HIMC / KPFT Astrodome coverage

For those interested, KPFT News has been having stories on most evenings about life in the Astrodome, which can be heard online from the archives at kpftx.org.

Also HoustonIndymedia has set up a feature page for Katrina, and it has a short article on how Bushco is once again turning disaster into profit for its buddies.

HoustonIndymedia is also covering the Astrodome situation, including a story about the LPFM radio project "Evacuation Radio" -- which was approved by the FCC but shot down by certain individuals at the Astrodome, and personal accounts of people at the Astrodome. I'm sure this will grow in the future.

The LPFM project people went ahead and handed out the radios (they'd obtained 10,000 to satisfy the Astrodome people) to the evacuees at the dome yesterday. No transmission as of yet, as far as I know. But the HIMC weekly radio show last night on KPFT said that they were intending to use that program each week as a way to give information and news to the evacuees.

(The HoustonIndymedia page for Katrina includes a quote from DemocracyNow! of great interest ... what's more significant and what people are not focusing on is that Kellogg Brown & Root is also now traveling throughout the region assessing damage to, for instance, the pumps in New Orleans and the infrastructure of the city. They have already begun providing services for some five hundred Department of Homeland Security personnel. They have set up a camp for the Mississippi Power Company. And so they're setting up these same kinds of camps that we see in Guantanamo and Iraq and elsewhere to service the rebuilding of the Gulf area here of the South. This ought to be interesting.)