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Hurricane Katrina Topics

Democracy Now! stories, posts and pages that relate to Hurricane Katrina

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  • After the Hurricane: Where Have All the Prisoners Gone? More Than 500 From New Orleans Jail Still Unaccounted For

    A month after Hurricane Katrina, serious questions remain about the fate of hundreds of prisoners in New Orleans. Human Rights Watch says there are 517 unaccounted for, while prisoners and their lawyers say many were abandoned in the flooding jails. We’ll speak with Human Rights Watch’s researcher, as well as a man who was in the Orleans Parish Prison during the storm, and two lawyers fighting to discover what exactly happened inside...
    Sep 27, 2005 | Story

  • Has the Government Abandoned New Orleans' Top Black Colleges?

    Two historically black colleges in New Orleans remain closed after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation. Reopening the colleges requires money, which may prove a challenge. We speak with the President of Xavier University about this. [includes rush transcript]
    Sep 27, 2005 | Story

  • Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) on the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina

    Cynthia McKinney opened the pre-march rally critiquing President Bush for his response to Hurricane Katrina and for the ongoing occupation of Iraq. [includes rush transcript]
    Sep 26, 2005 | Story

  • Palestinian-American Poet Suheir Hammad: "Of Refuge and Language"

    Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad reads her new poem on Hurricane Katrina: "Evacuated as if criminal // Rescued by neighbors // Shot by soldiers // Adamant they belong // The rest of the world can now see // What I have seen // Do not look away // The rest of the world lives here too // In America" [includes rush transcript]
    Sep 26, 2005 | Story

  • Louisiana Native at Anti-War Protest: "Do Not Allow the Rebuilding of Lives in the Gulf Coast to Be Another Profit" For Halliburton

    Colette Pichon Battle speaks at the massive anti-war protest in D.C. Battle is from Slidell, Louisiana and makes the connection between the response to Hurricane Katrina and the reconstruction process, and the war in Iraq. [includes rush transcript]
    Sep 26, 2005 | Story

  • Disaster Profiteering: Purging the Poor in the New New Orleans

    We speak with writer and author Naomi Klein about what some are calling the real looting of New Orleans. In this week’s cover story in The Nation magazine, Klein reports on how the city’s poorest evacuees are being kept out of thousands of perfectly livable empty homes. [includes rush transcript]
    Sep 23, 2005 | Story

  • Big, Easy Iraqi-Style Contracts Flood New Orleans

    As Katrina’s flood waters recede, government contractors are flowing into the Gulf Coast and reaping billions of dollars in pre-bid, limited bid, and sometimes no-bid contracts. We speak with Pratap Chatterjee, managing editor of CorpWatch.org, about his latest article titled "Big, Easy Iraqi-Style Contracts Flood New Orleans." [includes rush transcript]
    Sep 23, 2005 | Story

  • NM Governor Richardson Calls Special Legislative Session to Investigate Price Gouging and Energy Cost

    We speak with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson about the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and why he is calling for Congress and President Bush to investigate price gouging at the gas pumps. [includes rush transcript]
    Sep 22, 2005 | Story

  • Cuba's Number 2, Ricardo Alarcon, Blasts 'Neoliberal' Katrina Response

    In an exclusive interview in the firehouse studio, Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban National Assembly, talks about the US government’s handling of the hurricane and talks about Cuba’s effective hurricane response system, saying, "Our Entire National Defense, Our Entire Army, And Our Entire Society Is Prepared To Defend Itself, Not To Attack Others, Not To Occupy Foreign Lands." [includes rush transcript]
    Sep 21, 2005 | Story

  • New Orleans Police Harass Independent Journalist

    As President Bush says he’ll rebuild New Orleans, we speak with Hip Hop activist and independent journalist Rosa Clemente about the crackdown in the shelters. She describes being harassed by a New Orleans police officer while doing interviews at a Red Cross shelter. [includes rush transcript]
    Sep 16, 2005 | Story