The video here is the first I saw that led me to look more into both the human suffering during and after Hurricane Katrina and the political disappointment following the tragedy. This is at the same time appalling and not surprising. I hope you watch.


This is a PDF file, this is a published piece named The Race to Rebuild: The Color of Opportunity and the Future of New Orleans. It is very informative and enlightening.
http://www4.uwm.edu.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/libraries/ereserve/volz/trtroc.pdf

This is a Democracy Now! episode centered around Michael Brown the director of FEMA during Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.archive.org/stream/dn2005-0928_vid/dn2005-0928_512kb.mp4

I found this video and I hope you find it too.

Week Away

Alright so I am leaving in a couple hours and a week from today...getting prepped for the adventure ahead is exciting most people that know me know that I get very excited whenever traveling is involved (case in point.. i started packing for this trip November 30). This is not a vacation, this is a research and active learning adventure i like to call it to New Orleans. I hope to purchase an external cd-rom drive so I can post videos of my days in the crescent city. More updates and excites will reach this page whenever they choose to come through my fingertips onto the keyboard.