Things I will never understand...

I find it  extrordinary that there is still a country in this world where it is ILLEGAL for a woman to drive a car, OR even use public transport ??? How can this ever be ? Forget religion , this is a prime example of complete male power-supremacy on a mammoth scale. So my absolute admiration goes out to those brave women in Saudi Arabia who are actively protesting by driving on the streets of Riyadh in open defyance of their goverment and its oppressive laws. All this, with the full knowledge that their actions may well lead to arrest. Now that takes incredable guts and as one woman explained ” A downpour always starts with a few drops of water…” And this amazing act of defiance was reported on the news as a ‘quiet revolution’…behave ! , there is nothing quiet about it, these women are taking their lives into their own hands, risking imprisionment in a Saudi jail, which has got  be hell, especialy as a woman ! I dread to think…. These  women are  modern day Suffragette’s and should rightly demand the full respect of every decent human being on the planet.

New Orleans. Another man-made disaster. This is what happens when corners are cut in constrution, by using cheaper, inferior materials to build sea walls and levies in order to protect poorer neighbourhoods and in a part of the world  that is continuously battered by devastating hurricanes. A contastrrophy waiting to happen.

People always say.. ” I wish I had been to New Orleans before Katrina”. But trust me, NOW is the time to visit one of the best cities in America, if not the world. New Orleans needs tourist to help to rebuild and kept its unique culture  alive. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the city is on its way to its former glory but it is still a fine line between failure and success.

Apart from the disgusting minimum response to the hurricane from  Bush’s government, people are still displaced to this day !, without  means or funds to return and rebuild their lives in their own neighbourhoods, surely this should be a basic human right when living  in one of the richest countries on the planet ?  The fear is, that these poorer areas will conveniently be replaced and  ’regenerated’  into richer, middle-class zones , thus possibly losing the very essence of the place and the whole point in going to New Orleans !  Where in America can a city  boast of  hundreds of years of  history, deeply influenced by European, African, North and South American culture , where music, dance, food, spontaneous fiestas, the 2nd line and even voodoo, make-up the extraordinary hallmark of the New Orleans, traditions  passed down through generations of families living in these wards. So lets all get down there and PARTY ! , because this city is still KICKING..

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