>
> Dear Nola:
> The
one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall and the
devastating levee breaches that flooded most of New Orleans and took so
many lives is fast approaching. Over the next week New Orleanians will
gather to honor our dead and reflect on all we have endured over the
past year.
>
> New Orleans Network has compiled a list
of more than 50 events planned around the one-year anniversary of
Katrina. We'd like to particularly draw your attention to two events
coming up this week and the community-driven commemoration march on
August 29th.
>
> This Tuesday at 4 p.m. you can join levees.org (
http://www.levees.org ) at the Hale
> Bogg's Building as they release a report card on the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers. Then on Friday the African-American Leadership
Project will kick off a series of activities leading up to the
anniversary with a panel discussion from 7 to 9 p.m. at Ashe' Cultural
Arts Center.
> On August 29th, about 30 local organizations
have worked with People's Hurricane Relief Fund to plan a commemoration
march beginning with a 10 a.m. ceremony at Jourdan and N. Galvez (site
of the L9W levee breach). The march will proceed to Congo Square and
end with reflections from families who lost loved ones and community
leaders.
>
> Those are just a few of the more than 50
events planned to commemorate our tragedies and rally against the
continuing injustices. Read on to learn about many other events or
visit the anniversary section of our site at
http://www.neworleansnetwork.org/anniversary .
While you are there, you can also check out the calendar to get a
glimpse of other meetings and community events on tap for the week.
>
> Thanks for all your help building this resource.
>
>
> AUGUST
>
> 8/16, 8/21-22, 8/29-Spike Lee's cable-TV documentary about New
Orleans devastation by failed levees, described by one network
executives as "one of the most important films HBO has ever made," will
be hosted by the New Orleans Arena on August 16 at 7pm, five days
before it airs on the cable network. An estimated 10,000 seats will be
made available for the event, which Lee is expected to attend. You can
get tickets for FREE on ticketmaster.com. The two-part TV premiere of
the four-hour film, titled "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four
Acts," will be Aug. 21 and 22. And four hours will repeat on Aug. 29,
the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall.
>
> 8/21-8/24 – NAACP Housing Hearings and Public Action Event will
occur in several cities including New Orleans, Baton Rouge,
Lafayette/Lake Charles, on the North Shore and Wash, D.C. with possible
satellite meetings in Houston and Dallas. NAACP will take public
testimony and comments on housing issues and rights to return. On the
last day there will be a public action in Wash, D.C. to gather
information and demand response to problems from federal officials.
> Coordinator: NAACP Gulf Coast Advocacy Center
> Contact: Tracie Washington,
twashington [at] naacpnet [dot] org (twashington [at] naacpnet.org)
>
> TUESDAY, AUGUST 22
>
> 8/22 – Levees.org will observe the worst engineering disaster in
U.S. history with the release of a report card on the performance of
the U.S. Corps of Engineers since August 29, 2005, the date of
Hurricane Katrina’s landfall. At the event the group will also unveil a
commemorative poster made up of photos of flag-draped flooded homes.
> The event begins at 4 p.m. on Aug. 22 in the courtyard of the Hale Bogg’s Building at Magazine and Poydras streets.
> Coordinating group: Levees.org (
http://www.levees.org )
> Contact: Sandy Rosenthal – (504) 616.5159 or
sandy [at] levees [dot] org (sandy [at] levees.org)
>
> WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23
>
> 8/23 – New Orleans Council on Aging: Katrina Theater
> The performance will feature employees and seniors of the New
Orleans Council on Aging in recognition of the anniversary of Hurricane
Katrina. The event begins at 10 a.m. at the council’s temporary
headquarters at 2020 Jackson Ave.
> Coordinating group: New Orleans Council on Aging
> Contact: Howard Rodgers – 504.827.7843 or
primemin3 [at] aol [dot] com (primemin3 [at] aol.com)
>
> 8/23-8/28 – “HEAR ME NOW! Reflections One Year After Katrina-Rita”
The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation will kick-off a
five day listing tour of the Gulf South with a press conference at 10
a.m. on Aug. 23 at Loew’s Hotel (300 Poydras Ave).
