Men in Black's Katrina Archive

Updated 07-10-2008

COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE:
Hurricane Katrina two years on: Mississippi Gulf Coast--Casinos thrive while homeowners languish
Melee Breaks Out At New Orleans City Hall
Police, Protesters Clash in New Orleans
"Is this what democracy looks like?"

Police Attack Protesters With Mace, Tazers to Keep Them Out of City Hall
Tasers, Pepper Gas Greet Protesters At City Hall
Oakland Demo against NOLA home Demolitions
Hurricane Katrina on Yahoo! News Photos
Life in New Orleans' 9th Ward
Cindy Sheehan In New Orleans Part 1
Wet Bank Blog
Favorite New Orleans Blogs
How to Destroy an African-American City in Thirty-Three Steps - Lessons From Katrina
CREW RELEASES "THE BEST LAID PLANS: THE STORY OF HOW THE GOVERNMENT IGNORED ITS OWN GULF COAST HURRICANE PLANS"
Group shows FEMA anticipated Katrina's destruction of New Orleans
The Voices of Katrina
NOLA: New Orleans Turns to Foreign Aid - Where is the Money?
Blackwater Mercs Received $240,000.00 A DAY in New Orleans
Photos from 6/6 Housing Rights Rally - NOLA
The Fall of “Dollar” Bill Jefferson
Sometimes I miss Louisiana politics more than I can say. It's a blood sport rather than mud wrestling. - Alan Evil
Jury Indicts Representative "Cold Cash" Jefferson in Bribery Probe
Big Easy to Big Empty
NEW ORLEANS UPDATE
Shopping During Katrina
How Condi Rice Spent the Storm
Friday the 13th on Orleans Ave, Where America is Forsaking its Citizens
My worst fears were materializing, based upon reports I had read, that the Polyanna depictions of New Orleans on the mend were greatly exaggerated. Now reality was staring me in the face, an entire, devastated neighborhood pretty much left to its own devices, as well as actually sabotaged, I would learn over time, from full recovery by the powers that be.
De-Fund the War, Rebuild the Gulf Coast
FEMA Mismanaged $3.6 Billion in Katrina Contracts

Building New Orleans 2.0
a new architectural exhibit has come up with some ideas for the Big Easy's new look. Who's behind the project? The Dutch of course.

Katrina: Destruction, Despair, and Hope by Tim Milhorn, Chico Beat
The shattered, twisted landscape evokes images of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Dresden, London, Berlin, the bombed out cities of World War II. Blocks upon blocks of flattened houses are strewn across the earth like the discarded playthings of a malevolent child. Cars rest in trees or on rooftops, lean drunkenly in packs, or rust upside down in still-littered streets, driving on a road to nowhere.
UNTOLD STORY OF GUN CONFISCATION AFTER KATRINA

Anarchist Action in New Orleans
This website was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Please continue to bring on the fucking ruckus wherever you are now! This site will stay online for archival purposes.
New Orleans: Mental illness punishable by death

INCREASED PERMIT FEES KILLING CULTURE OF SECOND LINES
Katrina victims evacuate FEMA park
New Orleans Sues Army Corps for $77 Billion Over Katrina

C.J. Peete Public Housing Residents Reclaim Homes
Public housing residents move back into their homes challenging HANO/HUD's plans to demolish the units.
Amnesty International Renews Call to Gov. to Free Gary Tyler
Eighteen Months After Katrina
Locals call it 'the Grand Canyon effect' - you know about it, you have seen it on TV, but when you see it in person it can take your breath away."
The Right to Return to New Orleans
John Sinclair's Mardi Gras Playlist, thanks Sweejak and WWOZ
Mardi Gras rebounds from Katrina’s impact
Mardi Gras Cam
James Gandolfini rules as Bacchus 2007
Is a Mardi Gras rebound in the offing for New Orleans?
Police Arrest Public Housing Activists in New Orleans, Federal Officials Try to Silence Leading Attorney for Low-Income Residents
New Orleans Wants People Out of Housing Projects Before Demolition

New Orleans of Future May Stay Half Its Old Size, thanks PF
Brown: Politics played role in Katrina
"Unbeknownst to me, certain people in the White House were thinking 'We had to federalize Louisiana because she's a white, female Democratic governor and we have a chance to rub her nose in it," he said.
Iraq, Katrina, environment on Sundance film festival menu
The Lost Voice of Protest
Here at home the city of New Orleans is on life support, struggling to survive the combined effects of a catastrophic flood, the unconscionable neglect of the federal government, and the monumental ineptitude of its own local officials. As ordinary residents of New Orleans continue to suffer, the rest of the nation has casually turned away. The debacle is no longer being televised. So it must be over.
New Orleans from space, thanks Alan Evil

