Friday, 9 September 2005

Power to the victims of New Orleans

How cool is Naomi Klein:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1566199,00.html

"...the people I met in Sri Lanka have grown tired of waiting for the promised relief. Some survivors are now calling for a people's planning commission for post-tsunami recovery. They say the relief agencies should answer to them; it's their money, after all.

The idea could take hold in the United States, and it must. Because there is only one thing that can compensate the victims of this most human of natural disasters, and that is what has been denied them throughout: power...."

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