Social Greenman
6th September 2005, 00:45
I thought all of you Anarchist would enjoy this article:
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtl...on/12564669.htm (http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/12564669.htm)
NEW ORLEANS - In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor.
As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to protect property. In a bar, a bartender put stitches into the torn ear of a robbery victim.
Although mold and contagion grew in the muck that engulfed most of the city, something else sprouted in this most decadent of American neighborhoods - humanity.
"Some people became animals," Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday as he sipped a hot beer in Johnny White's Sports Bar on Bourbon Street. "We became more civilized."
While hundreds of thousands fled the city before the storm, many refused to leave the Vieux Carre, or old quarter. It is built on some of the highest ground around.
Katrina blew off roof slates and knocked down some already-unstable buildings, but otherwise left the 18th and 19th century homes with their trademark iron balconies intact.
Tired of waiting for trucks to come with food and water, residents turned to each other.
Johnny White's is famous for never closing, even during a hurricane. The doors don't even have locks.
Since the storm, it has become more than a bar. Along with the warm beer and shots, the bartenders passed out scrounged military Meals Ready to Eat and bottled water.
For some, the bar also has become a hospital. Tryphonas, who restores buildings in the Quarter, left the neighborhood briefly Saturday. Someone hit him in the head with a two-by-four and stole his last $5.
When Tryphonas showed up at Johnny White's with his left ear split in two, Joseph Bellomy - a customer pressed into service as a bartender - put a wooden spoon between Tryphonas' teeth and used a needle and thread to sew it up.
A few blocks away, a dozen people in three houses got together and divided the labor. One group went to the Mississippi River to haul water, one cooked, one washed the dishes.
On Sunday, four tour buses rolled into the Quarter. National Guardsmen told residents they had one hour to gather their belongings and get a ride out. Four of the tribe members decided to leave.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtl...on/12564669.htm (http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/12564669.htm)
NEW ORLEANS - In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor.
As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to protect property. In a bar, a bartender put stitches into the torn ear of a robbery victim.
Although mold and contagion grew in the muck that engulfed most of the city, something else sprouted in this most decadent of American neighborhoods - humanity.
"Some people became animals," Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday as he sipped a hot beer in Johnny White's Sports Bar on Bourbon Street. "We became more civilized."
While hundreds of thousands fled the city before the storm, many refused to leave the Vieux Carre, or old quarter. It is built on some of the highest ground around.
Katrina blew off roof slates and knocked down some already-unstable buildings, but otherwise left the 18th and 19th century homes with their trademark iron balconies intact.
Tired of waiting for trucks to come with food and water, residents turned to each other.
Johnny White's is famous for never closing, even during a hurricane. The doors don't even have locks.
Since the storm, it has become more than a bar. Along with the warm beer and shots, the bartenders passed out scrounged military Meals Ready to Eat and bottled water.
For some, the bar also has become a hospital. Tryphonas, who restores buildings in the Quarter, left the neighborhood briefly Saturday. Someone hit him in the head with a two-by-four and stole his last $5.
When Tryphonas showed up at Johnny White's with his left ear split in two, Joseph Bellomy - a customer pressed into service as a bartender - put a wooden spoon between Tryphonas' teeth and used a needle and thread to sew it up.
A few blocks away, a dozen people in three houses got together and divided the labor. One group went to the Mississippi River to haul water, one cooked, one washed the dishes.
On Sunday, four tour buses rolled into the Quarter. National Guardsmen told residents they had one hour to gather their belongings and get a ride out. Four of the tribe members decided to leave.