SaveSandySpring.org - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.rsspad.com/rss2a/113860.xml SaveSandySpring.org - Press Releases en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Aggrieved Descendants of Freed Slaves Take Message to Politicians' Homes http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb711444.htm SaveSandySpring.org reports that residents of an African American kinship community in Sandy Spring, Maryland, claim they are being forced from their ancestral homes. The residents say they plan to deliver their message in person to their politicians' homes by way of a 50' tractor trailer set-up to depict the most rugged of living conditions and a giant banner that reads, http://www.wusa9.com/video/player.aspx?aid=55162&sid=67558&bw= ["Since you won't let us live on our land, we thought perhaps we could live on yours."] The residents claim that the government's recent refusal to recognize the road that has served their properties for more than 100 years has left their property worth pennies on the dollar in a multimillion dollar neighborhood. Troubles began for the property owners when the http://savesandyspring.org/Gazette_010908.shtml [local planning agency accepted plans for a subdivision which did not include any reference to their road], which dates back to the 1800s. (PRWeb Feb 21, 2008)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb711444.htm Gulf Coast Hurricane Victims See More FEMA Problems Headed Their Way With News of Camper Evictions http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/05/prweb387344.htm Victims of Hurricane Isabel attempt to block FEMA from evicting them from their campers. Victims allege FEMA has singled them out in retaliation for seeking fair flood insurance claim settlements. FEMA oversees the insurance companies responsible for settling the claims. The Maryland Insurance Commissioner told ABCNEWS in September, “FEMA adjusters systematically low-balled the losses of thousands of Maryland victims.” (PRWeb May 18, 2006)

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