Katrina Evictions Protest Moved To Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Press Conference: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
(Press Conference: Rayburn House Office Building - Room #2237)
Mardi Gras Style March for Justice: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
(March will start from Capitol South Metro Stop at 2:00 p.m. to the White House)
Rally & Protest at the White House: 3:00 p.m. - 11:59 p.m.
(Rally & Protest at the White House - Lafayette Park)
Open Letter >From Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign:
Dear Family,
Yesterday FEMA announced a two-week extension for all hotel/motel residents in Louisiana and Mississippi, which enables them to remain in their rooms until March 15, 2006. Once again, we witness the impact that a coalition of conscience and a unified commitment to action for Katrina survivors can have on the otherwise unfettered execution of the Bush administrations authority. For this reason, we are postponing
our press conference, March and vigil until March 14, 2006.
However, the Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign is not demanding that FEMA move deadlines, but that FEMA move Katrina survivors into viable and affordable transitional and long-term housing. We demand that FEMA move the displaced into trailers so that they can work to rebuild their own homes. We protest the psychological cruelty of this
agency in constantly holding the peril of homelessness over the heads of our brothers and sisters. We object to FEMA holding survivors in limbo, perpetually uncertain about what should be guaranteed for these victims of government neglect and ineptitude. Sending people long distances from their communities, to live in temporary shelters or trailers where they cannot keep their jobs is unacceptable. Offering limited rental assistance to a selective group, which cannot pay for real apartments in a city where price gouging has sent rents sky high, is unacceptable.
We are postponing our rally in Lafayette Park and press conference accordingly until March 14, but we are not postponing our call for justice: NO EVICTIONS UNTIL REAL TRANSITIONAL & PERMANENT HOUSING IS AVAILABLE FOR ALL TO RETURN HOME! TRAILERS IN NEW ORLEANS NOW! PASS H.R. 4197! Over the next two weeks, we will continue to build our campaign on the ground and in Congress to pass "The Hurricane Reclamation, Recovery, Reconstruction and Relief" Act for comprehensive assistance to enable all Katrina survivors to return and rebuild their
communities.
Please join us on March 14 for this historic press conference, March and vigil in front of the house where George Bush serenely sleeps while thousands face the prospect of their families having no shelter.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Press Conference: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
(Press Conference: Rayburn House Office Building - Room #2237)
Mardi Gras Style March for Justice: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
(March will start from Capitol South Metro Stop at 2:00 p.m. to the White House)
Rally & Protest at the White House: 3:00 p.m. - 11:59 p.m.
(Rally & Protest at the White House - Lafayette Park)
For more information, please email protest@hiphopcaucus.org or call
202-545-0113 or 888-545-0113.
In peace and struggle,
Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
- Login or register to post comments
-
- Email this page
- Printer-friendly version
- Spotlight this page
www.VelvetRevolution.us
Help Katrina victims
Where is your sense of decency? Why can't our Katrina victims be treated with respect& caring? Put the trailers to use--please help the KAtrina victims start to get their lives in order!! We're building new accomadations in IRaq--spending impossible amounts of money for a non-war (not called by Congress)!! Ask yourself--"What would Jesus Do?"
All Politicians who hold public office !!!!!!!
I'd like to see a Bill introduced, that would make it mandatory, that any person running for any public office, or already holding a public office, right upto and including the President of The United States, must under the new law, be made to submit to a through FBI and Department of Justice Background check, as well as submit to Drug Testing on a Quartley Basis, and any and all test results be made public!!! If for any reason, the background check comes back negative or theres any question that raises Suspicians, than that canidate is immediately barred from running or holding any kind of public office effective immdediately !!! Its way past time for the people of this country, to step up to the plate and help "Stamp out the Fraud" and abuse and outright deciept and deception used by these "Corrupt and Abusive" Politicians, who outright decieve and lie to the American people in order to hold Public office !!!!!! Should any Politician be convicted in any type of scandal or found to be involved in corruption and deception, they should have their salary and government benefits, and their government pension forfeited immediately, for infinity !!!! As I remember, the Government was set up for the people by the people, "NOT" (NOT),,for the Politicians by the politicians !!! If I also recall, don't they supposedly work for us, its "our tax dollars" that go to pay their salary and benefits,, it now appears that they think they work for the Big Corporations, and answer only to those Corporations who have "heavily Contributed" to their Campaigns,,, and the hell with the people, working class or other wise !!!!!!!! Its time to require and mandate,, through "background checks", of these politicians, before they run for office, and while they hold public office, and it be made public !!!!!! Its time to "clean-up" our government, and get the crooks and "imposters" out of some of our public branches of government !!! Stand up for whats left of America, or there will be no America, to stand up for !!!!!! Thank-You !!!!!!!!