Rev. Jesse Jackson and a group of local legislators and activists will hold a massive march and demonstration in New Orleans on Wednesday, April 1 to protest the present federal government policies and proposals.
They are to protest the government's neglect of many of the storm's hardest-hit victims-- post-hurricane policies Rev. Jackson fears will marginalize the black community. Many residents remain scattered in temporary housing across the country, while workers from Eastern Europe and Latin America have taken the rebuilding jobs, he said.
The government's failure to quickly provide temporary housing closer to New Orleans not only has prevented the displaced from getting jobs at home, Jackson said, but also has made it more difficult to follow campaigns and vote in already-delayed elections, now rescheduled for late April. Our incumbents this election year in Washington are more concerned about their own re-election, than in the worst natural disaster this nation has ever experienced. Stand with Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy this year and subsequent election years, until responsible, serious challenger candidates, who have this country's best interests at heart, replace the many corrupt and irresponsible incumbents.
Source: ABC News
Ron Brown said at :
1:15 PM, 02 10 2006 | Permalink
The sad truth is that our elected officials don't care what's happening outside the beltway. Unless they're getting paid by some special intrest too.
It's time that they find employment and take up residents outside the beltway.
Ron Brown | February 10, 2006 1:15 PM
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