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Demonstrators march down Canal Street during a protest for hurricane victims' rights in New Orleans December 10, 2005. Protesters feared they would receive federal funds to rebuild their homes. REUTERS/Lee Celano

Mary Ihsaan holds a sign in front of New Orleans City Hall, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005, during a hurricane survivors march. Katrina survivors from New Orleans and the Gulf South and their supporters from around the U.S. assembled at the birthplace of Jazz, Congo Square and marched to the city hall to present a 'Declaration of the People' . (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)

Royce Osbourne (L), in a skeleton mask, takes part in an African ritual during a protest for hurricane victims' rights in New Orleans December 10, 2005. Protesters feared they would receive federal funds to rebuild their homes. REUTERS/Lee Celano

Royce Osbourne, in a skeleton mask, marches in a protest for hurricane victims' rights in New Orleans December 10, 200. Protesters feared they would receive federal funds to rebuild their homes. REUTERS/Lee Celano

Evonne Tisdale (L) of Philadelphia chants a slogan during a protest for hurricane victims' rights in New Orleans December 10, 200. Protesters feared they would receive federal funds to rebuild their homes. REUTERS/Lee Celano

Viole Washington of New Orleans, face to camera, receives a hug from a supporter Njere Alghanee from Atlanta, Ga., in front of New Orleans City Hall, during a hurricane survivors march, Saturday Dec. 10, 2005 in New Orleans. Katrina survivors from New Orleans and the Gulf South and their supporters from around the U.S. assembled at the birthplace of Jazz, Congo Square and marched to the city hall to present a Declaration of the People . (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)

Demonstrators pass by a pile of debris during a protest for hurricane victims' rights in New Orleans December 10, 200. Protesters feared they would receive federal funds to rebuild their homes. REUTERS/Lee Celano

Members of the Soul Rebels brass band performs during a protest for hurricane victims' rights in New Orleans December 10, 200. Protesters feared they would receive federal funds to rebuild their homes. REUTERS/Lee Celano

From NOLA.com -

'Justice After Katrina' was sponsored by a host of activist groups banded together as the People's Hurricane Relief Fund & Oversight Coalition, all protesting the mass displacement of residents and the failure of local levee.

From the People's Hurricane Relief Fund & Oversight Coalition website -

OBJECTIVES

The Objectives of the December 8-10, 2005 Assembly/Conference and the Demonstration are as follows:

1. To build a Hurricane Katrina Survivors General Assembly which will speak for the Gulf Coast Survivors and which will demand and exercise the peoples right to self determination in New Orleans and other effected gulf coast areas in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

2. To demand the people’s right to return to New Orleans and to the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast with dignity and without poverty.

3. To demand reparations for the governments’ criminal indifference, negligence, and malicious actions towards the Victims and Survivors, before, during and after Katrina.

4. To demand, launch and/or continue investigations, law suits and prosecutions of governments, agencies and persons responsible for the human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed before, during and after Katrina.

5. To build a national united front in support and solidarity with the self determination and reparation demands of Katrina Survivors, and through this front to design and initiate a plan of action and institutions which will allow black people to fortify themselves and serve their own needs in the face of future disasters which are either natural or by human hands.

6. To link today’s demands for reparations and self determination to the historical and future struggle of black people and other oppressed populations for self determination and reparations.