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Titolo: E se mandassimo Hezbollah a New Orleans?

http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/degraw/40907/
    "Arrogance is galling enough, but it was the next story by [CBS
news correspondent] Allen Pizzey that really set me off. He reported
that Hezbollah agents are on the streets of Southern Lebanon handing
out U.S. dollars to people whose homes were bombed out.
    One year after Katrina and we can't figure out how to get money to
people who lost their homes in New Orleans, we're still not sure if it
can survive another hurricane but a terrorist group has figured out how
to get American money to the homeless in Lebanon?
    Talk about threats to national security - how about government so
big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it can't get out of its own
way?
    That's what scares me."
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Le condizioni si New Orleans a un'anno dopo Katrina:
Ten months after Katrina: Gutting New Orleans
by Bill Quigley
Saturday I joined some volunteers and helped gut the home of one of my
best friends. Two months after she finished paying off her mortgage,
her one-story brick home was engulfed in 7 feet of water. Because she
was under-insured and remains worried about a repeat of the floods, my
friend, a grandmother, has not yet decided if she is going to rebuild.
Though it is Saturday morning, on my friend's block no children play
and no one is cutting the grass. Most of her neighbors' homes are
still abandoned. Three older women neighbors have died since Katrina.
We are still finding dead bodies. Ten days ago, workers cleaning a
house in New Orleans found a body of a man who died in the flood. He is
the 23rd person found dead from the storm since March.
Over 200,000 people have not yet made it back to New Orleans. Vacant
houses stretch mile after mile, neighborhood after neighborhood.
Thousands of buildings remain marked with brown ribbons where
floodwaters settled. Of the thousands of homes and businesses in
eastern New Orleans, 13 percent have been re-connected to electricity.
The mass displacement of people has left New Orleans older, whiter and
more affluent. African Americans, children and the poor have not made
it back - primarily because of severe shortages of affordable
housing.
Thousands of homes remain just as they were when the floodwaters
receded - ghost-like houses with open doors, upturned furniture, and
walls covered with growing mold.
Not a single dollar of federal housing repair or home reconstruction
money has made it to New Orleans yet. Tens of thousands are waiting.
Many wait because a full third of homeowners in the New Orleans area
had no flood insurance. Others wait because the levees surrounding New
Orleans are not yet as strong as they were before Katrina and fear
re-building until flood protection is more likely. Fights over the
federal housing money still loom because Louisiana refuses to clearly
state a commitment to direct 50 percent of the billions to low and
moderate income families.
Meanwhile, 70,000 families in Louisiana live in 240-square-foot FEMA
trailers - three on my friend's street. As homeowners, their
trailer is in front of their own battered home. Renters are not so
fortunate and are placed in gravel strewn FEMA-villes across the state.
With rents skyrocketing, thousands have moved into houses without
electricity.
Meanwhile, privatization of public services continues to accelerate.
Public education in New Orleans is mostly demolished and what remains
is being privatized. The city is now the nation's laboratory for
charter schools - publicly funded schools run by private bodies.
Before Katrina the local elected school board had control over 115
schools - they now control 4. The majority of the remaining schools
are now charters.
The metro area public schools will get $213 million less next school
year in state money because tens of thousands of public school students
were displaced last year. At the same time, the federal government
announced a special allocation of $23.9 million which can only be used
for charter schools in Louisiana. The teachers union, the largest in
the state, has been told there will be no collective bargaining
because, as one board member stated, "I think we all realize the
world has changed around us."
Public housing has been boarded up and fenced off as HUD announced
plans to demolish 5,000 apartments - despite the greatest shortage of
affordable housing in the region's history. HUD plans to let private
companies develop the sites. In the meantime, the 4,000 families locked
out since Katrina are not allowed to return.
The broken city water system is losing about 85 million gallons of
water in leaks every day. That is not a typo, 85 million gallons of
water a day, at a cost of $200,000 a day, are still leaking out of the
system even after over 17,000 leaks have been plugged. Michelle Krupa
of the Times-Picayune reports that the city pumps 135 million gallons a
day through 80 miles of pipe in order for 50 million gallons to be
used. We are losing more than we are using; the repair bill is
estimated to be $1 billion - money the city does not have.
Public healthcare is in crisis. Our big public hospital has remained
closed, and there are no serious plans to reopen it. A neighbor with
cancer who has no car was told that she has to go 68 miles away to the
closest public hospital for her chemotherapy.
Mental health may be worse. In the crumbling city and in the shelters
of the displaced, depression and worse reign. Despite a suicide rate
triple what it was a year ago, we have lost half of our psychiatrists,
social workers, psychologists and other mental health care workers, the
New York Times reports.
Mental health clinics remain closed. The psych unit of the big public
hospital has not been replaced in the private sector as most are too
poor to pay. The primary residence for people with mental health
