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September 05, 2005

Bookmarking sources

A postdated entry-in-progress where I'll collect sources that my FYC might look at. Suggestions very welcome!


  1. Blog entry 9/1/05
  2. Blog entry 9/2/05
  3. New Zealand Herald 9/3/05
  4. Kos, where some illuminating data are collected
  5. Houston Chronicle blog
  6. Le Monde: une Amérique humiliée
  7. London Independent: Mad Max
  8. Sydney Morning Herald: angry America
  9. Village Voice: big oil
  10. The National Review's deeply amazing encomium for New Orleans
  11. NewsMax's explanation of slow aid
  12. The Fox News version
  13. The Progressive version
  14. The Washington Times congratulates Bush
  15. The Nation on race and class
  16. MSNBC: Class and privilege in the escape
  17. Newsweek takes it all in stride: "It is a simple fact that in the Deep South those who are poor are especially likely to be black. It is also true--and America can take no pride in this--that the poor almost inevitably get the worst of any deal."
  18. AP via Yahoo via Kos: The delay is Congressional investigationworthy.
  19. NYT, 9/4/05: "The white people got out. Most of them, anyway. If television and newspaper images can be deemed a statistical sample, it was mostly black people who were left behind."
  20. A transcript of the mayor's radio interview. The audio is also online. (also here)
  21. Spin control reported by San Francisco Chronicle
  22. Maxine Waters' remarks are reported in the Times-Picayune (scroll down for story).
  23. The Washington Post evaluates the federal disaster response system developed by the B*** regime: "Despite four years and tens of billions of dollars spent preparing for the worst, the federal government was not ready when it came at daybreak on Monday. . . ."
  24. The Post also explains the personal economics of being unable to leave
  25. The NYT offers a good summary: "The flood-control apparatus, which government officials and scientists had long said was inadequate, gave way, but federal engineers did not even realize that a major breach had occurred until the next morning, when citizens began reporting rising flows on Web logs. The city's evacuation plan worked, except for the thousands who were too poor or disabled to find their own way out of the city before the storm. The radios and cellphones that officials and police officers use to communicate failed, erasing any remaining semblance of authority in a city beset by chaos and crime. And finally, a full federal response came only after the dialogue between local and federal officials devolved into anger."
  26. The Boston Globe overviews the violence.
  27. The government response that worked really well, really fast
  28. Maureen Dowd's "United States of Shame"
  29. Kanye West on NBC breaking from teleprompter script
  30. Michael Moore's open letter on Friday
  31. St. Petersburg Times goes beyond the AP wire for insights into individuals who have stayed.
  32. Home burial
  33. Fixing blame
  34. NYT's tale of 2 families
  35. The Condi factor:

    Many African-American leaders, noting that the vast majority of victims trapped inside New Orleans were poor and black, have suggested that racism may have played a part in the federal government's delayed response.
    "How can that be the case? Americans don't want to see Americans suffer," asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she toured damaged parts of her native Alabama on Sunday. "Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race."

  36. The BBC's summary of world press commentary
  37. National Geographic's prediction of precisely what happened. Link forwarded by Tyra under the title "holy sheeet."

    Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.
    When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet.

    Well, actually, most of it now has. And the rest, I reckon, will, too.
  38. Crooked Timber on Katrina, the economy, and class (via vitia)
  39. And who gets the cleanup contract? Why, it's our old friends at Halliburton. Via M2H.
  40. The del.icio.us site
  41. The Times-Picayune: "Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially."
  42. Being Poor
  43. The 9/6 mayoral mandatory evacuation proclamation
  44. Gun sales in Baton Rouge
  45. The term "refugee"
  46. The National Guard is recruiting among the victims in the Astrodome.
  47. Video timeline of the administration's account of the disaster and relief effort
  48. Sources pertinent to research projects in WRT 303
  49. Does being linguistically challenged indicate that one is humanly challenged? See here and here.
  50. B*** acknowledges poverty as a problem


Many thanks to Derek, Madeline, Clancy, Ty, Jeremiah, and Tyra for adding sources to this list.

Posted by senioritis at September 5, 2005 11:09 AM

Comments

You've also got the ever-growing list at del.icio.us:

http://del.icio.us/tag/katrina

It'll take some going through, but imagine what you'll find. :)

Posted by: madeline at September 5, 2005 01:48 PM

i just forwarded somebody else's find--thank lyndsey clark! :)

Posted by: tyra at September 5, 2005 02:12 PM

You should definitely add Being Poor to your list.

Posted by: Clancy at September 5, 2005 11:42 PM

Here's another one, fresh today, just above the entry highlighting the new CCC Online:

Cornel West on Katrina:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1567247,00.html

Posted by: Chris Geyer at September 13, 2005 01:11 PM