I think we have to blame this one on Maureen and her In the room the women come and go . . . post. Rory left a comment on that post that prompted me to send him an email entitled “My Sad Duty” — and Rory sent a reply with a preface in which he more or less insisted that I post the exchange here on EOB.

So, since Thursday is my Official Post Day, and since I’m naturally lazy . . . here are 1) Rory’s comment on Maureen’s post, 2) the “My Sad Duty” email, and 3) Rory’s response: Read More »

Katrina survivors rebuke President Bush, who is going to New Orleans for a series of photo ops.

Mr. President: Katrina Survivors Do Not Welcome You, We Rebuke You!

We live in a devastated city and you are a big part of the reason why it sill sits in ruins. Your administration has abandoned our children by savaging their public schools. Your administration has tortured our working class people by refusing to reopen the city’s public housing developments. And your administration is fully complicit in placing our uninsured in harms way by ruthlessly pursuing the privatization of local public healthcare in the aftermath of Katrina. And, finally your administration is guilty of sending our sons and daughters of to war for oil and empire just when we need them most to help us rebuild our community.

Mr. President, we, Katrina Survivors all, do not welcome you to our city, we rebuke you!

Sponsored by Survivors Village, United Front For Affordable Housing.

(504) 587-0080

If you have a blog please consider posting this today.

It’s been eighteen months. Friends who have assisted with reconstruction tell me the level of devastation is simply unbelievable—and it’s the poorest who have been hurt the most, and helped the least. We are the wealthiest nation in the world. There is simply no excuse.

via Spocko’s Brain and Humid City.