Chuck D. writes the first song about Katrina

Hell No, We Ain’t Alright I see here we be the new faces of refugeeswho aint even overseas but here on our kneesforget the plasma TV-aint no electricitynew worlds upside down-and out of ordershelter? food? wsssup, wheres the water?no answers from…

Compassionate conservatism redux

Accompanying her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, “This is working very well for them.” “And…

Police asked women to bare breasts in return for rescue

From the Times of London, hardly a rabble-rousing newspaper. Gerard Scott arrived back in Merseyside today from a holiday in New Orleans with his wife, Sandra, and their young son. He criticised the US authorities for their “horrendous” handling of…

Comments

From Kirsten in Santa Cruz  The whole thing is horrifying–they’re treating people worse than most of us would treat animals. And so clearly, it seems a race thing, that the poor of New Orleans are black and they have been…

Media response

International Herald Tribune Disaster exposes city’s racial fault lineEven people who had spent a lifetime studying race and class found themselves slack-jawed. “This is a pretty graphic illustration of who gets left behind in this society – in a literal way,”…