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      'Generation on Fire': Sunrise Movement Activists to March 400 Miles From New Orleans to Houston

      'Generation on Fire': Sunrise Movement Activists to March 400 Miles From New Orleans to Houston

      "We're living in constant crisis: hurricanes, superstorms, jobs that break our bodies and could be taken away at any minute. This is an emergency, but it isn't an accident."

      Brett Wilkins
      May 10, 2021

      Following the path of thousands of families who permanently fled the lowest-lying major city in the United States in the wake of storms like Hurricane Katrina, a group of activists from the youth-led Sunrise Movement on Monday began a 400-mile march from New Orleans to Houston to demand President Joe Biden include "good jobs for all" and a Civilian Climate Corps in his $2.26 trillion infrastructure plan.

      "This march symbolizes my story as a climate refugee who fled New Orleans and moved to Houston after Hurricane Katrina destroyed my city. This is me claiming agency over my future."
      --Chante Davis, Sunrise Movement

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      Texas Freeze Illustrates a Failed Economic System

      Texas Freeze Illustrates a Failed Economic System

      We need to begin changing our fundamental ethic, from "I'm getting mine. Screw you," to "We're all in this together." Because we are.

      Robert Freeman
      Feb 19, 2021

      The Texas Freeze illustrates just some of the shortcomings of conservative economics as a basis for public good. The nation's problems will only get worse the longer we pretend private solutions are best for all situations.

      "In Texas, everybody agreed that everybody needed a robust electricity grid. But nobody wanted to pay for it."

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      15 Years After Hurricane Katrina, It's Time to Demilitarize Disaster Relief

      15 Years After Hurricane Katrina, It's Time to Demilitarize Disaster Relief

      Instead of funneling hundreds of billions of dollars each year into militarism, we can invest in the infrastructure of care we need to keep each other safe.

      Lorah Steichen
      Sep 03, 2020

      Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, it remains a cautionary tale for how distorted budget priorities can result in militaristic, rather than humanitarian, disaster response.

      After broken levees left 80% of New Orleans submerged and tens-of-thousands stranded, news reels fixated on scenes of "looting" and lawlessness. Rich with racist overtones echoed in coverage of Black-led movements today, media narratives described the city as "under siege," as more of a war zone than a humanitarian crisis. The thinly-coded language depicted the predominantly poor and Black population--struggling to survive one the deadliest storms in U.S. history--as aggressors. Amidst such rhetoric there was another violent reality: white vigilante violence and police brutality that terrorized the stranded population.

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