As I child, I learned to live with uncertainty and to do without; I knew what it meant to be homeless. It’s sometimes hard to recall those difficult times, especially given the comfortable circumstances in which I now live. But as I watched this video last night, I remembered.
Please help commemorate the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by signing this petition, urging the United States Senate to pass the Gulf Coast Recovery Bill of 2007 (S1668). This proposed legislation would help provide affordable housing to those who affected by the hurricanes of 2005.
Our military involvement in Iraq currently costs us $3 billion a week. A week! The resources allocated to our own citizens and infrastructure over the past two years are meager in comparison — and woefully inadequate by any measure. It’s long past time for Congress and the President to play a meaningful role in restoring hope and homes to our fellow Americans from the Gulf Coast region.
Go here, if you want to communicate your concerns to the President. While you’re at it, you may have a few choice words to share with the Vice President. Also, to get in touch with your senators and representatives, clickity-click here and here.
Thanks for bringing this important issue–and way to help–to your readers. I’m signing!
((ERIN))
Thank you.
Thanks for posting this, Melodye.
I know you volunteered down in New Orleans, and I’m grateful that you did so. For those of us who can’t afford that kind of investment, political activism seems a reasonable alternative.
Signed, sealed, and delivered.
Thanks so much for posting this.
Thank you so much for signing the petition!! I hope you’ll also pass along this information.
SIGNED! Thanks for letting us know about this petition. 🙂
Thank YOU, Kelsey, for taking action!
Thanks!
Signed!
Thanks for posting this — that video is sooo moving!
Can you imagine what could be done if they took the manpower and $ of one week that we’re spending for Iraq and use it for the entire Gulf region!
Re: Thanks!
There are two powerful videos here: the first link, and the one you see when you click over to the online petition. Watching them was so painful — and important.
((THANK YOU)) for signing the petition. I hope you’ll consider passing along the information.
On behalf of the hurricane victims, ((THANK YOU)).
I should have figured that you’d have something up about this today too. 🙂
I’m glad that you’re putting this issue out there for others to see. Well said, Miss Melodye.
I just jumped over to your page and saw you’d done the same. I’m so grateful for you and everyone who’s acted in support of Katrina victims by adding their names to the petition.
I was very happy to see that you’d put something up as well. I’m glad to see that so many around the blogosphere took it up. What’s been done (and not done) to the survivors is just unconscionable to me.
Thanks for posting this, Melodye. How sad that there is still no affordable housing for those affected by hurricanes of two years ago!! I watched those tremendously moving videos and perused many of the whenthesaints.org links and wished I could do more to help …
This is all so awful–I don’t think Canadians can sign that petition, can they? You probably can’t send it through without a zip code?
I will send it to a few of my US friends though.