A Paradise Built in Hell (54 page)
Read A Paradise Built in Hell Online
Authors: Rebecca Solnit
248 Susan Bartholomew . . . “My right arm was on the ground lying next to me”:
John Burnett for
All Things Considered
, “What Happened on New Orleans’ Danziger Bridge?,” National Public Radio,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6063982/
.
John Burnett for
All Things Considered
, “What Happened on New Orleans’ Danziger Bridge?,” National Public Radio,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6063982/
.
249 “Pretty quickly, it became clear”:
Michael Lewis, “Wading Toward Home,”
New York Times Magazine,
October 9, 2005,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/maga zi ne/09neworleans.htm l?scp=2&sq=m ichael%20 lewis%20katrina%20uptown%20new%20orleans&st=cse/.
Michael Lewis, “Wading Toward Home,”
New York Times Magazine,
October 9, 2005,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/maga zi ne/09neworleans.htm l?scp=2&sq=m ichael%20 lewis%20katrina%20uptown%20new%20orleans&st=cse/.
249 In the commemorative Katrina book . . . there’s a photograph:
Times-Picayune, Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans
(New Orleans: Spotlight Press, 2006), 70; in the CNN book,
CNN Reports, Katrina: State of Emergency
(Kansas City, MO: Andrews Mc Neel, 2005), 37.
Times-Picayune, Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans
(New Orleans: Spotlight Press, 2006), 70; in the CNN book,
CNN Reports, Katrina: State of Emergency
(Kansas City, MO: Andrews Mc Neel, 2005), 37.
250 “We made it a policy early on”:
Aislyn Colgan, in interview with the author, New Orleans, February 2007.
Aislyn Colgan, in interview with the author, New Orleans, February 2007.
251 Donnell Herrington
and
When the Levees Broke
:
The four-DVD set includes outtakes of this interview, in which Herrington says more about the circumstances of his near murder.
and
When the Levees Broke
:
The four-DVD set includes outtakes of this interview, in which Herrington says more about the circumstances of his near murder.
252 “During the aftermath”:
Malik Rahim, in interview with Amy Goodman on
Democracy Now,
October 24, 2005.
Malik Rahim, in interview with Amy Goodman on
Democracy Now,
October 24, 2005.
255 “Another cousin of mine”:
Donnell Herrington, in videotaped interview with Adam Clay Thompson, New Orleans, September 17, 2008.
Donnell Herrington, in videotaped interview with Adam Clay Thompson, New Orleans, September 17, 2008.
260 “The evacuation of New Orleans”:
Mike Davis, “Poor, Black and Left Behind,”
TomDispatch.com
, September. 23, 2004,
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/1849/mike_davis_on_the_political_sidelining_of_blacks/
.
Mike Davis, “Poor, Black and Left Behind,”
TomDispatch.com
, September. 23, 2004,
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/1849/mike_davis_on_the_political_sidelining_of_blacks/
.
260 “They won’t let them walk out”:
Shepard Smith, quoted in many places, including in Russ Baker, “The Media’s Labor Day Revolution,” TomPaine .com, September 6, 2005,
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2005/09/06/the_medias_labor_day_revolution.php/
.
Shepard Smith, quoted in many places, including in Russ Baker, “The Media’s Labor Day Revolution,” TomPaine .com, September 6, 2005,
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2005/09/06/the_medias_labor_day_revolution.php/
.
261 “When we left the hotel”:
Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky, in interview with the author, San Francisco, March 2007.
Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky, in interview with the author, San Francisco, March 2007.
261 “The two hundred of us set off ”:
Bradshaw and Slonsky, in an account spread widely via e-mail and posted at http: //
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5345
, among other sites.
Bradshaw and Slonsky, in an account spread widely via e-mail and posted at http: //
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5345
, among other sites.
262 “Can you imagine during 9/11”:
Lennox Yearwood, “March Demands Accountability of Gretna Police,” originally published in
Louisiana Weekly
, November 7, 2005,
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1107-05.htm/
.
Lennox Yearwood, “March Demands Accountability of Gretna Police,” originally published in
Louisiana Weekly
, November 7, 2005,
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1107-05.htm/
.
262 “I don’t second-guess this decision”:
Arthur Lawson, in Chris Kirkham and Paul Purpura, “Bridge Blockade After Katrina Remains Divisive Issue,”
Times-Picayune
, September 1, 2007,
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/09/bridge_blockade_after_katrina.html/
.
