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Women of the Storm appear before the Democratic National Platform Committee
'Women of the Storm' testify at DNC 2008 Platform Committee hearings
WKYC TV (NBC - Cleveland)
August 1, 2008
http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=94106&catid=3
Democrats meet in Cleveland for party platform conference
Cleveland Plain-Dealer
Saturday, August 02, 2008
http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1217665870316100.xml&coll=2
Anne Milling, founder of [Women of the Storm], traveled to Cleveland to make this point: "All citizens and elected leaders must understand that the crisis du jour could occur in your city today or tomorrow."
EDITORIAL: Making our case
The Times-Picayune
Monday August 04, 2008
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2008/08/making_our_case.html
The Women of the Storm asked the Democratic National Committee to consider lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and their aftermath in drawing up the party's platform, and that's a message that needs to be heard in this presidential election year.
The group made an eloquent case, not only for New Orleans but the entire nation. "No place can claim immunity, " founder Anne Milling told the committee Friday. "Every American community and city is vulnerable, as recent floods in the Midwest and fires and earthquakes in California have reminded us."
The Women of the Storm urged Democrats to support a comprehensive disaster plan that includes giving FEMA direct access to the White House and employees who are disaster-response professionals.
The group also stressed the urgency of rebuilding the nation's deteriorating roads, bridges and levees, as well as imperiled wetlands, "our most critical and most threatened national assets."
Those issues deserve to be front and center as the nation chooses its next president.
Democrats consult Women of the Storm on platform
WWL-AM News Radio
Friday, August 1, 2008
http://wwl.com/Democrats-consult-Women-of-the-Storm-on-platform/2710304
The Women of the Storm today are meeting with the people who will craft the campaign platform of the Democratic National Committee going into this fall's elections. The party's platform committee invited the group to meet with them in Cleveland.
Anne Milling says they will discuss important national issues.
Group aims to keep recovery on presidential candidates' minds
WWL-TV
Saturday, August 2, 2008
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl080308tpsatchfield.dc4b9da.html
Both presidential candidates are working to convince Americans their own strategies on Iraq and the struggling economy will lead the country in the right direction.
But one non-profit group in New Orleans is doing it's best to keep disaster recovery and hurricane preparedness issues in the spotlight as the race for the White House heats up.
Women of the Storm to testify before Democratic committee
New Orleans City Business
July 31, 2008
http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/UpToTheMinute.cfm?recID=18921
NEW ORLEANS - Members of Women of the Storm, a grassroots group formed after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, are scheduled to testify Friday at the Platform Committee hearing of the Democratic National Committee in Cleveland.
According to a news release, the women will urge the committee to adopt measures that protect culture, community and economic development across the U.S. by: enhancing the nation's emergency preparedness, boosting disaster response, rebuilding crumbling infrastructure, supporting domestic energy security by rebuilding wetlands off America's energy coast and establishing a comprehensive policy addressing land loss and habitat collapse.
Anne Milling, Women of the Storm founder, and Nancy Marsiglia, Women executive committee member, are scheduled to appear before the committee from 2 to 7 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
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