| Author |
Message |
    
Viqi_french
Regular Poster
Username: Viqi_french
Post Number: 30
Registered: 07-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 05, 2005 - 11:56 am: | 
|
If you missed rap producer-artist Kanye West's politically jolting remarks on Friday during NBC's Hurricane Relief Fundraiser, check out this essay excerpt, posted in entirety at ViqiFrenchFever.blogspot.com ...
Kanye West: Stand Up for Hurricane Victims
One of my closest friends is unaccounted for in New Orleans, is not yet even being searched for in the deadly aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Luckily, we finally learned Wednesday that she is alive -- for now. You see, my very decent, hard-working, Jaguar-driving friend Desiree is eerily trapped inside her powerless house in Orleans Parrish and close to starving to death. The car had been troublesome, had broken down a month ago on the very highway-bridge that was destroyed by the hurricane. So she was "stuck" in New Orleans to weather the storm, alone.
At some point, she ventured out of her flooded home and into the waist-high "slop" -- the sewage and remains of the deceased and the rats and wildlife that probably are feeding on them -- with intentions of wading to the Super Dome.
But somewhere along the way, a sheriff stuck a gun in her model-lovely, mocha face and threatened to shoot it off...
Visit ViqiFrenchFever.blogspot.com to read the rest of this posted essay and others inspired by today's best Nu Soul artists! |
Kellyjane
First Time Poster
Username: Kellyjane
Post Number: 1
Registered: 09-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2005 - 05:07 pm: |
|
Published on Friday, September 9, 2005 by The Nation
Let the People Rebuild New Orleans
by Naomi Klein
from the September 26, 2005 issue of The Nation
On September 4, six days after Katrina hit, I saw the first glimmer of hope. "The people of New Orleans will not go quietly into the night, scattering across this country to become homeless in countless other cities while federal relief funds are funneled into rebuilding casinos, hotels, chemical plants.... We will not stand idly by while this disaster is used as an opportunity to replace our homes with newly built mansions and condos in a gentrified New Orleans."
The statement came from Community Labor United, a coalition of low-income groups in New Orleans. It went on to demand that a committee made up of evacuees "oversee FEMA, the Red Cross and other organizations collecting resources on behalf of our people.... We are calling for evacuees from our community to actively participate in the rebuilding of New Orleans."
It's a radical concept: The $10.5 billion released by Congress and the $500 million raised by private charities doesn't actually belong to the relief agencies or the government; it belongs to the victims. The agencies entrusted with the money should be accountable to them. Put another way, the people Barbara Bush tactfully described as "underprivileged anyway" just got very rich.
I am gathering up volunteers for the Louisiana Research Institute for Community Empowerment, they are going to need people all over the country to speak out on behalf of the victims, they have some amazing ideas, like "give the donated money collected to the victims", will you help?
If you can help, please reply to this email.
kjgute@aol.com
|
|
Email This Page