many newer options opening up now for folks other than the basic necessities of life,,,,, not all are cut out for the kitchen n basic life needed stuff immediately after a disaster.... n have chose not to go .... with things finally settling down a bit all sorts of neat n new opportunities are there,,,, we encourage anyone we can to head down that way... ..we just rearrange how we operate round here when we have noone here helpin out.... we aint gonna starve n hell fence posts can go another year,etc etc.... (we couldnt n cant go so tis the only way we can do our lil part in it all..)

 

Hi Everyone , I read bits & pieces of this thread & I just wanted to say Thanks for all that you are trying to do.
My family & I were living in Biloxi when Katrina hit & like so many others, we lost everything. We relocated & Austin has been great for us , we've started over & have started to rebuild our lives w/ the help of great people like you.
I wanna leave a link of photos from The Mississippi , Gulf Coast....New Orleans is in great need for help , but please don't forget everyone who needs your help in those areas also. From talking to people , I've realized that b/c of the media , not as many people realize how devistated Mississippi is from Katrina.
http://www.gulfcoastnews.com/KatrinaPhotos1.htm
Thanks Again ! =)