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Bleak and Bleaker

Two articles grabbed my attention this morning:

Reading these makes me sad and angry. The mainstream media is bleak enough, but these perspectives from the radical press are beyond bleak. I wish I could say that they are exaggerating, that they go too far, that what they are saying about New Orleans is not true. But I’m afraid they’re telling it like it is.

None of this is news to those of us living here. I only pass these links along in hopes that some more people outside New Orleans will read these articles and get a picture of the enormity of our struggle.

I’m desperate for a glimmer of hope:

Students from sixteen colleges, including Xavier, Tulane, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, San José State, Stanford, and University of Michigan have put out a call to all college campuses to participate in a “National Post-Katrina College Summit” for April 9-14.

The Post-Katrina College Summit will be a nationwide, weeklong effort to raise awareness about the Gulf Coast through documentary showings, speakers, spoken word, teach-ins, rallies, petition drives, and other events. The Summit is an attempt to catapult New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast back into the national consciousness and to promote federal legislation for a New Deal-style program for the Gulf Coast.

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3 Comments

  1. Bill Quigley really is a hero. He jumped right in during the Immediate Aftermath, defending the rights of displaced renters, changing the way evictions were carried out so that renters couldn’t just be put out with no more than a note posted to the door. This is a guy who consistently walks the walk. Thanks for the links. They tell a very sad story.

  2. […] it like it is via NOLA blogger b.rox, two articles from outside the mainstream press present a reality starker than most of us can […]

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