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  • Bush and Third World America
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Out of Chaos, an Awakening
    The images coming out of the Gulf Coast and New Orleans in particular have been nothing short of unfathomable, nightmarish visions of anarchy and misery, a ghoulish reality haunting our minds and lives. For what we see on our television sets is a devastation of humanity never before seen or experienced or felt within American shores. It is a surreal and up close glimpse of natural and human made destruction reserved almost exclusively for (…)

  • New Orleans is dead; time to bury it!!
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I dont much care for the actions of our President; but tell me where the federal government has a responsibility to do ANYTHING. Its sure not in the Constitution. Read it; its the States duty to prepare and clean up this mess. Blame the States for being ill prepared and overwhelmed, not the federal govenment. That being said Im sure I think that maybe its time to carefully draft an amendment to our Constitution that allows for federal relief.
    As far as rebuilding it; why bother??? (…)

  • Keep New Orleans alive in this diaspora
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Orleans, its culture, its artists, its musicians — diaspora. It’s up to each of us to keep New Orleans alive — to each of us take a little piece, to keep the flames of New Orleans spirit burning, to celebrate no matter where we are, and remind, remind, remind in our actions, words, deeds that New Orleans lives even if the city we love is empty and alone. Keep New Orleans alive until it rises again.
    Keep New Orleans alive.

  • Gone with the water
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Louisiana bayou, hardest working marsh in America, is in big trouble-with dire consequences for residents, the nearby city of New Orleans, and seafood lovers everywhere.
    By Joel K. Bourne, Jr.
    It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot. Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent homage to the man who invented air-conditioning as they watched TV "storm teams" warn of a (…)

  • Eyewitness Report from New Orleans
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Saturday September 3, award-winning filmmaker Gloria La Riva, internationally-acclaimed photographer Bill Hackwell and A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth & Student Coordinator Caneisha Mills, a senior at Howard University, arrived in New Orleans.
    The following is an eyewitness report of the crisis in the area written on Sunday, September 4.
    Algiers
    While 80 percent of New Orleans was submerged in water, Algiers is one of the few districts that have been spared the worst of the flooding as it (…)

  • Rice Defends Bush’s Katrina Response
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By LARA JAKES JORDAN
    BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended President Bush on Sunday against charges that the government’s sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina showed racial insensitivity.
    Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race,’’ the administration’s highest-ranking black said as she toured damaged parts of her native Alabama.
    Later, during a service at the Pilgrim Rest AME Zion church outside Mobile, Rice (…)

  • Floor Statement of Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich: The Supplemental for Hurricane Katrina
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) gave the following speech today on the House floor during a special session to provide relief money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina:
    “This amount of money is only a fraction of what is needed and everyone here knows it. Let it go forward quickly with heart-felt thanks to those who are helping to save lives with necessary food, water, shelter, medical care and security. Congress must also demand accountability with the appropriations. Because until (…)

  • The president from Mars
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dennis Roddy
    As New Orleans took on the atmospherics of a John Carpenter movie, George W. Bush, a man reluctant to distinguish between desperation and lawlessness, much less make the connection between the two, proved at last he is his father’s son.
    Thirteen years earlier George Bush the Elder saw a black population mired in poverty and alienation riot after a California jury blithely acquitted the posse of Los Angeles cops who beat Rodney King half to death. His response was to (…)

  • Landrieu Blasts Bush on Katrina Response
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Liddell
    U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., issued the following statement this afternoon regarding her call yesterday for President Bush to appoint a cabinet-level official to oversee Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery efforts within 24 hours.
    Sen. Landrieu said:
    “Yesterday, I was hoping President Bush would come away from his tour of the regional devastation triggered by Hurricane Katrina with a new understanding for the magnitude of the suffering and for the abject (…)

  • Bush Tries for Damage Control at a Critical Point
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Doyle McManus
    It took him most of a week to get there, but President Bush accomplished several goals Friday on his tour of the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. He brought comfort to some of the uncounted homeless. He lent encouragement to emergency workers battling to save those still in danger.
    And, not least, he launched a rescue mission to restore his own image after mounting criticism of an apparent shortage of federal leadership. (…)