National FEMA Trailer Tour

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Who:      The Gulf Coast Fund
What:     Press Conference
When:     Friday July 17, 9:30 a.m.
Where:    Coastal Response Center, 7385 Hwy. 188 Coden, AL  36523
Visual:    FEMA Trailer
Featured Speakers:
Teresa Bettis, Center for Fair Housing (AL)
Casi Callaway, Mobile Baykeeper (AL)
Genaro Rendon, Southwest Workers Union (TX)
Monique Harden, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (LA)
To celebrate successful local initiatives funded by the [...]

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Good Morning, Friends -
The KatrinaRitaVille Express has just arrived in Manhattan!   This time around, our traveling FEMA trailer is in the Big Apple to help make sure your citizens’ agenda for complete gulf coast recovery, justice and future disaster preparedness is fully heard and understood by the Ford Foundation, Senator Mary Landrieu, and [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Trihn Lee, 228-383-0910 tle@hopecda.org
Jeffrey Buchanan, 202-257-9048 buchanan@rfkmemorial.org

BILOXI CITY COUNCIL SET TO REMOVE FEMA TRAILERS, VICTIMIZING KATRINA SURVIVORS AND UNDERMINING OBAMA

Residents, Advocates Urge Elected Officials to Stand Up for Human Rights, Vote Down Proposed FEMA Trailer Removal Ordinance

Biloxi, MS (June 12, 2009)—Despite President Barack Obama’s decision to allow residents living [...]

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A press conference will be held in front of FEMA in Washington, DC on Monday, June 1st.  The press conference, which will kick off a series of advocacy and action through August 29, 2009, is an effort of over 200 allied organizations, including:
ACORN
Advancement Project
Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
Coastal MS Interfaith Disaster Task Force
Gulf Restoration Network
Louisiana [...]

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Hosted by the Grand and Christina Cultural Arts Center in Wilmington, Delaware, the KRV Express and the Hot 8 Brass Band are in Senator Joe Biden’s home state for a weekend full of cultural and social activities honoring hurricane survivors, volunteers and community activists. Click here for a great article in the News Journal.  It’s [...]

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For years, Gulf Restoration Network and other groups and individuals have been struggling to secure the closure of MR-GO – a federally-authorized shipping channel which contributed to the devastating flooding during Hurricane Katrina and led to the disappearance of 27,000 acres of wetlands and cypress forests. Thankfully, the state of Louisiana and the Army Corps [...]

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It’s been a few days since we decided to forgo the RNC and return to the Gulf Coast to do what we can to help folks deal with the aftermath of Gustav.  We left Denver and the DNC behind and headed to Raceland, Louisiana to meet with Brenda Dardar-Robichaux, Principal Chief of the United Houma [...]

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This afternoon, our friend James Perry of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center arrived at the RNC in St. Paul, MN to urge Republican leaders to commit to Gulf Coast rebuilding as a result of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and now Gustav. Several others, including David Gauthe of Thibodeaux, LA and Derrick Evans of [...]

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Scores of gulf coast community leaders are connected through the KRV Express, the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal, and other regional networks spawned by the Hurricanes of 2005. Because our “family” of grassroots leaders and struggling communities spans coastal LA, MS, AL and TX (and a 49-state Diaspora), we share a deep anxiety [...]

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