I am sure you and Ian have talked all about it since we got back, but I wanted to pass on a few links that were sent to us (2 links below).
Also, if you need a "non-boyfriend" friend to talk to, feel free to call me. I hope you guys are doing okay (I am dealing with some post travel issues with my girlfriend).
1) The Brookings Institution, “New Orleans After the Storm: Lessons From the Past, A Plan for the Future” (excerpts 1-12, 20-25). (October, 2005).
Eli-- thanks SO SO SO much for the links. They are just what I've been wanting and have led me to a lot of other good resources. I've been doing so much reading in the last few days to try and learn, at least intellectually, what you learned through experience. Of course I can't mirror it, but I want a better idea. You remember Nick Erickson from the stage combat workshop? Well, I've talked to him about it a good deal as well because he lives in Baton Rouge and thus has experienced much of the hurricane horridness himself. He has photos posted online that he took himself of the destruction in the Ninth Ward, and he and I had a good long talk today about what he has observed and learned. Talking to him really helped me understand just a smidgen more. I still know that I can't comprehend because Nick experienced the same speechlessness that Ian has in describing the incredible ongoing destruction, physically but of course economically, socially and politically. But, to make a long story short, I'm really trying to get it. And
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I don't know if you know Nina Braynina (she has an oxy e-mail and I'm sure she would be glad to talk to you), but she took a lot of photos. Many of her photos are on facebook at the following link:
Also, I do have another article that you can read called "Reports Reveal Katrina's Impact on Population" By RICK LYMAN. I only have it in a word document or on e-mail. Let me know if you want to read it.
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I am sure you and Ian have talked all about it since we got back, but I wanted to pass on a few links that were sent to us (2 links below).
Also, if you need a "non-boyfriend" friend to talk to, feel free to call me. I hope you guys are doing okay (I am dealing with some post travel issues with my girlfriend).
1) The Brookings Institution, “New Orleans After the Storm: Lessons From the Past, A Plan for the Future” (excerpts 1-12, 20-25). (October, 2005).
[https://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/metro/pubs/20051012_NewOrleans.pdf]
2) Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright, “The Real Looting: Katrina Exposes a Legacy of Discrimination and Opens the Door for ‘Disaster Capitalism’
(The SeeingBlack.com 411, October 2005) [http://www.seeingblack.com/2005/x101105/411_oct05.shtml])
Hope this helps,
Eli I.
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Also, I do have another article that you can read called "Reports Reveal Katrina's Impact on Population" By RICK LYMAN. I only have it in a word document or on e-mail. Let me know if you want to read it.
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This is Eli, by the way.
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