Duer's: Please Help Empower New Orleans Evacuees

[brindis_desala]

As you know the developers are circling N.O. like vultures and with FEMA set to distribute the funds we need to make sure the victims do not get left out of the equation. I know Duers have organized a tremendous database now the NAACP needs our help to coordinate the efforts on the ground please contact Glenn Smith http://www.drivedemocracy.org


LA NAACP calls for distributed, bottom up organizing in shelters
by Bob Brigham

Dr. Ernest Johnson of the Louisiana NAACP is making a huge move and we need to get the word out. Dr. Johnson needs the netroots to stand with the NAACP in solidarity.

This bottom up, grassroots model is scalable and could make a huge difference in the lives of refugees. This is democracy.

PSA's are running on the radio, but we need to catapult this. Check out the video release and full press release below.

Diaries :: Bob Brigham's diary :: Mon Sep 12th, 2005 at 10:22:53 AM EDT

LOUISIANA NAACP PRESIDENT
CALLS FOR EVACUEES TO TAKE CONTROL
OF THEIR OWN DESTINY AND FORM
"SHELTER COMMITTEES"

Ernest L. Johnson, President of the Louisiana NAACP called today for Katrina evacuees in shelters to take control of their own destinies by forming SHELTER COMMITTEES.

"Each SHELTER COMMITTEE should elect a Chairperson and a Secretary and begin holding meetings, organizing, and working as a team for better treatment," Johnson said. "In unity there is strength."

http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/9/12/102253/154

There is a huge contingent in Texas where most of the evacuees are housed...

http://www.democracyforhouston.org/

http://www.democracyforhouston.org/

http://www.africanamericansfordemocracy.com/mc/page.do

This was a major catastrophe IT IS NOT TIME TO MOVE ON. There is no need to raze New Orleans. Help make sure the money goes to those who desperately want to preserve it.