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Resources Compiled by Faculty
September 21, 2005
Katrina, the Mississippi River and the Risks of the Coming Harvest
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
from the New York Times
In 1953, a young documentary filmmaker named Charles Dee Sharp traveled
down the Mississippi River, shooting still photographs for a film
he never made. One of Sharp's pictures - recently published by the
Center for American Places in a book called "The Mississippi
River in 1953" - is a color shot of rows of new red cornpickers
awaiting shipment in Moline, Ill. Behind them the surface of the
river looks like a sheet of mercury. more
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September 20, 2005
News From Behind The Facade
By John Pilger
Znet Commentary
When I lived in the United States in the late 1960s, my home was
often New Orleans, in a friend's rambling grey clapboard house that
stood in a section of the city where civil rights campaigners had
taken refuge from the violence of the Deep South. New Orleans was
said to be cosmopolitan; it was also sinister and murderous. We
were protected by the then District Attorney, Jim Garrison, a liberal
maverick whose investigations into the assassination of John Kennedy
were to make powerful enemies behind The Facade. more
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“Lessons From Katrina: What A Major Disaster Can Teach
Transportation Planners”
By Todd Litman
A service of the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP)
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September 19, 2005
Katrina Evacuees Cross CPMC Hospital Picket Line
(CBS5) SAN FRANCISCO A seventh day of picketing at three California
Pacific Medical Center campuses produced no resolution but plenty
of tension as Hurricane Katrina evacuees crossed the picket line
to serve as replacement workers. more
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Katrina Relief and Federal Spending and Deficits
By Jim Horney, Robert Greenstein, and Richard Kogan
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Some conservative lawmakers and pundits are arguing that while
the funding for relief and recovery efforts from the hurricane may
be money that the nation has to spend, the costs will swell federal
spending to dangerous and unprecedented levels. more
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September 17
Mass Media and New Orleans From Victims to Vandals
By JAMES PETRAS
Counterpunch
Briefly, but dramatically, the political failures that turned New
Orleans and many other Gulf cities and towns into a human catastrophe,
shattered the bonds of conformity between the mass media and the
government. Critical reporters described the failure of the government's
Homeland Security to evacuate vulnerable poor people and the absence
of basic food and water for the victims. more
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September 15
President Bush Must Address Poverty
By Congresswoman Barbara Lee
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
The devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina has torn down the curtain,
and exposed the dirty secret that divides our nation like an open
wound. more
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September 11, 2005
Walking With The Ghosts of New Orleans
by Lydia Howell
www.dissidentvoice.org
When I finally wrenched myself out of Texas, I almost moved to New
Orleans. However, like many Southerners -- usually Black southerners
-- I made my northern migration instead. But, watching the abandonment
of that city and the especially brutal betrayal of its black citizens
has overwhelmed me with a weeping rage. more
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September 8
Debit Card Giveaway Goes Awry in Houston
By Lisa Rein and Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writers
What was billed as an innovative effort to help victims of Hurricane
Katrina get back on their feet brought chaos and confusion Thursday
as thousands of evacuees jostled for promised federal and private
cash assistance. more
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September 5
Thousands of Latin American Immigrants Among Katrina's Victims
By Diego Cevallos
InterPress Service News Agency
MEXICO CITY, Sep 5 (IPS) - Thousands of Latin American immigrants
are among the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the southern United
States, and at least three have died. more
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