http://www.livejournal.com/community/debunkingwhite/258220.html

Debunking the rumors circulating around the 'nets about the NOLA displaced.

http://www.wiseass.org/files/katrina1.swf

Warning: graphic images.

from poor_planning

Neil Gaiman points to an article on science fiction and the Katrina disaster by Bidisha Banerjee, an editorial assistant at Slate.

As Americans struggled to grasp what was unfolding in New Orleans, the word "unimaginable" recurred frequently-even though the catastrophe had been imagined, and envisioned, many times. Thirty years ago, science ( Read more... )

http://evacuationradioservices.org/Read more... )

Here I go utilizing the rarely, uh... utilized religio-filter!

Rabbi Yemes' Escape from New Orleans

"You will see Me in retrospect," G-d said to Moses. "You will see Me from the back."

Refugees from the Storm: Tulane professor and survivor counts his blessingsAnd a tangentially related bonus on Jewish exclusivity, community, and love for our ( Read more... )

as seen on sparrow77
Money for floods: poverty, humanity, and the social contract

Also, Hurricane Katrina-Our experiences by Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky

I have been glued to, reading and watching and reading and watching, with very little in the way of words.

Lost in the Flood: Why no mention of race or class in TV's Katrina coverage? ( Read more... )

thanks for the heads-up, kisha

http://www.livejournal.com/community/blackfolk/2420240.html

I keep writing and erasing, writing and erasing. I can't believe New Orleans is underwater.


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It's official. I've put it off long enough. After spending next month's rent getting my car fixed, I'm headed back to the bowels of hell tomorrow. Things are not looking good. I may be dropping out of school to get a job. Again. I keep asking myself, "Why try? Just accept defeat like all the other losers." Why, indeed... More importantly, tomorrow ( Read more... )