How Can You Help - Save New Orleans East

1. Send a free fax to your US congressional representatives urging them to stop the landfill. A copy of all these letters will be forwarded to FEMA
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2. Donate money to support the community’s struggle. (Suggested Donation: pay for one hour of environmental testing ($150) so the community can challenge the City’s claim that the landfill is toxin free.)
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3. Call your local officials (start with your Mayor!!) to urge Waste Management, Inc., the corporation that operates the landfill site, to stop dumping in the Vietnamese community.
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"My name is (NAME). I urge you to stop the dumping of Hurricane Katrina debris into a site that is only 0.8 miles from the devastated minority community of New Orleans East. Without the proper safeguards, toxic materials from the debris will contaminate and harm the children and families of the area. I ask you to deny the local Waste Management's pending application with the Army Corps of Engineers for permission to dump on the site and urge the Army Corps to take the debris to a site with safeguards 20 miles away. Thank you."

5. Endorse our campaign organizationally!!
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6. Ask your city endorse the campaign.
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7. Tell everyone you know about this by forwarding the link to this page.
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