Washington Post
Bush's Approval Rating Drops To New Low in Wake of Storm
He Says Race Didn't Affect Efforts; Blacks in Poll Disagree
By Michael A. Fletcher and Richard Morin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, September 13, 2005; Page A08
Touring devastated portions of New Orleans yesterday, President Bush sought to reassure the public that the government is responding to Hurricane Katrina with equity and dispatch, even as his standing hit record lows amid broad support for an independent investigation of the federal response to the storm.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that clear majorities of Americans disapprove of the way officials at all levels of government are handling the recovery from Katrina. A 54 percent majority disapproved of Bush's response to Katrina, while an even larger majority -- 57 percent -- say state and local officials should bear responsibility for the problems.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/12/AR2005091200668.html
More Join Guantanamo Hunger Strike
Detainees Demand Hearings, Allege Beatings by Guards
By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 13, 2005; Page A03
A month-old hunger strike at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has grown to include at least 128 detainees, 18 of whom are forcibly receiving intravenous fluids or nutrition in the prison hospital, military officials and detainee lawyers said yesterday.
The captives are protesting their indefinite imprisonment and what they describe as beatings administered by the prison's Immediate Response Force (IRF)-- squads of military personnel who are dispatched to put down disturbances in detainees' cells. Some have said they will refuse to eat until the military gives them a fair hearing or they die, according to their
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/12/AR2005091201690.html
5-Week-Old Born in N.Va. To Comatose Mother Dies
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 13, 2005; Page A01
Susan Anne Catherine Torres, whose mother was declared brain-dead and kept on life-support for three months so she could be born, died early yesterday. She was 5 weeks and 5 days old.
The baby contracted a disease that can afflict premature infants, which led to an infection and a perforated intestine that finally overwhelmed her tiny body, according to hospital officials and the baby's uncle, Justin Torres, whose only public words yesterday were the ones he wrote.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/12/AR2005091200669.html
Los Angeles Times
As Lights Go Out, Power Worries Rise
Mistake by DWP workers cuts electricity across the L.A. area. Public officials express doubts about the city system's integrity.
By Sharon Bernstein, Hector Becerra and Mitchell Landsberg, Times Staff Writers
A mistake on a single bundle of wires Monday cascaded into a major blackout in and around Los Angeles, inconveniencing millions of people and renewing questions about the vulnerability of the region's power system.
Coming one day after a purported Al Qaeda threat of attack on the city, the midday outage pricked nerves and caused isolated incidents of panic. Plumes of flame and smoke heightened the drama as refineries, temporarily shut by the outage, flared off excess gases.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-power13sep13,0,1192306.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Roberts Sees Role as Judicial 'Umpire'
'I have no platform,' the chief justice nominee tells senators at start of confirmation hearings.
By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — Judge John G. Roberts Jr., President Bush's choice for chief justice of the United States, said Monday that he aspired to a humble and limited role as leader of the Supreme Court, more akin to an umpire who calls the balls and strikes rather than the star player who is the center of attention.
"Justices and judges are servants of the law, not the other way around," Roberts told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-roberts13sep13,0,6212450.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Polluted paradise
Giant trees, magnificent vistas, pristine wilderness. Well, reconsider the pristine part. The air in Sequoia-Kings Canyon is smoggier than New York City's.
By Gary Polakovic, Times Staff Writer
Up here, atop Beetle Rock, a precipice more than one mile high in the Sierra, air at dawn is clear, invisible, exactly as it should be. Two mule deer bucks in velvet saunter through the forest, and a sow bear and cub scratch out bugs from a big tree near Giant Grove.
Down below, 30 miles away in the San Joaquin Valley, sunrise illuminates haze like a flashlight shot through tea. The smear of smog spreads wide over Central California, constrained only by the horizon and a tabletop-flat layer of warm air called an inversion that holds a brownish haze low to valley farms and cities and highways. For now, at least, the high country is untouched.
Yet as the sun climbs, California heats up; people awaken, start their machines and pump tons of emissions into the sky. The air pollution, stratified over Visalia like the layers of a cake, begins to cook and mix and expand. The ozone gauge at Beetle Rock starts ticking upwards from .066 part per million and will soon climb toward the unhealthful mark. The smog is coming.
http://www.latimes.com/travel/outdoors/la-os-smogparknew13sep13,0,5175419.story?coll=la-story-footer&track=pacifictime
Michael Moore Today
Veteran's for Peace
On September 2, 2005 the Veterans for Peace Bus from Mendocino County, CA took a detour to help the victims of hurricane Katrina. We arrived in Covington, LA with food and supplies that Camp Casey had sent from Crawford, Texas.
