residents of the lower ninth ward are suffering from city and nation wide efforts to commit "ethnic cleansing" by refusing to allow them to return home or even join efforts to clean out their schools and yards. many city-sanctioned groups are preventing grassroots recovery efforts and keeping residents (many of home were displaced but have found the will to return and contribute to clean-up) excluded from any projects to clean and rebuild. the "recovery school district" (RSD) has been found to be an obstructionist municipal organization tasked with gutting abandoned schools and denying the community residents the opportunity to salvage usable books, computers, and furniture from inside the schools.
it seems that the city (and the nation) is attempting install a different kind of city, where residents of the worst-hit areas are systemically excluded from the natural process of picking up and rebuilding. rather they are obstructed by local and even national groups and law enforcement, often times for no apparent reason.
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