UK Guardian: editorial cartoon

[Jimbo S]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1566268,00.html

Once again, if one really wants the news straight, not sugarcoated, seek out the UK media.

This is the only source that has the courage to state the TRUE underlying cause of all this mess. It's not the mayor, gov, President or FMEA. It's centuries of institutionalized racism.

[NJCher]

1. that really hits home

so sad.




Cher

[bigbrother05]

2. This is a must read, great article

These ideas are not without precedent. When Mexico City was struck by a devastating earthquake in 1985, the state also failed the people: poorly constructed public housing crumbled and the army was ready to bulldoze buildings with survivors still trapped inside. A month after the quake, 40,000 angry refugees marched on the government, refusing to be relocated out of their neighbourhoods and demanding a "democratic reconstruction". Not only were 50,000 new dwellings for the homeless built in a year; the neighbourhood groups that grew out of the rubble launched a movement that is challenging Mexico's traditional power holders to this day.

[cap]

3. the article is more important the cartoon

The poor will get hammered 3 ways: the hurricane, the lifting of Davis-Bacon Act to lower the wages paid, and the gentrification of their homes.

[kath]

4. Steve Bell nails it once again!

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. "Give me your tired your poor,

your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, ...".

[kath]

6. The last paragraph of Mark Morford's column for today:

Here, then, is the new American motto, as reimagined by BushCo: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and we'll let them die in a filthy and decrepit storm-ravaged American football stadium while our president languishes on vacation and ponders his oil futures and fondly remembers his good ol' days of getting drunk at Mardi Gras before going AWOL from the military. God bless America.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/09/09/notes090905.DTL

[kath]

7. kick for a great cartoon.

[bpilgrim]

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