Just a few of the Many Reports about this Continuing Tragedy ‘Within The United States Of America’, or is it still the ‘Good Ole USA’!!!
Katrina’s Second Crisis
by Van Jones and James Rucker, TomPaine.com
Continuing conservative failures have stymied New Orleans’ recovery. Here are ways to respond.
* Top Hurricane Expert Says Officials Threatened His Job Over Pre-Katrina
Warnings *
On the eve of the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, investigative
journalist Greg Palast reports that a top hurricane expert says government
officials threatened his job over his warnings about the impending disaster.
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* For Whom is New Orleans Being Rebuilt? City Demographics Radically Altered
With Many Black Residents Still Unable to Return
A year after Hurricane Katrina hit, only about half of New Orleans’
population of 450,000 has returned. Many of those unable to come back are
poor and African-American, drastically altering the demographics of a city
that used to be two-thirds black. Investigative journalist Greg Palast
reports from New Orelans.
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Common Ground Collective Continues to Bring Thousands of Volunteers From
Around the World to Gulf Coast For Post-Katrina Relief Efforts *
We speak with New Orleans community activist and co-founder of the Common
Ground Collective, Malik Rahim, about his continued relief efforts in the
Gulf Coast, the racism in the federal government’s response to the disaster
and much more.
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Louisiana senator wants to ‘punch’ Bush
Posted by David DeGraw at 12:06 PM on August 27, 2006.
One year after threatening to ‘literally punch’ Bush over his inept response to Hurricane Katrina, Senator Mary Landrieu still has some harsh words for the administration’s “lack of follow through.”
One year ago, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu was so frustrated by Bush’s inept response to Hurricane Katrina that she went on national television and threatened to ‘literally punch him.’ Now, a year later, Landrieu is still disgusted by the administration’s “lack of follow through.”
In this Video Clip from ABC’s This Week, she explains that only 12% of the $110 billion Katrina relief package has actually reached the people who need it most.
David DeGraw is AlterNet’s video blogger.
New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina
By Mother Jones
NEWS: Full coverage of the New Orleans disaster and its aftermath
The Nation On Hurricane Katrina
One year ago this week, as Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast, people across the country watched in horror. The scenes of destruction were bad enough, but the federal government’s abdication of responsibility to the desperate citizens of New Orleans was impossible for many to forget–and to forgive. Ultimately, Katrina came to symbolize the combination of negligence, ineptitude, corruption and mendacity that has distinguished the administration of President Bush.
Each step of the way, online and in print, The Nation exposed the morally bankrupt policies and practices that compounded the costliest natural disaster in US history with a man-made crisis that continues to unfold. Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina, published today by Nation Books, is a collection of the magazine’s coverage of the storm and its aftermath.
Unnatural Disaster is not only a chronicle of what went wrong. It also highlights the pitched battle over reconstruction–in which ordinary citizens and grassroots groups have struggled mightily for a voice in their own future.
Featuring an original introduction by expatriate New Orleanian and political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr., the volume, edited by Nation executive editor Betsy Reed, includes essays, blog posts, web-only articles, and on-the-scene reporting by Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Christian Parenti, Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot, Patricia J. Williams, Eric Alterman, Gary Younge, Alexander Cockburn, Robert Scheer, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Eric Foner, Curtis Wilkie, Billy Sothern, Susan Straight, William Greider, Nicholas von Hoffman, Mark Hertsgaard, Max Blumenthal, Michael T. Klare, Tom Englehardt and Nick Turse, and many others.
An invaluable compendium narrating the key moments of this crucial historical episode, Unnatural Disaster showcases some of the best non-fiction writers in America today. Click here for info and to purchase copies online.
If you missed this past weekend’s RadioNation with Laura Flanders live from New Orleans, you can still listen online to interviews from the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund event. Broadcast each Saturday and Sunday from 7:00 to 10:00pm EST on the Air America Radio Network, RadioNation also produces a one-hour version, which is provided free to noncommercial community and college stations.
And check out The Nation’s ActNow blog for ways you can help support relief efforts and organizing toward a just reconstruction.
Finally, please visit The Nation online to read new Nation blogs, to view newsfeed links updated each day, to see when Nation writers are appearing on TV and radio, to get info on nationwide activist campaigns, and to read exclusive online reports and special weekly selections from The Nation magazine!
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Peter Rothberg,
The Nation
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