[lit-ideas] Re: from Der Spiegel
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:39:09 +0100
Thursday, September 1, 2005, 4:08:48 PM, Eric Yost wrote:
EY> http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372425,00.html
EY> GERMAN CALLOUSNESS
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/02/katrina.world/index.html
>British Prime Minister Tony Blair led world leaders' pledges of aid
>to hurricane-stricken areas of the U.S. Friday with an offer to help
>"in any way we can."
(cut)
>Australia on Friday said it would donate A$10 million (US$7.7 million)
>immediately to the American Red Cross as well as sending a team of
>emergency management specialists to identify what other help could
>be offered and providing services where most needed.
>Japan donated $200,000 to the Red Cross and would also provide up to
>$300,000 in aid supplies such as tents and power generators,
(cut)
>The European Union said it was ready to offer any assistance in the
>wake of "what is perhaps the greatest civil emergency in U.S. history."
>Several countries had already been approached by the U.S. to release
>oil reserves and would do what they could, EU security affairs
>chief Javier Solana said on Britain's Sky News network, AP reported.
(cut)
>NATO said help was available but it would need to know more about what could
>be needed.
>Germany also said it would offer aid or money if requested by Washington,
>though officials said the U.S. was well equipped to deal with natural
>disasters.
(cut)
>At the United Nations, the official spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi
>Annan said the U.S. was the country best prepared in the world to deal
>with such a natural disaster.
>But he added that the sheer size of the catastrophe meant outside help might
>be useful.
>"The American people, who have always been the most generous in responding
>to disasters in other parts of the world, have now themselves suffered a
>grievous blow," he said.
(cut)
>And while (Sri Lanka) is still recovering from the tsunami disaster, it
>also pledged $25,000 to the American Red Cross, the AP reported.
as for individual and group gifts to charities by people outside the
US
the Guardian Newsblog has donation links
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/09/02/hurricane_katrina_how_you_can_help.html#more
and Reprieve
http://www.reprieve.org/
has an appeal for the Justice Centre of New Orleans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1561167,00.html
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