I'm going to spend Christmas in New Orleans to help fight the housing demolitions. If I can get there in time for the Thursday New Orleans City Council meeting, I intend to sign up to apologize for what our representative Nancy Pelosi has done to the City of New Orleans. C.C. Campbell-Rock of New Orleans encouraged me to sign up to speak, even though I hesitated, being an outsider, but then i remembered everything I know about what Nancy has done to New Orleans and realized I had plenty to apologize for, as an outsider from here, and more than a billion to mention, a biliion that went to the Entergy Corporation, a.k.a., Nuclear Entergy, as Hurricane Katrina Relief, within weeks of the flood. That's a billion plus that could have been spent rebuilding instead of demoliting Black public housing in New Orleans. And what did Nancy say when Services Corporation International got the body recovery contract in New Orleans. (Oh, my.) I wrote about all this a year and a half ago in the Sf Bay View, http://www.sfbayview.com/20060519313/News/New_Orleans/ In_the_war_of_the_super- rich_on_the_rest_of_us_..._in_San_Francisco_as_in_New_Orleans.html. Is anyone else willing or able to spend Christmas in New Orleans? I plan to go for just a it less than a week and drive back in a VW Beetle which runs on recycled grease. I had to leave it there a long time ago because people kept swiping it, breaking the windows, or running into it. Last time a friend of mine went down there planning to pick it up and drive it back, but that time a big rig ran into it in the Lower Ninth Ward. A friend of mine there has been watching over it since the las time it got out of a shop and she says it's ready to get out of there. Having a car in New Orleans is nuts anyway because the place is totally flat, except for the Lower Ninth, which dips even further below sea level than most of the place, more or less in the form of a soup bowl. People's Hurricane Relief says not to come planning to risk arrest without an affinity group, so I may just go and report back unless I sense an affinity group I can join emerging from somewhere---maybe even New Mexico---but at this point I have only one friend willing to go. (And put up with me.) Peace---Annie