On August 29, 2005, the eye of Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Waveland, Mississippi, and the western side of the storm grazed New Orleans. Five months after the storm, I visited the Mississippi Gulf Coast. According to a National Hurricane Center report on Katrina, “in many locations, most of the buildings along the coast were [...]
4 Years After Hurricane Katrina
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 30. Aug, 2009 in class and poverty, economic policy, environmental justice, human rights, katrina, mississippi, MS Gulf Coast, nola, race and racism
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by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 30. Aug, 2008 in breaking news, class and poverty, economic policy, katrina, MS Gulf Coast, nola, race and racism
Gustav is now a Category 4 hurricane. HAVANA, Cuba – Gustav has grown to a Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds, U.S. forecasters said Saturday, as the storm pummeled a Cuban province, threatened Havana and led to the evacuations of more than 240,000 Cubans. The parallels to Hurricane Katrina three years ago are striking. [...]
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Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
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