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[LightHeart]

Oh heavens, all I want to say is hey Nagin what have you done for New Orleans lately. Clean up your own back yard before you start mouthing off about others.

[NicoMoon]

Yeah, truly, LightHeart! I think it's useless and just a distraction to compare the two situations, actually, unless from the perspective of how they were both situations made so much worse by arrogance, stupidity, and incompetence.

Have you or anyone else seen the Spike Lee production "The Day the Levees Broke" on HBO yet?

I'm not sure what the airing schedule is, but it will be available on-demand as of the 30th I believe, for those who have that.

IMO, it's worth it to subscribe to HBO if only for a month, in order to see this documentary. It's really powerful, and it brought back so many memories of how Livewire.FM first became an entity through our Let's Roll project. We watched the first 2 hours last night, and there are still 2 more hours yet to be seen. I cried a LOT!!

What really set me off wanting to roll around on the ceiling were all the scenes of people begging for help to cameras. Little children were making speeches about how desperate things were, old and sick people just sat staring into space in shock, disbelief, pain, or just too weak to focus.

All I could remember were the literally thousands and thousands of folks who poured onto the internet frantic to help. For days and weeks we sat here trying to figure out what to do, trying to keep information and resources flowing along with our tears that felt as though they would never end. Many of us barely slept during that first month after the flooding. How could we?

I still can't believe it now. I can't digest the fact that so many wanted to help, so many needed help, and still there was no help, and so much needless suffering for days and days, that have now stretched into a year for most of these folks who are still dealing with the aftermath, and for New Orleans which still has not reclaimed or been reclaimed by it's own.

Please do check out this documentary if you haven't seen it. Katrina is an event we just cannot ever afford to forget or repeat. I was expecting Lee to present a racially incendiary case, but he doesn't. We hear from all sorts of people with a number of perspectives on the whys and wherefores, but mostly we just hear people's stories.

Lee says at the beginning that the people of New Orleans are still angry, and that he believes it's important for people to express their anger. I agree, and so far I think that Spike has done an amazing job of letting us all feel it with those who were abandoned by our leaders in their time of desperate need.

[LightHeart]

We went to a private screening last weekend, and words can not even begin to express how my heart felt.

But... We walked out of there with people saying "can you imagine", "oh lord help them". Well me and my big mouth asked "yes, can you imagine"? and to the other ones I just asked what have you done to help, the Lord is off helping others right now, of course I was wisked off, but atleast I had my say.:)