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FINDING OUR FOLK -- OAKLAND SEND-OFF
Wednesday, February 1st, 7-9pm Ella
Baker Center for Human Rights 344
40th Street, Oakland
Teens from McClymonds High in Oakland and Balboa High in San Francisco
are traveling to the Gulf Coast to join the Finding
Our Folk Tour, a multi-city gathering where displaced hurricane
survivors and their supporters will fellowship, organize, heal and hear
the truth about what happened from those who lived it.
Help us send this message from the bay: WE ARE IN SOLIDARITY!
FEATURING:
- Reportback from Atlanta leg of Finding Our Folk Tour
- Performances by New Orleans Artists featured on the "Eye Of The
Storm" Hurricane Relief CD
- Rashidi Omari from Company of Prophets
- Footage and Interviews from New Orleans
- Open-Mike and Discussion
- Information on grassroots campaigns in the Gulf Coast
- A chance to bring something to add to the Katrina Quilt
SPONSORED BY: ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, COMMUNITY
WORKS, YELL PROJECT, MCCLYMONDS HIGH SCHOOL, GARDENER CENTER FOR YOUTH AND
THEIR COMMUNITIES
For more information email Mike Molina at mikemolina@excite.com or call
(510) 717-5682
Please visit www.findingourfolk.org,
for more information about the national tour
LEST WE FORGET?
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, A 40 year old man watched his
mother die in his arms on the roof of their home as helicopters passed
overhead. On Christmas Eve, he returned to the rubble of his lower 9th
ward home to find his mother's body, her skeleton, still wearing the
tattered clothes she perished in...
A 27 year old man with five children waded through the toxic flood to
get food and clean water for elders in his neighborhood. He has spent the
last 96 days, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years being shipped to
jails around the South. He faces a seven year sentence on a trumped up
"looting" charge...
A 70 year old former Black Panther stayed through the storm. He spends
days and nights tirelessly organizing in New Orleans. He has turned his
flood damaged home into a solar generator powered communication
center...
Let us remember Lest we forget
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