After Katrina: Solidarity Not Charity, Reclaiming the Gulf

Wednesday January 25, 2006 6:30 - 9 PM

Screening:

A Corner of Her Eye
MiniDV, 18 minutes

An intimate and spooky portrait of three brothers visiting their father in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi who take on Hurricane Katrina as a fun challenge and find themselves fighting for their lives.

Watch trailer

with a report on New Orleans from
the Common Ground Collective

A national dialogue on racism, poverty inequality and injustice began after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. While FEMA and the Red Cross failed at providing immediate support for Gulf "refugees", community-led projects like the Common Ground Collective have continued the work of rebuilding the Gulf offering mutual aid and support from volunteer medical and health providers, aid workers, community organizers, legal representatives and people from all over with broad skills from all walks of life.

Speakers:
Sean White: volunteer with the Common Ground Collective. Sean has been at the Common Ground Collective since September and will have a slide presentation on the Common Ground Project. Sean is an anti-authoritarian/ anti-capitalist activist and organizer and a member of the Socialist Party.

Konrad Aderer: documentarian and producer of Life or Liberty, Farouk Abdel-Muhti: Political Prisoner and other human rights films. Konrad has a short video of Katrina and will speak about his experience during the hurricane. A ten-minute excerpt will be shown from his documentary A Corner of Her Eye.

Others Speakers TBA

Moderated by Greg Pason, National Secretary Socialist Party USA

339 LAFAYETTE ST. (buzzer #11) MANHATTAN, NYC
(corner of Bleecker & Lafayette Sts.)
Info: gpason@... or
212-982-4586

Subway B,D,F Broadway/Lafayette stop or 6 train to Bleecker