Every now and then I like to go fishing through the USENET archives, the mostly forgotten predecessor of the WWW. Google has a simply ginormous cache of it available - And some fancy footwork makes it possible to use it to find a ton of old, no longer available data.
This treasure hunt brought me some tasty data from 08.28.2006
Partway down is this.. Obama, MoveOn and ACORN.
~ From Barack Obama and MoveOn
Just after Hurricane Katrina hit, MoveOn members and others stepped up to provide a roof, a bed and hope to more than 30,000 evacuees as part of MoveOn's Hurricane Housing effort.
Today, we're launching our new book-It Takes A Nation: How Strangers Became Family-which tells the stories of the families involved. It's a beautiful book, featuring amazing and moving first-person interviews with Katrina evacuees and the donors who took them in, and evocative photos of the folks involved and the aftermath of the flood. Senator Barack Obama wrote the forward-and a note to all of you about it, below.
To commemorate Katrina, we're donating every cent of the profits to the progressive group ACORN, which is working to protect evacuees' rights and rebuild New Orleans right. If you donate $20 today to help Katrina relief efforts, we'll send you a copy of It Takes a Nation (which retails for $25) for free.
You can learn more about the book, check out some of the photos and interviews, and make a donation, at:
https://civic.moveon.org/ittakesanation/book.html?id=8606-1297879-CnZxTHGYlWRDwzYu15KuiA&t=3
After this follows a letter that was sent by Obama himself. Read the whole cache including the letter
HERE.
