Audio report from New Orleans on the current situation. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and decades of government neglect may have devastated the Gulf Coast, but they did not silence the region's residents.

The eviction of the Rainbow Kitchen appears to have been stalled thanks to citizen support - a march and rally on Tuesday, call-in campaign, and media coverage.....but the city hasn't given any concrete info as to how long they will be allowed to stay

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Exposes role of Urban land Institute in destruction of the St. Thomas housing development. Now ULI and friends want to do the same for the whole city.

Joe Canizaro, Barbara Major, Pres Kabacoff and the other wheelers and dealers on the so-called Bring New Orleans Back Commission, and their subcommittees, and are playing a fast one on us. They have now called on the good offices of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) to “help” New Orleans develop a “housing master plan”. Knowing ULI’s track record, and how the local real estate sharks use these “experts”, I say we need to send them packing from our city.

November 4, 2005

Its bittersweet being back in New Orleans. Although the architecture is the same, and its a relief to walk the streets and reunite with old friends, already this is a very different city from the one I love. Its a city where some areas are quickly rebuilding and other parts are being left far behind. A city where people who have lived here for generations are now unwelcome in a hundred different ways.