Check out coverage of yesterdays #sandywalkamile event in NYC
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Check out coverage of yesterdays #sandywalkamile event in #NYC
http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/175360/victims-hit-hard-by-sandy-march-to-show-congress-they-need-aid …
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From emotional pleas to the federal government for help, to cries of outrage, hundreds of Rockaway residents took to the streets to call on Congress to pass the second Sandy Aid Relief Bill Saturday.
The aid package, which is expected to be worth about $51 billion, is scheduled for a vote in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, but many here say it should have taken place much sooner given the magnitude of the disaster.
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Hoping to convince lawmakers that the hardest hit areas are in desperate need of federal help, several marches were held around the city and down the Long Island and New Jersey coast to highlight the devastated areas.
"We need help and there is no way the world and the country and the people in Congress are not going to hear about it," a co-organizer of the event said.
(Video and more at the link.)