After The Flood: The Reckoning

As the fallout from Hurricane Katrina becomes more apparent, the just posted new
issue of The Nation takes a deeper look into what went wrong, the media's
reaction, how the region should be rebuilt and what you can do to help.

Nation editors trace the incompetent hurricane response back 25 years to the
Reagan era when the movement to discredit government began.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/editors

Frequent Nation contributor Christian Parenti offers a first-hand report of the
devastation from New Orleans.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/parenti

Eric Alterman applauds the journalists who finally stood up, did their jobs and
presented the poor and disadvantaged in a manner that was neither condescending
or condemnatory.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/alterman

Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel believes the moment is ripe for a new New
Deal to not only rebuild Louisiana and Missississippi, but the rest of the
country as well.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=20690

Naomi Klein argues that the evacuees of New Orleans should take the lead in
determining how the billions of dollars in reconstruction funds are going to be
used to rebuild their city.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/klein

Katha Pollitt shares a list of progressive, grassroots charities that are
working on the Gulf Coast to help victims of the hurricane.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/pollittweb


See "Letter From Ground Zero" columnist Jonathan Schell in St. Paul, MN.
As part of their Peace Freedom Week, the Friends for a Non-Violent World will
host a discussion on the subject of "Will Peace Win? The Will of the People and
the End of War" led by Nation Institute Fellow Jonathan Schell. The event will
take place on Saturday, September 17 at the Fitzgerald Theater, 10. E. Exchange
St., in Downtown St. Paul, MN. Tickets are $25, or $15 for students. Call
651-917-0383 for more information, or visit http://www.fnvw.org/ .


This week on Radio Nation, Jon Wiener talks with economist Doug Henwood about
who's benefitting in the post-New Economy era, with historian Gary Nash about
what really started the American Revolution, and with veteran civil rights
reporter Karl Fleming about his memoir, "Son of the Rough South." Marc Cooper
talks with Bill Moyer about the Backbone Campaign, a progressive movement to
bolster officials' "personal courage." You can find the show at
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