We are moving some of the Camp Casey operations from the Pine View Middle School to The Green Room at 521 Boston Street in Covington - More information coming ASAP.
Please see drop off and volunteer info below as that is accruate as of September 9th.
We are using the school to support Veterans For Peace hurricane relief efforts for the people of the region. We are supporting The Red Cross with power, medical supplies, kitchen service, food bank and distribution, internet communications and trained medical personnel.
http://www.vfproadtrips.org/
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
Here's How You Can Make an Immediate Difference in Louisiana
Friends,
There is much to be said and done about the manmade annihilation of New Orleans, caused NOT by a hurricane but by the very specific decisions made by the Bush administration in the past four and a half years. Do not listen to anyone who says we can discuss all this later. No, we can't. Our country is in an immediate state of vulnerability. More hurricanes and other disasters are on the way, and a lazy bunch of self-satisfied lunatics are still running the show.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2005-09-07
A Letter to All Who Voted for George W. Bush from Michael Moore
To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush:
On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I'm just curious, how does it feel?
How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification was that he ran horse shows?
That's right. Horse shows.
I really want to know -- and I ask you this in all sincerity and with all due respect -- how do you feel about the utter contempt Mr. Bush has shown for your safety? C'mon, give me just a moment of honesty. Don't start ranting on about how this disaster in New Orleans was the fault of one of the poorest cities in America. Put aside your hatred of Democrats and liberals and anyone with the last name of Clinton. Just look me in the eye and tell me our President did the right thing after 9/11 by naming a horse show runner as the top man to protect us in case of an emergency or catastrophe.
I want you to put aside your self-affixed label of Republican/conservative/born-again/capitalist/ditto-head/right-winger and just talk to me as an American, on the common ground we both call America.
Are we safer now than before 9/11? When you learn that behind the horse show runner, the #2 and #3 men in charge of emergency preparedness have zero experience in emergency preparedness, do you think we are safer?
When you look at Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, a man with little experience in national security, do you feel secure?
When men who never served in the military and have never seen young men die in battle send our young people off to war, do you think they know how to conduct a war? Do they know what it means to have your legs blown off for a threat that was never there?
Do you really believe that turning over important government services to private corporations has resulted in better services for the people?
Why do you hate our federal government so much? You have voted for politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to de-fund the federal government. Do you think that cutting federal programs like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or bad for America? GOOD OR BAD?
With the nation's debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts for the rich are still a good idea? Will you give yours back so hundreds of thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home?
Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn't he say that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in and blew off the facade that we were a nation with liberty and justice for all. The wind howled and the water rose and what was revealed was that the poor in America shall be left to suffer and die while the President of the United States fiddles and tells them to eat cake.
That's not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, Mr. Bush, John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves with cake. A full day after the levees broke (the same levees whose repair funding he had cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some country singer gave him. All this while New Orleans sank under water.
It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in his jumbo jet, peeking out the window at the misery 2500 feet below him as he flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO MORE DAYS before a trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. This was no seven minutes in a sitting trance while children read "My Pet Goat" to him. This was FOUR DAYS of doing nothing other than saying "Brownie (FEMA director Michael Brown), you're doing a heck of a job!"
My Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing stock of the world?
And on this sacred day of remembrance, do you think we honor or shame those who died on 9/11/01? If we learned nothing and find ourselves today every bit as vulnerable and unprepared as we were on that bright sunny morning, then did the 3,000 die in vain?
Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or natural disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one in eight Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an education system where one in six children never graduate and most of those who do can't string a coherent sentence together. The middle class can't pay the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million have no health coverage whatsoever.
Are we safe? Do you really feel safe? You can only move so far out and build so many gated communities before the fruit of what you've sown will be crashing through your walls and demanding retribution. Do you really want to wait until that happens? Or is it your hope that if they are left alone long enough to soil themselves and shoot themselves and drown in the filth that fills the street that maybe the problem will somehow go away?
