| New Orleans homeless encampment: Emergency supplies & equipment needed immediately |
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| by Sakura Kone’ | |
| Tuesday, 08 January 2008 | |
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 At a rally in Oakland Dec. 14, Katrina survivor and renowned journalist CC Campbell-Rock spoke passionately in opposition to the plan to demolish 4,500 families’ homes in public housing in New Orleans. Photo: Bill Carpenter The weather will be freezing, at the very least, for the rest of this week. All of the shelters are currently over capacity. Please lend some assistance by contacting Sam at (504) 319-3300, Antonio at (504) 272-5720 or Don at (504) 401-2101. Contact Sakura Kone' at Common Ground Relief, P.O. Box 6128, New Orleans, LA 70174, phone and fax (504) 861-5017, cell phone (504) 583-0750, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.commongroundrelief.org, http://cghc.org. Green Ribbon Campaign: Justice for Katrina & Rita Survivors Wear the Green Ribbon to show your support for the struggle for affordable housing and reconstruction in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast! More than two years ago, the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita exposed corporate greed and U.S. government racism and neglect of conditions to protect the poor, working class and majority Black population in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast. Over 2,000 people died, thousands of homes and vital institutions that support human and social needs were destroyed and thousands of people were forcibly dispersed to all corners of the U.S. Instead of rebuilding New Orleans to insure that the people uprooted can return to their homes and communities and setting a direction for reconstruction throughout the Gulf Coast, the U.S. government is denying the Black majority their human right to return to New Orleans by bulldozing affordable housing and making it economically impossible for people to live in that city. More than 12,000 people are homeless living in the streets and thousands more are scheduled to be evicted from trailers and will lose their affordable housing vouchers. Green Ribbon Demands:
• The right of return for the Black majority to New Orleans For more information, contact the We Charge Genocide Working Group at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Bring the Gulf to the Debate If the debate is not coming to the Gulf Coast, then we need to bring the Gulf to the debate. What will our next president do to rebuild the Gulf Coast? The question has not been adequately answered during the 25 presidential debates this primary season. Perhaps worse, New Orleans was denied the opportunity to bring the candidates to the region for a presidential debate during the general election. Thousands of Americans remain displaced from their homes as Gulf Coast communities struggle to address critical housing and infrastructure needs with an underfunded and inflexible federal rebuilding mandate. The result is an American human rights crisis. ACORN Louisiana, led by RFK Human Rights Laureate Stephen Bradberry, RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights and the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project are launching a campaign to Bring the Gulf to the Debate. You can stand in solidarity with Gulf Coast residents by urging ABC News, Facebook and WMUR, co-hosts of the January 5th New Hampshire Republican and Democratic Debates, to ask each candidate whether they will support a renewed rebuilding effort in communities still recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the levee failures. Polls show that Gulf Coast rebuilding remains a top domestic issue for voters across the country. Candidates from both parties agree the federal response to the crisis has been a failure. Americans hunger for a renewed federal effort empowering residents to rebuild. As communities struggle to come back, debate hosts like ABC News and WMUR have avoided asking each candidate how they plan to address the problem. Republicans haven't been asked. Democratic debates have devoted minimal time to the issue. Congress recently introduced H.R. 4048, the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act, a plan developed and approved by local leaders to give Gulf Coast communities the resources they need to rebuild stronger neighborhoods (see a summary of the bill at www.rfkmemorial.org/human_rights/GCCWASummary.pdf):
• Helping displaced families to return home and participate in rebuilding; Presidential debate hosts need to know this issue matters. Urge them to ask candidates, "Do you support H.R. 4048, the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act, to create 100,000 jobs to rebuild Gulf Coast communities still recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the levee failures?" Learn more at www.solvingpoverty.com.
The Hurricane Information Relief Network is the Bay View newspaper's nonprofit 501(c)(3) project to provide information and news coverage by, for and about the Katrina survivors who remain stranded across the U.S. and those who want to return home to rebuild their lives and communities. Send news and financial contributions to HRIN, EIN 20-4324012, 4917 Third St., San Francisco CA 94124, (415) 671-0789 or toll free 1 (877) 226-8100, fax (415) 671-0316 or
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