The Two Americas Marjorie Cohn TruthOut.org, September 3rd 2005 Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds. More than 1.5 million Cubans were evacuated to higher ground ahead of the storm. Although the hurricane destroyed 20,000 houses, no one died. What …
Old-Line Families Escape Worst of Flood And Plot the Future Christopher Cooper Wall Street Journal, September 8th 2005 NEW ORLEANS — On a sultry morning earlier this week, Ashton O’Dwyer stepped out of his home on this city’s grandest street and made a beeline for his neighbor’s pool. Wearing nothing …
Louisiana NAACP Head Urges Shelter Denizens to Organize Branden Coyle The New Standard, September 14th 2005 Sep 14 – As part of an extensive and ongoing effort to aid those displaced by Hurricane Katrina, the head of the Louisiana arm of the NAACP called on survivors staying in shelters to …
Bring the Ruckus Responds to Katrina Crisis Call for Volunteers to Help Friends and Families of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children Bring the Ruckus September 13th 2005 In response to the Katrina crisis, Bring the Ruckus (BtR) has formed a solidarity network with Friends and Families of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC – …
New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters Officers Deserted a Jail Building, Leaving Inmates Locked in Cells Corinne Carey, researcher U.S. Program, Human Rights Watch, September 22nd 2005 “As Hurricane Katrina began pounding New Orleans, the sheriff’s department abandoned hundreds of inmates imprisoned in the city’s jail,” Human Rights Watch …
Statement by Fidel Castro Fidel Castro September 4th 2005 Remarks by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, meeting with the medical doctors assembled to offer assistance to the American people in areas affected by hurricane Katrina. Havana Convention Center. Dear members of the medical force assembled …
Displaced New Orleans Community Demands Action, Accountability and Initiates A People’s Hurricane Fund Becky Belcore, September 6th 2005 Not until the fifth day of the federal government’s inept and inadequate emergency response to the New Orleans’ disaster did George Bush even acknowledge it was ‘unacceptable.’ ‘Unacceptable’ doesn’t begin to describe …
The Politics of Displacement Will the “New” New Orleans be Black? Glen Ford Black Commentator, September 2nd 2005 One of the premiere Black cities in the nation faces catastrophe. There is no doubt in my mind that New Orleans will one day rise again from its below sea level foundations. …
Poor folks pitted against the not as poor in Baton Rouge, La Kelly Brewington The Baltimore Sun, September 16th 2005 BATON ROUGE, La. — Two weeks after rallying a massive relief effort to welcome survivors of Hurricane Katrina, the strain can be seen everywhere in this laid-back college town, and …
New Orleans Population has the Right of Return Glen Ford Black Commentator Radio, September 8th 2005 The people of New Orleans have a right to return. It is not too early to say so. In fact, it is imperative that we demand the Right of Return now, before the circumstances …