Heaven sent
McAllister, Bush push Saints into first NFC title game

Anti-Violence March to City Hall in New Orleans
New Orelans Police State
Jury hits State Farm for $2.5 million in Katrina case
New Orleans repeats mistakes as it rebuilds
Seven New Orleans officers indicted in post-Katrina killings
The victims were Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally retarded man, and James Brissette, 19. The coroner said Madison was shot seven times, with five wounds in the back.
New Orleans officers charged with murder
Seven face charges for gunbattle that left two dead after Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans: HUD Policies Limiting Housing for Poor
justice for new orleans.org/
In New Orleans's Lower Ninth, Still Waiting for a Break in the Clouds
FEMA Not Required to Restore Aid to Evacuees, Court Rules
Greg Palast Investigates: In New Orleans, a Year Later, Nothing Much Has Happened
The living work to ID Katrina victims
There were those among Katrina's dead who succumbed alongside people they knew; slips of paper or damp cardboard, inscribed with their names, were tucked into their clothes.
Just like the Battle of Cold Harbor, 1864
Katrina's victims face a second Christmas without hope
Many Imprisoned Katrina Victims Still Waiting for Day in Court
Jefferson wins La. runoff despite federal probe
Audit says FEMA squandering Katrina aid
Population giving up on N.O.?
posted by George Piazza
Dec. 1, 2006
Yesterday's local paper cited a survey of people in New Orleans that were living in relatively stable conditions, i.e. not in a FEMA trailer (based on the fact that only 'land-lines' were called as opposed to cell phones), regarding plans for staying or leaving the city. A substantial one third of the people contacted said that they were seriously considering leaving the area. In view of the fact that these are the people who either did not sustain serious house damage or have repaired most or all of the damage to their homes, their willingness to consider pulling up stakes and getting out of here seems reflective of an underlying lack of confidence in the safety and future prospects of the New Orleans area. On a more personal level, my lady freind and I are of a similar mind, looking forward to relocating to Austin. My primary source of income comes from piano instrucition, but the underlying sense of instability seems to have many people here in 'survival mode;' Things like piano lessons are too much of a long range commitment and few feel justified in taking on such a 'hobby' amidst the overall sense of insecurity.
This again raises the spectre of an abandoned 'ghost town.' Granted, New Orleans has been a 'ghost town' of sorts for many, many years, but the ghosts mingled with the casual, debauched and carefree residents. Are we now looking forward to a town where the ghosts are alone and the only interests here revolve around the port infastructure? I have seen no city in the US like this one. Do we accept the dictates of nature and retreat from such a questionable geographic location or do we make a stand and create a levee fortifed Neuvo - Orleans' along the lines of Amsterdam?
It is still very strange here - the National Guard, invisible in the inner city and untouched west suburban areas, still lurk on the borders of destruction; the murder rate is out of hand and many fundamental systems are still spotty at the margins. On the surface, a stroll through the French Quarter presents a glimpse of 'party as usual,' but sniff a little closer and the reek of apprehension and unease is still lurking under the surface. The apartments are in worse shape and basic services are spotty, yet the rents continue to be raised and the cost of electricity & gas (as well as the billing process, which is a mess) will continue to escalate as the company fights its way out of bankruptcy. The rats seem to be retreating a bit (our apartment was overrun for a while, giving reality to the phrase 'I smell a rat'), but if the exterminaters take a day off, they would probably seize the chance to move back in to the more populated areas.
My lady Linda was bit a few months ago by a venomous spider (either a brown or black recluse); mosquitos are out of hand and fleas are having a field day. All of these issues can be beat back with time and effort (well, the spider bites particularly suck - the wounds are nowhere near a final healing stage).. And that is just a glimpse of our little story; everyone here has one; some more painful than others, and a few downright shocking.
But I ramble, heading toward no particular point.. Well, I guess that is the point. New Orleans has gone from casual to truly ambiguous. Do we stay and fight or give up on this very unique city?
If the rents are raised one more time, I think the latter is inevitable.
NOTE: Though I painted a bleak picture of N.O., there is still much charm here. Plaese come and support the city; this will help give the place a fighting chance. Almost everyone who comes here falls in love with the place, despite the current troubles. A piece of pseudo European style in the midst of the American Mega Mall. Be able to say you saw it!
Town founded by Quakers issues call to arms
Idaho burg requires gun ownership to guard against Katrina refugee flood
Video: The French Quarter -- New Orleans
"do you kmow what it means, to miss New Orleans?"
White House said to bar hurricane report

New Orleans revels in its old self
Have NFL and its players done enough to help rebuild New Orleans?
Rebuilding Riddle: Gut That House or Give It Up
I'm done being the lampshade
Guest Mara has a comment about Katrina.

Operation Eden
A personal chronicle of what hurricane Katrina has done to my poor proud people.
clayton cubitt :: hurricane katrina images
National Guard to Patrol in New Orleans Through 2006
KATRINA DEAD WERE INJECTED WITH VERICHIP
Criminally Negligent Federal Officials
Saints' Bush Era begins with a W
6.0 Gulf quake felt from La. to Fla.
Remembering Katrina and the Need for Climate Justice
Katrina-Inspired GOP Motivation Posters
On the anniversary of Katrina: why Hezbollah does what Bush wouldn't.
Brownie says White House wanted him to lie
Katrina’s damage lingers for Bush
Ya Dam Right!
Katrina then and now, pics
Court: Katrina victims can still sue insurers
Engineers Worried on New Orleans Levees
Nagin criticizes World Trade Center rebuilding
They Called It Katrina By William Rivers Pitt
Trying to Make It Home: New Orleans One Year After Katrina
KATRINA TIMELINE
Gov't Fulfills Few Katrina Promises
Katrina refugees scattered across U.S.
IF PEOPLE GET HELP, THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON
The citizens of New Orleans desperately need Hezbollah's can-do terrorist spirit.
Let's make Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah our new head of FEMA !!!!!
Spike Lee unveils Katrina film in New Orleans
Director Spike Lee has unveiled his documentary about Hurricane Katrina to a packed New Orleans audience of 12,000, who booed every time President George W Bush appeared on screen.
Sense of Duty Lures 'Expats' Back Home to New Orleans
Five killed in latest New Orleans shootings
3 arrested in Katrina hospital deaths
Independence Day in New Orleans
Katrina shocks New Orleans visitors 10 months on
Ten Months After Katrina: Gutting New Orleans
National Guard Ordered to NOLA, again!
Blanco signs law that would ban abortions
New Orleans shootout leaves 5 teens dead
FEMA funds spent on divorce, sex change
so fucking what?
E-mail shows Bush glad FEMA took Katrina blame
Katrina Displaced 400,000, Study Says
New Orleans becomes whiter, Mississippi coast more diverse.
Illegals exploited in Katrina cleanup
Nagin wins re-election in New Orleans

