New Orleans Residents Take Out Advertisement In Newspaper To Tell Federal Govt. “We Want To Go Home"…

New York Times ADAM NOSSITER December 13, 2005 at 07:51 AM
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Members of Congress, soon returning home for the holidays, will get a stark message on Tuesday that tens of thousands of this city's people are still unable to do so.

A full-page advertisement - set to appear in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, paid for by former residents of the ravaged middle-class Lakeview section and billed as a "Message From Homeless New Orleanians" - pleads with Congress to pay for stronger levees.

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