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Chronically Displaced in NOLA

Four years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the disaster continues.

By Fatima Shaik

On July 26, about 50 people lined up to testify before a United Nations advisory committee in the cafeteria of McDonogh 42, a New Orleans elementary school. Though there had been only a small notice in the New Orleans Times-Picayune calling for public input, about 300 Hurricane Katrina survivors turned up to tell the UN-HABITAT advisors about the difficulties they still… return to article

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    As the USA falls economically, politically and spiritually the corrupt ruling class expands its bleeding of the middle class and crushing of the underclass, especially the long-suffering slave descendants who have no Human Rights.  For seventeen years Black scholars and activists have diligently worked inside the United Nations to establish the case for Human Rights and Reparations for all 250 million Afrodescendants in the western hemisphere.  The U.N. has sufficient evidence to condemn the U.S. government for violating U.N. Covenants by continuing to impose ethnocide and forced assimilation on slave descendants.  All U.S. inner cities, not just the New Orleans ghetto, are rapidly sinking in the quicksand of both racial oppression and class warfare.  Although the Obama Administration claims to be in the business of healing old wounds, it has largely replicated the priorities and modus operandi of previous abusive Administrations.  Right now the U.S. government is burning about $20 million each hour on unjust wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while contemptuously notifying millions of unemployed citizens that this will be a jobless recovery.  Like Bush and Clinton, President Obama opposes Reparations for Afrodescendants.  The United Nations can should confirm its integrity by tangibly assisting our quest for Human Rights and Reparations.  This would include major funding for educational institutions devoted to saving and elevating our precious youth in all inner cities, including my hometown New Orleans.
    Sincerely,
    Senator Malik Al-Arkam
    www.allforreparations.org

    United States Posted by mathrise on Sep 21, 2009 at 1:40 PM

    Blackhorse can definitely agree with the senator…Reparations is a key issue that is rarely discussed with an eye toward seriously obtaining the leverage needed to get the bill passed.
    The economic slavery being imposed on the financially disenfanchised citizens of New Orleans should unfortunately serve as an extremely unfriendly reminder of who, what and how amerika has used and abused ever indigenous population it has ever come in contact with….....

    United States Posted by blackhorse on Sep 22, 2009 at 7:55 PM

    Some people tend to never mind it and act as a boiling frog stuck in a degrading nature So whats the purpose of explaining it more to people when some are not open to listen.So that is why I can conclude that the attitude of human towards the usage of natural resources can definitely influence the issues in nature.When people are unaware, they do everything what they think and feel doing.So, there comes the hihg emissions of greenhouse gases.The drastic emission of carbon dioxide caused by burning fossil fuels has been identified as reason for the change of temperature in the atmosphere.Pollutions,
    overpopulation and human emissions of carbon dioxide are the main reasons of global warming that could bring drastic disasters on Earth.Everybody should act pro-nature it is much like giving personal loan to mother earth.

    Germany Posted by Alina jhgfjdfg on Sep 28, 2009 at 10:48 AM
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