Rita J. King writes "Entergy Holds New Orleans for Ransom", May 10th, 2006

Entergy, the largest electricity distributor in the U.S., has enjoyed healthy profits since Hurricane Katrina. Yet its New Orleans subsidiary has filed for bankruptcy, and frightened ratepayers with visions of bills bloated to 140% of their pre-storm size. Now the Fortune 500 company is threatening to pull the plug on New Orleans if it doesn't get a $700 million-plus federal bailout it doesn't actually need. [ more]

Who does the government serve? What are its principles? For what do we organize our society and pay taxes?

I think the answer is clear, and we the people are getting the short end of the stick.

A prescription for change:

Stand up! Don't take it any more! Don't buy things. Eat local food. Sound off to your neighbors and family and coworkers. Organize a strike! Don't be complicitly silent while modern industrial society collapses! Expose and denounce systemic injustice! Help build cooperative, democratic, and sustainable systems to meet our communities basic human needs. Have a conversation about what our basic needs are. How many T.V.'s, at what cost, are acceptable? Rember to have faith: people are power.

But we must do it now. My friend Vanessa says, "We must have significant change in 10 years, or we are going to pass a point of no return, if we haven't already."

Please register Democrat (shudder!) and vote for Chris Miller on June 14th. We need to start these conversations ASAP. You can do it. Chris can help. Vote Miller for Governor.

With Love from NOLA,

-Iggy