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Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering on The American Gulf Coast

Author:

Rita J. King

Organization:

CorpWatch [1]

Date Published:

August 15, 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION [2]
A High Stakes Game With Almost No Rules [3]
IT’S WHO YOU KNOW [4]
Small, Local and Left Out [5]
Questionable Billing [6]
Layers & Layers [7]
FEMA ON THE DEFENSIVE [8]
SIDEBAR: COLLECTING LOUISIANA’S DEAD [9]
DEBRIS REMOVAL [10]
Disposable Communities [11]
SIDEBAR: TOXIC GUMBO IN CANCER ALLEY [12]
LABOR WARS [13]
The New Grapes of Wrath [14]
Mississippi — Made by China? [15]
SECURITY [16]
REBUILDING: AT WHAT COST AND IN WHOSE IMAGE? [17]
COMMUNITY VS. CRONYISM [18]
SIDEBAR: ENTERGY — HOLDING NEW ORLEANS RANSOM [19]
ENDNOTES [20]

Click here for the press release [21], to see key findings [22], get quick facts [23] or to download [24] the report.

kingjrita.pdf [25]

Link:

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14004 [26]

Economy - Overview [27]
Katrina in New Orleans: A Disaster Industrial Complex [28]
One Year After the Great Flood [29]

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Links:
[1] http://katrinareader.cwsworkshop.org/corpwatch
[2] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14006
[3] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14007
[4] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14008
[5] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14009
[6] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14010
[7] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14011
[8] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14012
[9] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14013
[10] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14014
[11] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14015
[12] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14016
[13] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14017
[14] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14018
[15] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14019
[16] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14020
[17] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14021
[18] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14022
[19] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14025
[20] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14026
[21] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14023
[22] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14028
[23] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14029
[24] http://www.corpwatch.org/downloads/Katrina_report.pdf
[25] http://www.corpwatch.org/downloads/kingjrita.pdf
[26] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14004
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[28] http://katrinareader.cwsworkshop.org/taxonomy/term/4
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