- Signatures: 27
- Goal: 15,000
- Deadline: Ongoing...
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Email this PetitionThe events after Hurricane Katrina awakened Americans to the dramatic differences between rich and poor -- but the need to finish the fight for equality was lost on our national leaders.
Just days after the disaster...
- President Bush suspended prevailing wage laws, and allowed federal
contractors to pay employees unlivable wages in an area already stricken
with poverty. - Congress passed a $50 billion dollar assistance bill, but failed to provide
any oversight against unlawful housing discrimination, and unequal
distribution of relief funds. 
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has exempted
federal contractors from affirmative action requirements.- And the Secretary of Education sought to waive segregation laws,
denying homeless children equal opportunity to public schooling.
This is a country where people pull together in the face of disaster. It's our
heritage to help one another, and our tradition to fight for fairness.
heritage to help one another, and our tradition to fight for fairness.
Remind our national leaders that all Americans deserve no less than the full
protection of their civil rights, and that we must not stop the unfinished fight
for racial and economic equality.
protection of their civil rights, and that we must not stop the unfinished fight
for racial and economic equality.
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[There was just a news item that the contractors are hiring ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS to do the work! Well, if they get out-of-line, we can just shoot them or send them back!]
PLEASE GIVE THIS PETITION THE WIDEST POSSIBLE CIRCULATION. REAL-ESTATE SPECULATORS ARE ALREADY LICKING THEIR CHOPS OVER THE CUSHY DEALS THEY EXPECT TO MAKE OUT OF NEW ORLEANS' CITIZENS' SUFFERINGS.
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