problems are our jails and prisons.
For children, the Washington Post reports, the trauma of the floods has
not ended. A LSU mental health screening of nearly 5,000 children in
schools and temporary housing in Louisiana found that 96 percent saw
hurricane damage to their homes or neighborhoods, 22 percent had
relatives or friends who were injured, 14 percent had relatives or
friends who died, and 35 percent lost pets. Thirty-four percent were
separated from their primary caregivers at some point; 9 percent still
are. Little care is directed to the little ones.
The criminal justice system remains shattered. Six thousand cases await
trial. There were no jury trials and only four public defenders for
nine of the last 10 months. Many people in jail have not seen a lawyer
since 2005. The Times-Picayune reported one defendant, jailed for
possession of crack cocaine for almost two years, has not been inside a
courtroom since August 2005 despite the fact that a key police witness
against him committed suicide during the storm.
You may have seen on the news that we have some new neighbors - the
National Guard. We could use the help of our military to set up
hospitals and clinics. We could use their help in gutting and building
houses or picking up the mountains of debris that remain. But instead
they were sent to guard us from ourselves.
Crime certainly is a community problem. But many question the Guard
helping local police dramatically increase stops of young Black males
- who are spread out on the ground while they and their cars are
searched. The relationship between crime and the collapse of all of
these other systems is a one rarely brought up.
It has occurred to us that our New Orleans is looking more and more
like Baghdad.
People in New Orleans wonder if this is the way the U.S. treats its own
citizens, how on earth is the U.S. government treating people around
the world? We know our nation could use its money and troops and power
to help build up our community instead of trying to extend our economic
and corporate reach around the globe. Why has it chosen not to?
We know that what is happening in New Orleans is just a more
concentrated, more graphic version of what is going on all over our
country. Every city in our country has some serious similarities to New
Orleans. Every city has some abandoned neighborhoods. Every city in our
country has abandoned some public education, public housing, public
healthcare and criminal justice.
Those who do not support public education, healthcare, and housing will
continue to turn all of our country into the Lower Ninth Ward unless we
stop them. Why do we allow this?
There are signs of hope and resistance.
Neighborhood groups across the Gulf Coast are meeting and insisting
that the voices and wishes of the residents be respected in the
planning and rebuilding of their neighborhoods.
Public outrage forced FEMA to cancel the eviction of 3,000 families
from trailers in Mississippi.
Country music artists Faith Hill and Tim McGraw blasted the failed
federal rebuilding effort, saying, "When you have people dying
because they're poor and Black or poor and white, or because of
whatever they are - if that's a number on a political scale -
then that is the most wrong thing. That erases everything that's
great about our country."
There is a growing grassroots movement to save the 4,000-plus
apartments of public housing HUD promises to bulldoze. Residents and
allies held a big July 4 celebration of resistance.
Voluntary groups have continued their active charitable work on the
Gulf Coast. Thousands of houses are being gutted and repaired and even
built by Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Jewish, Mennonite, Methodist,
Muslim, Presbyterian and other faith groups. The AFL-CIO announced
plans to invest $700 million in housing in New Orleans.
Many ask what the future of New Orleans is going to be like? I always
give the lawyer's answer, "It depends."
The future of New Orleans depends on whether our nation makes a
commitment to those who have so far been shut out of the repair of New
Orleans. Will the common good prompt the federal government to help the
elderly, the children, the disabled and the working poor return to New
Orleans? If so, we might get most of our city back. If not, and the
signs so far are not so good, then the tens of thousands of people who
were left behind when Katrina hit 10 months ago will again be left
behind.
The future of New Orleans depends on those who are willing to fight for
the right of every person to return. Many are fighting for that right.
Please join in.
Some ask, what can people who care do to help New Orleans and the Gulf
Coast? Help us rebuild our communities. Pair up your community, your
business, school, church, professional or social organization with one
on the Gulf Coast - and build a relationship where your organization
can be a resource for one here and provide opportunities for your
groups to come and help and for people here to come and tell their
stories in your communities.
Most groups here have adopted the theme first used by Common Ground:
"Solidarity not charity." Or, as aboriginal activist Lila Watson
once said: "If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time.
But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine,
then let us struggle together."
For the sake of our nation and for our world, let us struggle together.
In the meantime, I will be joining other volunteers this Saturday,
knocking out the mold-covered ceiling of my friend's home and putting
it out on the street - 10 months after Katrina.
Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola
University New Orleans. You can reach Bill at 
Qui...@loyno.edu
. For
more information, see 
www.justiceforneworleans.org
.
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luno...@hotmail.com
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Beh, se si decidesse che la soluzione migliore è raderla al suolo...
Tb
-- 
www.tonibaruch.blogspot.com

