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Voices From the Gulf: "They're Using a National Disaster to Do Their Dirty Work" [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 7:30 AM on August 27, 2007.


Two years after Katrina, the Gulf Coast is still recovering, and thousands of personal stories remain unheard. This is one of those stories.
Voices from the Gulf

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In the video to your right, Kawana Jasper, who lived at the St. Bernard housing development before Katrina, talks about her experience trying to come back to New Orleans, and her belief that the city is trying to push out public housing residents. She expresses the anger and resilience that so many victims of this tragedy have shown and continue to show two years after many of their lives were destroyed. This video is just one of a series of several moving, honest and important short films being made by Color of Change as part of a Voices from the Gulf campaign. Check out their website here and click on the video to your right for more.

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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i wonder
Posted by: eldoradoman1953 on Aug 27, 2007 2:01 PM   
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i wonder why the city wants to get rid of all these welfare recepentants .they ad so much to commuinty .

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Xpat
Posted by: davy on Aug 28, 2007 9:02 AM   
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As an X pat living in bonnie Scotland I got an earful after Katrina. Sooo many Scot's said to me, "America should be ashamed of it's self, of all countries, you would think America would be the first to take care of their own." The Scots are not backward in coming forward, as they say.

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The number of posts under this topic demonstrates
Posted by: shanaza on Aug 28, 2007 11:47 AM   
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the apathy of progressives as well. Look at the other topics, rate their relative importance to our society, then draw your own conclusions.

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