Voices from the Gulf..
August 28, 2007 by Dusty
Tomorrow is the day Katrina hit. Here is a new video that shows how very little has changed for the residents of the gulf coast and NOLA specifically. There are still tens of thousands that can’t come home.
30,000 families are scattered across the country in FEMA apartments, 13,000 are in trailers, and hardly any of the 77,000 rental units destroyed in New Orleans have been rebuilt.
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Urge the United States Senate to pass Senator Dodd’s Gulf Coast Recovery Bill of 2007 (S1668) to assist the Gulf Coast region in rebuilding the infrastructure lost after the Katrina and Rita disasters.
Passage of this bill is an important step towards returning the Gulf Coast residents to their homes.
These are good, hard-working people that our government has forgotten..
DO NOT LET THEM BE FORGOTTEN.
Tags: NOLA, Katrina, Brave New Films, Voices from the Gulf
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The Bush White House has made inaction a government initiative of the highest order in the Gulf Coast. With Michael Chertoff leading the Administration’s charge to nothing doing.
The fishing industry and coastal recovery efforts are still struggling to regain their footing. Local artists and writers have been putting together benefits for folks in need, and the emotional hurt that everyone in the region is still trying to deal with remains all to close to the surface with little to no counseling help available in a whole lot of communities. There are stories of hope — but for every one I read or hear about, it comes with a contrasting one of struggle and despair. (NPR, btw, has done some fantastic follow-up stories and profiles the last two years across the Gulf region.)
The scars from this mess are still with us, both in the concrete slabs and still-abandoned houses and debris piles, and in the racial divide that was exposed in a raw few days on television screens across America. These are our brothers and sisters here in America — before you settle back into the routine of your day think of this: next disaster, this could be you.
They don’t like people of “color” Earl. They don’t vote Rethug. Its an abomination that we let our govt fuck these folks,hardworking folks, six ways from fucking Sunday.