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Hurricane Katrina

Coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath.

Is New Orleans Really Ready for Gustav?

Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor. August 31, 2008.
As Gustav bears down, the greatest threat is the potential for a 20-foot storm surge that could overtop the region's vast fortifications.

Reconstruction After Katrina: Brazen Housing Discrimination Continues

Lizzy Ratner, The Nation. August 30, 2008.
White parishes are zoning minorities out of neighborhoods all over New Orleans.

Katrina Pain Index: Measuring New Orleans' Devastation Three Years Later

Bill Quigley, CounterPunch. August 29, 2008.
The United States' economic crisis and simultaneous wars have left New Orleans as an afterthought. This is what the city looks like today.

Shock and Tasers in New Orleans

Naomi Klein, Huffington Post. December 22, 2007.
The shameless exploitation of poor New Orleans residents to privatize public infrastructure is being enforced by violence and tasers.

Bush Wildfires Response Can't Atone For Katrina Blunder

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. October 25, 2007.
Too bad Bush didn't race aid to the Gulf Coast as quickly as he did to Southern California.

From the Bayou to Baghdad: Mission Not Accomplished

Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. September 5, 2007.
Bush flew from the bayou to Baghdad as a People's Hurricane tribunal in New Orleans put every level of government on trial. What was the verdict?

After Katrina -- Poverty Is Still America's Shame

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. August 29, 2007.
The naked face of poverty that shocked the world two years ago remains just as naked and shameful two years later. And Bush and the Democrats are to blame for it.

Hurricane Katrina: Who's to Blame for this Unnatural Disaster

Ari Kelman, The Nation. August 29, 2007.
A batch of new books on Hurricane Katrina investigate who is responsible for the tragedy.

What New Orleans Looks Like Two Years Later [VIDEO]

Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films. August 29, 2007.
Tens of thousands of families in the Gulf Coast region are still without homes, and there is something very specific you can do to help.

In the Lawless Post-Katrina Cleanup, Construction Companies Are Preying on Workers

Brian Beutler, Media Consortium. July 16, 2007.
After Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast, construction companies have squeezed billions out of federal contracts with few labor regulations and almost no oversight, allowing outrageous worker abuses to occur.

Dying for a Home: Toxic Trailers Are Making Katrina Refugees Ill

Amanda Spake, The Nation. February 15, 2007.
FEMA-supplied trailers for displaced Gulf Coast residents have been found to emit formaldehyde vapors, causing serious health problems.

Katrina's Victims Of Ideology

Isaiah J. Poole, TomPaine.com. September 12, 2006.
Conservatives' contempt for government is at the root of the failed response to the hurricane.

Don't Let Insurers Shirk Their Duty

Nomi Prins, AlterNet. August 31, 2006.
New laws must prevent abuse by companies that are squirming out of paying Katrina victims.

An Unhappy Anniversary

The Progress Report. August 30, 2006.
The financial, emotional, and human costs of Hurricane Katrina have been absolutely staggering -- and they aren't subsiding yet.

When Government Shrugs: Lessons of Katrina

Adolph L. Reed Jr., The Progressive. August 29, 2006.
Public policies designed to serve the narrow interests of business and the affluent are the ultimate cause of New Orleans' devastation.

The GOP Has More to Rebuild Than New Orleans

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. August 28, 2006.
A crushing majority of blacks still blame Bush's bungled Katrina response not on incompetence, but on racism.

Blowin' in the Mississippi Wind

Chad Heeter, Tomdispatch.com. May 22, 2006.
How has FEMA 'prepared' Gulf Coast residents for storm season 2006? By doing next to nothing, of course.

New Orleans: Repeating Its Mistakes?

Mia White, AlterNet. May 19, 2006.
On the eve of New Orleans' mayoral runoff, we must ensure that the area's displaced retain a voice in who will be their city's next leader.

Recovering from Another Great Disaster

Mason Gaffney, Dollars and Sense. April 18, 2006.
How is it possible that San Francisco survived after the 1906 earthquake and fire, when a top economist says New Orleans cannot?

Who Is Killing New Orleans?

Mike Davis, The Nation. April 4, 2006.
Despite promises of a substantive debate on urban poverty, plans to reconstruct New Orleans are falling into the hands of a white elite.

The Sweetness of the Smoking Gun

Toby Barlow, Huffington Post. March 3, 2006.
There's President Bush, on video for the world to see, offering hollow assurances that we were prepared for Hurricane Katrina.

Fifty Dollars and a Dream

Billie Mizell, AlterNet. March 2, 2006.
In Katrina's aftermath in New Orleans, an unlikely group of four men -- white and black, old and young -- came together to form a relief collective unlike any other.

Masking New Orleans

Fatima Shaik, In These Times. February 28, 2006.
On the first post-Katrina Mardi Gras, the festivities just disguise the fact that New Orleans is a hollower, whiter, and richer place than it was a year ago.

Remembering New Orleans

Kristina Rizga, WireTap. February 27, 2006.
Six months after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, some resident-writers look back on the good, the bad and everything in between.

Excerpt: These Streets Are Ours

Ashley Nelson, Ebony Bolding, WireTap. February 27, 2006.
A new series of books, written by young people in some of New Orleans' poorest neighborhoods, chronicles life in the Big Easy prior to Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina's Emotional Hangover

Maria Luisa Tucker, AlterNet. February 6, 2006.
Passionate opposition to New Orleans' proposed rebuilding plan has hundreds of survivors trekking to D.C. to voice their objections.

Haunted by Katrina

Dani McClain, WireTap. February 4, 2006.
An uprooted family from the Gulf region tries to make sense of New York and cope with the emotional and psychological effects of forced migration.

New Orleans Voices: Denise and Richard

Alive in Truth. January 28, 2006.
Two evacuated New Orleans residents, now living in Austin, Texas, remember the horror of Katrina and its nightmarish after-effects.

A New Year in New Orleans

Wayne Emilien, Campus Progress. January 25, 2006.
New Orleans has become home to opportunism. But for natives, it has yet to become home again.

(More) Loss and Displacement in New Orleans

Jordan Flaherty, Jennifer Vitry, AlterNet. January 12, 2006.
The 1,400 working-class households in this housing project are returning to find their homes destroyed not only by Katrina, but by thieves.

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