I know you know better. You gave the country and the world a man who wasn't up for the job and all he does is hire people who aren't up for the job. You did this to us, to the world, to the people of New Orleans. Please fix it. Bush is yours. And you know, for our peace and safety and security, this has to be fixed. What do you propose?
I have an idea, and it isn't a horse show.
Yours,
Michael Moore
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
mmflint@aol.com
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=185
Roberts: 'I Have No Agenda'
Associated Press
Following are excerpts from the opening statement of John G. Roberts Jr. yesterday at the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for his nomination to be chief justice of the United States, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions:
Judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around. Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id-4067
People for the American Way
Oppose Roberts for Chief Justice
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http://www.savethecourt.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=mwK0JbNTJrF&b=1022811&action=4318&template=x.ascx
US could withdraw 50,000 troops by year end-Talabani
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (Reuters) - The United States could withdraw as many as 50,000 troops from Iraq by the end of the year because there are enough Iraqi forces ready to begin taking control of parts of the country, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told the Washington Post.
In an interview with the newspaper that was published on Tuesday, Talabani said he would discuss reductions in U.S. forces during a private meeting with President George W. Bush and said he thought the United States could pull some troops out immediately.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4064
Embattled FEMA Director Mike Brown Resigns
By Ron Fournier / Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Federal Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown said Monday he has resigned "in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president," three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
Brown, under fire for FEMA's performance in the Gulf Coast, said he feared he had become a distraction.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4062
A Day of Contradictions
By Dana Milbank
Saturday, September 3, 2005; Page A15
"I'm looking forward to my trip down there," President Bush said in the White House driveway yesterday morning before leaving to tour the storm wreckage.
Something must have happened in flight, because when he arrived in Mobile, Ala., two hours later, he reported: "I'm not looking forward to this trip."
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For Bush, it was that kind of day. Nursing the lowest standing of his presidency, he could have used another bullhorn-atop-the-wreckage moment to symbolize his strong leadership.
Instead, while a flood of sewage and corpses filled lawless New Orleans, Bush found himself in an awkward photo op in an airport hangar, accepting hosannas from government officials and a pair of Republican governors.
"Thank you for all the help," Alabama Gov. Bob Riley said.
"Your people have been great," Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said.
When it was his turn to talk, Bush congratulated the governors, then turned to FEMA Director Mike Brown and said, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
Addressing another member of his party, Sen. Trent Lott (Miss.), Bush promised: "Out of the rubble of Trent Lott's house -- he lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch."
The performance, broadcast on most networks, drew ridicule from CNN anchor Daryn Kagan. "The president, finally making it to the Gulf Coast after five days . . . getting a briefing that frankly he could have gotten back at the White House," she said. "A lot of that seemed like a political opportunity for the cameras and the Republican governors."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090202215.html
The Boston Globe
44 found dead in New Orleans hospital
FEMA chief quits; Bush views city
By Christopher Rowland and Stephen Smith, Globe Staff September 13, 2005
NEW ORLEANS -- Forty-four bodies have been recovered in an evacuated hospital, officials announced yesterday, as the federal official in charge of the initial response to Hurricane Katrina resigned under fire, and as President Bush took a firsthand look at flood damage in parts of the city.
The bodies of the 44 patients, the largest group found so far, were removed Sunday from the Memorial Medical Center, a state health official and hospital representatives said yesterday.
The hospital, in the Mid-City neighborhood had been surrounded by water, stranding patients and staff inside for four days after the hurricane struck.
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2005/09/13/44_found_dead_in_new_orleans_hospital/
Ophelia pounds beaches with heavy surf
Waves crash on shore near the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Buxton, N.C., as tropical storm Ophelia lurks off of the east coast on Monday, Sept. 12, 2005. Ophelia was a minimal hurricane early Monday with sustained winds of 75 mph, but by midday it had weakened to about 70 mph, 4 mph below the threshold, the National Hurricane Center said. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
By Paul Nowell, Associated Press Writer September 13, 2005
ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. --Ophelia's fitful spinning off the Carolina coast continued early Tuesday, as the on-again-off-again tropical storm exasperated residents and pounded beaches with heavy surf.
The storm's outer bands of rain were expected to begin drenching the coast by early Wednesday as Ophelia bobs slowly to the northwest and gets better organized.
