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Posted on 02/15/2006 10:42:49 PM PST by beaversmom
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day after 12,000 storm families were forced to leave their federally funded hotel rooms, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan staged a protest on the steps of one of the city's shuttered housing projects.
Sheehan, who grabbed the national limelight during her extended vigil outside President Bush's ranch to protest the death of her son in Iraq, said the slow recovery in New Orleans is intimately tied to the siphoning of federal dollars for foreign wars.
With her back to the boarded up St. Bernard Housing Development which housed as many as 1,300 families before Hurricane Katrina, Sheehan said: "George Bush spews the filth from his mouth that the war in Iraq has made the world more safe. Everyone in America needs to come down here and see how unsafe, how insecure he's made our world."
Sheehan, who spent the weekend in Baton Rouge, was on her way back to Washington to file a lawsuit stemming from her arrest at President Bush's State of the Union address, when she was invited instead to join the housing rally.
She joined a group of women, all former residents of the project, who had rented a van to drive down from Houston, where they are currently living in FEMA-funded apartments.
"I want to come home. I'll come and I'll sleep on my porch. This is where I spent all my life," said Gloria Irving, 70. "I am begging the politicians to let me come home."
The St. Bernard project, built in 1942, is one of 10 affordable housing developments in the New Orleans area. The majority have not reopened, sparking the ire of residents who say the poor are being forced out.
On Monday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency stopped paying for the hotel rooms of 12,000 families made homeless...
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I'd like to use her for target practice myself. it would be a pleasure to pop a hole in the worlds biggest blowbag!
OMG, LMAO, that is priceless!!!
Exactly. Better yet, Cindy, go camp out on the doorsteps of the parish presidents and ask them why they don't want trailers in their neighborhoods. Then ask them if they plan on reimbursing the American taxpayer who is paying for those trailers to sit in Arkansas while they pussyfoot around.
please write her publisher and ask them to cease publishing her book and stop promoting her tours and travels
http://www.koabooks.com/
There you have it - there is obviously not enough money to fund liberalism - I say we scrap the idea.
what is that? Kommunists of America?
This may be a cheap shot, but, who cares?
Oh, goody, I just can't wait for her to start her campaign in California./s
She is such a fruitloop.
I mean, call me crazy, but I'd be willing to bet that New Orleans real estate and rent just became a lot more affordable after Katrina.
I'm not sure what she's talking about when she speaks of affordable housing. Free?
I'd like to keep an eye on who's buying it up. Just cuz.
Next up for the limelight-addicted nutcase: an anti-fur nude demonstration.
My very first thought on this...well, to be honest, it was my second thought. My first was that this was mistitled...it shouldn't read "peace mom"...it should read "idiot mom". But I knew that the poster had to stick with the article title.
The O RLY owl could beat her in a debate. I hope she runs for senate.
She's such a media whore.
Hey cindy, President Bush has criminally neglected the wide spread belly button lint problem, would you protest that too?
I try so hard to remember that for all her ignorance and outright hate, this is a woman who has endured something no parent should endure. Some folks seem to forget that.
But does she realize she is at the stage where people just nod as she talks and then they say "That poor dear" and completely ignore her "message" because she is so obviously derranged?
She looks like a walking goat or sheep. I say we give her some land to pasture.
Code Pink, the Communist Worker Party, probably George Soros too, but we don't really know who else.
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