A God with Whom I am not Familiar Tim Wise CounterPunch, September 3rd/4th 2005 This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt: You don’t know me. But I know you. I watched you as …
Way Below The Poverty ( and Water ) Line Clive Whistle and PNN editors September 3rd, 2005 People walking aimlessly in the streets. Food preparation on the sidewalk. People pushing shopping carts on the bridges and causeways filled with blankets, bits of clothes and a half-consumed jug of water. Homeless …
Hurricane Raps — Freestyles, Conscious Laments and Battle Rhymes Inspired by Katrina Kevin Weston and Cliff Parker New America Media, September 21st 2005 BATON ROUGE, La. and MOBILE, Ala.–Most Americans get their information on how black people are dealing with Katrina from the mainstream media. But you have to listen …
The ‘New Orleans Stare’ — Mental Health Needs of Blacks Acute After Katrina Kevin Weston Pacific News Service, September 16th 2005 BATON ROUGE, La.–The New Orleans Stare. You can see it in the faces of Katrina survivors here at the evacuation shelter at the River Center in Baton Rouge. A …
Holy Rollers — The Church Van Is Hero of Katrina Recovery for Blacks Tragic events in New Orleans have laid bare America’s bigotry and exposed the lie of equal opportunity Kevin Weston Pacific News Service, September 13th 2005 MOBILE, Ala.–When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast, her winds of …
“Finding” America M. Treloar Bring the Ruckus, October 2005 Author’s note: This is a discussion document from Bring the Ruckus. It draws on the work from several individuals, but should not be seen as an official statement of the organization. Before you read any further, let us suggest that you …
 Making Shelters Safe for Transgender Evacuees Lambda Legal, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Nationnal Center for Transgender Equality Transgender people identify as or express a gender that is different from their sex at birth. This includes people who are born male but live as female, or vice versa, and …
These are the people that the government abandoned… Powerful Words of survival, struggle and spirituality of Hurricane Katrina Survivors filled the First Congregational Church in Oakland last Saturday tiny/PNN September 28th, 2005 “He was our Moses”, they stood together, bodies swaying slowly back and forth as if to carry their …
Katrina Survivors Tell Their Story Sonsyrea Tate Washington Informer, September 13th 2005 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ronald Breland, 53, needed a cold beer after the storm. “Our house was a two-story, so we didn’t expect the water to rise the way it rose. When it came up, it just flooded everything,” …
Katrina Exposes Racism Lee Sustar Socialist Worker, September 1st 2005 DECADES of official neglect, racism and the impact of global warming magnified the destructive impact of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and other parts of the South. The mainstream media focused most on the big-money property losses–for example, the heavily …