Momentum Growing for Home for the Holidays! More volunteers needed to close out the Initiative

Join the recruitment initiative of Change the Game and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.

The joint effort of All Congregations Together (ACT), Common Ground Relief (CGR), and the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund (PHRF) to gut more than 500 homes in the 9th Ward (New Orleans) by January 31st, 2007 has been a monumental success.  

The project was conceived by the Home for the Holidays coalition to:

1. Stop the threat of eminent domain in the Lower 9th Ward.
2. Protect Black Homeownership in New Orleans.
3. Counter the systematic attempts of the government and big developers to cleanse New Orleans of its Black majority.

Between Monday, November 20th and Friday, December 15, 2006 Home for the Holidays has achieved the following:

1. Brought in more than 300 volunteers.
2. Gutted more than 65 homes in the 9th Ward.

The success of the Home for the Holidays initiative has been largely due to the recruitment efforts of the solidarity networks of its coalition partners throughout the county. These efforts have been so successful that the initiative will be over capacity between January 1st through the 15th, 2007.  

However, the initiative can still use some support between the 16th through the 31st of January. The Coalition is looking to recruit another 200 volunteers for each day to close out the initiative. We are specifically looking to recruit Black, Latino and other oppressed nationality volunteers and are partnering up with Change the Game and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) to accomplish a part of this task.  

If you are interested in joining the Black and Brown delegation being organized by Change the Game and MXGM please contact the following:

Change the Game www.changethegame.org

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement 718.254.8800 or www.mxgm.org

Please be advised that everyone must register with Home for the Holidays before attending or purchasing a ticket to New Orleans. For more information about Home for the Holidays visit www.nolahomefortheholidays.org. To register call (504) 218-6613 or email NOLAhomefortheholidays@gmail.com 

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