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.