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Subject: After The Flood: The Reckoning
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:31:16 -0700

Dear EmailNation Subscriber,

As the fallout from Hurricane Katrina becomes more apparent, the just posted new issue of The Nation takes a deeper look into what went wrong, the media's reaction, how the region should be rebuilt and what you can do to help.

Nation editors trace the incompetent hurricane response back 25 years to the Reagan era when the movement to discredit government began.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/editors

Frequent Nation contributor Christian Parenti offers a first-hand report of the devastation from New Orleans.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/parenti

Eric Alterman applauds the journalists who finally stood up, did their jobs and presented the poor and disadvantaged in a manner that was neither condescending or condemnatory.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/alterman

Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel believes the moment is ripe for a new New Deal to not only rebuild Louisiana and Missississippi, but the rest of the country as well.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=20690

Naomi Klein argues that the evacuees of New Orleans should take the lead in determining how the billions of dollars in reconstruction funds are going to be used to rebuild their city.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/klein

Katha Pollitt shares a list of progressive, grassroots charities that are working on the Gulf Coast to help victims of the hurricane.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/pollittweb


See "Letter From Ground Zero" columnist Jonathan Schell in St. Paul, MN.
As part of their Peace Freedom Week, the Friends for a Non-Violent World will host a discussion on the subject of "Will Peace Win? The Will of the People and the End of War" led by Nation Institute Fellow Jonathan Schell. The event will take place on Saturday, September 17 at the Fitzgerald Theater, 10. E. Exchange St., in Downtown St. Paul, MN. Tickets are $25, or $15 for students. Call 651-917-0383 for more information, or visit http://www.fnvw.org/ .


This week on Radio Nation, Jon Wiener talks with economist Doug Henwood about who's benefitting in the post-New Economy era, with historian Gary Nash about what really started the American Revolution, and with veteran civil rights reporter Karl Fleming about his memoir, "Son of the Rough South." Marc Cooper talks with Bill Moyer about the Backbone Campaign, a progressive movement to bolster officials' "personal courage." You can find the show at www.thenation.com or download Radio Nation onto your computer -- or your iPod. To download the necessary software, go to www.apple.com/itunes.


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Best Regards,
Mike Webb, The Nation

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