Urban Honking

“I want people to realize that we did not stay in the city so that we could steal and loot and commit crimes. A lot of those young men lost their minds because the helicopters would fly over us and they wouldn’t stop. And it came to a point where these young men were so […]

* Al Gore finally got his flight into New Orleans to rescue his doctor-friend and patients–on Saturday. They were still there on fucking Saturday. * One Republican strategist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he did not want to be seen as speaking for the president, said that while it was “a totally […]

The taking of New Orleans.

for the march on Washington Sept 24, brooklyn parents for peace is offering *relatively* inexpensive roundtrip bus tickets from park slope, bam, downtown bk and bed-stuy. read: what happens to a race deferred. “This is Hotel Rwanda all over again.”

Elizabeth forwards this piece by Malik Rahim: “This is criminal.”

via monsieur wang: kanye west speaks truth to power.

Jim Lehrer Newshour. The columnists and the pundits, they are exerting a great effort to remain measured. Their sense of deep disturbance, fury, sorrow, butting their habitual impulse for on-camera professionalism. They are all so incredibly professional. I think they are operating under the assumption that expressing outrage on television robs you of credibility in […]

from the inbox: NYC benefit next week. Scroll down for tangible, non-government-related places to donate. Join KEVIN POWELL and his special guests as they present a BENEFIT for New Orleans THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2005, CANAL ROOM 285 West Broadway, at Canal Street downtown Manhattan in New York City 7PM-11PM 21 and over with ID, and […]

DailyKos asks, “Where is the government?” As one of America’s finest writers, of music and otherwise, puts it: “This is a social disaster as much as it is a metereological one.” Read Ned Sublette’s interview here. “We’re not only watching history disappear, history is watching us disappear. How’s that for a phrase.” Here’s the moveon.org-recommended […]

Recently, I’ve been off on one of my all-too-frequent blogging vacations. There are many causes for them: busy periods in my various projects, a lack of motivation to write, large scale posts that become overly ambitious and that I therefore overwork, etc. No reasons that are really ever very good. In an attempt to put […]