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  • Saving America’s Soul Kitchen
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    How to bring this country together? Listen to the message of New Orleans
    By WYNTON MARSALIS
    Now the levee breach has been fixed. The people have been evacuated. Army Corps of Engineers magicians will pump the city dry, and the slow (but quicker than we think) job of rebuilding will begin. Then there will be no 24-hour news coverage. The spin doctors’ narrative will create a wall of illusion thicker than the new levees. The job of turning our national disaster into sound-bite-size (…)

  • Interview from ’Dome City’ with Josh from New Orleans
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On September 17, I spoke with Josh from New Orleans. He was sitting on a curb outside of Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas. Reliant Arena is a building next to the Astrodome and has been considered a part of ’Dome City.’ Our interview begins with Josh explaining that he could get arrested that night just for talking to me and giving me a recorded interview. (42:22 minutes / 19.4 MB)
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    Josh discusses the poor treatment of people evacuated to the (…)

  • 75,000 Body Bags Purchased For New Orleans
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Lynn Landes
    Questions mount over Hurricane Katrina’s death count. Estimates are now well below 10,000 with the death toll currently standing at 648 for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. So, why did the Bush Administration order 75,000 body bags?
    Along that line, other things don’t add up. For instance, why did FEMA contact a crematorium in the local area; how could people identify their loved ones if only ashes remain? Why did FEMA rebuff efforts of volunteer morticians? Why did (…)

  • Mississippi Delta Disaster: The Absence of a Viable Opposition in America
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mississippi Delta Disaster: The Absence of a Viable Opposition in America No Direction Home
    September 10, 2005 Moscow Times
    Let’s be clear about one thing. Nothing that happened last week — the mass destruction in the Mississippi Delta, the obliteration of the city of New Orleans, the murderous abandonment of thousands of people to death, chaos and disease — will change the Bush Administration or American politics at all. Not one whit. President George W. Bush will not reverse his brutal (…)

  • Cuba Maintains Offer of Medical Help to the US, says Fidel
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, (AIN) Cuba maintains the offer of medical aid to the victims of hurricaneKatrina, repeated Cuban President Fidel Castro.
    Fidel explained that Cuba was not offering money, but saving lives, and even though the American authorities have not answered Cuba’s action of solidarity, the Cuban doctors are ready to help the people of that country and any other country that needs it.
    The Cuban president attended, Monday, the national graduation of 1,905 doctors from medical (…)

  • A patchwork of help—Greenhouse School’s unique approach to Katrina relief
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    The Hurricane Katrina disaster is bringing out an instinct to help from schools, churches and groups all over the world. However, students at The Greenhouse School are taking a unique approach to helping victims of Katrina—and one that is familiar at the same time. “We wanted to do something, like a lot of people, but we wanted it to be special and in line with how we work,” said Julia Nambalirwa-Lugudde, the school’s assistant director.
    She and her colleague, (…)

  • Division of Funeral Corp. Charged With Desecrating Corpses Hired to Collect Deceased Victims of Hurricane Katrina
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    A funeral services company which recently learned that one of its subsidiaries is negotiating a lucrative contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to remove dead bodies in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, paid $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit several years ago alleging the company desecrated thousands of corpses, and dumped bodies into mass graves.
    Moreover, the company paid $200,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that sought to expose (…)

  • Markets, Climate And Katrina
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Joseph Stiglitz Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is professor of economics at Columbia University and was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Clinton and chief economist and senior vice- president at the World Bank. His most recent book is The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Prosperous Decade.
    The world has been horrified at America’s response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans. Four years after the (…)

  • A True American Hero
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Ellen DeGeneres strode up to the stage as this year’s Emmy host with the Herculean task of brightening the nation’s somber mood following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
    "New Orleans is my hometown, and I have family in Mississippi," Ellen said, striking the right note at the awards ceremony. "It’s times like this we really, really need laughter."
    Ellen could just have easily been talking about her career, which was derailed by the storm of controversy that (…)

  • Bush Katrina Ratings Fall After Speech
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Katrina Ratings Fall After Speech Survey of 1,000 Adults
    September 16-17, 2005
    President Bush Response to
    Hurricane Katrina Excellent 17% Good 18% Fair 23% Poor 41% RasmussenReports.com Favor Federal Funding for $200 Billion New Orleans Reconstruction? Favor 50% Oppos 27% RasmussenReports.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    September 18, 2005—Thirty-five percent (35%) of Americans now say that President Bush (…)