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Chapter 1 - New Orleans: Sold down the River

Chapter 2 - Official Actions

Chapter 3 - Not an act of God

Chapter 4 - The Flood

Chapter 5 - Administration's Deadly Findings

Chapter 6 - Discrimination and Death

Chapter 7 - Profiteering

Chapter 8 - Use of the Tragedy to Advance Right Wing Agenda

Chapter 9 -The Recovery and Long-Term Aftermath

Chapter 10

Chapter 11- Resources on Katrina, Rita and the Recovery

Links to Other Resources

About this site

Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster that escalated into a major catastrophe due to ideologically driven policy decisions. The endangerment to New Orleans resulting from those decisions was well known in advance. The funding cuts that caused the catastrophe were willfully made in spite of the foreknowledge of the consequences.

We have established this site to document the foreknowledge of the danger, the intentional dismantling of mitigation legislation, the deadly chaos resulting from those funding cuts and the administration's post hurricane attempts to make even deeper cuts in essential spending. We also explore how discrimination and poverty compound at the tragedy and how both have increased since Katrina. Also we explore the many forms of profiteering that have ensued both financial and political.

How to use this site

The information that we have collected has been arranged into 11 chapters and is a compilation of articles, photos, videos and audio productions. All of the chapters can be accessed by the links at the left of this page and all of the other pages herein.

What you can do

Please read the articles and inform yourself. Learn how the policies of this administration caused untold death and suffering and how the same administration is responding by pressing for even more draconian cuts to essential services and infrastructure. Use this information to influence your lawmakers and other elected officials. We must not let this information become buried only to have similar disasters repeated because of the same failed ideology.

Use the information to inform others and to influence policy. Use this information to influence your lawmakers and other elected officials. We must not let this information become buried only to have similar disasters repeated because of the same failed ideology.

Tell others about this site

Gather information to submit to this site. We will soon have a way for you to submit articles and information to be posted on this site. If you have articles that fit any of the outline categories in chapters 1 through 11, please check first and see if the information is already posted. If it is not, then please convert your information into a Word document and give all of the pertinent information: title, date, author or producer, full text, source says the information, and link. Please also indicate the chapter and subheadings where you want the article placed. Any information that you submit that is not in this format will have to go to the bottom of the pile, so please submit information in as complete a form as you possibly can if you want to see it posted. Thanks for your cooperation on this.

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Don't let them kill the story of what really happened in hurricane Katrina. They killed New Orleans. Don't let them also kill the truth!

The site is currently under construction but there will be many changes and additions over the next several weeks. Please return to see the additions and improvements as they are made. Last Update November 8, 2005.

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