Posts Tagged ‘ katrina ’

4th Anniversary of the Federal Flood

4th Anniversary of the Federal Flood

September 1, 2009

It was this week 4 years ago that hundreds of thousands of human beings in the American city of New Orleans were left stranded as the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina rose all around them.  It was this week, 4 years ago, that the truth about the lack of...

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Trial That Sould be Center Stage

Trial That Sould be Center Stage

April 27, 2009

"If the Corps didn't do its job, somebody should be held responsible. Somebody's got to answer to something." - The words of a former Lower Ninth Ward resident who lost a daughter to the flood waters that would swallow up...

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Remembering Stolen Lives in NOLA

March 30, 2008

One year ago this week I was in NOLA, heading down the Gulf Coast seeing how people were dealing with the damage and neglect of the Federal Flood.  Here's an excerpt from one of the posts on the subject of housing in New Orleans, It was probably my second day...

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bmtv74 CCC Talk Part 2 of 4

bmtv74 CCC Talk Part 2 of 4

February 12, 2008

Long overdue part 2 of the talk I gave at the Chaos Communication Camp over the summer, topic is of course Rebellious Communication and the Federal Flood. This part is about housing in New Orleans and my experience exploring this topic first-hand. If you want to watch part 1,...

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bm247 Holding the Army Corps Accountable

February 1, 2008

A recent court ruling may have dropped the case against the army corps of engineers, but it also pointed to them as responsible for the terrible state of the levees in New Orleans before the Federal Flood. Sandy Rosenthal, founder of levees.org joins me on this program to explain...

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