> The tour,
which will provide an outlet for Gulf Coast women to talk about their
experiences and outline their current needs will travel through five
cities in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.
> The tour itinerary:
> Aug. 24: Mobile, Ala.
> Aug. 25: Gulfport, Miss.
> Aug. 26: New Orleans, La.
> Aug. 27: Lafayette, La.
> Aug. 28: Jackson Miss.
> Coordinating group: National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
> Contact: Leslie Watson Malachi, 202.256.8531, 202.659.4929 or
leslie5560 [at] aol [dot] com (leslie5560 [at] aol.com)
>
> FRIDAY, AUGUST 25
>
> 8/25 & 8/26 – One Year Later: What Have We Learned
> Loyola Center for Environmental Law and Land Use host this daylong conference and tour.
> Conference: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25 @ Loyola University School of Law (526 Pine St.)
> Tour: 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 26 @ Holy Name Church (6363 St. Charles Ave.)
> Coordinator: Loyola Center for Environmental Law and Land Use
> Contact: 504.865-2011
>
> 8/25-8/29 – The African-American Leadership Project is planning a
series of commemorative events and collaborating with People’s
Hurricane Relief Fund as part of the United Front to Commemorate the
Great Flood, a coalition of more than 30 New Orleans-based grass-roots
organizations.
> 8/25 – National Dialogue: What We learned from Katrina – panel discussion, 7 – 9 p.m. @ Ashe' Cultural Arts Center
> 8/26 –Hands around the Dome – An Umoja Circle around the Superdome
followed by a march to the Convention Center in memory of the lives
lost during Hurricane, 12 – 3 p.m. @ the Superdome and Convention
Center
> 8/27 – Ecumenical Interfaith Worship Service, 2 – 4:30 p.m. @ Watson Teaching Ministries
> White Buffalo Day and Katrina Observance, 4:30 p.m. @ Congo Square in Louis Armstrong Park
> 8/28 – Katrina Lecture Series featuring Dr. Ivan Van Heerden,
author of “The Storm” and deputy director for the LSU Hurricane
Research Center with possible appearance by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson,
author of “come Hell or High Water,” 7 – 9:30 p.m. @ Ashe' Cultural
Arts Center.
> 8/29 – Great Flood Commemoration March from
Lower 9th Ward to Congo Square in conjunction with the United Front to
Commemorate the Great Flood (a coalition led by People’s Hurricane
Relief Fund), 10 a.m. assemble at Jordan and N. Galvez streets
> - Closing Event: Let the Circle Be Unbroken featuring the premier
of “Unmasking New Orleans” (a DVD from The Final Call) and town hall
meeting on the future of New Orleans 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. @ Ashe' Cultural
Arts Center
> Coordinator: African-American Leadership Project (in collaboration with United Front to Commemorate the Great Flood)
> Contact: Mtangulizi Sanyinka,
wazuri [at] aol [dot] com (wazuri [at] aol.com)
>
> SATURDAY, AUGUST 26
>
> 8/26-ACORN's Tour of Hope will leave Saturday, August 26 at 2:00
p.m. from 1024 Elysian Fields in New Orleans. The tour bus will stop at
locations in the neighborhoods where non-profits and others have made
contributions to save the community and return residents. For
reservations on the bus, contact ACORN 800-239-7379 x 127. To trail the
bus in your own vehicle, please contact 800-239-7379 x 127.
>
ACORN's Katrina Memorial Event will be held Saturday evening, August 26
at 6:00 p.m. Reservations required: Contact 800-239-7379 x 127 for more
info.
>
> 8/26 The New Orleans City Council is
inviting the youth of New Orleans to participate in “the Children’s
Village of Healing – Nurturing What Eyes Have Seen and Ears Have Heard”
from 2 to 5 p.m. at Duncan Plaza, across from City Hall. Children will
express their feelings through arts – painting, poetry, dance and
creative writing. Artist Dixie Moore will lead the children through a
Katrina mural project. Author Laverne Dunn will lead a creative writing
workshop. Many community organizations that serve children will be
providing informational materials and children’s activities. They
include Children’s Hospital, Agenda for Children, the Parenting Center,
the Children’s Museum, Total Community Action, Healthy Start, the Umoja
Committee, the New Orleans Public Schools Homeless Education Program,
the Children’s Defense Fund, the state Department of Social Services
Office of Family Support, O. Perry Walker, the Ashe Cultural Cen
> ter and the Greater New Orleans Chapter of the Louisiana Association for the Education of Young Children.
