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From The American Prospect:

Yesterday, Gulf coast residents and advocates gathered in front of the Federal Emergency Management Agency building to protest eviction notices delivered to over 5,000 families still living in trailers some four years after Hurricane Katrina. The press conference speakers — a diverse bunch that included representatives from faith-based groups, conservative groups, student organizations and ACORN — called on Barack Obama to honor his campaign pledge to restore the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast.

“We want to see you step up to the plate,” said Judith Browne-Dianis, co-director of the Advancement Project, a D.C.-based non-profit “action tank” for social justice. The evictions are happening “on your watch. You need to develop a plan for permanent housing,” for those displaced by the storms, said Browne-Dianis.

FEMA began delivering eviction notices in May. As of yesterday, anyone who still remained in the trailers may have to deal with the Department of Justice. Problem is, as Derrick Evans of the Turkey Creek Community Initiatives, stated, “Families are still living in FEMA trailers because they have no where to go.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pepee2/ pepee2

    I AM ALSO FROM LOUISIANA,AND IT IS BECAUSE OF THE GRACE OF GOD AND MY FAMILY BEING ABLE TO HELP ME TO BUY MY NEW HOME. HOW IN THE HELL DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EXPECT PEOPLE WHO DID NOT ASK TO BE DISPLACE BY A NATURAL DISASTER, THAT WAS TOTALLY OUT OF THEIR CONTROL, TO REBUILD WHAT IT TOOK A LIFETIME TO BUILD IN A MATTER OF FOUR YEARS WITH NO HELP. THERE ARE A LOT OF EMPTY HOUSES IN THE WORLD. FIX THEM AND ALLOW THESE FAMILIES TO LIVE IN THEM.WE CAN HELP OTHER COUNTRIES EVEN AFTER WE DECLARE WAR ON THEM TO REBUILD………WHAT ABOUT NEW ORLEANS AND THE MISSISSIPPI COAST. REBUILD IT. IT IS AS IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS PRAYING ANOTHER KATRINA, LISA OR SALLY COMES ALONG AND DESTROY NEW ORLEANS AND THE COAST. IF FLORIDA CAN GET HIT TWO OR THREE TIMES A YEAR BY HURRICANES AND REBUILD WHY CAN’T MS AND LA GET THAT SAME RESPECT. MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO ALL THE FAMILIES BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT IT IS TO GO TO BED AND WAKE UP WITH NOTHING……………OBAMA SHOW US A CHANGE………..VEE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tmf1582/ tmf1582

    Hard to think that Hurricane Katrina was some four years ago already. It’s concering that despite all of the promises and the soaring speach President Bush gave in the days following the disaster there are still displaced people living in trailers…5000 families at that. Wow. Flowery speeches don’t necessarily equate with action.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Pepee u said it all. Real talk

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/celycel1/ celycel1

    they just moving those people out to make way for the next group of folk. the leves were destroyed just to get blacks out of that city. the same way every thing else is destroyed. the twin towers, the car companies, all this was done to confuse and destroy a certain type of people. if 400 years couldnt do it, whats going on now wont. start a movement to go and get them people down there. write these entertainers and athletes and let them know that they should invest in these cities across america. f**k the government. they the ones that tried to destroy us in the first place

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tall_Dark_Aries/ Tall_Dark_Aries

    Famous last words of George W. Bush:

    “I know that those of you who have been hit hard by Katrina are suffering. … In America, we do not abandon our fellow citizens in their hour of need”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tall_Dark_Aries/ Tall_Dark_Aries

    I thought “America does not abandon its people”?

    More lies?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/impolite/ impolite

    Y’all are ridiculous…

    These people should be back on their feet after four years… FOUR YEARS!!??

    who cares if they can’t go back to New Orleans… the US is a big place, and regardless of what some of you may think, it is still the land of opportunity.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com//

    Impolite, black skin white mask. Marcus garvey said forgive the negropean for his ignorance cause he don’t know that he’s suppose to know

    What phukin land of free. Goddamnit u aint free we are a conquered ppl and. Our enemy is phuckin us everyday with a green dyck. This beast destroyed the levees jon berry of the jew york time wrote a article on it and in hos book rising tides how the leves was destoyed to flood out the 9th ward

    Silly azz negropeans love this whyte beast and this illusion he got set up. Impolite u wuld prodly wear this krackas dirty shyt stained draws over yo face and brag and bost that u da only naga with a pair

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lacyrice2/ lacyrice2

    I read some of the post and cannot believe some of these things were written by Americans. Maybe the reason many are not on their feet after four years is because we have been in a recession for more than five! People are losing jobs at an alarming rate, so in this big country where are they supposed to work. And another reason they might not be able to go anywhere else may be because they have no way to. Don’t criticize unless you have lost everything and suffered like these people have.

