Today’s Times-Picayune ran a piece about an important gathering held outside of Washington, D.C. following Barack Obama’s inauguration earlier this week. Aaron Viles, campaign director of the Gulf Restoration Network, was there. So were representatives of New Orleans’ Advocates for Environmental Human Rights and the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University, and other Gulf Coast organizations. And so was Pam Dashiell of the CSED, representing the Lower Ninth Ward:
"It's a new day," said Dashiell, who also was on the Mall Tuesday. "I think the people of the Gulf Coast are going to see a new way of doing things."
Pam and other retreat participants are members of the advisory group of the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health, a project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Read all of “Obama gives hope to Katrina activists”.
