How can we show our solidarity with the people of New Orleans?

[Warren Stupidity]

I am outraged and I do not know what to do. I've sent money. I've posted here ad nauseum about my anger. I babble like a lunatic on the subject to anyone, to perfect strangers, at the slightest opportuntity. I am outraged that the official response is a big 'so what'. Flags at half staff? Not for all the dead of New Orleans, but instead for the 80 year old Rhenquest. What the heck? The nation stood still after 9-11. Every nationalistic yahoo had a huge freaking flag flying from their house, their car, their truck. TV programming was shut down. Sports events came to a stop. Stupid magnetic car ribbons with mindless nationalistic slogans sprouted overnight on every car in the country.

This disaster is far worse than 9-11. Where is the outrage?

I rarely believe in the value of symbolic protest, but if our government refuses to put the nation in mourning for the untold, uncounted thousands of dead, then it is up to us to put us there instead. Black armbands anyone? A minute of silence tuesday at noon? What? A massive new orleans jazz funeral? We have to do something to make the nation stop and consider what has just happened. I am open to suggestions.

[mattclearing]

1. Honestly? By showing up on September 24th.

I think the most important thing people can do, outside of donating aid and helping the victims, is to show up and let the leadership of this country know that we are angry, we are watching, and there are hundreds of thousands of us.

We will not allow our country to be militarized.

We will not allow our leaders to fight elective wars both at home and abroad.

We will demand a budget policy that prioritizes the needs of Americans over the needs of multi-national corporations.

We will not forget what happened in Fallujah or in New Orleans, and we are ready to make our leaders pay for it, at the ballot box, in the media, and in the streets with our voices.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. A lot of people have Marti Gras beads

I think I'm going to take to wearing mine again.