Re: THE LARGEST WORKING CLASS UPRISING IN US HISTORY (AND YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER EVEN HEARD OF IT)

[jochen stremmel]

That's sad to hear.

2012/8/30 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> Zeitoun's still here, but not in a good way.
>
> http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/zeitoun-domestic-battery-792315
>
> JANUARY 31--The New Orleans man whose post-Hurricane Katrina heroics
> and tribulations were chronicled by best-selling author Dave Eggers in
> the book “Zeitoun” was convicted last year of battering his wife, who
> told police that she had received several prior beatings, but never
> called cops on her spouse.
>
> According to a New Orleans Police Department report, Abdulrahman
> Zeitoun, 54, was arrested last March after officers responded to a
> domestic battery call at the Uptown home of his wife Kathryn and the
> couple’s five children.
>
> Upon arriving at the Dart Street residence, cops found Kathryn face
> down on the living room floor holding an ice-filled cloth to her
> forehead. Three of her children were nearby “crying hysterically,”
> police reported.
>
> Kathryn Zeitoun, 40, told officers that she was separated from her
> husband “due to finances,” and that he was living next door in a home
> on Dart Street. She said that after her estranged husband entered the
> home around 6:30 PM on March 2, they got into a “heated verbal
> argument” that quickly became physical.
>
> Zeitoun told cops that her husband pushed her to the living room
> floor, “mounting her and hitting her in the back of the head with a
> closed fist.” She added that, “her face was smashed into the floor of
> the residence several times during the battery,” police reported.
>
> The assault ended when the couple’s 15-year-old daughter--responding
> to her mother’s screams for help--kicked her father in the neck,
> causing him to fall off Kathryn and flee the residence. The teen said
> she observed her father “beating her mother.” A second daughter
> interviewed by cops corroborated statements by her mother and sister
> (the child watched the entire assault from the kitchen).
>
> Before an ambulance arrived to transport her to Tulane University
> Hospital, Kathryn told officers that she has “received beatings from
> her husband several times prior,” but that she “never reported them to
> the police out of fear.” The police report does not include further
> details of these alleged prior attacks.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:42 PM
> Subject: Re: THE LARGEST WORKING CLASS UPRISING IN US HISTORY (AND
> YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER EVEN HEARD OF IT)
> To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>
>
> seem to remember a good movie with sean connery and richard harris:
> The Molly Maguires or sth like that.
>
> Saw it when it came out in the 70s, great impact.
>
> By the way of impact, what about Zeitoun, is he still living there?
>
> Best wishes to you,
>
> J
>
> 2012/8/30 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpyJtBl0-w4&feature=player_embedded