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80,000 Rodney Kings in New Orleans MIKE WHITNEY: If You have Nothing, You are Nothing...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 10:59am PDT
Rev. Al Sharpton: President Bush's Response "Inexcusable" More public figures have spoken out, lambasting the government”s slow response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Reverend Al Sharpton spoke in Houston on Saturday and said that race played a role....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:59am PDT
Kanye West: "Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" On Friday night, Grammy-award winning hip-hop superstar Kanye West delivered a blistering critique of President Bush and the administration”s response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. "I hate the way they portray us in the media," West said. "If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food."...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:58am PDT
Katrina bared Bush's 'bamsee' THE contrasts could not be starker, the contradictions more revealing, than when Hurricane Katrina struck a mighty blow at the crucial southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia in the USA. It was as if the blitzes on Baghdad and Kabul had returned with intense fury to lash back at hapless, innocent Americans, much the way millions equally-innocent Iraqis and Afghans suffered at the unseen hands of American pilots who unleashed death from way up in the clouds. The irony of it is th...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:25am PDT
A great "Open Letter" to radicals. This is an open letter from someone i have probably never met living in Houston, Texas. It speaks for me so much, i had to re-print it. Please read it and pass it on if you like it....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:01am PDT
Policing the Poor amidst Flood Disaster The official response to Louisiana's flood disaster has been dominated by policing the state's poor black population while thousands more are still waiting to be rescued....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:47pm PDT
New Orleans Refugees Being Sent to Toxic Waste Dump in Arkansas I live in Fort Smith Arkansas and 360 people from NO have been shipped to an old army base outside our town. The problem is the base barracks they have put the people in is listed as a toxic waste dump. The barracks are so inundated with lead paint that the people that have to get around them wear masks so they don't have to breathe the fumes coming off them....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 7:15pm PDT
An open letter to NBC news, 9/2/05, on Katrina reporting Watching NBC's "Dateline" for Friday 9/2, I realized what subtle racism means, and saw that the 1950s still aren't over....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:04am PDT
New Black Panther Party for Self Defense Sends Elite Aid/Rescue Team to New Orleans Disast heck, yeah!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 12:10am PDT
Red Cross not allowed into New Orleans by government after reading dKos and the other blogs all week and seeing over and over again comments that that FEMA and the NG were no where to be seen from the people on the ground in NO, I was wondering where the Red Cross was in all this. They were never mentioned. It was like they didn't exist. And, after yesterday's drama at the convention center, the Brown and Chertoff lies, the Red Cross was still MIA. Then, earlier today, I saw a note that the Red Cross was not allowed to enter NO. Hmm, that's doe...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:09pm PDT
Talk Race, But Don't Play Race Card With Katrina Race has a lot to do with who's suffering and who isn't after hurricane Katrina. But wild accusations of racism will only make matters worse for all of New Orleans' poor....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:20pm PDT
Katrina: a tragedy made worse Chicago, Sept. 1, 2005 - All of us share the pain of those hit so hard by Hurricane Katrina. All of us will do what we can to help ease the burden of the families who have lost their loved ones, their homes and even their towns and cities....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:00pm PDT
'This is criminal': Malik Rahim reports from New Orleans Malik Rahim, a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, for decades an organizer of public housing tenants both there and in San Francisco and a recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council, lives in the Algiers neighborhood, the only part of New Orleans that is not flooded. They have no power, but the water is still good and the phones work. Their neighborhood could be sheltering and feeding at least 40,000 refugees, he says, but they are allowed to help no one. What h...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 5:59pm PDT
Native Hawaiian groups and allies rally to protect sacred sites and environment from U.S. Convoys and marching groups will converge at sacred birthing stones to protest U.S. militarism and imperialism...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 2:05pm PDT
Genocide americano en New Orleans Esperaba seriamente que no tendría que escribir este artículo. Pero ha sido demasiado largo ahora, y tengo que decir algo. Sin importar debido a si el masse del en de las muertes de la gente negra pobre en New Orleans es la negligencia o maliciousness, el resultado final es constructivo un genocide en negros pobres en América, ahora, en 2005. La carencia de la ayuda a New Orleans en esta última hora (7 P.M., sept. 1) no es explicables. Tengo solamente una explicación que pueda reunir para arr...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 9:51am PDT
Race in New Orleans: Shaping the Response to Katrina? Race and class loom large in the critical discussion of the federal response to the impact of hurricane Katrina. We speak with two African-American activists about the poor communities that have been hit hardest by the hurricane....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 7:40am PDT
New Orleans: In Praise of Looting Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:34am PDT
Genocide in New Orleans I was seriously hoping that I would not have to write this article. But it has been too long now, and I have to say something. Regardless of whether the deaths en masse of poor black folks in New Orleans is due to neglect or maliciousness, the end result is constructively a genocide on poor blacks in America, right now, in 2005. The lack of aid to New Orleans at this late hour (7 pm, Sept. 1) is not explicable. I have only one explanation that I can muster up. And that explanation is classism...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:22am PDT
New Orleans and the Death of the Common Good The destruction of New Orleans represents a confluence of many of the most pernicious trends in American politics and culture: poverty, racism, militarism, elitist greed, environmental abuse, public corruption and the decay of democracy at every level....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:11pm PDT
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