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A Radical Critique: Crisis and Crisis Management in Hurricane Katrina

During times of crisis, people often show their most compassionate and even heroic sides. In Hurricane Katrina's disruption of every day life, most people in New Orleans have done the best they can to help each other out. While decried as "looting" by officials, reports have shown that people neglected by rescue authorities are in many cases taking from the ravaged city's stores and distributing the goods equitably among fellow desperate people. Under police threats of "shoot to kill," make no mistake that these are heroic acts – not crimes. Read More

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New Hampshire To Change State Motto From "Live Free or Die" to "Live as White Police Sanctioned Home Owning Citizen, or Die, Former Oil Company Lobbyist Forgets to Drop the Word Former, Neo-Nazi Groups Declare Death of Simon Wiesenthal a Hoax, U.S. Military Prisons Report: You Should be so Lucky to be at Guantanamo Bay, Bush Administration Addresses Global Democratization in Accord With Long Standing American Precedent, Bush Counters Katrina Devastation by Sending Dozens of Cliches Southwards. Read More