A couple of new updates:
- Working with the producers of the Oscar Nominated film “Trouble the Water“, over 15,000 Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign supporters sent letters to their members of Congress: http://www.troublethewaterfilm.com/blog/archives/10000_letters_10000_stories/
- Princeton Professor and MSNBC Pundit Melissa Harris Lacewell and New Orleans Fair Housing advocate James Perry in the Nation Magazine urged President Obama and the Democratic-led Congress to pass the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act as a first step in repaying the people of New Orleans, whose televised suffering arguably ushered electoral victories in 2006 and 2008: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090330/harris-lacewell_perry
- The League of Conservation Voters, a national environmental group, recently began an email campaign in support of gathering co-sponsors of the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act, as a way to make more climate-resilient communities along the Gulf of Mexico, argueably our nation’s most vulnerable region to climate change : http://emails.ozarkpeace.net/2009/03/13/support-the-green-gulf-coast-civic-works-act.aspx?ref=rss
- The New Orleans Times Picayune listed the Gulf Coast Civic Works Program as a first step recovery activists are urging President Barack Obama to take in order to move Gulf Coast rebuilding in a new direction: http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/01/obama_gives_hope_to_katrina_ac.html
- California Teachers United endorsed Gulf Coast Civic Works Act in a resolution as part of the Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/41073
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