Arthur Lawson, in Chris Kirkham and Paul Purpura, “Bridge Blockade After Katrina Remains Divisive Issue,”
Times-Picayune
, September 1, 2007,
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/09/bridge_blockade_after_katrina.html/
.
263 A muscular state trooper . . . “Doc, we’ll be closing down”:
Richard E. Deichmann,
Code Blue: A Katrina Physician’s Memoir
(Bloomington, IN: Rooftop Publishing, 2007), 118.
Richard E. Deichmann,
Code Blue: A Katrina Physician’s Memoir
(Bloomington, IN: Rooftop Publishing, 2007), 118.
263 The father told Deichmann, “The thing is, they wouldn’t”:
Ibid., 113.
Ibid., 113.
264 “The Louisiana Society for the Prevention”:
Tom Jawetz, in “ACLU Report Details Horrors Suffered by Orleans Parish Prisoners in Wake of Hurricane Katrina,” August 10, 2006,
http://www.aclu.org/prison/conditions/26421prs20060810.html/
.
Tom Jawetz, in “ACLU Report Details Horrors Suffered by Orleans Parish Prisoners in Wake of Hurricane Katrina,” August 10, 2006,
http://www.aclu.org/prison/conditions/26421prs20060810.html/
.
264 The 1973 volcanic eruption on Heimaey:
See United States Geological Survey, “Man Against Volcano: The Eruption on Heimaey, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland,” 2nd ed., 1983.
See United States Geological Survey, “Man Against Volcano: The Eruption on Heimaey, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland,” 2nd ed., 1983.
265 A Jamaican writing . . . “Cuba is organised”:
John Maxwell, “Children of Prometheus: Common Sense,”
Jamaica Observer
, September 14, 2008,
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20080913t050000-0500_140147_obs_children_of_prometheus_.asp/
.
John Maxwell, “Children of Prometheus: Common Sense,”
Jamaica Observer
, September 14, 2008,
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20080913t050000-0500_140147_obs_children_of_prometheus_.asp/
.
265 “The Cubans have consistently built up”:
Oxfam America, “2004 Report Cuba: Weathering the Storm, Lessons in Risk Reduction from Cuba,” 19. Available online at
www.oxfamamerica.org/cuba/
.
Love and LifeboatsOxfam America, “2004 Report Cuba: Weathering the Storm, Lessons in Risk Reduction from Cuba,” 19. Available online at
www.oxfamamerica.org/cuba/
.
271 “I really felt like I was somebody”:
Louis Armstrong, in Thomas Brothers,
Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans
(New York: Norton, 2006), 13.
Louis Armstrong, in Thomas Brothers,
Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans
(New York: Norton, 2006), 13.
273
HurricaneHousing.org
:
Quotes downloaded by the author in the weeks after Katrina; the site is not accessibly archived.
HurricaneHousing.org
:
Quotes downloaded by the author in the weeks after Katrina; the site is not accessibly archived.
274 “was a nice quiet neighborhood”:
Keith Bernard Sr., in interview with the author, New Orleans, February 2007.
Keith Bernard Sr., in interview with the author, New Orleans, February 2007.
276 “in reality looking at ways to not bring”:
Pam Dashiell, in interview with the author, New Orleans, June 2007.
Pam Dashiell, in interview with the author, New Orleans, June 2007.
279 “Even if you take some of the most aggressive plans”:
Wade Rathke, in interview with the author, New Orleans, September 2008.
Beloved CommunityWade Rathke, in interview with the author, New Orleans, September 2008.
282 the president said, “I don’t think anyone anticipated”:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4204754.stm
, and elsewhere.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4204754.stm
, and elsewhere.
282-83 “It wasn’t Iraq that did George Bush in”: Keith Olbermann,
Truth or Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration’s War on American Values
(New York: Random House, 2007), xv.
Truth or Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration’s War on American Values
(New York: Random House, 2007), xv.
283 “Katrina to me was the tipping point”:
Matthew Dowd, in Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum, “An Oral History of the Bush White House,”
Vanity Fair
, February 2009.
Matthew Dowd, in Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum, “An Oral History of the Bush White House,”
Vanity Fair
, February 2009.
285 “This is the most amazing thing”:
Cindy Sheehan, in conversation with the author, Crawford, Texas, August 29, 2005.
Cindy Sheehan, in conversation with the author, Crawford, Texas, August 29, 2005.
