Katrina Donations

By all means, contribute for immediate relief. Then think about contributing to ACORN. They do old-style, Saul Alinsky-type organizing, person by person, neighborhood by neighborhood. Their national headquarters was (past tense) in New Orleans.

There are reasons most of those folks in New Orleans are still there and it is has nothing to do with laziness or criminal intent. ACORN is one of the good guys. Give, if you can.