Katrina Pics - 9 Months Later, thanks Lea
On a lighter note, the Jazz festival was super fun and entertaining. Amazing music and excellent people watching! From The New Orleans Spiritualettes - those ladies in their chartreuse satin suits belting it out in the Gospel Tent, the Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Cha's, the wild slide guitar playing of the Robert Randolph & the Family Band, there was so much to see. However, Sundays' headliner of Fats Domino had to be cancelled as he was too sick to play. He did graticiously come by and salute the crowd, sweet, however was replaced by Lionel Richie. Sorry you Commodores fans, I couldn't hang......... In the evening we saw some great bands, a great performance by Gomez (a band from the UK) @ 3AM at Tippatinas and the ever so fun Morning 40 Federation.
Those guys are wild.
Military Unready for Another Katrina
New Orleans snapshots
After the deluge
Additional images of New Orleans
Dissident Voice Articles on Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath
Debris, Misery Pile Up for New Orleans

Reg-gie; Saints select USC's Bush #2 overall
The Saints focused on Bush, and despite phone calls from other clubs who may have been looking to move up, decided the best course of action was to select the USC running back.
New Orleans Musicians Clinic Gig Initiative keeps musicians working? and well
’New Orleans is our Gettysburg’

Can't Go Home
Juvenile's New Orleans, the ghost town America made
Race a Defining Line in New Orleans Vote
Arrival of aliens ousts U.S. workers
FEMA: La. Homes Must Be Raised Off Ground
FEMA Employees Plead Guilty to Katrina Bribery Charges
Tipitina's Foundation
Emotional Devastation of Katrina Rising, with links
Life Under the Klan Wasn't This Bad Gitmo on the Mississippi
New Orleans
George Piazza
reposted Feb. 24, 2006
A friend of mine seems to think that I believe New Orleans to be 'gone.'
I have written some things here that might give that impression, and I understand how anyone who wishes the city to get back on it's feet (and as a 40 year native, I very much wish this) might think that I have written the city off. The truth is a bit more complicated.
Though I have little doubt that the city will 'get back on it's feet,' I know that it will never be the same. The current political climate will most likely overlook the laid-back eccentricity that made the city what it was; from the familial bonds in the poorer neighborhoods such as the now famous Ninth Ward to the casual but earnest tolerance of all things bohemian, elements that gave the place a certain elusive charm - how can these things be regenerated with the monopolized corporate attitudes of the oil industry and glitzy but shallow gambling - tourism conglomerates? Not to mention the port infrastructure and it's close ties to the military - industrial complex. The fragile and dynamic creation of a 'spirit' that was centuries in the making is something the politicos and mergered business interests hardly understand or care about. Add to that the fact that the federal government has shown minimal interest to put in place better flood protection to face the increasing hurricane activity that almost all meterologists are predicting, along with the decimation of the wetlands that gave the city a much needed buffer against storm surges and high winds, and you have a recipe for repeat disaster.
Even if by some miracle of generosity and insight (yeah, right!), the current administration subsidises and 'fast-tracks' adequate protection, we are still faced with the corporate takeover of the 'strategic infrastructure asset' that the port city provides; we still have the more colorful, poorer (and thus, unfortunately, powerless in this culture) residents resettling in other parts of the continent, with little motivation or means to go back; we still have the voices of creativity being drowned out by the well-heeled regarding cultural reconstruction. By some estimates, over 50% of the population has been 'displaced'; only to be Re-placed by an odd mix of 'low wage migrant workers,' mid level infrastructure rebuilders (read: Brown & Root / Halliburton) and high powered 'movers and shakers' looking to stratify the area for their own already swollen coffers. This might eventually lead to a 'rebuilt' New Orleans, but it will never be the New Orleans I came to know so well. There was no place quite like it; and it is the opinion of many more informed people than myself that it will never be that way again.
In the words of more than one commentator, we will probably end up with a town full of 'landed gentry.' No more tarot readers in the square, street musicians with only a few bucks in their pockets but always a smile on their faces or tightly knit centers of struggling but proud urban porch-dwellers and their street barbeques.
How I wish to be proven wrong about this. But knowing it before the disaster, seeing it after and watching the political events and media frenzy run their course, it seems to me that only a miracle of 'Red Sea' proportions would ever bring back the New Orleans I loved so much.
So, yes, at least for now, and barring a miracle, the New Orleans I knew is No More.
Katrina victim's body found in attic
Video Shows Bush Warned Before Katrina Hit
Six Months After Katrina, New Report Shows Poor Still Being Left Behind
The Louisiana bayou, hardest working marsh in America, is in big trouble
60 Minutes: Interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
Tipitina's Foundation
New Orleans Turns Out for Mardi Gras
New Orleans Marks Post-Katrina Mardi Gras
Live Mardi Gras Cams
Samba Rio's Mardi Gras Pics
Hurricane Katrina Home Video, New Orleans, Louisiana - Before, During And After