    FEMA should be ashamed of itself and so should the government. The president has been in office less than six months, so the rebuilding should have happened under his predecessor. Yet, there is so much to be done before the region is restored. Get these people homes then move them in. Jimmy Carter and Habitat can only do so much. The US Government needs to step up!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CoreyLDouglas/ CoreyLDouglas

    Come on Dude, (impolite) you want these people to just up and leave their homes, soemthing that they have know all their lives generations of families? You’re talking like the yahoo cracker now. Do you want to leave your home? And beside it’s already a battle i other state with their own residents. There is a lot at play here and it’s just not right to make these people get up and leave what is rightfully theirs.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CoreyLDouglas/ CoreyLDouglas

    they need to f**king help these people man. goddamn shame for a country/state to do some bulls**t like that!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    All respect lacyrice but phuk jimmy carter that ole buktooth sumabytch. Reseach the global2000 report signed by him that henry kissinger put out. This called for the DEPOPULATION of 3rd world countries. This is the time aids was created 1976

    The ones that suppose to help us r killing us

    My enemy weras all white even when he’s naked

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/just_twan/ just_twan

    The government did not destroy the levees. I’ve been in two hurricanes (Anne and Katrina). When water gets inside electrical junction boxes they explode I was near one when it happened in North Carolina. That was probably the explosion heard in New Orleans and would also explain why the pumps stopped working. Next FEMA stands for Federal EMERGENCY Management Agency. Emergency being the key word they are not designed for long term care, if they continue to support Katrina victims their budget will be insufficient for the next EMERGENCY. Lastly, the folks in those trailers have received thousands in federal aid already. How much more do they want in hand-outs. Some people will take as long as your giving and never try to help themselves. Sometimes you gotta man-up and make tough calls to help yourself. If that means moving to where there is work then pack up and go. There are federal work subsidies in the Katrina effected areas and plenty of construction jobs. They may not be glamorous but they beat welfare hands down. Unless you don’t want to lift a finger.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Brotha justtwan scuba diviers went into the water and took pieces of the levee ran test on them and found burnt marks on them that only come from military explosives. This information is no secret.

    Why do we always wanna defend this beast

    They say the eye of the storm had already passed when the levees “came down”. John berry article in jew york times explains. I mean new yorktimes

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    U negropeans kill me. Aint know phukin work out here and what work there is the whyte boy got it

    The goddamn economy has ben destroyed by this peckerwood. We been paying these high azz gas prices but this beasly bytch don’t wanna take sum of that stolen wealth to do for the conquered nagas in neworleans.

    The whyte bytch blew up the levees to kill he aint go in his pocket and help heal that’s a bad deal. He won’t that land for hisself to put hotels casinos and golf corses on.

    C** on justtwan black skin whyte mask. NEGROPEAN. Quit defendin this beast

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/davettalashley/ davettalashley

    I don’t know if the government had anything to do with the levees “blowing up” or not. However, I watch HGTV regularly, and I see a LOT of new real estate properties being developed in New Orleans now, but NOT for the people who were swept away by Katrina. Put 2 + 2 together and follow the money…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/prettyynikki/ prettyynikki

    after 4 years no one saved money? come on that’s a project mentality, I don’t blame them. the average salary of a person over the age of 25 is like $18,000 x 4 years = $72,000. and each family has to have at least one person of that age. They were getting additional funding and aids for food, clothes, jobs, and housing. so basically lets say in 4 years half of that $72,000 could have been saved, so $36,000 with the aid for housing a house could’ve been bought. This mentality ya’ll have about these conspiracy theories is ridiculous. and please give me a link about this article about the explosives marks on the debris from the levee. because to repair the levee and to insure it’s stucturally sound, parts of the levee had to be destroyed to supply places for reinforcements to be placed, thats probably where he found it. OMG people use your brain and resources, and stop blaiming white people and goverment for all your problems, accept some damn responsibility sometimes.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Sista prettypink u are gods gift to the world. The blk woman is god. But sista u r making assumptions instead of dealing with facts

    U assume the burnt marks come from duering clean up. I’m on my blackberry and can’t give u a link but google john berry and his article in the newyork times called after the deluge some questions

    Farrakahn got a video called farrakan takes qiestions from listners or sumthing like that and he talks about the leeves being blown and the white woman interviewing him validates it

    18000 dollars is good money but that’s about 1500 a month but if these ppl were making dis type of money they wouldn’t be living in no run down hoods. Two incomes is 36000 damn good money. But they all wasn’t making dat kinda money

    Sista let’s dig a lil deeper. Judging ourrelationship wit this kkkracka he is known for this type of destructuin of black communites have we forgot aabout blackwallstreet and rosewood

    If I stomp my toe I blame it on the beastly kkkracka

    This beast gave our brothas in tuskgee syphlys. He also destroyed the twin towers. WHAT HAPPENED TO TOWER 7. Why did it go down no plane hit it

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