Katrina Coverage

Jay Arena, "PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Tulane University", offers a long screed entitled The War At Home: New Orleans, Public Housing, and the "Chilean Option" (also here).

Your call to action, should you accept it, is to:

Join the Working Class Fightback!: New Orleans Convergence, MLK Day 2006

In the meantime, enjoy this snippet:

The racist, anti-working class agenda being pursed by the ruling class is not going unchallenged. Local social justice activists, some of whom have the spent decades on the front lines in New Orleans fighting for economic justice and social equality are currently involved in ongoing struggles in the Greater New Orleans area to stop unfair evictions, reopen public housing, schools, and secure alternative housing for storm victims. They recognize that it will take a national movement to stop the post-Katrina offensive against affordable housing, public healthcare, public education and police repression now besieging the community. Yet, they also realize that this struggle must incorporate the people of New Orleans here and currently in exile.

While there's no doubt a grain of truth in some of what he writes, and more than a grain in a few points he raises, overall I don't believe the way to handle things is that socialism thing. It's been tried, comrade.

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