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October 30, 2005
March on Gretna
I got this via the girlgangproductions and nolafeminist mailing list. Thought y'all would want to know about it too.
*MARCH ON GRETNA!*
During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, people were told to evacuate
New Orleans by crossing the bridge that leads from New Orleans to
Gretna. The Crescent City Connection Bridge spans the Mississippi River
linking New Orleans to the west bank city of Gretna. However, if you
were black or in the company of blacks, you were blocked from evacuating
New Orleans by armed Gretna police with guard dogs. Under orders from
Gretna Police Chief Arthur S. Lawson to seal off the bridge and deny
safe passage to evacuees, Gretna police officers fired shots in the
direction of the crowds and held others at gunpoint.
On Monday, November 7, 2005, the progressive community will cross that
bridge!
*MARCH ON GRETNA!*
*Monday, November 7, 2005*
*Rally at 10:00 a.m. at the New Orleans Convention Center*
*March begins at 11:00 a.m.
*There will be a Press Conference for the March on Gretna on November 2,
2005 in Washington *
We march with our fellow citizens displaced by Katrina to reclaim the
right to cross that bridge to Gretna, and in crossing that bridge in the
name of the rights to safety and self-determination, to racial and
economic justice, we will keep marching until we reclaim this democracy
in the elections on November 7, 2006! NEVER AGAIN WILL PROPERTY RIGHTS
TRUMP PEOPLE’S RIGHTS!
*WE WILL MARCH FOR FREEDOM IN NEW ORLEANS, USA!
WE WILL MARCH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS ON NOVEMBER 7, 2005!*
*AND WE WILL KEEP MARCHING, ADDING TO OUR NUMBERS,
UNTIL WE TAKE BACK AMERICA ON NOVEMBER 7, 2006! *
/ /
Join Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Kim
Howard Dean, Kim Gandy, Van Jones, Ron Daniels, Curtis Muhammad, Rev.
Tony Lee, Cousin Jeff Johnson, College Students, Community Activists,
led by People of New Orleans displaced by Hurricane Katrina;;join the
People’s Committee for Relief & Oversight, NOW, UP for Democracy, & the
Hip Hop Caucus, as we March on Gretna!!!!!!
/This march is endorsed by /*Center for Social Justice, Cities for
Progress/Institute for Policy Studies, Clergy & Laity Concerned About
Iraq, Code Pink, ColorofChange.org, Common Ground, Community Labor
United, Ella Baker Center for Civil Rights, Global Crisis Coalition,
Global Exchange, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Healthcare NOW!,
Hip Hop Caucus, Independent Progressive Politics Network, League of
Pissed Off Voters, National Coalition for Black Civic Participation,
National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights, New Orleans Network,
People’s Alliance for Community Empowerment, People’s Hurricane Relief &
Reconstruction Oversight Committee People’s Institute for Survival &
Beyond, Progressive Democrats of America, Project South, National
Progressive Youth & Student Organization, Quality Education as a Human
Right, Rebuild Green, Rebuilding Louisiana Coalition (NOLA), Rebuild
Hope NOW, Saving Our Neighborhoods, Southwest Workers’ Union, United for
Peace & Justice, United Houma Nation of Louisiana, Urban Heart, World
Can’t Wait Coalition, Young People’s Project.*
Please email information about your activities to the HIP HOP CAUCUS
info@hiphopcaucus.org.
If you have information not being reported in the mainstream media,
please email info@upfordemocracy.org.
Posted by jay at October 30, 2005 5:02 PM