Friday, September 02, 2005
The Kayla-Katrina Connection
Does anyone out there know if MCP (Medical College of Pennsylvania) is empty? If so, please consider this: Can we place victims of Katrina there? We are sloganed "The City of Brotherly Love." Yes, we can send our money, and yes we can send supplies, and yes we can send humanitarian help to New Orleans and Mississippi, cities of devastation. But wouldn't it be a wonderful move on the part of the city of Philadelphia to bring victims here. Imagine if you will: MCP could be a REAL PLACE for us to help these REAL PEOPLE. We, as a city and as citizens would know these victims specific needs as families, and meet those needs. I called Govorner Rendell's Office, since this is his hometown and put the idea past some of the volunteers there, who are specifically in place to help the victims of Katrina. Now those of you who know me, know that these days I am obsessed with JUSTICE FOR KAYLA, but, the vast scope and suffering of the people effected by Katrina must affect our sense of humanity...outherwise we have lost our humanity.
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I sent an e-mail to Governor Rendell with the suggestion, and would advise as many people as possible to do the same:
http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Governor/govmail.html
And in regard to the availibility of the MCP site I sent an e-mail to:
Susan L. Anderson is Chief of Staff and Deputy Director, Governor’s Office of Healthcare Reform.
http://www.physiciansnews.com/discussion.html#post
I just sent this e-mail off to Amanda Bennett, Editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer:
How's this for Breaking News: Philadelphia Inquirer Reporter Natalie Pompilio and Channel 3 Reporter Valarie Levesque bring Katrina victims up the Delaware into the City of Brotherly Love. Residents of Philadelphia welcome families into East Falls at the site of MCP. Medical College of Pennsylvania is transformed and revitalized under the new name of "Multitude of Careing Philadelphians!" Damn I wish dreams could come true. I for one would really like to help these people.
Can the Inquirer help us regular citizens find out if the MCP buildings could be used for housing? If someone would say the word, I would mobilize a group of people in a second to get down there and get the place liveable. Many of us here in Philadelphia want to really help these people first hand.
Respectfully submitted and thanking you for your consideration,
Donna Persico
Sometimes, even I think I have lost my mind! Yikeeessss
Courtney, have you contacted Channel 3 and The Inquirer. I would love to see Natalie Pompilio and Valarie Levesque specifically, bring people here to Philly. Those gals do great good and what greater good than to be the forerunners in this race to assist those in need?
http://wb17.trb.com/about/station/wphl-station-feedback-main,0,4817882.htmlstory?coll=wphl-default-subnav
http://www.nbc10.com/10/2003116/detail.html
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=stationinfo&id=3299801
http://www.fox29.com/news/contact.shtml
Governor Rendell:
http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Governor/govmail.html
Susan L. Anderson is Chief of Staff and Deputy Director, Governor’s Office of Healthcare Reform.
http://www.physiciansnews.com/spotlight/405dv.html
Lower the Flag
Thousands of Americans died this week. Thousands more are homeless. Many who had nothing now have even less.
Lower the flag.
A human tragedy is unfolding this week in our country, one that isn't about race or politics or class or bureaucratic ineptitude. It's about dead old men rotting in the street and babies wailing on the pavement. It's about mothers standing in filth, children begging for water, a crippled man clawing through the attic roof. Americans.
Lower the flag, for five days. One for each day it took for help to arrive.
President Bush has ordered the flag flown at half-staff for, among other things: Pope John Paul II's death, Ronald Reagan's death, the Challenger explosion, and Sept. 11th. Yet he has so far not deemed the deaths of thousands of Americans worthy of official mourning.
It's a small gesture, a symbolic one. But it means something. It means the President has noticed. It means something is worthy of official respect being paid. Yet he has overlooked even this tiny gesture.
Lower the flag.
I found myself today missing Bill Clinton. Watching Bush awkwardly embracing those two women, gently turning them toward the photographer and slapping hands with a guy over their heads as they sobbed on his shoulders.
Clinton would have been crying with them, all red-faced and puffy with tears, sweating through his shirt. He'd be singing "Amazing Grace" with refugees and bringing bottles of water to old ladies. He'd be mourning.
Lower the flag.
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Amy Z. Quinn
I just read the article in today's Daily News about Kayla's shoes. What a BEAUTIFUL thing to do!
Melissa, if you're reading this, that had to be so hard to do. What a wonderful heart you have. You're daughter must be so proud.
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