Magic City Mission to NOLA and Biloxi

This diary is a plea for support, both spiritual and material, for the Magic City Mission.  Read on if you can offer either one.  

Wade is an Alabama blogger (haiku is his specialty) who is part of the Magic City Mission, a very worthwhile undertaking to help our brothers and sisters in Biloxi and NOLA.    (Cross posted from Left in Alabama.)  

It's been over 2 years since Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the levees broke in NOLA and an American city drowned, live on CNN.  You would think in America, the damage would have been repaired by now and life would be getting back to normal in the affected areas.  You would be wrong.

Bush and his man Chertoff (they got rid of Brownie) are not going to do this.  Apparently they aren't even going to be fired.  If you want New Orleans rebuilt and Biloxi cleaned up, you need to get personally involved.  I know, we pay taxes to do this stuff -- what kind of national security do we have if an entire city can be left in ruins for two years?  Your taxes went to pay Blackwater and Halliburton in Iraq -- fixing the Gulf Coast is not a national priority for Bush.

But we have an opportunity to help.  Wade, from Wade on Birmingham, is going with the Magic City Mission to help rebuild this part of America.  They are working with Hands on Birmingham to show their Gulf Coast neighbors that somebody cares.

They need money and they need stuff -- Wade has a list, including gas cards and Home Depot cards.  They also need a couple of thousand smackers to cover expenses for the dozen volunteers who are giving their time and labor for a week and to support their partners: Hands on Gulf Coast (Biloxi), St. Bernard Project and Camp Hope (both in New Orleans).  Contributions are tax deductible.

Aggravation seems to be the normal state for progressive folks in Alabama.  The news from Montgomery is often bad and sometimes the stuff happening in Washington is even worse.  This Magic City Mission is just pure good.  The volunteers are going to do good and if you contribute you will feel good.  Even if you can't contribute any dough, send them a good thought or a prayer -- that will be good too.