Toledo, New Orleans and the Failure of Black Leadership Margaret Kimberley Black Commentator, Oct. 27th 2005 October 15, 2005 is a day that should live in infamy. On that date a group of white supremacists from the National Socialist Movement (NSM) were given permission to march in a racially mixed …

Where Was Dick Cheney During Katrina Margaret Kimberley The Black Commentator, September 22nd 2005 Where was Dick Cheney? In the days following the devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina, the Vice President of the United States became the invisible man. The vice president’s job is to succeed the president in case …

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 …