This Wed Nite @ Public Address-- Floodlines: Grassroots Response From Hurricane Katrina to the BP Drilling Disaster

[J Neville]

Floodlines: Grassroots Response From Hurricane Katrina to the BP Drilling Disaster

Wed Nov 10th @ 7:30pm

1268 N. Ave 50, Los Angeles, CA

 

Tasty snacks will be provided!

 

Recent environmental and social disasters in New Orleans and the Gulf South gained worldwide attention.  But the community-based response to those disasters is deeply connected to broader social movements around the nation: grassroots responses to environmental disasters, neighborhood-based planning, affordable housing, community organizing, and prison reform.

 

Journalist and New Orleans-based community organizer Jordan Flaherty will be in Los Angeles to discuss struggles for justice and liberation in New Orleans and the Gulf South, and to connect those struggles with those around the nation.  He will be joined by Karla Chueh-Mejia: Karla is a Crabbit (aka cancer rabbit) queer woman of color who organizes with people of color communities focusing on lgbtq and anti-violence activism including organizations such as INCITE!, qteam, and Hollywood Youth Pride.  She is currently working on creating a drop-in center for lgbtq people of color and documenting the histories of queer/trans elders of color.

 

This conversation is a part of the Community Resistance tour, which seeks to connect communities of liberation, and to build relationships between grassroots activists and independent media.  This tour is for anyone interested in issues of health care, education, criminal justice, housing, or the ways in which systems of racism, patriarchy and other forms of oppression intersect with these struggles.

 

Sponsored by Haymarket Books, PM Press, Left Turn Magazine, Community Futures Collective, PATOIS, and other radical and independent media projects from around the US, the COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE TOUR is an exciting movement-building opportunity.

 

Jordan Flaherty is a journalist and community organizer based in New Orleans.  He was the first journalist with a national audience to write about the Jena Six case, and played an important role in bringing the story to worldwide attention. His post-Katrina writing in ColorLines Magazine shared a journalism award from New America Media for best Katrina-related coverage in the Ethnic press, and audiences around the world have seen the news segments he’s produced for Al-Jazeera, TeleSur, GritTV, and Democracy Now. His new book is called FLOODLINES: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six. Jordan has appeared as a guest on a wide range of television and radio shows, including CNN Morning, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Headline News, Democracy Now, Grit TV, and both local and nationally-syndicated shows on National Public Radio.

 

For more info about this event, email Jason Neville nevi...@gmail.com

 

For more information on Jordan or his work, see www.floodlines.org