H e l l a n d H i g h W a t e r



New Orleans Vows to Hold a Safe Mardi Gras
"x" doesn't mark the spot
Safety of post-hurricane sludge in dispute
Hurricane Katrina and the “war on terrorism”
Hurricane Rita Folder

In New Orleans, it's time to party
Hurricane victims in hotels lose battle
Attorneys for the evacuees tried unsuccessfully to get U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval to issue a temporary restraining order.
Survivors Facing Hotel Evictions Claim FEMA Trailers
The Federal Eviction Management Agency (FEMA) & The Louisiana National Guard
Audits Show Millions in Katrina Aid Wasted
212 Katrina fraud arrests
White House Strongly Defends Katrina Role
Voices of the Evicted: Video
Katrina report spreads blame
Chertoff singled out by House investigators
White House knew early of levee breaches
The Big Easy? Now it’s limbo land
New Orleans is caught in a cycle of waiting as bureaucrats fight for funds
Mayor: New Orleans will seek aid from other nations
"France can take Treme. The king of Jordan can take the Lower Ninth Ward,"
FEMA turned away thousands of rescue workers from other government agencies as Katrina victims drowned
With a major American city in ruins and who-knows-how-many thousands of people suddenly homeless across the South -- thousands of people are still 'missing' today -- FEMA turned away thousands of trained rescue personnel ... by "mistake"?
This is mass murder!!!
Tornadoes Blow Through New Orleans
Escape From New Orleans (part 1)
Katrina Survivors to Rally in Washington, D.C.
Feb. 9th Actions Will Demand ‘Right to Return and Funds to Rebuild’
Katrina Testimony: Louisiana agency lacked evacuation plan
Post-Katrina promises largely unfulfilled
A New Year in New Orleans
NOLA reconstruction workers challenge extortion by officials & “labor coyotes”

NEW ORLEANS REVIVAL
 a benefit for the survivors of hurricane katrina
featuring:
EMBERS
Jolie Holland
Blue Roots
One Man Banjo
one woman phenomenon Esmeralda Strange
Sophie & the skeleton keys
aerial performance by Angelique accompanied by the Bitter Sweethearts Sting Trio
Starts 6:30pm
at Oakland Metro, 201 Broadway, Oakland, CA
New Orleans Evacuee 'Sticks It Big Time' To City Hall
Tells FEMA To Put Its Programs To Racially Cleanse The City "Where The Sun Don't Shine"
New Orleans Carpenter Heard Guardsmen ordered to blow levees

Detained, Not Rescued: Katrina Survivors Testimony to Congress (AUDIO)
Who Really Died In That New Orleans Katrina Shootout?
Were US Government Levee Saboteurs Involved In A Fatal Shootout With New Orleans Police Officers On Sept. 4 At The Danziger Bridge?
Plan Could Let All of New Orleans Rebuild
Katrina Refugee Makes Waves
Jan. 13, 2006
Greg Welter, Chico ER
originally posted 12-08-2005

Downward spiral for New Orleans evacuee ends in arrest
A 20-year-old New Orleans man who survived Hurricane Katrina, then got an outpouring of community support when he came to Chico to start a new life, has been arrested on a charge of auto theft. Brian Michael Bordelon and his roommate, Duval Hilbert Russell, 21, were taken into custody at their Rio Lindo Avenue apartment early Wednesday morning and booked into the Butte County Jail in Oroville.
Both are charged with vehicle theft, conspiracy and receiving stolen property.
Russell is also charged with stealing the vehicle while armed.
Police said the men may have taken the car with the intention of stripping it and selling the parts.
Bordelon's bail is $25,000, but he remained behind bars Wednesday night, and it's unlikely any of the hundreds of people who helped him get settled in Chico will muster a second wave of compassion and come forward with the bond money.
The young man's good intentions for a new start began to unravel soon after his arrival here.
Chico City Councilman Larry Wahl was among Bordelon's earliest and most ardent supporters. With his help, and help from the Salvation Army advisory board Wahl chairs, Bordelon was set up in the Rio Lindo Avenue apartment, with the rent partially covered, and enrolled in classes at Butte College, which waived its fees. The Chico Wal-Mart provided him with household items at no charge, then gave him a job.
He even got free use of a cell phone from Verizon.
Wahl said the man was fired from Wal-Mart recently because he was driving on a suspended license and failed to take care of a speeding ticket he got in Arizona. The retailer reportedly told Bordelon he had to get a California driver's license to continue employment, but that process ended when his speeding ticket turned to a warrant for his arrest.
Bordelon stopped attending classes at Butte, and Wahl said he was on shaky ground with his apartment managers for disturbing other tenants.
"This just breaks my heart," Wahl said. "This young kid had an opportunity to restart his life in Chico, and he blew it. I hope this (arrest) causes him to re-evaluate where he's going."
Wahl said Bordelon had a less than perfect life in New Orleans, but seemed to be off to a pretty good one in Chico.
"I think he appreciated what people did for him here, and still appreciates it," Wahl said.
The councilman last talked with Bordelon about a week ago, and said he knew then that the young man was making some bad decisions.
Bordelon, his mother, and his sister made it through the flood by spending a night in the attic of their east New Orleans home, then took refuge for three grueling days in the Louisiana Superdome.
When that was abandoned, Bordelon's sister and mother went to Texas, and were placed in an apartment with the help of the Red Cross. Bordelon said his mother hopes to return to New Orleans.
Bordelon had a childhood friend, Duval Russell, whose family had moved to Chico from New Orleans, so he boarded a bus to California.
Arriving here Sept. 8, the Russells immediately put the young man in touch with the Salvation Army. When his harrowing story got out, Bordelon became an instant celebrity in Chico, with groups and individuals more than anxious to help him get on his feet.
In a letter to the editor in October, Russell's father thanked several local businesses, the Sunrise Rotary Club, Trinity United Methodist Church, the Enterprise-Record, Wahl, and even Chico Police Chief Bruce Hagerty for their assistance.
Wahl reportedly spent hours helping Bordelon establish a new life in Chico.
"You do what you can, and sometimes it doesn't work out," Wahl said.
He noted that a hurricane relief committee at his church, Trinity United Methodist, is continuing to assist victims in the Gulf region.
Staff writer Greg Welter can be reached at 896-7768 or gwelter@chicoer.com

