“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 …
 Similarities between tribes and the 9th Ward Cedric Sunray Native American Times, September 6th 2005  The word tragedy can hardly signify the extent of the pain being suffered by many in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. While America comes to grips with the enormity of the despair, people, many of …
An Open Letter to the New Orleans Times-Picayune Eli Stephens September 4th 2005 To the Editor, Your open letter to the President makes a strong statement about the outrage being visited upon the city of New Orleans by the Federal Government, but in simply calling for George Bush to fire …
A Natural Disaster, a Man-Made Catastrophe, and a Human Tragedy Ted Steinberg Chronicle of Higher Education, September 9th 2005 Is Hurricane Katrina “our tsunami,” as the mayor of Biloxi, Miss., A.J. Holloway, has said? Does it make sense to compare today’s disaster to a catastrophe that killed upwards of 200,000 …
Capitalist Rulers Leave Blacks, Poor to Die New Orleans: Racist Atrocity For a Planned Economy Under Workers Rule! Spartacist League USA September 4th, 2005 “We’re dying!” This was the desperate cry of those mainly black people trapped by flooding from Hurricane Katrina, which has submerged 80 percent of New Orleans …
‘Get Off The Fucking Freeway’: The Sinking State Loots its Own Survivors by Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky Socialist Worker, September 9th 2005 Two paramedics stranded in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina give their account of self-organisation and abandonment in the disaster zone Two days after …