A friend in New Orleans sent this to me in an email recently, via a student in the School of Social Work at CSU, Chico CA. I think it’s important to note, and so I’m sending it to you as NEWS.  Check it out, please:

Help the Gulf Coast Recover from Katrina

Professor Myers-Lipton from San Jose State has a plan to bring Katrina survivors home. The Gulf Coast Civic Works Project (http://solvingpoverty.blogspot.com/2006/11/gc.html) would hire 100,000 displaced residents who want to return, providing them with training and jobs to rebuild their homes and communities. Similar to post-Depression public works projects that helped Americans get back on their feet, it’s a solution that would rebuild the Gulf by investing in its residents.

But Congress won’t act without massive public support. Please go to Color of Change at the following address http://www.colorofchange.org/gccw/?id=2008-76965 and tell your representatives that you support the Gulf Coast Cific Works Project so these people can finally return home and begin to get their lives back together.