The Rank and File
review from Jan. 3 in Gambit: "New Orleans Underground: Sounds Below Sea Level (independent) is no more uniform or stellar than New Orleans Will Rise Again,
"I would like to let you know that people over here in Germany (Europe) are showing their support and compassion in whatever way they can - this is a tribute song called Still New Orleans"
Death, Abundance and New Orleans
Different kind of Christmas in New Orleans
Map of New Orleans home damage
Beating in the 9th Ward
A volenteer from America Helps was accousted by millitant police while trying to get into N.O. to help.
Update From Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (repost)
Multiple cases of police brutality, harassment documented
Pictures after police killing
New Orleans Chief Backs Officers in Shooting
New Orleans Police Shoot, Kill Man on Tape
Bulldozers to sweep New Orleans homes away
Rebuilding New Orleans in 2005
From Congo Square to City Hall: New Orleans Demands Right to Return
Volunteer relief worker killed in bus accident
Reopened Orleans Parish Prison Puts Inmates At Risk
Hurricane Aftermath and the ACLU
My baby needs a shepherd
Remember Katrina? It was in all the papers. On television, too. Americans got to watch their own die in real time again, though this time with commercial interruptions.
As of two weeks ago, there were still 6,644 missing and unaccounted for, nearly 700 of them children.
Cyril Neville says no to N'awlins
Pentagon Subpoenaed for Katrina Documents

Victims: Racism was factor in slow Katrina response
Black survivors of Hurricane Katrina said Tuesday that racism contributed to the slow disaster response, at times likening themselves in emotional congressional testimony to victims of genocide and the Holocaust.
Katrina Refugee Makes Waves
Downward spiral for New Orleans evacuee ends in arrest
Refuge of Last Resort
KATRINA DOC

Photos from the Iberville Housing Rights March
Basin St. Blues: Iberville Housing Rights March, Dec3'05, New Orleans LA
Supreme Court approves limited, temporary practice for Gulf Coast lawyers
Katrina’s emotional damage lingers
Forest Park HUD apartments update and pics
New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters
New Orleans May Postpone City Election
Hard road back for New Orleans
"Gulf Coast slaves"
no change on Katrina contracts
Pledges to reopen no-bid contracts, hire more minority firms left unfulfilled
Sore Butt, New Orleans Doesn't Want Welfare People Back,
Habitat for Humanity
Brown's E-Mails After Katrina Show Concern About His Image, Dog
New Orleans Musicians List by WWOZ
This is a list of New Orleans musicians & bands who are safe after the trials of Hurricane Katrina.
Lewisburg Square Apartments tenants being evicted
Community Activist Calls New Orleans Police Beating "Typical Behavior"

"All last night, I sat on the levee and moaned,
All last night, I sat on the levee and moaned,
Thinking 'bout my baby and my happy home."

Evacuees binge on Cape: Spend fed cash on booze, strippers, so fucking what?
Abuse, Forced Labor Rampant in New Orleans Justice System
The videotaped beating of a New Orleans resident offers but a small sample of the widespread brutality, deprivation and railroading that have come to characterize the city’s response to alleged crimes.
Duke Ballester's New Orleans East KATRINA Aftermath Pics, yahoo album
Sticky's Pics of Lakeview Under Water, KATRINA Aftermath
Dave's KATRINA Pics
Andrew's KATRINA Pics

New Orleans Cops Face Charges in Beating
Lawyer: Man shown beaten by police on tape was not drunk
Chico Steps up to Help
Katrina and the Growls of Greed By RALPH NADER, thanks Mary Beth
Cronies, Contracts and the No-Fault President

New Orleans: Destroyed by Presidential Negligence
New Orleans Musician and Music Community "Safe" List
"A.K." After Katrina: What Happens Now? - forum
Zingg goes bald for Katrina victims

"It makes me think of what my friend Reverend Goat just told me, 'Let me say this before it goes any further, New Orleans didn't die of natural causes, she was murdered.'" --Dr John.