285 King wrote . . . “to foster and create”:
Widely quoted, including at
http://www.mlksymposium.umich.edu/07theme/and
http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1603/
.
Widely quoted, including at
http://www.mlksymposium.umich.edu/07theme/and
http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1603/
.
285 “realizes that noncooperation and boycotts”:
Martin Luther King Jr., “Nonviolence and Racial Justice,” February 6, 1957, in Clayborne Carson et al., eds.,
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 120.
Martin Luther King Jr., “Nonviolence and Racial Justice,” February 6, 1957, in Clayborne Carson et al., eds.,
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 120.
288 “They’re stunned”:
Linda Jackson, in interview with the author, New Orleans, February 2007.
Linda Jackson, in interview with the author, New Orleans, February 2007.
289 Brian from Monterey:
In interview with the author, New Orleans, June 2007.
In interview with the author, New Orleans, June 2007.
289 “Right after the hurricane”:
Malik Rahim, in interview with the author, Algiers, Louisiana, February 2007.
Malik Rahim, in interview with the author, Algiers, Louisiana, February 2007.
292 “After the disaster”:
Emily Posner, in interview with the author, New Orleans, February 2007.
Emily Posner, in interview with the author, New Orleans, February 2007.
293 “showed blacks that all whites”:
Malik Rahim, in interview with the author, New Orleans, June 2007.
Malik Rahim, in interview with the author, New Orleans, June 2007.
294 “I was only twenty-five”:
Aislyn Colgan, in interview with the author, February 2007.
Aislyn Colgan, in interview with the author, February 2007.
297 “As the magnitude of the disaster”:
Hawker, from the ashevillecommunity .org/hawker/katrina/Web site.
Hawker, from the ashevillecommunity .org/hawker/katrina/Web site.
299 “It’s unfortunate it takes disasters”:
Felipe Chavez, in interview with the author, New Orleans, June 2007.
Felipe Chavez, in interview with the author, New Orleans, June 2007.
301 “What seems so beautiful”:
Emmanuel David, in an e-mail to the author, September 2008.
Epilogue: The Doorway in the RuinsEmmanuel David, in an e-mail to the author, September 2008.
306 “Man, the bravest animal”:
Marshall Berman, “The City Rises: Rebuilding Meaning After 9/11,”
Dissent
(Summer 2003).
Marshall Berman, “The City Rises: Rebuilding Meaning After 9/11,”
Dissent
(Summer 2003).
306 “He who has a
why
to live for”:
Viktor E. Frankl,
Man’s Search for Meaning
(1959; repr., Boston: Beacon Press, 2006), 104.
why
to live for”:
Viktor E. Frankl,
Man’s Search for Meaning
(1959; repr., Boston: Beacon Press, 2006), 104.
310 Army War College, Henry Paulson,
and
Phoenix Police:
See Mike Sun nucks, “Ariz. Police Say They Are Prepared as War College Warns Military Must Prep for Unrest; IMF Warns of Economic Riots,”
Phoenix Business Journal
, December 17, 2008.
and
Phoenix Police:
See Mike Sun nucks, “Ariz. Police Say They Are Prepared as War College Warns Military Must Prep for Unrest; IMF Warns of Economic Riots,”
Phoenix Business Journal
, December 17, 2008.
310 San Francisco Fire Department . . . “Hundreds of citizen volunteers assisted”:
http://www.sfmuseum.net/quake/revvols.html/
.
http://www.sfmuseum.net/quake/revvols.html/
.
312 Mayor Nagin:
Radio and television segments transcribed by author, August 2008.
Radio and television segments transcribed by author, August 2008.
INDEX
Abruzzo, John
ACORN
Adato, Victoria
Aguilar, Margarita
Alexander, Marcel
Al-Qaeda
Altruism
American Rainbow Response
Anarchists, anarchism
Anderson, Errol
Arafat, Yassir
Arctic Dreams
(Lopez)
(Lopez)
Argentina
Argentine earthquake
Armstrong, Louis
Army Times
Ash, Timothy Garton
Asia
Astrodome (Houston)
Austin, Mary,
Bakhtadze, Eleanor
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Barrett, Wayne
Bartholomew, Clara Rita
Bartholomew, Susan
Bastrop Christian Outreach Center
Behan, Maurice
Bell, Eric Temple
Bell, Quentin
Belli, Gioconda
Beloved community
Berkowitz, Peter
Berman, Marshall
Bernard, Keith (Sr.)
