[net-gold] DISASTERS: FLOODS : COUNTRIES: AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATES: Let People Own Recovery: Ex-Mayor's Katrina Lesson
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- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:43:00 -0400 (EDT)
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DISASTERS: FLOODS :
COUNTRIES: AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATES:
Let People Own Recovery: Ex-Mayor's Katrina Lesson
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Let People Own Recovery: Ex-Mayor's Katrina Lesson
Damien Murphy
September 22, 2011
Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/national/
let-people-own-recovery-exmayors-katrina-lesson-20110921-1kl9g.html
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THE former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has some advice for Australian
governments struggling with last summer's disastrous floods and cyclone:
let local people own the recovery.
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''I think New Orleans is a key study of a horrific catastrophe and how we
struggled to plan and implement to get the city back to recovery,'' he
said. ''I will tell you that there are lessons for Australia governments
in trying to recover and authorities could well look at us. One of the key
things is to engage the citizens in a big way. They must be involved so
they own the recovery.''
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Speaking six years after the disaster he said President Bush eventually
got his act together in responding to hurricane Katrina, but thought his
orders were countermanded by Vice President Dick Cheney. ''Cheney's latest
book showed he had his own agenda,'' Mr Nagin said.
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Mr Nagin said institutional issues like race and class had secretly
conspired to control and slow down New Orleans' recovery.
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Mr Nagin stepped down from mayor's job in May last year. His ratings were
at an all-time low.
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''After the storm I had to fight with the elites, the wealthy, of the
city. They wanted to socially engineer. They wanted to put moratoriums on
where people could build. It was primarily based upon class, but it was
really race. Some business people did not want poor people to return,
primarily African Americans. I rejected that. I was villainised for five
years.''
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He said the smell of money attracted a wide range of carpetbaggers. ''I
call it disaster capital. Lots of people came in, they started
subcontracting,'' he said. ''But throughout it all, the city was amazingly
resilient.''
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