MARCH FOR HOUSING JUSTICE IN NEW ORLEANS.
1:00PM SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2007.
MEET AT THE CORNER OF ORLEANS AND N. CLAIBORNE.
WHAT WE DEMAND:
KEEP LAFITTE ALIVE! NO PLANNED EVICTIONS!
LSU HANDS OFF LOWER MID-CITY!
IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM ON RENTER EVICTIONS FOR THE DURATION OF ECONOMIC CRISIS!
The long standing problem of affordable housing in New Orleans, so greatly aggravated by Hurricane Katrina and the official response to the devastation ignited by the storm, is now being compounded by the onset of recession. Last month, for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, the unemployment rate in New Orleans jumped above the now, surging national unemployment rate. Escalating unemployment here is occurring while the local public safety net remains in tatters as a consequence of the tidal wave of privatization of local public services-housing, healthcare, education-that followed Katrina. Making a terrible situation worse, the administration of Governor Bobby Jindal is spurning additional federal assistance for the state’s unemployed that would extend unemployment compensation to 25,000 unemployed who now make do without such assistance. These developments threaten to rob tens of thousands of families access to affordable housing in the all to near future.
Only the people have the power to avert yet another housing catastrophe in the Greater New Orleans area. The time is now for working class New Orleanians to forge a mass movement that compels the heartless rulers of this state and country to respect our right to affordable and habitable housing. Averting another housing catastrophe requires that we vote with our feet now. Join this fight for justice.
SPONSORS: Residents of Lafitte, C3/Hands Off Iberville, May Day NOLA. Interested in co-sponsoring call 504-587-0080.
We meet 7pm Thursdays in St. Jude’s Basing Hall(410 Basin St.)
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