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SophieZ Donating Member (254 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 05:23 PM
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Sunday Monitor at top of the hour: Katrina
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September 11, 2005: Sunday Monitor



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<> 6:00 pm CDT -- HEADLINES

<> ~6:15 pm CDT -- GUEST 1 -- JON ELLISTON on FEMA


Jon Elliston, news editor for the Asheville, North Carolina, Mountain Xpress, is the author of "Disaster in the Making," an investigative report on FEMA funded by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. He has just released a new article on the weakening of FEMA.

"FEMA: Confederacy of Dunces," by Jon Elliston, The Nation, posted September 8, 2005 (Sept. 26, 2005 issue), http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/elliston

<> ~6:35 pm CDT -- GUEST 2 -- REBECCA SOLNIT on USES OF DISASTER



Rebecca Solnit is author of a number of books, including "Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities" and "A Field Guide to Getting Lost." She is a writer who defies categorization, an art critic, curator, and political activist. Her book "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West" won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in San Francisco.

Her recent essay on disaster gives us, the people, a number of new ways to envision the dynamics of disaster and recovery.

"The Uses of Disaster: Notes on bad weather and good government," by Rebecca Solnit, Harpers, Friday, September 9, 2005, http://harpers.org/TheUsesOfDisaster.html

excerpt: "When we look back at Katrina, we may see that the greatest savagery was that of our public officials, who not only failed to provide the infrastructure, social services, and opportunities that would have significantly decreased the vulnerability of pre-hurricane New Orleans but who also, when disaster did occur, put their ideology before their people."

CO-HOSTS: Mark Bebawi and Pokey Anderson.

TIPS or COMMENTS:
Write to SundayMonitor@journalist.com

ARCHIVES are at
http://www.kpftx.org/archives/kpftsignal/index.php
Just look for SUNDAY MONITOR and the date of the show.

Last week's show,
September 4
-- CYNTHIA BOGARD on homelessness and Hurricane Katrina
-- TRAM NGUYEN, author of "We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11."
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