Smoking Grassroots
I used to write about Katrina Fatigue.
But that’s dead and buried (sorry, bad choice of words). The only way to describe the place now is The Big Sleazy, Queasy, Cheesy Uneasy.
As Bryan Preston noted, most of the protesters were from outside the city. Jeff Crouere at Bayou Buzz had been warning about the rent-a-rioters for more than a week.
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A news release from the Coalition to Stop the Demolition, one of several groups organizing protesters, characterized the pending action as a “rubber stamp” at a “sham meeting.”
“It is beyond callous, and can only be seen as malicious discrimination. It is an unabashed attempt to eliminate the black population of New Orleans,” said Kali Akuno, an organizer with the group.
Who is he? An Oakland, Calif.-based rabble-rouser with the “Malcom X grassroots movement” who inserted himself into Louisiana as head of the “People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition and director of the Stop the Demolition Coalition.”
It’s not really called the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition, is it? The PHRFOC? Fur-foc? What the foc?