Nonresidents were ordered to leave one of North Carolina's Outer Banks islands, school systems in five counties were closed and 300 National Guard troops were sent to staging points along the coast.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/13/ophelia_pounds_beaches_with_heavy_surf/
Senate votes on EPA mercury emission rules
By Jim Abrams, Associated Press Writer September 13, 2005
WASHINGTON --Senators are challenging the Bush administration over its approach to reducing power plant emissions of mercury, a toxic metal that poses serious threats of neurological damage to newborn and young children.
The White House insists its market-based approach to curtailing mercury pollution is effective and founded on sound science, and warned that the president will veto any legislation that would overturn rules on mercury emissions finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency last March.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/13/senate_votes_on_epa_mercury_emission_rules/
U.S. world position in education slipping
By Ben Feller, AP Education Writer September 13, 2005
WASHINGTON --The United States is losing ground in education, as peers across the globe zoom by with bigger gains in student achievement and school graduations, a study shows.
Among adults age 25 to 34, the U.S. is ninth among industrialized nations in the share of its population that has at least a high school degree. In the same age group, the United States ranks seventh, with Belgium, in the share of people who hold a college degree.
By both measures, the United States was first in the world as recently as 20 years ago, said Barry McGaw, director of education for the Paris-based Organization for Cooperation and Development. The 30-nation organization develops the yearly rankings as a way for countries to evaluate their education systems and determine whether to change their policies.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/13/us_world_position_in_education_slipping/
Court mulls release of Columbine videos
This undated file photo shows yearbook photos of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The Colorado Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005, on whether videotapes and diaries made by the Columbine High School gunmen can be released publicly. The parents of Klebold and Harris argue that the items are privately owned and not subject to a state open-records law. (AP Photos/File)
By Jon Sarche, Associated Press Writer September 13, 2005
DENVER --Reporters have already seen and written about the Columbine "basement tapes" of killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold showing off their arsenal and eagerly talking about their plan to attack their high school.
But the gunmen's parents are fighting a newspaper's request for public release of the videos, audio recordings and writings Harris and Klebold made in the months before they killed 12 students and a teacher in April 1999.
The Colorado Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday from The Denver Post, the parents and the Jefferson County sheriff's office, which also opposes the release.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/13/court_mulls_release_of_columbine_videos/
Major developments in Katrina's aftermath
By The Associated Press September 13, 2005
Major developments in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:
-- More than 40 bodies are discovered in a New Orleans hospital. One official says a few of the patients died before the hurricane struck, while another says some patients died waiting to be evacuated when temperatures hit 106 degrees.
-- Officials say nearly two-thirds of southeastern Louisiana's water treatment plants are up and running. Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport plans to resume limited passenger service Tuesday morning.
-- It will be at least three months before New Orleans' public water system is fully operational, according to a California National Guard engineer working on the systems. Some homes have running water now, but it's mostly untreated river water.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/13/major_developments_in_katrinas_aftermath/
Palestinians told to end looting, start rebuilding
By Nidal al-Mughrabi September 13, 2005
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Palestinians began to clear away a vast swathe of rubble in abandoned Jewish settlements and knocked down remains of a charred synagogue on Tuesday after Israel's withdrawal from Gaza.
"The nightmare is over, the occupation has gone and Gaza is now without settlers ... Today we begin the work of rebuilding," Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie said in Neve Dekalim, the site of what had been Israel's largest settlement in Gaza.
He urged the hundreds of Palestinians who continued to pour into the area to celebrate Israel's pullout but to stop looting synagogue buildings and farm equipment left behind after 38 years of occupation.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/09/13/palestinians_told_to_end_looting_start_rebuilding/
Hewlett-Packard cutting 968 UK jobs
September 13, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. computer giant Hewlett-Packard <HPQ.N> said on Tuesday it would cut 968 jobs in Britain over the next 12 months.
The job cuts will be made at Hewlett-Packard's five British sites: Bracknell, Bristol, Glasgow, Reading and Warrington, a spokesman told Reuters, adding that it would cut 5,900 jobs in total across its EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.
