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.
250 “We made it a policy early on”: 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.
252 “During the aftermath”: 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.
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/.
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/.
261 “When we left the hotel”: 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.
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/.
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/.
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.
263 The father told Deichmann, “The thing is, they wouldn’t”: 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/.
264 The 1973 volcanic eruption on Heimaey: 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/.
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 Lifeboats
271 “I really felt like I was somebody”: 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.
274 “was a nice quiet neighborhood”: 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.
279 “Even if you take some of the most aggressive plans”: Wade Rathke, in interview with the author, New Orleans, September 2008.
Beloved Community
282 the president said, “I don’t think anyone anticipated”: 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.
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.
285 “This is the most amazing thing”: 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/.
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.
288 “They’re stunned”: Linda Jackson, in interview with the author, New Orleans, February 2007.
289 Brian from Monterey: 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.
292 “After the disaster”: 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.
294 “I was only twenty-five”: 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.
299 “It’s unfortunate it takes disasters”: 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 Ruins
306 “Man, the bravest animal”: 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.
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.
310 San Francisco Fire Department . . . “Hundreds of citizen volunteers assisted”: http://www.sfmuseum.net/quake/revvols.html/.
312 Mayor Nagin: 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)
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 f
orces
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)
Capitalism
Cardenas, Cuauhtémoc
Carlsen, Laura
Carnival
Carr, Jane
Carter, Dumas
Catastrophe defined
Catastrophe and Social Change (Prince)
Catholic Worker
Charity
Chavez, Felipe
Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Chess, Caron
Chicago
Great Fire
Heat wave of 1995,
Chile
China
China Syndrome, The (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)
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Darby, Brandon
Darwin, Charles
Dashiell, Pam
David, Emmanuel
Davis, Mike
Day, Dorothy
Deep Impact (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
Earthquake (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)
Esteva, Gustavo
Fallout shelters
Faludi, Susan
Famine
Farman, Usman
Fear
See also 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
Harris, Max
Harrisson, Tom
Harvey, William G.
Haveláclav
Healey, Mark
Heat waves
Hedges, Chris
Hernandez, Marisol
Herrington, Donnell
Heston, Charleton
Hobbes, Thomas
Holhouser, Anna Amelia
Holme, Rasmus
Holy Cross Neighborhood Association
Horne, Jed
Hot Eight Brass Band
Human nature
Hurricane Katrina
HurricaneHousing.org
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Ice storm of 1998
Iceland
Ingram, Stuart
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
Jackson, Linda
Jacobson, Pauline
Jaffery, Zaheer
James, Henry
James, William
Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie
Jawetz, Tom
Johnstone, Dwight
Joy
See also Carnival
Joyce, Kate
Jubilee
Kanto Earthquake, Japan
Kaplan, Temma
Katrina, see Hurricane Katrina
Katsouros, Father James
King, Edwin
King Jr., Martin Luther
King, Robert (Wilkerson)
Klein, Laura Cousino
Klein, Naomi
Klinenberg, Eric
Koudelka, Josef
Kropotkin, Peter
Lafler, Henry Anderson
Landfield, Jerome Barker
Leavitt, Judith
Le Bon, Gustave
Lee, Spike
Lewis, Michael
Liang, Hugh Kwong
Lincoln, Abraham
Lisbon earthquake
Living Through the Blitz
Lloyd, Dorothy
Loma Prieta earthquake
London Can Take It (film)
London, England
London, Jack
The Long Loneliness (Day)
Looting, looters, see Theft, Thieves
Lopez, Barry
Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association (NENA)
Lucha libre
MacDonald, Laura
Made with Love Café
Madison, Ronald and Lance
Madrid, President Miguel de la
Managua earthquake
March, Aggie
Mardi Gras, see New Orleans
Martial law
Martin, Father James
Martin, Lillien Jane
Maurin, Peter
Mayblum, Adam
McKinney, Phoebe
Media
Mexico
Mexico City
Coordinadora Única de Damnificados
Earthquake
Seamstresses and sweatshops
Tepito
Tlaltelolco
Meyers, Ellen
Miller and Lux, San Francisco wholesale butchers
Miranda, Alessandro
Mizpah Café
Monsiváis, Carlos
Moog, Peter
“Moral Equivalent of War” (James)
Mounier, Emmanuel
Movies
Mueller, Tobin James
Mussolini, Benito
Mutual
aid
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Kropotkin)
Nagin, Mayor Ray
National Guard
In 1906 San Francisco
In New Orleans
National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
NENA (Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association)
New Orleans
Algiers Point
Convention Center
Coroner
Crescent City Connection
Demographics
Gretna (suburb of)
Hospitals
Lower Ninth Ward
Mardi Gras in
Musicians’ Village
Murders in
New Orleans Police Department
St. Rita’s Nursing Home
Superdome
Vigilantes in
Volunteers in
New Orleans Times-Picayune
New York City
Chelsea Piers
Firefighters
Pile (Ground Zero)
Union Square
World Trade Center
New Waveland Café
Nicaragua
Nietzsche, Friedrich
9/11 (see also New York City)
Evacuation by boat
9/11 Commission
Noble, Michael
Nova Scotia, see Halifax
Oakland, California
Obama, Barack
Obrador, Andrés Manuel López, mayor of Mexico City
O’Brien, Soledad
O’Hara, Roshi Pat Enkyu
Olbermann, Keith
Olson, Richard Stuart
“On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake” (James)
Organic Valley cooperative
Orwell, George
Osugi, Sakae
Oxfam
Ozouf, Mona
Paglia, Camille
Paine, Thomas
Panic See also Elite panic
Panic in the Streets (film)
Panter-Downs, Molly
Paris Commune
Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), see Institutional Revolutionary Party
Paulson, Henry
People’s Hurricane Relief Fund
Perón, Juan
Pettipas, Gertrude
Phelan, James
Pitt, Brad
Poland
Policy and disaster
Posner, Emily
Post-traumatic stress disorder, see Trauma
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (James)
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