Loading ...Today is Bush’s day of remembrance for the victims of Katrina. I will be remembering. How could I ever forget? I remember all those faces in my neighborhood that I’ll never see again: I remember the suffering and the loss and the despair of all the people left in the city. I remember the drowned and the injured and the hungry and the thirsty and the euthanized. I remember those who have returned to New Orleans, and those of us who are displaced.
In one article, Bush vowed to bring more help to the victims of Katrina, and according to the article “cut the bureaucracy and paperwork that some say is slowing progress.”
Wanna hear about bureaucracy? Lets start with FEMA. FEMA is now making it more difficult, if not impossible, to get emergency housing funding. Believe me, I know. I almost got evicted last month because of their policy change. They are demanding all kinds of pre-disaster documentation. If I still had that stuff left, I wouldn’t need FEMA.
Artists, writers, musicians, street performers, tarot readers, and other members of New Orleans self-employed are really up shit creek, and probably never had a lot of the documentation in question in the first place. These people were the soul of New Orleans, and are now getting overlooked for funding by FEMA because of their very soulfulness.
FEMA sucks. I’m thinking Michael Brown is probably still secretly in charge.
Wanna remember me, Mr President? Wanna remember us? Then tell FEMA to stop making ridiculous demands and get help to the people who NEED it in a timely fashion. Remember everyone Mr President, remember all of us who are still waiting for the right thing to be done.
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is when bush came out, what, last week?, and said that (to wit) anniversaries like this shouldn’t be marked… wtf, 9/11???!!! oh wait, that was the terrorists, that’s different.
michael brown was all over the news this morning, as out-of-touch as ever….
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Well.. At least i can say it’s headline news in the Netherlands again. If that helps…
Do you have suggestions?
What, for instance, it was decided to build a new community in Louisiana? Somewhere safer, but in the spirit of New Orleans.. Would you consider moving back?
What could one do to get something like the spirit of New Orleans back to life?
Amazingly, my Amazon suggestion on this page is “Why New Orleans Matters” by Tom Piazza. I’m sure that the next time I look at it, the suggestion will be “High School Musical,” but it was a nice coming together of topics.
My new job will be taking me to New Orleans soon. It will be odd and daunting seeing it for the first time since Katrina. I’ve heard an unbelievably large portion of it still has no rebuilding at all.
And as to Bas’ question — I think New Orleans is unique among cities in the U.S. Too much history, pain, oppression, ecstasy, and revolt happened down there in the swamp lands to have any match anywhere else in this country.
It just has a different feeling to it. I was so happy when Che moved there because I felt that it fit. Of all the places she’s lived, New Orleans fit her most, in my opinion.