Hewlett-Packard said in July it would slash about 10 percent of its work force in a sweeping move by new Chief Executive Mark Hurd to cut costs by $1.9 billion a year and compete better in cutthroat computer and printer markets.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/09/13/hewlett_packard_cutting_968_uk_jobs_1126611311/
Guardian Unlimited
Eleven Children Found Caged in Ohio Home
Tuesday September 13, 2005 4:01 AM
WAKEMAN, Ohio (AP) - Sheriff's deputies found 11 children locked in cages with alarms in a north Ohio home, and prosecutors are looking into possible charges of abuse and neglect.
The children, ages 1 to 14, were in nine cages in the walls of a house outside this city of about 1,000 about 50 miles west of Cleveland, according to the Huron County Sheriff's Office. They had no blankets or pillows, and the cages were rigged with alarms that sounded if the cages were opened, Lt. Randy Sommers said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5274120,00.html
Race not an issue in Katrina disaster, says Bush
· President uses city tour to defend federal recovery
· Beleaguered emergency services chief finally quits
Jamie Wilson in New Orleans, Julian Borger in Washington and Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Tuesday September 13, 2005
George Bush and the homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, get a briefing from former Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown (centre) in Mobile, Alabama. Photohgraph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty
The director of the much-criticised federal emergency management agency, Michael Brown, resigned yesterday. The news of his resignation came as George Bush, on his first visit to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, rejected suggestions that race had played a role in the slow government response to the flooding of the city.
Insisting it had been his decision to step down, Mr Brown said he had resigned to give the beleaguered agency a chance to refocus on the rescue and recovery effort. "As I told the president, it is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of Fema," Mr Brown said in a statement.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1568694,00.html
Insurer doubles forecast of Katrina claims
Jill Treanor
Tuesday September 13, 2005
The Guardian
Estimates of the insurance bill to clean up after Hurricane Katrina rose yesterday when Swiss Re doubled its predictions for the size of its claims but admitted it was difficult to be certain about the final cost.
Swiss Re, the world's second-largest reinsurance firm, admitted it had been too conservative in its early estimates as it doubled its forecast for the total industry cost to $40bn (£22bn) and doubled the estimate for its own claims to $1.2bn.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1568765,00.html
America? 'It was like a scene from Africa'
Tuesday September 13, 2005
The Guardian
I was at home watching television when I learned that Afghanistan was giving $100,000 to help the hurricane victims in America. I think President Karzai has done us proud by doing this. The images of Americans carrying their luggage and leaving their homes behind reminded me of the time my family had to flee to Pakistan after the Taliban took over. We were arrested, held for days, robbed; it was a very tough time.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1568660,00.html
Doubts over value of £3bn Sure Start
Flagship government scheme to help deprived youngsters may be failing
Lucy Ward, social affairs correspondent
Tuesday September 13, 2005
The Guardian
The first major evaluation of the government's flagship £3bn Sure Start programme for deprived preschool children and their families has revealed no overall improvement in the areas targeted by the initiative.
Although some Sure Start schemes were successful, an independent study by academics at Birkbeck College, London - due to be published by the government next month - revealed that Sure Start as a whole failed to boost youngsters' development, language and behaviour. It also showed children of teenage mothers did worse in Sure Start areas than elsewhere.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1568732,00.html
Bush summons spirit of 9/11 to help repair his hurricane-damaged ratings
· White House talks of reconstruction 'tsar'
· Rescuers say flood toll may be lower than feared
Julian Borger in Washington and Jamie Wilson
Monday September 12, 2005
The Guardian
President George Bush yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks by flying to New Orleans in an effort to restore national unity after the political and physical devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
After observing a moment's silence on the White House lawn for the victims of the 2001 attacks, Mr Bush left for New Orleans, where he was immediately helicoptered aboard a naval assault ship, the USS Iwo Jima, docked in the city centre. He is due to venture forth into the streets today in a military Humvee to inspect the damage and the reconstruction, before flying on to Mississippi.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1567701,00.html
Power to the victims of New Orleans
With the poor gone, developers are planning to gentrify the city
Naomi Klein
Friday September 9, 2005
The Guardian
On September 4, six days after Katrina hit, I saw the first glimmer of hope. "The people of New Orleans will not go quietly into the night, scattering across this country to become homeless in countless other cities while federal relief funds are funnelled into rebuilding casinos, hotels, chemical plants. We will not stand idly by while this disaster is used as an opportunity to replace our homes with newly built mansions and condos in a gentrified New Orleans."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1565939,00.html
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