Fire and Arrest Chertoff NOW!
MASS MURDER IN NEW ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON
file charges and start impeachment NOW!
Call for the Resignation of George Bush
Impeach Bush Now, Before More Die

Hurricane Rita, Sep. 24, 2005
Apocalypse And Survival In America (Indy)
The House Of Cards Is Falling
The Right Of Return To and the Right To Remain In New Orleans
As the White House launches its sociopathic defense of the FuckYou Government response to Hurricane Katrina the latest from the dry ground in New Orleans is that even neighborhoods that did not flood, that are high and dry must be evacuated.
Category 911
Photos from the community center in the 9th Ward
New Orleans: survivor stories
A collection of 19 oral histories from New Orleans Katrina survivors who were stranded in the city in the days after the storm
Getting Your FEMA Money
Green Party of Louisiana Condemns EPA Changes
Katrina's Death Toll Climbs Past 1,000
Bush's New Orleans Rebuilding Scam
FEMA Employees Lynched for Looting in New Orleans
With city's OK, staffers likely headed to New Orleans
New Orleans native settling in, amazed by community's support
Refugee comes home to escape Katrina
Bush Late by Hundreds of Lives, thanks Walter
A 'New' New Deal
Katrina Aid from Cuba? No Thanks, Says US
We're still 2 nations, after all these years
HOW PLACES OF REFUGE WENT TO HELL
Over 5 increasingly horrific days, the evacuees at the Superdome and convention center came to feel like prisoners and prey
Drowning by Numbers
Socially Responsible Katrina Relief
NOLA zine and infoshop community
President Bush Must Address Poverty

New Orleans SWAT Team Thugs Wear Flaming Skulls

Nursing Home Owners Charged in Louisiana
Dr John Audio Interview
Exiles from a City and from a Nation
Katrina: Wardriving occupied New Orleans on 9/11
Overkill: Feared Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans
'Get Off The Fucking Freeway': The Sinking State Loots its Own Survivors
Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State, opinion from Mandeville Mike
Baton Rouge in running to host Saints' games
Repairing the Breach
It's Time for a New "New Deal"
New Orleans - the BIG Picture
3 days of death, despair and survival
Eye Witness from the Hurricane, text and pics by Bill Hackwell
"Go F--- Yourself Mr. Cheney".mov
Katrina Photo Index
Democrats Step Up Criticism of White House
Refugees from New Orleans behind barbed wire in Utah
KATRINA PSYOPS: "What we need is a strong leader." In Other Words: DICTATORSHIP
1. The call for a "strong leader" (otherwise known as a dictator). I keep hearing this from different newscasters such as Bill O'Reilly and others. Verbatim they keep saying: "What we need is a strong leader." (Dictator Cheney perhaps after a "false flag" terrorist attack?)
2. Grooming Rudy Giuliani for 2008 presidency. The newscasters use Rudy Giuliani during 9/11 as an example of a "strong leader". Well, it is widely know that Giuliani is running for president in 2008 as a republican.
3. To stir up racial tensions in cities and to create general fear. The hidden thought line here is: "We need a dictator to protect us from black looters during a national emergency."
NEW ORLEANIANS CALL FOR ACTION
'Unacceptable' doesn't begin to describe the depth of the neglect, racism and classism shown to the people of New Orleans. The government's actions and inactions were criminal.
The Lost City
What Went Wrong: Devastating a swath of the South, Katrina plunged New Orleans into agony. The story of a storm—and a disastrously slow rescue.
Thank God for George W. Bush’s Freedoms
Welcome to Iraq, the Louisiana and Mississippi National Guard; stay in Iraq. Your neighborhoods have all gone down the trash can and toilet bowl – so it’s too late to come back anyway, but hey! Your country needs you in Iraq. Welcome to a small part of the blowback from this war started by an idiot and a liar.
Bush declares war on blacks
“This place is going to look like Little SOMALIA”
Police Murder Five in New Orleans
Blank Panther, Green Party veteran reports from New Orleans
"Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead"
Weather Warfare: Was Katrina A Man-Made Hurricane?
New Orleans after Katrina - Google Map
Bywater evacuated at Gunpoint
Bush Against the Ropes; US Democrats ought to be able to put him away
Yet Another Gulf War
Criminal Plot Underway in the New Orleans Swamp
Most of them will probably never return and will end up in ghettoes in Baton Rouge, Houston, and elsewhere
Hurricane Katrina as Class Warfare
What the FUCK was FEMA Thinking?
HHS secretary says death toll in thousands
White House shifts blame for Katrina response, BULLSHIT
Louisiana official haunted by drowned woman
Hurricane Katrina - Before and After In New Orleans
Interdictor - Survival of New Orleans blog, thanks sweejak
New Orleans LA post-Katrina Intel Dissemination Wiki!
Mass Exodus Pics
Huge Collection of Post Katrina Pics
Large Overview of Superdome and New Orleans, Aug. 31, 2005
Multiple Images from Digital Globe of New Orleans and Biloxi, Post Katrina
Katrina in New Orleans
Aftermath

Unrest Intensifies at Superdome Shelter
"We are out here like pure animals. We don't have help," the Rev. Issac Clark, 68, said outside the New Orleans Convention Center, where corpses lay in the open and evacuees complained that they were dropped off and given nothing.
The National Guard Belongs in New Orleans and Biloxi. Not Baghdad.
Tell that to the 3000 Louisiana Guard Troops that were off fightning for a "noble cause" instead of being home with their families when Mother Nature Kicked their Ass, rev. duval
How New Orleans Was Lost
Bush and Katrina: A time for action, not aloofness
Thousands dead in New Orleans
Missing in Action as Thousands are found Dead
Nagin: White House ignores pleas to save New Orleans; helicopters diverted

