[Oe List ...] katrina

[Lynda Cock]

Thank you, Colleen, for sending this story of Denver's work in the
resettling process. I recall that Ronnie Seagram also did some refugee
work with Vietnam folks years ago.  Any helpful suggestions that Burna
and Ronnie and others have would be welcome to me (and others) as we
seek to assist in endeavors in our own communities. I did not know that
Burna assisted with the 9/11 work. 

A group of about 400 evacuees came into Charlotte, NC last night while I
was there with son John and family.  They will be temporarily housed in
the Colesium.  Possibly some will come on to Greensboro.       

Thank you, Milan and Linda, for helping to track down info on Carl
Ennis!!!  Glad to hear that he is safe!  There was a program this
morning broadcast from Long Beach, MS.  I didn't see all of it, but
looked very hard hit.  Lynda Cock, Greensboro, NC

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From: OE-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:OE-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On
Behalf Of Colleen Smith
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 2:21 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: [Oe List ...] katrina


Denver accepted 100 survivors of  katrina and are housing them at an 
empty  university dorm.  We were told to except more planes today, the 
dorm can accept up to 1,000 people.  I don't know who organized the 
reception here in Denver, but I am very proud of my city and state.  The

next step for us is to contact the PTB and offer to do some work with 
the survivors.  Something along the line of what Burna Dunn and others 
did in New York City after 9/11.   Relief is happening, about time, but 
in my mind, there are several questions, not incl.uding the political 
ones.   How do we get beyond the "turf wars" and get some overall 
planning and coordination ?  How is the image changed from "refugee" to 
"survivor"?  How are the survivors enabled to take charge of their own 
lives and future?  (My understanding, is that except for those lucky 
ones going to friends and relatives, the rest are tossed willy nilly by 
whoever picks them up.)

I know that I can't do any of the worshipping, I've always been a foot 
soldier, or  the gun for practics.  I do know that there are many among 
us who have reputations and credentials on  state, national and 
international levels.  Perhaps they could call in some chips or use 
their clout or whatever.   I myself  will volunteer to re-up and be
goffer.

Colleen  Smith in Denver  where some incredible people  have gone from 
below sea level to a mile above.

-- 
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D.
Eisenhower April 16, 1953
      



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