While many Americans are out shopping for last minute Christmas gifts the people of New Orleans are once again facing the destruction of their homes and the prospects of homelessness. This is no work of mother nature, this destruction is the direct result of the ruthless and dehumanizing brand of government that pervades this country. The Bush Regime’s Department of Housing and Urban Development, (HUD), is bent on tearing down the public housing units that over 4,000 New Orleans residents called home.
Mainstream media continues to do its part to support the government’s position by reporting that these public housing units are denizens of crime and violence, and that these buildings were damaged in hurricane Katrina. HUD has been wanting to tear down these public housing areas long before Katrina came to shore. The New York Times reporting today that some of these public housing projects “…rank among the best early examples of public housing built in the United States, both in design and in quality of construction.” The Times goes on to say: “In an eerie echo of the slum clearance projects of the 1960s, government officials are once again denying that these projects and communities can be salvaged through a human, incremental approach to planning. For them, only demolition will do.”
HUD is bent on demolition, and bent on the eradication of a whole group of people from New Orleans. What will replace these public housing units? Highly profitable high-end condos and office buildings.
Many brave people came out today to protest the destruction of their homes. They were met with opposition, arrest, and many were pepper-sprayed. The complete destruction of these peoples homes is scheduled to be completed in the next six months, unless WE THE PEOPLE join together to STOP another crime against humanity from occurring in New Orleans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp_D4lTbIKE
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/arts/design/19hous.html?_r=1&oref=slogin