[mgj-discuss] Protest Katrina Evictions - Tuesday, March 14, 2006

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From: Walda Katz-fishman wkatzfishman at igc.org
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:47:18 -0500
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Subject: [CIS-DC-info] Protest Katrina Evictions - Tuesday, March 14, 2006


Katrina Evictions Protest - 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 at 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.
 


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