It is estimated that there are tens of thousands, if not more, homeless people in New York City. They are families, children, men, women, the elderly, and the working poor.
There are other homeless folks who are almost quite literally invisible. They are the "Mole People" who live in the subways of New York.
It is estimated that there are thousands of people who live in this subterranean world, where they have established cities that live off of the electricity, scavenge the excess of a city that is decadent in its wastefulness, raise children and tend to pets, live and love, and make a civilization where they are the mayors, citizens, doctors, and police.
What happened to them during Super Storm Sandy?
Are there thousands of dead people who are now washed away by the greatest disaster in the history of New York City's mass transit system?
Is this "human management problem" now solved by an intervention from nature?
Are the biopolitics of the State in a time of economic crisis so cruel and calculating?
READ MORE: http://www.alternet.org/print/speakeasy/chaunceydevega/washed-away-rescued-what-happened-new-york-citys-mole-people-during-super
Mole People: Life In The World Below (VIDEO)
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2 comments:
Where did you get the inspiration to write this, Chimp ? I have the book, one of my fave's.
I hope they all were/are safe.
I didn't write it. Someone mentioned the Mole People and what happened to them a couple of days ago and I did soome reseaech and found this.
There's a chance that they probabbly have some high ground down there to keep them out of the flood. At least I hope so.
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