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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Actually, rent got expensive like you wouldn't believe. Extremely low supply. Demand shrunk too, but not as fast. Lotta out-of-town cleanup and construction crews and such.
That was good. I'll have to remember that one. : )
She was at LSU also Josh britton on his blog is suppose to give an update. Evid some people that served with her son were there I heard and they let it be known to some folks he would not approve. Here is some pics from the LSU event. THe louisiana national guard showed up too lol http://paul2.net/?p=180
Oh noes! My arguments have all been defeated! LOL
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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Yeah she created some trouble right after the hurricane esp at their Camp casey up in COvington LA which I still cant believe made the news. Baicaly taking red cross supplies and setting up on their own camp and spreading rumors that the locals were about to attack the The National Guard armory. lol
a little background on the above pic
"Cindy Sheehan and Col. David Couvillon participated in a forum today (Monday) from 11:30-12:30 at the Mass Communications Journalism building Holliday Forum discussing their two views on the War in Iraq. Shari Yazbeck along with other mothers whose sons and daughters are serving in the armed forces. The photograph of two soldiers includes Capt. Travis Douget and Capt. John Champy, who happens to have served with Cindys son Casey in the same battilion. Undoubtably, Champy having served with Casey believes that Casey would not have wanted his mother to act in this manner. My personal favorite photograph is the very last one shown in this post"
http://paul2.net
Hey Cindy, I've got one thing to say: "Peace on you!"
I pray that she keeps this up right up to the midterm elections. Every minute she talks is another vote for Republicans.
Thank you God for Cindy and her insane little brain.
We get so many, we take 'em to the trap range. The range master thinks it's pretty funny.
Kerry would be my first choice. Carter, and the rest of those people who hate this country.
Hey, I thought she was going to run against Senator Feinstein, not Mr. Nagin
someone is paying her. she is being used, and doesn't know it.
Cindy is trying to become the new Jesse Jackson. Making demands and hogging the spotlight.
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