The Gulf Coast Civic Works Project invites you to a gathering in New Orleans at Loyola University on Sunday, January 13 from 9 am-5 pm, to plan the campaign to pass the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act (HR 4048).
If you are a student or faculty and would like to attend this meeting, please sign up at www.SolvingPoverty.com
HR 4048, which is co-sponsored by Reps. Charlie Melancon of Louisiana and Gene Taylor of Mississippi, calls for the creation of 100,000 civic work jobs to rebuild Gulf Coast housing and public infrastructure. The goal is to jumpstart the recovery by empowering communities with the resources they need to lead, and to bring home displaced Gulf Coast residents.
For more information about the January 13th gathering, please call Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton at 510-508-5382. Reasonably priced accommodations are listed below.
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*HISTORY OF HR 4048:*
Prompted by a proposal developed at students and faculty at San Jose State University, U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren has introduced in Congress the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act (HR 4048), groundbreaking legislation offering a renewed federal commitment to rebuild communities destroyed by hurricanes Katrina and Rita by empowering the region's greatest assets, the disaster's
survivors. Reps. Charlie Melancon of Louisiana and Gene Taylor of Mississippi are co-sponsoring the bill.
"Students have figured out what many others have yet to discover, and that is Gulf Coast residents and evacuees need living wage jobs to rebuild their own communities," said San Jose State Professor Scott Myers-Lipton, a national poverty expert. "During the New Deal, the federal government established public works programs that created jobs for over eleven million
people who built and repaired thousands of hospitals, schools and playgrounds. This is exactly what the Gulf Coast needs now."
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights have also been active participants in the creation of HR 4048. Professor Myers-Lipton estimates at least $4 billion in federal funding is needed to implement critical infrastructure projects that would result in 100,000 jobs for residents of hurricane-ravaged communities in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. HR 4048 would also give local residents and businesses top priority for jobs and contracts, and create a civilian conservation corps for young adults working on environmental programs to rebuild wetlands and urban greenery.
HR 4048 has been in assigned to Education and Labor Committee for further consideration. Read HR 4048 at http://thomas.loc.gov/. Read more from Rep.Lofgren on HR 4048 at http://lofgren.house.gov/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=1846 . Read more on the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project at http://www.solvingpoverty.com/ . Read more on Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights at http://www.rfkmemorial.org/. Read more on ACORN Louisiana at http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=8219.
*LOCAL HOTELS / HOSTELS / VOLUNTEER GUEST HOUSES:*
Frenchmen Hotel
417 Frenchmen St.
504-948-2166
Starting at $59 a night.
Schiro's Balcony Guest House
2483 Royal St.
800-395-2124
Starting at $49 a night / weekly $300/ monthly $1000.
India House Hostel
124 S. Lopez St.
504-821-1904
$17 a night for a dorm room/ $40 for a single.
Marquette House
2249 Carondelet St.
504-523-3014
Private Room $50- $80
16 Person Dorm $270/ night ($17 per person)
8 person Dorm $136/ night ($17 per person)
St. Charles Guest House
1714 Prytania St.
504-523-6556
$40 a night volunteer rate
Dauphine Orleans Hotel
415 Dauphine Street (French Quarter)
$89 night (includes breakfast)
504-586-1897
*every night that a volunteer stays in the hotel, they donate $10 to ACORN*
Operation Nehemiah
Volunteer Housing.
$20 dollars a night (three meals included)
Contact: Laura Paul at (504)344-4884.
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