“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 …
On Refuge and Language Suheir Hammad  I do not wish  To place words in living mouths  Or bury the dead dishonorably  I am not deaf to cries escaping shelters  That citizens are not refugees Refugees are not Americans  I will not use language  One way or another  To accommodate my …
Hurricane Homelessness Connecting poverty and homelessness from the Gulf Coast to the Pacific Coast Dee Gray and Lisa Garcia-Gray/PNN Tuesday, September 27, 2005 How do you speak about the death and suffering of thousands of Bay Area homeless children, adults and elders while there is death and suffering and forced …
Katrina: A Preventable Social Disaster by Rosa Ana Duenas Granma International Sept. 6 2005 AS the true horror of the social disaster in the Gulf Coast left in Katrina’s wake becomes more evident with each passing day, two questions are being asked: Was the flooding inevitable? Why did the government …