> Coordinator: New Orleans City Council
>
> 8/26 A Candlelight Ceremony for Katrina Victims will begin at 8:30
p.m. at Algiers Point. At this event sponsored by Councilman James
Carter a candle will be lit for each person who died as a result of the
storm and flood.
> Coordinator: Councilman James Carter
> Contact: New Orleans City Council at 504.658.1000
>
> 8/26 – Rising Tide Conference
> Daylong conference with panel discussion about Hurricane Katrina,
the immediate aftermath of the storm and flood and the role of bloggers
in the struggle to rebuild to be held at the New Orleans Yacht Club
(403 N. Roadway St.)
> 8:00 - 9:00: Keynote Address:
Christopher Cooper and Robert Bloch, authors of Disaster: Hurricane
Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security.
> 9:15 - 10:15:
Panel Discussion: Personal Viewpoints moderated by Mark Moseley,
including bloggers who stayed through the storm.
> 10:30 - 11:30: Think New Orleans by Alan Gutierrez.
> 1:00 - 2:00: Panel Discussion: New Orleans Politics moderated by Peter Athas.
> 2:15 - 3:15: Panel Discussion: Influence of Journalists and
Bloggers moderated by Maitri Venkat-Ramani and Mark Folse, with
NOLA.Com editor Jon Donley.
> 3:30 - 4:30: Panel Discussion:
Bloggers & Neighborhood Associations moderated by Morwen Madrigal
and Peter Athas with blogger/neighborhood activists representing the
Gentilly, Mid-City, Northwest Carrollton and B neighborhoods.
> Contact: Mark Folse 504.872.0091 or 701.200.6424 (cell phone for day of event)
>
> SUNDAY, AUGUST 27
>
> 8/27 – Members of the Lower 9th Ward Neighborhood Council will
hold a Memorial Tribute to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina at 1 p.m.
at the corner of Claiborne Avenue and Tennessee Street.
>
> 8/27 – Katrina Memorial Concert
> A free Katrina Memorial Concert commemorating the one-year
anniversary of the catastrophe and featuring several of the area's most
distinguished musicians, including sopranos Phyllis Treigle, Thais St
Julien, Cyril Hellier, Libbye Hellier and Melissa Brocato; flautist
Louis Hackett; and organists James Hammann, Marcus St Julien and Brian
Morgan. The New Orleans Musica da Camera will also perform. Composers
heard will include Stephen Adams, Jacques Berthier, Joseph Gelineau SJ,
George Frideric Handel, Nicola A Montani, Gerald Near and Ethelbert
Nevin.
> The concert begins at 3 p.m. at the Church of Our Lady of Good Council (1235 Louisiana Ave.)
> Contact: Brian Morgan, (504)710.0891 or
brianjaemorgan [at] aim [dot] com (brianjaemorgan [at] aim.com)
> OLGC rectory at (504)891-1906 or
olgc [at] archdiocese-no [dot] org (olgc [at] archdiocese-no.org).
>
> 8/27 – New Orleans is the Soul of her People
> Poet Brenda Marie Osbey and others from the William Faulkner
Society will present works. Event also features a concert by Davell
Crawford and other gospel singers. Concert begins at 4:30 p.m. at St.
Louis Cathedral followed by reception and book signing in the Cabildo.
