Let Boston Teen Jenny Ulysse and all U.S. residents return from Haiti!
Let all U.S. residents return from Haiti regardless of citizenship! Treatment or evacuation for all needing critical medical attention!
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Send a message to President President Barack Obama, former Presidents Clinton and Bush, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, Congressional leaders,the Contressional Black Caucus, the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation, the Boston City Council, Mass. Gov Deval Patrick, the U.N. General Assembly President, U.N. Secretary General Ban, and Major media representatives including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, Reuters. Demand that Jenny Ulysse and all U.S. residents be allowed to return home from Haiti regardless of citizenship status, and medical care or evacuation be provided for all with critical medical needs.
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To: President Barack Obama, Former President Clinton, Former President Bush, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton, Secretary of Homeland Security Nepolitano, Black Congressional Caucus, Congressional leaders, Mass Congressional Delegation, Mass. Gov. Patrick, Boston City Council, U.N. Secretary General Ban and members of the media:
Allow Boston teenager Jenny Ulysse to return to Boston from Haiti. and all U.S. Permanent Residents to return to their homes. Medical treatment or evacuation for all in need of critical medical attention!
Jenny Ulysse is a Boston teenager and student in the Boston Public Schools. She is the main breadwinner in her household, which includes her mother and brother. She works as a community youth worker with United Minority Neighborhoods, advocating for oppressed youth in the criminal justice system. She is an activist with the Bail Out the People Movement in Boston. She received a commendation plaque from Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner for her dedication as an intern this past summer in his district office.
On January 12, 2010 Jenny was in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, visiting her step mother, when the earthquake hit. Jenny was stuck under rubble for hours, and one of her feet was badly injured, swelling greatly. From that day to this, Jenny has had no x-ray and no medical treatment for her injury.
Over 2 million people in Haiti are in need of food, water and/or medical assistance, but thus far assistance has only reached 500,000. While 12,000 nurses have volunteered for service in Haiti, instead 12,000 soldiers have been sent. The U.S. response has been a military occupation and a blatantly racist naval blockade to make sure Haitians do not make it to the United States shores. Medical assistance must be gotten to all who need it or they should be allowed to obtain it in the United States.
Jenny has been to the U.S. embassy three times in an effort to return home to her family in Boston and the medical attention she needs. Although her documentation was lost in the rubble of the earthquake, Jenny knows her green card number and her social security number, and United Minority Neighborhoods and Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley's office prevailed on John Kerry's office to fax her documents to the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince. But she was sent away because she was not a U.S. citizen, even though she is a legal resident with the legal right to be in the U.S.
I demand that you take immediate action to allow Jenny and all legal U.S. residents to return to the U.S from Haiti, regardless of citizenship status. I further demand that effective medical aid be provided to all in need in Haiti and any unable to get the care they need there be allowed to come to the U.S. for necessary care.
Sincerely,
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