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And into electoral politics. And you can also look at both national things, the movement against punitive student debt and ….
I mean, so let me ask you this. If you met someone, say a Martian, who [ laughs ] who was not here and had never heard of this. How would you tell — start to tell the fullness of that story? Of Hurricane Katrina, what happened to this city called New Orleans — and how that history is still being made now? I should say that all my work on disaster draws from these wonderful disaster sociologists who had this — do this incredible work documenting what happens in disasters, and have since World War II.
So what are the building codes? Who lives in substandard housing?
Who lives on the floodplain? Who gets left behind? And just all systems failed. And some hospitals were able to run on generators.
Then things happen like they basically get sealed off. You can walk out of the central city to dry land, but the sheriff of a suburb called Gretna and his thugs get on the bridge with guns and turn people back at gunpoint. You cannot walk out of New Orleans to dry land. And that was because of the narrative they were working off, in terms of who these people were?
And so they mount a campaign not to treat suffering human beings and bring them resources, but to reconquer the city. Kathleen Blanco, the governor of Louisiana said we have troops fresh from Iraq and they have M16s that are locked and loaded It was — that is not a humanitarian effort. M16s are not how you help that grandmother dying on the roof.
And those grand — some of those grandmothers died. And so, people were not a victim of a hurricane. But behind those politics are stories. And people died of vicious stories in New Orleans. And everybody could have been evacuated in 24 hours. Everybody could have been evacuated beforehand.
That the massive number of people who went to New Orleans, went to the Gulf Coast to help rebuild, that was the freedom summer in Mississippi magnified a thousand-fold. And there was — from the very minute it all began, there was tremendous altruism. But there are these extraordinary stories, and people really — that impulse to help is so powerful. Like half the country to give blood.
And New Orleans, for years afterwards, had all these people, church groups, and I saw amazing Mennonite builders rebuilding houses, and Habitat for Humanity. And I kind of loved it. It was a whole spectrum from Catholic charities, to the Mennonites, to pretty radical anarchists, and people working with Common Ground, which was in some ways founded by the Black Panthers and young white supporters and became a project that did a lot of different things, and not all of it worked out perfectly, but some of it was amazing.
And it became really a part of the conversation.
But they founded the first really good clinic for people who needed emergency care, who needed their diabetes medicine, or their tetanus shot, or their wound disinfected. And that split off into Common Ground clinic, which is still going strong more than 10 years later. So, we talked a little while ago about love, and your idea that love has so many other things to do in the world, aside from these silos of loving our families, and loving our children.
A lot of people lived in a neighborhood where they knew hundreds of people. They knew everybody who lived near them.
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They might have extended family. They might be like Fats Domino who was born in a house in the Lower Ninth Ward, delivered by his grandmother. They have these deep roots and wide branches. And they engage in public celebration.
They talk to strangers. But a lot of people after Katrina felt, OK, we really have to engage to keep this place alive. The police were actually taken over by the federal government because it was the most corrupt and incompetent police department in the United States. They got a semi-decent mayor for a change, after a lot of corruption, particularly from Ray Nagin, who went to jail for it — the mayor during and after Katrina.
How do we adapt? And people are having this really exciting conversation about rethinking the city, and how water works in the city, building systems of survival. And again, this is like all disasters — the storm was horrible, it killed about 1, people, it displaced a lot of black people who were never able to come back. And impacted the continuity and mental health of the community. But it did create this engagement and this really creative planning of the future.
And New Orleans might have just continued its gentle decline without Katrina. And a lot of the young people, these young idealists who moved there, fell in love with the place and stayed. Some of them are the white kids who are gentrifying traditionally black neighborhoods. And the place is very energized right now in new ways, and it has retained quite a lot, if not all, of the energy it had before. Today with writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit.
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