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DESCRIPTION:Emergency Action in SF Federal Building Friday 1pm- Stop Bulldozing 9th 
 Ward in New Orleans!    Please forward, call and COME!     Emergency 
 Action!!! City of New Orleans is bulldozing people’s homes in the 9th 
 Ward in New Orleans!        Contacts:   Kali Aaron Williams, Malcolm X 
 Grassroots Organization: (510) 593-3956  Lisa Milos, Bay to Gulf People’s 
 Pipeline: (415) 260-2565  CC Campbell-Rock, Hurricane Evacuees Council of 
 the Bay Area: (925) 339-6435     Press Release     The city of New Orleans 
 is attempting to destroy the homes of residents in the Lower 9th Ward. This 
 is in spite of a temporary moratorium won by social justice groups against 
 the city which blocks attempts to bulldoze the homes of Lower 9th Ward 
 residents. The moratorium, which ends on January 6th, 2006, is being 
 circumvented by the city through the unconstitutional use of eminent 
 domain. Local residents are working alongside Common Ground Collective, and 
 the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund, a network of grass-roots 
 organizations working for the rights of displaced and neglected victims of 
 Hurricane Katrina, and are protesting the action and calling on citizens 
 everywhere to get involved.      The people of San Francisco call on ou! r 
 government representatives to vehemently oppose and denounce this action by 
 the City of New Orleans.     This action by the City of New Orleans sets a 
 dangerous precedent for all low income communities of color across the 
 country, especially for cities and regions that are prone to natural 
 disasters, such as the San Francisco Bay Area.     Homeowners of the 
 historically Black, working-class Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood have not 
 been notified or consulted about the plans for their neighborhood, and the 
 city has indicated it has no intention of contacting owners before 
 demolition. “No one is asking the residents anything about 
 reconstruction. We’re being thrown to the side,” said Vera McFadden, a 
 Lower Ninth Ward tenant.     Common Ground and the People’s Hurricane 
 Relief Fund are currently fighting to have City, State, and Federal 
 Government extend the same courtesy and aid to Ninth Ward residents that 
 has been provided to property owners in the predominantly white St. 
 Bernard's Parish. The residents of St.Bernard Parish (which is less than 
 two miles away and damaged just as badly) are being afforded FEMA trailers 
 and the freedom to decide what happens to their private property while the 
 private properties of the predominantly black Lower 9th residents are being 
 illegally bulldozed.     Social Justice and Peace organizations throughout 
 the Bay Area denounce the destruction of the homes in this predominantly 
 African American neighborhood in New Orleans.     As if it weren’t enough 
 that the local, state and federal governments abdicated their 
 responsability of adequately funding and securing the levee system to 
 prevent such a disaster in the first place, hundreds of thousands of 
 evacuees re! main stranded in the four corners of this country without the 
 resources to return to defend their homes and belongings.     As if it 
 weren’t enough that the local, state and federal governments did not put 
 into practice any semblance of a coordinated evacuation plan for the 
 thousands of residents who had no independent means to evacuate prior to 
 the disaster, thousands of evacuees will begin facing evictions from their 
 hotels by February 7th.      As if these and countless other documented 
 cases of human rights violations perpetrated against the people o! f New 
 Orleans during and after the flooding, the City of New Orleans is using 
 eminent domain to violate the civil and property rights of predominantly 
 African American and low income residents.     The only way that low income 
 communities of color throughout the Bay Area will feel secure that we will 
 not share the same fate in the event of a disaster is if our elected 
 representatives publically denounce these actions by the City of New 
 Orleans, publically support the civil and property rights of the people of 
 the Lower Ninth Ward and do everything within their power to stop this 
 dangerous precedent from taking place.     For more information about 
 Common Ground: http://www.commongroundrelief.org.  Phone: (504) 218-6613   
 For more information about Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund: 
 http://www.communitylaborunited.net. Phone: (888) 310-7473   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/06/84513.php
SUMMARY:Emergency Action - Stop Bulldozing 9th Ward in New Orleans
LOCATION:Federal Building  450 Golden Gate Ave.  San Francisco  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/06/84513.php
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