WED, FEB 1: Finding Our Folk -- Oakland Send-off

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 C.D.
* 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 [at] excite.com or call (510) 717-5682

Please visit http://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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