NEW ORLEANS/KATRINA ARTICLES FROM THE GUARDIAN AND THE NATION

Naomi Klein's Power to the Victims of New Orleans. "With the poor gone, developers are planning to gentrify the city ...."

The Nation has a slightly different version of the Naomi Klein article Let the People Rebuild New Orleans. "On September 4, six days after Katrina hit, I saw the first glimmer of hope. "The people of New Orleans will not go quietly into the night, scattering across this country to become homeless in countless other cities while federal relief funds are funneled into rebuilding casinos, hotels, chemical plants.... We will not stand idly by while this disaster is used as an opportunity to replace our homes with newly built mansions and condos in a gentrified New Orleans." ...

Eric Alterman's Found in the Flood. "The New Orleans flood produced a dizzying array of images both striking and shocking, but what was perhaps most unusual about them was the return to American television screens and newspaper front pages of poor people in a manner that was neither condescending nor condemnatory." ...

Polly Toynbee's The chasm between us. "Katrina has exposed the scale of US inequality, but we have little reason to be smug about our own social divide ...."