now. He is helping to support Camp Covington and was on the bus when they took Cindy to Crawford. This trip he had to stay home.
Subject: Why Camp Covington?
Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2005 4:37 AM
Why did we get a New Deal?
If you look at the mood of the leaders in the USA in the 1920s, it wasn't on the agenda. When people lost their homes and farms in the early 30s, they gathered in Hoovervilles. There they learned to help one another and to share their meager resources. It was out of the Hoovervilles that the labor movement grew. In the Hoovervilles the people organized and became strong. When they helped one another they became strong. When FDR created the work camps the process continued.
As the Chinese say, in crisis is opportunity.
Now, in this current crisis, are the seeds of change. The government has created confinement camps, where the New Orleans displaced wil be kept and cared for by the government. I am told they are guarded by armed guards and barbed wire. The camps are far flung, almost all in the opposite direction from Washington, DC....places like Phoenix.
Only in Louisiana are the evacuees allowed to organize and help themselves, and primarily around Camp Covington. This is why Camp Covington is so important...because it is not government or a non profit organization, it is people helping people.
In hope, Lane
Santa Barbara Vets For Peace www.vfpsb.org
FOR MORE ON CAMP COVINGTON GO TO
http://www.vfproadtrips.org /
>Dear Friends,
Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families For Peace, Veterans For Peace and
Military Families Speak Out were on their way to DC when the White Rose, the VFP bus with the southern route made its way into Covington, Louisiana, a community near New Orleans that is full of working class refugees from Katrina. They have set up a kitchen, clinic and communication center in Covington, which had no electricity or phone service...not even celphone...before they arrived.
The trip to DC was to ask for answers from George W. Bush about why so many Americans had to die because of his rush into an unnecessary war in Iraq. Now it seems that there are thousands of New Orleans refugees that would also like to ask him questions...questions like why were the Louisiana Guardsmen and their equipment involved in the Iraq quagmire when their own families and communities needed them? And why did the Bush administration transfer funding for the US Army Corps of Engineers reconstruction of New Orleans flood control pumps, levees and facilities to projects in Iraq? And what about the oil industry's complicity in the destruction of the wetlands that would have protected New Orleans from Katrina? Certainly Cheney should be able to answer that!
So now that Bush and Cheney's senseless rush to war in Iraq has caused the death of countless more Americans, lets invite them all to come to DC with us to camp on the White House lawn and demand answers from George W Bush and Richard Cheney, the NeoCon Artists who misled us into the war! Let's do our best to transport each and every New Orleans refugee who wants to go to DC! Lets supply them with food and care that the government should have provided. As I figure it, that may mean about 100,000 pissed off cajuns who demand answers to join the thousands of veterans, military families and concerned citizens. Lets keep the buses moving with the donations that roll in....the refugees must go somewhere...what is more appropriate than having them on the White House lawn?
It is time to demand those answers!
In solidarity, Lane
This and more can be found in my post from yesterday.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4680644
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