More Maps and Data on New Orleans
if it was white republicans dying in nola
ACT OF GOD DESTROYS NEW ORLEANS DAYS BEFORE "SOUTHERN DECADENCE"
Just days before "Southern Decadence", an annual homosexual celebration attracting tens of thousands of people to the French Quarters section of New Orleans, an act of God destroys the city.
12-Hour Party People
DANGER AND CHAOS RUN RAMPANT!
Give a Hoot and Start to Loot!
Bush's Role in the Drowning of New Orleans
Five Days After Katrina, Refugees, I mean Citizens Still Waiting
President Death
Wake of the Flood
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
Why New Orleans Is in Deep Water
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind”
Saints play game with fans on their minds
Horn says game should not have been played
National Guardsmen Arrive in New Orleans
"No one can say they didn't see it coming"
Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
REPORTER: There’s a lot of discussion going on about the funding of projects prior to this, whether projects in New Orleans in particular were underfunded because of the Iraq war or for other reasons. Do you find any of this criticism legitimate? Do you think there is any second guessing to be done now about priorities given that [a disaster in] New Orleans was sort of obvious to a lot of the experts?
MCCLELLAN: As I have indicated, this is not a time for politics. This is a time for the nation to come together for those in the Gulf Coast region and that’s where our focus is. This is not a time for finger-pointing or politics. And I think the last thing that the people who have been displaced or the people who have been affected need is people seeking partisan gain in Washington. So if that’s what you’re talking about, that’s one thing. Now, if you’re talking about specific areas, I would be glad to talk about some of those, if that’s what you want.
REPORTER: I’m talking about policy
REPORTER: One project, for instance, is the one where people felt they needed $60 million in the current ‘06 fiscal year, and they were given $10 million. Those types of projects. And a lot —
MCCLELLAN: Which project is this?
REPORTER: Southeast Louisiana Flood Control.
MCCLELLAN: Flood control has been a priority of this administration from day one.
CJ Experience: Hurricane Katrina
Water Continues to Rise in New Orleans

Looting Takes Place in View of New Orleans Police
people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers. Hmmm, sounds like they were taking what they needed in a diaster, including the suitcase of Bud Light.

Updates as they come in on Katrina
Break in 17th Street Canal Levee is now 200 feet wide and slowly flooding the City of New Orleans. Huge sand bags are being airlifted to try to stem the rush of water in that area. The expectations are that the water will not stop until it reaches lake level.
Sturtle's Blog on Katrina
Katrina May Have Killed 80 in Miss. County
K-Day plus 1

We're OK
Special K.
Sept. 2, 2005
Survived the storm OK, very minor damage where we are but my brother is missing. All the rest of our family is allright. Hammond was not hit that bad compared to New Orleans, fallen trees etc, some siding on my house small piece. We really were safe there it is not the same as being in New Orleans believe me. Power was restored in town and I a m hopeful they get it to my house soon.
The federal government is lying about aiding us the local officials are furious there is not Red Cross , or army , or anything federal in Orleans, Jefferson, or st. Bernard YET!!!!
People are dying while Bush grandstands on TV, but the Parish president who we know personally said on WWL Radio today he has been begging for three days for food, water, transportation, military support and has gotten NOTHING from US government.
Don't believe the lies they are telling on TV. And never vote Republican again!
Please forward to anyone you know who knows me. We are going down there tomorrow to try to help at Ochsner Hospital.
Thanks,
Kevin
KATRINA PICS from NEW ORLEANS:











