[StBernard] Made with Love Cafe

[Westley Annis]

The Made with love Cafe is one week away from closing, and it serves as a 
crucial community center for the people of St. Bernard Parish. 


Iray, who is leading the charge to create a new center in St. Bernard and 
has formed board of all local people. He just gave me a call to say that the

non-profit status has not been processed yet, and asked if I could help 
raise funds to get insurance for the new community center building through 
Action Hero. 


This is a critical moment. We need to band together and make this happen. 
Call on all your resources and networks to support the creation of this new 
center for grassroots organizing. This is the frontlines. Your support now 
will create the space for you to take part later! 


They have a simple site set up now: http://groups.msn.com/ccstbp 


Iray's phone number is on the web page if you have ideas about how to get 
funds to help this project. 


Send your tax deductable donation through this link: 
<http://www.ihcenter.org/groups/actionheronetwork.html> 


Make a note with your donation to say you want it to go to the new center. 


See yourself in St. Bernard. This the place for us to gather and create 
dreams. It is a wasteland. It can become a garden. 


This is our battle. 


CONTACT THE MEDIA!! 


Raise attention to the fact that Made With Love Cafe has for the past 5 
months been amazing place for the people of St. Bernard, and it's loss will 
leave a great void. 


Please email these people, one at a time if you can, to make it most 
effective. If you send batch emails, they might not get seen. Many emails 
from individuals will be powerful and hard to ignor. 


 Tell them about Made with Love, and important work we are doing down there,

and the need to continue this work in a community center lead by the people 
of St. Bernard. 


Send them these links... to my doc: Making Love in a Distaster Zone: 
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7741275027359055423 


And the flood map that shows how St. Bernard was totally under water: 
http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/depths.swf    (Made with Love is in 
Arabi) 


Please take the time to write at least a few emails. You have the power!!!