What does it take to recover from Katrina? Leadership, fortitude, and maybe the skills you pick up playing Grand Theft Auto. "We simply took over warehouses, broke into them, hot-wired people's forklifts and started unloading trucks left and right," says Connie Moran, the mayor of tiny Ocean Spring, Mississippi.

Plus, we talk with Malik Rahim, founder of a community health clinic that sprung up in the wake of the hurricane, serving poor residents for free. Writer Tim Shorrock tells us about his trip to the clinic. How did the clinic provide services that the government couldn’t?

How is the recovery going for low-income families and communities of color? We check in with Stephen Bradberry, head New Orleans organizer for ACORN.

Finally, Chris Kromm of the Institute for Southern Studies gives us a broad picture on how the recovery effort is really going. Are schools and government services up and running? How many residents are really returning? And are there signs of hope for the future?