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By Nicole Belle Wednesday Aug 29, 2007 7:02pmContrast this video from Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films with the vague and awkward optimism of Bush's speech.
On the eve of the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Director Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation join together with a coalition of social justice groups from across the country to launch When The Saints Go Marching In. The three minute YouTube video reveals the devastating reality of hurricane survivors still struggling to rebuild their lives and the amazing hope they maintain about the future.
When The Saints Go Marching In launched today and can be seen at WhenTheSaints.org. The video is spreading rapidly across the internet with the help of partner groups like Plenty, ColorOfChange.org, and Think New Orleans. When The Saints Go Marching In includes footage of NOLA residents working to make the city home again, and ends with a call to action for viewers to urge the Senate to pass Senator Chris Dodd's (D-CT) Gulf Coast Recovery Bill (S. 1668).
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Frist free Nawlins'
N.O. still leads the nation in homicide. It's good to see things normalizing in the Big Easy.
Stop referring to Bush's mindset as "optimistic." Bush is not an optimist (blind or otherwise). He is a propagandist, pure and simple.
I went to graduate school in New Orleans. Notwithstanding I was by all accounts an "outsider," the people of New Orleans were as gracious and welcoming as any other place I've been, perhaps more so. That having been said, it's a damn shame the way the government has failed these citizens...these homeowners, in such a monumental way. How dare Bush even have the gall to show his face given the colossal failure of his government, amongst others, with respect to these citizens. It's downright contemptible, and should be criminal. Hurricane Katrina happened in the very place that could afford it... a place filled with citizens poor and minority. That, my friends, is why it remains in the abysmal condition it does today...two years later...virtually the way Katrina left it..if not worse.
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Thank you George Bush for taking care of your people, we know how much you love us by this example of your caring extended hand.
This is what happens when ins lobbiests buy a President.and as for Sen Dodds bill.....wtf took so long.
When I was a young whippersnapper, I lived in New Orleans. In the 1960's. I worked in a couple of restaurants and waited on Jim Garrison. He would come in and ask for me. I didn't know him from Adam, but he tipped good. Of course I found out who he was, a few years later. Of all the big cities I've lived in here in the US, New Orleans will always be my favorite. The people were the best. The food was to die for. And the music, well, it was the soul of the city.
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? Yes. I raise my glass to what she was and can be again. I will urge my Senators to pass S. 1668.
Laughing here.
About Time. Good call C&L. There isn't much debate about the need to take care of our own. Thanks.
Seen Greg Palast's "Big Easy to Big Empty"? I haven't heard any stories about the poor people not being allowed back into their homes, despite there being little or no damage done to them.
It's been two years, so why are the folks who were on assisted housing in New Orleans not going home? Because they'll be arrested by private (Blackwater) mercenaries. Even if they make it past them and rebuild their former homes, the marshals will simply deliver eviction notices and carry them out again.
Questions? Ask Malik Rahim of Common Ground.
Why is it only the poorest who can't go home?
Greenwald's doing incredibly moving work. I hope everyone signs the petition
We don't have the money to help these people. It's that simple. We cannot afford to help our own when there are bombs to buy and a military machine to keep rolling. This is America. The new Soviet Union/Germany. We are f*cked. No manufacturing, natural resources used and abused, and debt to our ears. There is no way out people. America is bankrupt.
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