Bey, Hakim
Biloxi, Mississippi
Black Panthers
Blackouts
Blackwater security forces
Blanco, Governor Kathleen
Blasi, Ralph
Blitz (Luftwaffe bombing of England)
Blood donations
Bombing (other than Blitz, above)
Bradshaw, Larry
Bring New Orleans Back
Brisette, James
Brosnan, Pierce
Brothers, Thomas
Brown, Michael, FEMA director
Browne, Emira Habiby
Brumfield, Danny
Buddhism, Buddhists
Buffalo Creek flood, West Virginia
Burkhardt, Elizabeth Grace
Bureaucracy
Burning Man (festival)
Burns, Thomas A.
Bush, George W.
Cain
Camp Casey, Texas
Canadian Army
Candide
(Voltaire)
(Voltaire)
Capitalism
Cardenas, Cuauhtémoc
Carlsen, Laura
Carnival
Carr, Jane
Carter, Dumas
Catastrophe defined
Catastrophe and Social Change
(Prince)
(Prince)
Catholic Worker
Charity
Chavez, Felipe
Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Chess, Caron
Chicago
Great Fire
Heat wave of 1995,
Chile
China
China Syndrome, The
(film)
(film)
Chu, Ed
Churchill, Winston
Civil society
Class
Clarke, Lee
Climate change
CNN
Cockett, Olivia
Cold war
Coleman, Vincent
Colgan, Aislyn
Collins, Dan
Common Ground (New Orleans activist group)
Common Ground Clinic
Compass, Eddie
Connelly, Mark
Convergence
Corrosive community
Crawford, Texas
Crow, Scott
Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, The
(Le Bon)
(Le Bon)
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Darby, Brandon
Darwin, Charles
Dashiell, Pam
David, Emmanuel
Davis, Mike
Day, Dorothy
Deep Impact
(film)
(film)
Deichmann, Dr. Richard E.
Delaney, Cory
DeMarco, Mar
Diggers,
Disaster, definition
Disaster studies (sociology)
Doheny-Farina, Stephen
Dorfman, Ariel
Dowd, Matthew
Dowd, Maureen
Doyle, Mary
Drury, A. Cooper
Dunkirk evacuation
Earthquakes
See also
Argentine earthquake; Lisbon earthquake; Loma Prieta earthquake; Managua earthquake; Mexico City earthquake; San Francisco earthquake and fire; Tangshan earthquake
Argentine earthquake; Lisbon earthquake; Loma Prieta earthquake; Managua earthquake; Mexico City earthquake; San Francisco earthquake and fire; Tangshan earthquake
Earthquake
(film)
(film)
Edwards, Michael
Elite panic
Emergency Communities (volunteer group)
Emerson, Edward
Emotion and disaster
“Energies of Men” (James)
Engelhardt, Tom
Epidemics
Erickson, Kai
Escape from New York
(film)
(film)
Esteva, Gustavo
Fallout shelters
Faludi, Susan
Famine
Farman, Usman
Fear
See also
Elite panic; Emotion and disaster
Elite panic; Emotion and disaster
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Fichtel, Mark
Fitchner, Henry
Floyd, Harold
Fox News
Fradkin, Philip
France
Frankl, Viktor
Freedom Summer
French Revolution
Fritz, Charles E.
Funston, Brigadier General Frederick
Garcia, Judith
Gender
Germany
Gibson-Graham, J. K.
Giuliani, Mayor Rudy
Glover, Henry
Glube, Joe
Goffin, Marcia
Gonzalez, Juan
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Graeber, David
Great Depression
Greeley, General Adolphus Washington
Green, Sam
Guilfoy, John
Habitat for Humanity
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax Explosion of 1917
Hansen, Gladys
Happiness,
see
Joy
see
Joy
Harris, Max
Harrisson, Tom
Harvey, William G.
Haveláclav
Healey, Mark
Heat waves
Hedges, Chris
Other books
The Neon Jungle by John D. MacDonald
Corpus Christmas by Margaret Maron
Loving, Faithful Animal by Josephine Rowe
King of Foxes by Raymond E. Feist
Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare
Got MILF? by Laura Lovecraft
The Infected (Book 6): Last Shot by Gowland, Justin
Beautiful Liar by J. Jakee
Betwixt by Melissa Pearl
Viriconium by Michael John Harrison