New Post Re: LSU hurricane expert on CNN estimate 100,000 drowned Watching the same reports.
Sept. 1, 2005
Posted by Sweejak
This guy Cafferty asked for feedback on the question: what to do with looters. I wrote in and asked why CNN was so obsessed with looting from businesses that had been totally destroyed...especially since a lot of that looting is of food, clothing and other necessities.
I also said "please put people ahead of property." Meserve used that exact phrase about 10 minutes later. Maybe a fluke since she obviously couldn't have read that email directly and I admit it wasn't the most original alliteration.
I also asked if psyops was still working at CNN, given how they keep hitting this looting theme over and over again. Naturally, I figured my email would not get read.
Here's the worst part: there's still NO ONE dropping drinking water into these areas. Right now FOX NEWS...that's right FOX, has been on the air (their main anchor...good looking but kinda creepy guy...don't know his name) PLEADING with the police, come to exit 235 on hwy 10. There are thousands who don't know where to go. He shot down a level below to a woman with a child who looked just about dead from heat exhaustion and dehydration. He talked directly to someone from the state police and PLEADED with her to send someone down. She simply did not even acknowledge his plea...just said "we're busing people out." Wouldn't tell him where people were to go. Unbelievable.
So FOX is not obsessing about looting, which is a natural, predictable, and absent violence COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT PART OF THE DISASTER, while CNN continues to harp on it. One reporter even said "looters are causing 'chaos'." No, that would be HURRICANE KATRINA.
I actually asked this Cafferty dude what they were doing with this looting obsession...trying to justify shoot to kill curfews? trying to downplay the humanity of those left behind? I don't know. It looks like they are backing off that a bit as I think Cafferty's emails went against their theme. He did read one where a viewer said "turn Superdome into a jail." Unbelievable.
Starman
Unregistered User
(8/31/05 3:41 pm)
Reply New Post computer-model estimate Thanks for the link -- Among the comments, re: the immaculate idiocy of the World's Worst Reporter, Blitzer
-- what a fucking pathetic excuse for a 'news' reporter -- he didn't ask for a clarification. I take it it was an estimate for those actoss the whole affected area of flooding and storm-surge destruction -- utterly appalling. God I hope it isn't true, but realistically, it might be higher, especially with consequences in the days to weeks to come with spread of disease.
Catch the bit where CNNs Blitzer was talking with a policeman who reported the downtown Bourbon and Canal clothing-store fire, Blizer was asking questions that he knew more about because Blitzer was in much-better news-communication, such as re: the levee situation. The policeman didn't even have radio-contact with his dept! I mean, how stupid is THAT? I almost think FEMA should commandeer news-resources and use them to coordinate communication. I mean, don't the police have independant-powered radios?
Blitzer seems to want to push the 'looting' situation, when the far more immediate problem, as everyone gently tries to remind him, is the human safety issue with needs and disease. What a fuckin' idiot.
I began thinking yesterday that much of the damaged region is reminescent of bombed-Iraq, with people -- perhaps a couple million or more -- living without running water and electricity and fuel and fresh-food. The 'Gulf war' vs the 'Gulf storm' -- do you think perhaps SOME people might reflect on the hardship US policies have caused the people in Iraq, now that they're facing some similiar issues re: repair of horribly-damaged critical infrastructure -- although without the added chaos of terrorism and a shooting-war? Innocents all, who do the most suffering.
Terrible.
Starman
seemslikeadream
Registered Member
Posts: 497
(8/31/05 3:59 pm)
Reply New Post Re: 10,000 additional National Guard to augment security not relief!
Reply New Post Re:Our Nation Is In Great Danger from CrackpotAmerica
Our Nation Is In Great Danger
In the wake of this disaster, we are all bearing witness to the competence of our nation’s institutional response. I am afraid that this response is less helpful than it is indicative of the gross incompetence and arrogance of our President’s agenda. Further, those private institutions that have received great benefit over the past six years are serving to remove their facade of charity and compassion by their meager offerings to this devastated landscape.
The immense consequence of the President’s quest to cut funding to FEMA coupled with his complete disregard for any tangible plan for emergency preparedness will now be experienced by our entire nation. Yet, there is no mention of it thus far in the mainstream.
The President in his great narcissism has not walked a single yard of this broken soil since the storm has passed. As people scrambled upward in their homes to save their very lives, the President opted to enjoy a sliver of sweetly frosted cake on a sunny tarmac and attend a town hall meeting to discuss matters of no relevance to the immediate crisis.
While the Coast Guard worked to chop holes out of roofs to save men and women in their potential last moments, the President opted to commemorate Japan’s surrender, strumming a guitar with a boyish posture.
His only attempt to console a wounded region was to credit himself for offering federal relief and a few drops of oil, which would have been released had he drowned in an attic himself.
His benefactors, the huge companies that have been granted billions of dollars in tax relief, have begun responding to this tragedy by offering the equivalent of pocket lint to the effort. It seems that billions upon billions of dollars in annual revenue only merit an average of $1 million in relief from companies such as Wal-Mart, GM, and various oil companies, a stark reflection of the horrid decadence of all who have benefited from the President and his contempt for the citizens of this nation.
Many of our representatives will hold their tongues about the deplorable state of our nation as a result of the incompetence, distain, and complete separation from reality the President and his constituency has shown. However, I have great hope that at the very least, the greater nation and in its vast diversity will at last face the reality of what this despicable administration has done to us all.
It is difficult for the typical American to imagine that our nation can be so devastated that things such as revolt, violence and even revolution could reach their doorstep. I believe that a huge component of our national culture is a certain sense of insulation from the horrific chaos we witness around the globe and in the third world. But here we are, on the brink.
Be warned.
Be warned that the immediate future for all of us will be difficult. Be warned that the system of control established by the President will be thrust upon us with great intensity; not for the purpose of stabilizing the unrest of our nation; but for the sake of maintaining the fruits of his sinister actions thus far.
It will not be discussed over the next few weeks, but a national crisis is coming. As a direct result of the actions of the great narcissist, we will all be subjected to the ramifications in his place.
There will be national fuel shortages. There will be acts of violence and desperation as the availability of certain “luxuries” is taken away from us. There will be martial law. There will be Martial law for no legitimate reason other than keeping the voice of America silent. There will be massive layoffs.
There will be hopelessness.
The President does not have the integrity to persuade the American people to make personal sacrifices to serve the greater good. His constituents know this. And so, he will try to control all of us from above, choosing who must sacrifice and who may not. Although he has no voice, he has power and will use it covertly to suit his whims.
If there was ever a time for us to get up and fight to save our nation, that time is now.
First, I urge all of you to look around your homes and scrounge up any amount of loose money, clothing, and essentials and donate them. Go to your local Red Cross or the Salvation Army with your offerings. While you are there, please give blood if you have the ability. Do whatever you can to help. Every penny, every blanket, every spare room that can hold someone counts. I am not wealthy either, but I am going to do what I can.
Secondly, as the situation improves for the people of the south, please do whatever you can to send the message to your government that you demand the removal of this President and his administration. It is time that he suffers an inkling of the consequence for his arrogance.
I fear that if he remains in office, our nation will not have the opportunity to heal itself in our lifetime, if ever. Whatever you feel about these words, please do not ignore the logical conclusions we can draw from this cancer on our nation. For, we are beginning to witness them at this very moment.