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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Accomplishments in Mississippi

1. Amos Network marched on the Capital (200 people) in August 2007. (National and local press coverage)

2. Local meetings in Waveland, Gulfport, Biloxi, D’Lerberville, Moss Point, Bay St. Louis involving over 700 people.

3. 3rd Annual Assembly had 125 representatives from 6 cities – Aug 24, 2008 – (see appendix)

4. A representative of Amos spoke in Washington DC on the Fema Trailer crisis

5. Amos Network initiated the signing up of thousands of Gulf Coast residents with 8 law firms filing class action law suits on the Fema trailer/formaldehyde issue

6. Amos Network strongly lobbied for legal action against Haley Barbour and HUD to stop the use for CDBG funds for the Port. A law suit is being prepared by a team of lawyers coordinated in Washington DC to file.

7. Amos Network is seeking to partner with the Bay St. Louis government in challenging the Fema elevations proposed for the Gulf Coast.

8. Amos Network leaders of Gulf Port met with the Gulf Port mayor to begin a working relationship.

9. Amos Network leaders voted in August to schedule meetings with Gulf Coast mayors by the end of September 2008 to begin negotiations over the spending of public dollars in their cities.

10. Amos Network leaders met with leaders of the Gulf Coast Business Council to present their proposal for rebuilding the Gulf Coast. The GCBC incorporated a majority of the Amos Network proposals into their recommendations to Governor Barbour in a face-to-face meeting.

11. Over the course of the year, the Amos Network has conducted workshops for people in 4 cities involving   over 100 people

12. The 3rd Annual Amos Assembly voted to initiate a dues paying membership drive in October 2008 with a goal of 1000 dues paying members signed up by the winter of 2008/2009.

13. Leaders also voted to set a goal of having an Amos Network chapter in each Gulf Coast city and unincorporated areas by the end of 2009.

14. The Amos Network effort to get legal action and financial relief for the Mississippi Gulf Coast black community has resulted in hundreds of black households signing up for class action law suits.  Being recruited as plaintiffs against HUD, Amos continued organizing to pressure Governor Barbour to release money for wind damaged homeowners and renters that will provide resources for thousands more black households.  The Amos agenda is the most comprehensive proposal for Gulf Coast reconstruction and is recognized as such by the Gulf Coast Business Council Housing Team.

15. In Waveland, Mississippi residents who have been treated unequally by the city since Katrina (for example the park in the Black area of Waveland) had 80,000 raised to rebuild it. To date, little of that money has been spent. However, parks in white areas have received significant work and resources. Residents of the black community of Waveland (led by Minister Hawkins) invited the Amos Network to organize a new chapter in Waveland (approximately 35 people signed up). The new chapter has done research on the parks issue and demanded a meeting with the mayor in September. They have also signed up over 25 households for the class action lawsuit against Fema.