Hurricane Katrina still around long after Gustav blows past

In the midst of New Orleans being praised and admired for its resiliency in surviving yet another, albeit less  potent, onslaught in the form of Hurricane Gustav it is all too easy for the rest of us to forget about Katrina. We don’t live there, so that’s just someone else’s problem. For us, Katrina is old news. For those in the depressed areas of New Orleans it is still very much a reality.

How badly the Bush administration handled the Hurricane Katrina emergency is well documented. But, much like the censorship of our involvement in Iraq, it takes an independent film-maker to show us the images and expose us to the stories that we should have heard about on the national news channels. I suppose when you go to  bed with the government, it’s impolite to tell the neighbours about how your husband fails to get things up and running at the most critical of times…