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Public Employee Press
How YOU can help the victims of Katrina
Union members are deeply moved by the plight of the victims
of Hurricane Katrina and want to take action to help. DC 37 and its national
union, AFSCME are aiding victims, especially the thousands of public employees
and union members in the stricken area.
DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts is urging members and locals
to contribute through DC 37 so their contributions can be pooled and used
most effectively. As a member, heres how you can help the victims:
- Contribute: Write a check to the AFSCME
Fallen Heroes Fund and send it to Room 525, DC 37, 125 Barclay
St, New York, NY 10007. On the memo line of the check, or in a separate
cover letter, please specify that you want your contribution to be used
for Katrina relief.
- Adopt a family: If you have space in your home,
you can offer temporary housing to AFSCME evacuees. For more information
go to www.afscme.org/katrina.
- Send clothes and shoes: AFSCME Council 17 in Louisiana
needs clothes and shoes to provide to members. They respectfully request
that only new or nearly new clothes and new shoes be sent. Send to:
Louisiana Public Employees Council, AFSCME, 429 Government St., Baton
Rouge, LA 70812-6114.
- Help college students: The hurricane has closed
three historically black colleges in the disaster area Xavier
and Dillard Universities in New Orleans and Tougaloo College in Tougaloo,
Miss. You can help the displaced students through the United Negro College
Fund, which has named DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts labor
chair of this years fundraising effort. Write your check to UNCF
and send it to DC 37, 125 Barclay St, New York, NY 10007, Attention:
Lillian Roberts.
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