Reuniting

This is an inspiring story-- reminds us that "Citizen" can be a high compliment!

There is still something to be said for face-2-face interaction...My daughter spent a year in NOLA working with Campus Crusade for hurricane relief. She was amazed at the numbers of people that her relief effort helped as a result of personal contact. These folks were on multiple lists waiting for help to gut their homes with no response. The Campus Crusade relief team would meet people in restaurants, in places of business, most anywhere they would go. In conversation people would mention that they were on a list and hoping to gut their homes for the $3000 or whatever the going rate. The Campus Crusade group would go in and gut their home for free, then the residents could spend their money to "build up" things in their lives rather than "tearing down" things in their lives...It ain't all social networking on the web...it is also social networking the old fashioned way, face-2-face, that sometimes gets thing done...

>where Walgreen's attorneys had been snooping and where they soon discovered that Gadbois had inside information proving that the developers were lying<

I think attorneys call it 'discovery' and it is part of their job. They should be guilty of malpractice if they didn't do this.

nocity - Thanks for the pointer to Ning. It's impressive. I didn't know that ning was being adopted as a social networking tool in New Orleans. It seems perfect for a high school.

Citizen - A kind summation. Thank you.

GTD - Yes. You're right. They key to New Orleans is the social networking that takes place on the sidewalk. We're always grateful for the ten of thousands of follow Americans who've come to work with us to rebuild our city . Thank you.

Your story missed the first katrina blogging. It was Veterans For Peace and their Bus with a satellite Internet system that started blogging the day after the hurricane. They helped with connecting families in shelters across the country, reported the stories of people who were coming out of the city and about those that refused to leave. They were the first to come into the city with relief and raised over a half a million dollars in just three weeks to support grassroots relief efforts, like Common Ground. It was the vets on the Impeachment tour bus who stopped protesting the war and started doing something. They did it because they knew the Louisiana National Guard was in Iraq and Bush was a idiot.