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NAACP: Rights violated at park
2theadvocate.com ^ | 04/22/06 | Sonya Kimbrell

Posted on 04/22/2006 5:54:05 AM PDT by Ellesu

Cessation of meal services, propane delivery spurs charges:

The NAACP collected affidavits Friday from residents at the FEMA Renaisssance Village in Baker that contain complaints alleging lack of services, harassment and intimidation.

Kwame Asanté, director of the Louisiana chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said NAACP representatives have been going to the village council meetings.

“There are a lot of people who feel that their rights have been violated,” Asanté said Friday afternoon.

About 1,650 hurricane evacuees have been living at the 572-unit trailer park on Groom Road since it opened in October. Most residents signed an agreement that would allow them to live in the park for 18 months.

Initially, FEMA provided three meals daily in a communal kitchen and paid for the propane that is necessary to run the trailers. The trailers have electric lights but propane is used for bathing, cooking, refrigeration and heat. FEMA stopped providing propane in February and ended the meal service two weeks ago.

Transportation is an issue for many residents, especially older ones, who don’t have vehicles.

“Many of these people lived in communities (before Katrina) where they didn’t need a vehicle. We’d just like to see the government change the way we address these situations,” Asanté said.

According to a news release from the NAACP, James Ross, president of the village council, said the residents’ complaints center on the promise from FEMA that they would receive 18 months of assistance with meals and propane.

Ross and other residents also have complained that FEMA representatives have been asking residents for proof that they are looking for employment and seeking other places to live.

“This is leading them to believe that they are going to be asked to leave,” Asanté said.

Asanté said the NAACP collected the affidavits of complaints from about 50 residents, and they plan to submit them to FEMA representatives.

“Also, we’re keeping copies so that we can collect data to track the kinds of complaints for possible legal action down the road,” he said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: fema; gimmee; gimmeemo; handouthelper; incompentent; lazystupidignorant; naacp; trailerpark
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To: Sir_Humphrey
Please,somebody, tell me what the NAACP does. Other than complain and ask for extort money ...
41 posted on 04/22/2006 7:04:19 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: Ellesu
...propane is used for bathing, cooking, refrigeration and heat.

Propane, bathing? It has been so long since I had a propane bath I can't remember what it was like.

42 posted on 04/22/2006 7:18:56 AM PDT by CPOSharky (Go home and fix your own country before you complain about ours.)
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To: Ellesu
This association of Colored People would do better to teach their customers how to be self-sufficient than to help them whine because they have not been given everything they want.

I still remember pictures of some of these people sitting on their butts as water rises to their nostrils waiting for gub-mient to tell them to stand up and walk away from the water.
43 posted on 04/22/2006 7:20:33 AM PDT by R.W.Ratikal
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To: Ellesu
FEMA representatives have been asking residents for proof that they are looking for employment and seeking other places to live.

They sound like many a youngster's parents post-graduation.
44 posted on 04/22/2006 8:26:26 AM PDT by P-40 (http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
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To: Ellesu
FEMA representatives have been asking residents for proof that they are looking for employment and seeking other places to live.

“This is leading them to believe that they are going to be asked to leave,” Asanté said.

Sherlock Holmes!

45 posted on 04/22/2006 8:58:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: CAWats

Your sign offended me...MY RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


46 posted on 04/22/2006 11:56:41 AM PDT by fishbabe
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To: Ellesu

"...for proof that they are looking for employment and seeking other places to live."


The horror!


47 posted on 04/22/2006 12:18:55 PM PDT by dakine
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