Can we start organizing our very own relief efforts right here

[jenn1977]

at DU? Possibly start up an NGO in the weeks ahead? But in the immediate future, get a network of people on the ground with cameras, teams of volunteers to drive busloads of food/water to wherever we can get it and it's needed, and take back out a busload of people. Where do we take them? To safety. To people offering their homes. Our online team and network of individuals on the ground in the surrounding region will help get these refugees to safety.

some of us could hold our own fundraisers and get the money to the people on the ground. does anyone have a site that we can organize something like this if we can do it here?

[shraby]

1. I called our city Mayor's office to see if

the city could bring in a couple of families. If all cities across the country did this people could be place in homes instead of warehousing them.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

2. ask your mayor to arrange shelter in your city for hurricane victims

It is time for the Progressives to take matters into their own hands.
We have this power, if we know how to use it:

I urge each of you to contact the mayor of your city and ask them to
do as other mayors are doing in other cities - offer lodging and
assistance to hurricane victims in your city.

Let hotels and motels provide rooming, cruise ships house people,
provide food, room and shelter.

Astrodomes are not intended as living quarters, and it is absolutely
ludicrous to put people there, when there are so many better
solutions.

If our federal govt doesn't care, then work locally!

It will help people, it will get the job done, and it will paint the
picture of truth more vividly than anything else we can do.

SHOW THE CONSERVATIVES WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVT SHOULD DO BUT FAILED TO
DO.

Our local officials are accountable to us, still. Urge them to
be good samaritans NOW. People are dying, for no good reason.

Please urge citizens in your locality to join you in contacting your
mayor to provide shelter for some of the hurricane vicyims.
You can do that tonight and all through the week-end.


09-02-2005
Ohio officials offer housing to hurricane victims
State Sen. Robert F. Hagan, D-Youngstown, wrote a letter to
Youngstown Mayor George McKelvey requesting that he offer hurricane
victims hundreds of vacant homes in the city. A message seeking
comment was left with McKelvey.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/12546971.htm