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The inequality of suffering: global apartheid connects the tragedies of Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami.
In all of the reflection and analysis about Hurricane Katrina, one connection has not been made enough: the striking parallels with the tsunami from 2004, and the lessons to be learned from them. The thread that weaves New Orleans and the Gulf Coast with Indonesia and Sri Lanka is systematic inequality that privileges the profits of a few over the dignity and the lives of many, a system that many have termed "global apartheid."
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It's well known that a disproportionate number of the victims of Hurricane Katrina were poor and of color. Similarly, in the countries devastated by the December 2004 tsunami, the ...
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