Stop Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans

News from the International Action Center:

New Yorkers say NO to DEMOLITIONS of New Orleans Public Housing
YES To Housing Is A Human Right For All and The Right To Return

Monday December 17, 2007 - 12 NOON - City Hall steps.
Join a broad coalition of New Yorkers, including City Councilpersons Charles Barron, MelissaVivitero, NY Solidarity Coalition with Katrina/Rita Survivors, Friends Of Public Housing, Picture the Homeless Coalition, Right to the City Coalition, human rights, labor and community activist who are gathering at City Hall steps to raise our voices in solidarity with New Orleans public housing tenants and their allies who are opposing the insane push to demolish some of the soundest built housing in new Orleans.
New York Solidarity Coalition with Katrina & Rita Survivors
2217–23 Frederick Douglas Boulevard Suite 2F, New York, New York 10026

212 969-0449/917.566.4272 www.NYKatrinaRita.Org www.myspace.com - NYKatrinaRita.org
For background on this story, read Naomi Klein in The Guardian:
This is turning into the ethnic cleansing of New Orleans
There is empty housing for the tens of thousands made homeless by Katrina - but the white elite have other plans
Naomi Klein, Saturday September 24, 2005
The Guardian
Outside the 2,000-bed temporary shelter in Baton Rouge's River Centre, a Church of Scientology band is performing a version of Bill Withers's classic Use Me - a refreshingly honest choice. "If it feels this good getting used," the Scientology singer belts out, "just keep on using me until you use me up."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1577324,00.html