Religion, science and Hurricane Katrina Joseph Kay World Socialist Web Site, September 19th 2005  In his address to the nation from New Orleans last Thursday, Bush  repeatedly invoked religion and religious organizations. The maudlin  appeals to God went beyond even the president’s stock-and-trade  sermonizing.   Speaking of those who had …

Ready for Revolution: A message for Barbara Bush Toronto Jones The Black Commentator, September 22nd 2005 By now everyone that reads this article has been affected in some way by the images that have been transmitted via the television in regards to the crisis in New Orleans. To some, it …

Statement on the flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina The Internationalist Workers Group section of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party in the United States and Canada September 2nd 2005 The flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina has resulted in a social disaster of epic proportions and has shown once again …

“Katrina”: An Unnatural Disaster “I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, “They’re looting.” You see a white family, it says, “They’re looking for food.” And, you know, it’s been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people …

 INCITE! STATEMENT ON HURRICANE KATRINA September 11th 2005 INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence is stunned by the catastrophe and tragic loss in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In New Orleans and in many other communities along the Gulf, people are experiencing unimaginable devastating conditions. We are especially alarmed for …

Hurricane Katrina Breaches Capitalism’s Levees Statement of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party September 6th 2005 With the clinical sharpness of a laser beam Hurricane Katrina has opened up a whole series of issues about the nature of today’s class society, the level of the economic crisis, the culpability …

 Chasing a Katrina Conspiracy Shields the Real Culprit Earl Ofari Hutchinson  New America Media, September 27th 2005 LOS ANGELES–In the weeks since Katrina hit, the conspiracy theories behind it have multiplied. The Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and a slew of activists and bloggers have spun a huge tale …

 Katrina: Contemporary Screams of Agony Terry Lynn Howcott The Black Commentator, September 15th 2005 There are no words to express what we have witnessed in news accounts out of Louisiana and Mississippi.  Overused terms such as revulsion, horror, terror and outrage just don’t compensate.  The combined federal abandonment and neglecting …

KATRINA: “OUR GRANDPARENTS STARTED THE RENEWAL”, SAY ROTINOSHONNI ELDERS ABOUT NEW ORLEANS AND ITS DISASTROUS AFTERMATH Kahentinetha Horn Mohawk Nation News, September 8th 2005 MNN. September 8, 2005. Some Rotinoshonni/Iroquois elders recently came to the conclusion, “It’s our grandparents giving us a message. The wind is our grandfather and the …

Living Paycheck to Paycheck Made Leaving Impossible Wil Haygood Washington Post, September 4th 2005 NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 3 — To those who wonder why so many stayed behind when push came to water’s mighty shove here, those who were trapped have a simple explanation: Their nickels and dimes and dollar …