Do You Know What it Means to Lose New Orleans?

[taym]

Poydras Avenue, one of the main downtown streets, is closed off right now for the Presidents motorcade. I was walking back to work from the Juvenile Records Dept in City Hall, and after inadvertently stumbling into C. Ray Nagin's office, had to slip through a line of steel barricades and Hummer-driving Military Police just to get across the street

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[spiralsofgrace]

For a book with a good compilation of the facts/figures/events of Hurricane Katrina, I'd recommend Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina & the Color of Disaster by Michael Dyson.

You might already know alot of it, I hadn't. I'm actually not that much of an evening-news watcher or newspaper reader, and I hadn't really kept up with events last year when they happened, so alot of what Dyson relates was new to me... and one thing I really liked doing my JV year was reading about the history/social justice issues of my city.

[taym]

I've heard of it, nice to have a recommendation. I started Douglas Brinkley's The Great Deluge before I left, theres just so much to read. Thank you.

Reading about the social justice history of Chicago sounds fascinating (Upton Sinclair party!). Hope you're enjoying life as an FJV.