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For MLK Day Robert Greenwald Gives Us a New Film: War on Greed
Mon, 01/21/2008 - 18:35 — BobboA Hurricane of Foreclosures Smashes Into America
Mon, 01/21/2008 - 14:24 — Bobbo
In late August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina ravaged the US Gulf Coast killing nearly 2000 people and flooding 80% of the City of New Orleans. Entire neighborhoods disappeared under water and many people were trapped on rooftops or in the New Orleans SuperDome for days.
The working class areas in and around New Orleans were the hardest hit, especially the 9th Ward which was largely Black. Today, nearly 3 years later, many people have not been able to return to their homes and the City of New Orleans is using the catastophe as an opportunity to gentrify the city, drive out thousands of its former citizens and insure huge profits for the real estate industry at the expense of the city's displaced residents.
The hurricane may have been a weather disaster, but the rebuilding of New Orleans is a human disaster of cold-blooded ethnic cleansing.
It's the troubles that cause the rebels.
