Thanks Burt I just emailed Sean.

Daisy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Burton Maben" <bmaben@...>
To: <sabaki@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [sabaki] New Orleans Update


> Please call Sean Davila at California Karate Club at (310) 828-8625.
> He has set up a donation center to assist our students and other
> schools in the area. His e-mail is davila43@.... Contributions
> will be tax deductible.
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> Thank You.
>
> Burton Maben
> New Orleans Karate Institute
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> --- In sabaki@yahoogroups.com, "Daisy Heskett" <daisysdojo@c...> wrote:
> > Burt,
> > I am raising money for the Red Cross will that help you any? Or
> would us
> > sending money to your church help your students more directly? Just
> let me
> > know. Right now we are just in the process of raising money. I
> offered it
> > to Dan Smith and his students in Mississippi but I think Dan is off the
> > computer for awhile. So just holler at me Burt if we can help.
> >
> > Take care and best of luck from all of us here in Bryan,Texas. I
> know for
> > sure the people here in Bryan are raising money. Different groups are
> > taking donations. But it takes time and you guys need help NOW! It is
> > really hard to watch people suffering and it could just as easily be
> any of
> > us.
> >
> > Daisy
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Burton Maben" <bmaben@h...>
> > To: <sabaki@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 3:55 PM
> > Subject: [sabaki] New Orleans Update
> >
> >
> > Nancy and I have spent the last two days tracking down our
> students..Some
> > are O.K. ; some are in desperate conditions. We have been trying to get
> > money to them so that can get gasoline to get to their relatives in
> other
> > states.
> > The stories on the ground that we are hearing from our students are
> beyond
> > belief.
> >
> > In most areas there is no government relief at all. Ad hoc citizens
> groups
> > are
> > rescuing the elderly and shut-ins, usually by shot gun because the
> prisoners
> > have been released from jails and decided to break into homes, hospitals
> > and pharmacies looking for drugs. Looting by gangs of thugs is
> extensive.
> > But also looting by the poor, hungry and displaced is also occuring.
> >
> > Many of my karate students are still missing and we are trying to
> track and
> > account for everyone. We were in a very small community south of New
> > Orleans and less than 50 miles from where the eye landed. We are bracing
> > ourselves emotionally for a lot of funerals.
> >
> > I plan on going back into the city on Monday. We are woking with Calvary
> > Baptist Church to set up a Red Cross Station.
> >
> > No politics, but in my opinion Homeland Security is a joke. When I have
> > mothers of my students having to hire busses and lead the elderly out of
> > nursing homes while protecting them and the busses with shotguns that a
> > WalMart mamnger gave them it is a national disgrace. THIS IS THE UNITED
> > STATES for god's sake. FEMA are overpaid bureaucrats that were
> suppose to
> > provide security and relief but refused to release their staff
> becasue of
> > security
> > issues. The only ones able to mobilize quickly was the Coast Guard.
> Local
> > police, fire and sheriff's were deputizing on the spot because
> staff's were
> > overwhelmed.
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> > I just recieved this information via the web:
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> > Last year we went through two hurricanes here in Florida. The eye
> > of both Frances and Jeanne went right through our community. We
> > received help from the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the local
> > businesses, people coming in their own cars from other places in the
> > country, and most of all we took care of the situation by ourselves.
> > That is what the so called concerned politicians are waiting to
> > happen--- "the American people will persevere"---they have to because
> > that is the only way they will survive. We have been in the situation
> > and know that we will be in it again, and again and that we have only
> > ourselves to depend upon. This situation is an American DISGRACE.
> > We're still waiting for government help, by the way, which will never
> > come no matter how much they are patting themselves on the back for
> > doing NOTHING last year. We don't need their help now and hopefully
> > will never be in as desperate a situation as those people in New
> > Orleans because we know that in a situation like that we will be on
> > our own. I guess that puts us at an advantage because at least we
> > know that. We know how to feed ourselves because what the government
> > is feeding the people we can't eat. --------Been there before.
> > "Government by the people, for the people," very prophetic don't you
> > think.
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