A National Call to Students
"Louisiana Winter"
Thursday, December 24, 2006
3:00 PM
US District Court Building, 500 Poydras Street, New Orleans
Civil rights advocates across the country, led by Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton of San Jose State University, has called upon students to travel to the Gulf Coast to participate this January in ‘Louisiana Winter.’ The NAACP Gulf Coast Advocacy Center is proud to co-sponsor this event.
The goal of Louisiana Winter is to both witness first-hand the social suffering that is occurring and to promote the immediate passage of federal legislation to implement the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project. If passed by Congress, the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project would hire 100,000 Gulf Coast residents to rebuild New Orleans and communities in the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The residents, who will be given subsidized tickets back to their neighborhoods, will setup temporary housing for themselves, and then rebuild and repair houses, schools, levees, parks, and other civic buildings and spaces. (See www.SolvingPoverty.com <
http://www.SolvingPoverty.com> )
Please let me know if you want more information on this event and I will forward it to you!