Please help Food Not Bombs provide help for the victims of Katrina. We plan to send another busload of food to the effected area. We URGENTLY need your support! If you can help cook and serve food, have money you can donate or have the time to call groceries and warehouses for food please contact us at www.foodnotbombs.net. You can make a financial donation on line or mail checks to Food Not Bombs, P.O. Box 744, Tucson, AZ 85702. Please call (1-800-884-1136 ) or email (katrina@foodnotbombs.net ) us if you can join us on the bus or help with gas money. We intend to leave in the next few days. Our Food Not Bombs chapters in New Orleans and Biloxi, Mississippi have been wiped out. Our groups in Houston, Austin, San Antonio Jackson, Pensacola, Memphis and other southern cities are feeding people fleeing the disaster. Food Not Bombs is ready to help the tens of thousands of people that have been made homeless by the storm.

Thanks, Keith McHenry - cofounder of Food Not Bombs.
http://www.foodnotbombs.net/

Those who have lost everything have nothing to lose.
Your're going to have to leave anyway...

WHY NOT MARCH ON WASHINGTON

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/4299_comment.php

Waht's it going to take?

PRESS RELEASE


CONTACT:
Craig A. Bowman Executive Director
1638 R St., NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20009
202.319.7596 x20
202.744.2567 / cell

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
01 September 2005


National LGBT Youth and Family Groups Establish "Hurricane Katrina
LGBT Relief Fund"

Humanitarian Effort to Provide Money to LGBT Youth and Family Refugees

Washington, DC – Working in partnership, the National Youth Advocacy
Coalition (NYAC) today announced the formation of the "Hurricane
Katrina LGBT Relief Fund" to ensure that LGBT youth and families,
among the most vulnerable members of our community, receive the
critical support they need to regain stability in their lives.

"In America, there are dramatic moments that forever shape our
national identity. History remembers those times when we come
together in the face of adversity, putting aside our differences to
overcome tragedy," said Craig Bowman, Executive Director of the
National Youth Advocacy Coalition.

"Thousands of families have absolutely nothing to go home to and
hundreds more people are still looking for their families," Bowman
added. In Louisiana, in Mississippi and in Alabama the devastation is
so unimaginable, so complete, that solutions seem impossible.

"Like so many of our fellow citizens, however, we believe in the
indomitable spirit of Americans," Bowman said. "We are awed and
humbled by the spirit of community that has emerged in our country in
countless ways over the past few days; and with this Fund, we honor
the courage and hope shown by so many who are still suffering," he
added.

The coalition consists of national organizations working at the
grassroots level to affect positive social change for LGBT citizens.
Contributions to this fund are tax-deductible to the fullest extent
allowed under law and will support humanitarian relief for LGBT youth
and families from the devastated areas. These funds will be
distributed directly to local organizations in the best position to
ensure strategic and high-impact disbursement of the emergency funds.

Individuals can contribute securely and with confidence now at
http://www.nyacyouth.org/.

Donors will be able to find out more about the impact of their gifts
in the coming weeks on a new blog being launched on the NYAC website.








PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE (as of 1 September 2005):

Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE)
http://www.colage.org/

Equality Federation
http://www.federationlgbt.org/

Family Pride Coalition
http://www.familypride.org

Mautner Project: The National Lesbian Health Organization
http://www.mautnerproject.org/

National Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Community Centers (NALGBTCC)
http://www.lgbtcenters.org/

National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC)
http://www.nbjcoalition.org/

National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
http://www.nclrights.org/

National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)
http://www.nctequality.org/

National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP)
http://www.ncavp.org/


More groups are welcome and are signing on all the time.


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The National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC) (www.nyacyouth.org) is a
social justice organization fighting injustice against LGBTQ youth
and advocating to ensure their physical and emotional well-being.