Rockworks Riffs
September 2006
Emmy Weekend Events, Hurricane Katrina: One Year Later
Video interview transcribed by Lugia.
My name is Michael Vartan and this is my "Rockworks Riff."
Katrina, uh, I was at home, turned on CNN as I do every day around 2, and, you know, started following the coverage as it was moving in.
CNN has a way of deluding things and making them seem like they're more important or less important, but there was one specific bit of film, watching Anderson Cooper, who almost got slammed against his SUV, that made you realize how intense those winds were and how bad it was gonna get.
You know, first your heart goes out to the victims, obviously, but then you start thinking on a more pragmatic level and think, well, where is the government? You know, we're very easy to go to Iraq because they have oil or go, you know, wherever it is in the world that might be an economic value to us, but our own people in our backyard are suffering, have no food, have no water, people are stuck in the basement of their houses drowning to death and where the fuck is the government?
What's present today when I think about Katrina is a... a seemingly, at least, complete forgetfulness from the American public because, obviously, there are a lot of other issues in the world that are going on right now and it seems that the media outlets, at least, have completely forgotten about people in Louisiana who are paying mortgages for homes that don't even exist anymore.
You don't have to be a millionaire, you don't have to... you don't have to sign a check for 5000 dollars to feel like you're making a contribution. If you give... a dollar, that is one dollar, and a million people giving one dollar is a million dollars.
This is far from being over. The tragedy, sure, it happened, it's over. The hurricane's been gone for a year, but the disaster it left behind is still very much crippling millions of people.
My name is Michael Vartan and I gave it up for Rockworks. And you should, too.
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