 Beh, se si decidesse che la soluzione migliore č raderla al suolo...
Meglio ancora.  Trasformarlo in un campo di addestramento per
attentatori suicidi che vogliono colpire gli USA :)
-Stefano

 Tb
#_No Problem!
Per eliminazione di massa di una cultura tipica e distruzione totale delle
sovrastrutture, gli specialisti arriverebbero da Tel Aviv. <g>
G.

 
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Dobbiamo ridere? I tuoi padri hanno fatto molto di peggio in Etiopia e 
in Libia. Massacri alla mitragliatrice e con i gas in aereo contro 
zagaie e fucili ad avancarica medievali.
Si vede che la memoria non-proporzionalita' patriottica si sta perdendo 
sugli atolli...
Am.

 zagaie e fucili ad avancarica medievali.
Non per difendere a tutti i costi i nostri padri (o meglio in questo caso i 
nostri bisnonni) ma già nella prima guerra Italo-Etiopica l'esercito del 
Negus era armato di fucili a retrocarica, cannoni e mitragliatrici.
http://digilander.libero.it/fiammecremisi/adua.htm
Non come gli Zulu a Isandhlwana (tanto per ricordare una figuraccia inglese 
in Africa).
Non sarebbe bastato, se i nostri non fossero stati comandati da un somaro 
peggio di Lord Chelmsford.
Nella seconda guerra, quella del 1935-36, gli Etiopici avevano perfino 
qualche aereoplano, pilotato da mercenari europei; e non certo zagaglie.
Carlo "Jurassic Park" 

 sugli atolli...
#_Puah!
Ravvivata semmai!
Giano

 coll'artiglieria pesante(!) <g>
Bello rifarsi una verginita' presso i cannibali, mh?
L'hai pensata proprio bene...
Am.

 Bello rifarsi una verginita' presso i cannibali, mh?
Ma quale verginità? Il vecchio fascio è uno sporco colono europeo, ladro di 
terra Maori.
Tb
-- 
www.tonibaruch.blogspot.com

"amalric" <ama...@TOGLIMIalice.it> wrote in message
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#_...ma non sarebbe piu`conveniente sta' zitti o nascondersi , dati certi
argomenti???? <g>
O magari col vittimismo da postcolonialista vňi mostra' che i cannibal-Maori
t' hanno magnato n' a coscia e jie rimasta indiggggesta....pollo! LOL!
Giano

 #_Grazie al cielo, io, ce n'ho avuto uno solo!
lui no, tanti probabili ... per quello è li tutti i giorni sotto la
lampada osram nella speranza di incontrarlo

 colono...
#_Tu c'hai bisogno di una COLONoscopia speciale, per vede' dov'e` finita la
corteccia cerebbbbrale!!! LUL!
Giano

 #_Tu /cut/
Taci. Non parlo con gli imperialisti che rubano terra a chi ci viveva da millenni.
Ataroa libera! A mare i relitti colonialisti perugini.
Tb
-- 
www.tonibaruch.blogspot.com

 A mare i relitti colonialisti perugini.
Estendiamo il concetto: a mare i Perugini.
Palmiro Pangloss
-- 
CptKirk su IPI: Vincere una guerra è diverso dall'essere con i vincitori

 Estendiamo il concetto: a mare i Perugini.
#_Eccecredo!
Voialtri spilorci Aretini, ad Agosto, tutti a fa' i semicupi sull'Arno o
tuttalpiu`se avete fatto tredici annàte al lago Trasimeno? <g> Lol
Giano

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
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In Arno no.
Quando l'Arno si accorse che andava diritto ad Arezzo fece una curva e tale 
e rimasta 

 e rimasta
Gia', da allora bevete i nostri rifiuti.
Un Botolo Ringhioso

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
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Un Botolo Ringhioso
ha te l'onere della prova,
non per il botolo, per i rifiuti 

 ha te l'onere della prova,
Prova? De che? Hai presente in che senso scorre l'Arno? Buona bevuta.
Palmiro Pangloss

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Palmiro Pangloss
"Eccheffa`....Va in salita!?"
~Squallor
Giano