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 …
“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 …
 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 …
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 …
 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 …
 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 …
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 …
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 …
 With Death Comes Life: A Mayan Take on Katrina Patrisia Gonzales, Eastern Group Publications, September 27th 2005 Twenty years ago on Sept. 19 at 7:19 a.m., the earth opened up in Mexico City—Tenochtitlan, taking 85,000 lives. Mexicans called the earthquake Tlalliyollo, or Heart of the Earth. Tlalliyollo also created a …
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 …