tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71050615625088420452024-03-20T16:05:01.758-05:00TellMeWhereTheBridgeIs.comAll you need to do is tell me where the bridge is, Juan and I will go out there and we'll help those folks.wewillhelpthosepeoplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06108864749387171654noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105061562508842045.post-42808687157462298122010-03-11T11:11:00.005-06:002010-03-11T11:23:13.084-06:00<fieldset>
<legend>Homeless Encampment Update</legend>
<li><a href="http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/last_residents_moved_from_home.html">Last 'residents' moved from homeless encampment at Claiborne Avenue and Canal Street</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/housing_for_homeless_veterans.html">Housing for homeless veterans reopens this month</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/homeless_colony_cleared_out_ne.html">Homeless colony cleared out near N.O. Mission</a></li>
<li><a href="http://search.nola.com/homeless/2/?date_range=all">Search NOLA.com for "homeless"</a></li>
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<legend>Study: 80% of Homeless Under Bridge Disabled</legend>
<p>New Orleans Channel 6 WDSU news <a href="http://www.wdsu.com/video/15440689/index.html">reports</a> on a new study which finds 80% of homeless living under the Claiborne overpass are disabled.</p>
<p>WWLTV Channel 4 News reports more details of study.</p>
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<p>Their count shows about 150 people calling the camp home.</p>
<p>Surveyors asked 46 questions and 118 people responded.</p>
<p>Nearly nine out of ten are from this area and one quarter was homeless before Katrina.</p>
<p>About 60 percent have become homeless since the storm and have no skills to cope with life on the streets.</p>
<p>Sixteen percent are military veterans. Forty-nine of the 118 have jobs, earning $300 to $500 a month.</p>
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<p>In related news, <a href="http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl022808jbexperts.67109a0.html">UN experts: US government forcing N.O. blacks into homelessness</a>.</p>
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<legend>We will help those people.</legend>
<p>In a February 1, 2008 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200802010007?f=h_top">article</a>, <a href="http://www.mediamatters.org/">Media Matters for America</a> documented Bill O'Reilly's absurd ridiculing of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edward's reference to homeless people living under a bridge in New Orleans.</p>
<p>Included in the MMA article is a video and transcript of O'Reilly saying Edwards is "obsessed with the bridges." Sarcastically, O'Reilly feigns ignorance of the real problem, the tent city under the bridge.</p>
<p>O'Reilly goes on to state that he and Juan Williams would personally go to New Orleans to help those under the bridge if only they knew where the bridge is.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">O'REILLY: Just tell me where the bridge is. We will help those people.</span> They can't tell me. OK.</p>
<p>McLEAN: You know what? You know what? Whether it's that specific bridge or somewhere else in America, he's right. There are people who are sleeping under a bridge without a roof over their head. And that's the point.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">O'REILLY:</span> OK, Kiki, <span style="font-weight: bold;">all you need to do is tell me where the bridge is, Juan and I will go out there and we'll help those folks. OK?</span></p>
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<p>Well look no further Bill. Here are the <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=7584525959734267530,30.010235,-90.266296&saddr=400+31st+St,+Kenner,+LA+70065+%28Louis+Armstrong+New+Orleans+International+Airport%29&daddr=29.958932,-90.07787&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=16&sll=29.96198,-90.082355&sspn=0.008384,0.014591&ie=UTF8&om=0&ll=29.988542,-90.170975&spn=0.118944,0.233459&z=12">driving directions</a> from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to Canal St and Claiborne Ave under the I-10 overpass.</p>
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<p>Let there be no doubt, there are homeless people living under I-10 at Canal and Claiborne.</p>
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<p>A group of homeless men saw my camera and scrambled to have their pictures taken by me in the hopes of receiving some cash. All I had was my last $20 bill which I gave to one man who said he was going to split it with the a few other men.</p>
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<p>Several pictures I took while leaving the bridge under which John Edwards' brain sleeps alone.</p>
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