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RAPING LOUISIANA: A DIARY OF DECEIT
By Philip Harris
Explore what has really been happening in Louisiana since Katrina. A non-fiction eyewitness account. AWARD WINNING BOOK
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The LiFE Award LiFE Award Recipients 26. Raping Louisiana: A Diary of Deceit by Philip F. Harris, with Stephen Burgoyne. Publisher: Write Words, Inc. ebooksonthe.net, and cambridgebooks.us Formats: Trade paperback, PDF, RTF, HTML, and Mobi ISBN(s)1-59431-495-0 paper 1-59431-541-8 ebook A non-fictional account of clean-up efforts after the ecological disaster caused in New Orleans and surrounding areas by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This story puts a human face on an area that was raped by nature and then deceived by its government. Based upon the diary of a truck driver by the name of Stephen Burgoyne, we see a first hand account of the daily routine, the challenges and the bureaucratic ineptness that still plagues the residents of Louisiana. Steve tells a story in his diary entries that is far removed from the "official accounts" of government agencies and “spin doctors." *** Do you worry about the future? Can you see how we are destroying all that is keeping us alive, depriving coming generations of the very basis of existence, stealing from poor countries in order to fuel our extravagant lifestyle? Are you saddened by the loss of species, by the replacement of nature's beauty and bounty by humanity's artificial, noisy, ugly creations of concrete, steel and plastic? If you are a writer, your attitudes and beliefs will have imbued your work. Your book or books may qualify for the LiFE award: Literature For Environment. “RAPING LOUISIANA : A DIARY OF DECEIT” by multi-published author Philip F. Harris is a non-fictional account of one man’s observations of the devastation left in the wake of hurricane Katrina. Through the eyes of a driver hired to help in the clean-up, we see a once beautiful and colorful landscape turned into a scene filled with the grays of sewage and chemical-soaked soils, water that is unfit to drink, and the remnants of the lives of thousands scattered along the countryside in heaps of rubble and debris. Observations in the “Diary” tell of the scope of the damage, mishandling of government resources and of the tragedies faced by those who were ill-treated and maligned by the media and public officials. In a tragedy that is still ongoing, the public has been duped into thinking that as a nation, we are ready to deal with the impacts of any natural or man-made emergency. If Louisiana is to offer any lessons, let it be that we are not prepared to face the growing dangers and humanitarian crises that lay ahead in a world under tremendous natural, social, economic, natural and political pressures.
