Victims of Hurricane more help
They came to Washington yesterday a temporary accommodation, an apartment in Houston, Dallas bedrooms and leisure Cousins’ homes.
They came to say that the only place they really want is the homeland.
More than 400 survivors of Hurricane Katrina came to the nation’s capital for two days of demonstrations, meetings and demonstrations with the law of donors on the reconstruction of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
“We want all New Orleans rebuilt, not only parts,” said Dorothy Stukes, founder of the Association of Survivors of Katrina, which coordinates the events. “And we do not want a Chocolate City. Gumbo We want a city, town, a little of everything in it. ”
Stukes mounted overnight in the caravan organizes bus to the voices of New Orleans on Capitol Hill. The group walked to Independence Avenue, chanting “Where is the money?” And singing “This little neighborhood of me, I’m gonna let it shine” farewell noon on the quantity of Capitol Hill employees. A man occurred in Trenchcoat one aside and asked another, “Who are these people?” If a woman tells him: “We are New Orleans, sir,” the man shaking his head in silence and began to fight for the procession.
With the coordination of Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights and the Association of the common organization of the reform now in the group mobilized in a room of the group Cannon House, where leaders of Democrats heard stories of fighting Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives, paperwork, that the nightmare has just rights with insurance and courses struggle to simply go home.
“I have my house in the year 1981, he was paid until the year 2003. I have two children to school. I worked all my life as a teacher, “said Kemberly Samuels, 52, whose house in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward was destroyed by Lift-five feet of water. But their time in the Astrodome, then in a church, then finding housing in Houston that would take its proper housing “was humiliating the period of my life.”
Stories as their guest, a group of Democratic members of Congress to react, they intend to bring the management of accounts concerning the treatment of the region since Katrina and Rita, then assigned.
“In fact, only more clear is a scandal,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a constant Ovation.
The audience, many of them are working class New Orleanians, whose families lived there for generations, thunder, if Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) mentions the lack of progress in rebuilding less prosperous neighbourhood ” a policy of ethnic cleansing by inaction “.
After the session on Capitol Hill, some in the group had a private meeting with R. David Paulison, director-in-Office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, then returned a Candle Light Vigil at the White House.
Events today with a March 10 of the Church of the Reformation to 212 E. Capitol St. on the Capitol and a rally-10: 30 compared with the Russell Senate Office Building. Then, they hope, in a meeting with members of Congress and with Donald E. Powell, President Bush’s federal coordinator for rebuilding the Gulf Coast.
“These people are here to hear Washington,” said Harvey Bender, 41, grew up in East New Orleans and lost his job with the city Parks and Recreation Department, if most of its workers laid off because of damage by the hurricane. “We are American citizens, we pay taxes, and we need a little help our country now.
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