New Orleans After Katrina and the continual start-and-stop-and-slow rebuilding process in New Orleans with side trips and explorations to Kobe and more recently cities in Eastern Japan after those earthquakes and the tsunami attacks, and other cities near and far, I have come to believe that the way governments, established institutions, and community and popular organizations …
Tag: disasters
Fire in the Mercado, Usury at Los Bancos
Tegucigalpa Within minutes of hitting central Tegucigalpa we were on our way to a series of markets directly across the picturesque but fetid river running alongside the capitol not far from the original palace. ACORN Honduras in Tegucigalpa had been working with stall vendors over the last month who had asked for help after a sudden …
Climate Refugees
New Orleans This is the moment of Japan. Haiti is still on some of our minds, and living in New Orleans the scars are everywhere and the screams are only barely muffled by the sounds of the streets if your eyes and ears are open to them. A movie called Climate Refugees being offered …