>
> 8/27 – Baton Rouge Community Worship: A community gathering of
"Remembrance, Thanksgiving, and Hope" on the anniversary week of
Hurricane Katrina will be held on August 27, 2006 at 4:00 pm at First
United Methodist Church, 930 North Blvd, in downtown Baton Rouge. This
worship service of light will help remember those who have suffered
loss in the tragedy of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, express our unity
in prayer and spirit with all those in need, and to lift up the hope of
God who brings light out of darkness and hope out of despair. We
remember those who lost loved ones, those forced to evacuate, those who
are homeless, those serving in rescue and relief, those in the medical
profession, those in leadership, and others. We gather to give thanks
to God for guiding and sustaining us through difficult days and nights.
> Baton Rouge Training Event: "Best Practices Used in
Disasters" is a community training event which precedes the Aug. 27
worship. The training begins at 2 p.m. in the same location as the 4
p.m. worship (First United Methodist Church). Teams are invited to come
to learn the best practices for shelters, food distribution, donations,
volunteers, and handling a crisis. Register by August 23 at
225-343-8270 or online:
http://www.volunteerbatonrouge.org
> Coordinator: Greater Baton Rouge Federation of Churches and Synagogues
>
> MONDAY, AUGUST 28
>
> 8/28 Town Hall Meeting sponsored by the NAACP Gulf Coast Advocacy Center
> Panel discussion about the city's redevelopment and lack of
progress moderated by Michael Eric Dyson. Participants include NAACP
President/CEO Bruce Gordon, America’s Second Harvest President/CEO
Vicki B. Escarra, New Orleans Council President Oliver Thomas, State
Sen. Diana Bajoie, Xavier University President Dr. Norman Francis,
Loyola University Professor Bill Quigley, and other invited elected
officials and policy makers.
> 6 to 8:30 p.m. @ Xavier University Student Center (1 Drexel Dr.)
>
> 8/28 – KaBOOM!’s Week of Play
> KaBOOM!’s and its partners, The Home Depot, Playworld Systems and
Hands On Network, will build ten playgrounds in the Gulf Coast during
the last week of August. On August 28, a playground will be built at
Nelson UNO Charter School.
> Coordinator: KaBOOM!
> Contact:
info [at] kaboom [dot] org (info [at] kaboom.org).
>
> 8/28 – “Reality Check” Tour
> Survivor’s Village, a tent city protest for the reopening of
public housing in New Orleans, is putting together a media exclusive
tour of the state of public housing and public housing residents in New
Orleans. The tour is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
> Coordinator: Survivors Village
> Contact:
survivorsvillage [at] gmail [dot] com (survivorsvillage [at] gmail.com) for more information or to RSVP.
>
> TUESDAY, AUGUST 29 -- ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF KATRINA LANDFALL
>
> 8/29 – Come Back Home Campaign
> Around 5,000 survivors who are still displaced and scattered all
across the U.S. will be traveling to New Orleans to make their demands
to return home heard by the city council of New Orleans. The People’s
Organizing Committee is working with survivor’s councils around the
country to build toward this coordinated effort. This event is the last
part of the Come Back Home Campaign.
> Coordinator: People’s Organizing Committee
> Contact: Ishmael Muhammad,
ishmaelmuhammad [at] yahoo [dot] com (ishmaelmuhammad [at] yahoo.com)
>
> 8/29 – Trinity Episcopal Church (1329 Jackson Ave) will host a
musical vigil to mark the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. From 12
noon to 12 midnight, the church will be open to all who seek a space to
pray, meditate, grieve, hope, walk the labyrinth, listen to music, and
find strength for the future. The vigil will begin with Noonday prayer,
and will also include musical prayer services at 5 pm (Evensong) and 9
pm (Compline), with music and readings in between. The vigil will
conclude at 12:01 am on Wednesday August 30. We also invite the public
to write, draw, or paste their memories, losses, burdens and fears in a
Book of Remembrance. Please come as you are and stay as long as you
like.
> Coordinator: Trinity Episcopal Church
> Contact: Albinas Prizgintas –
aprizgintas [at] trinityno [dot] com (aprizgintas [at] trinityno.com), 670-2520; Nell Bolton –
nbolton [at] trinityno [dot] com (nbolton [at] trinityno.com), 670-2543
>
> 8/29- New Orleans Jazz Funeral Requiem - In Honor of the Victims
of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and the flooding of New Orleans caused by
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
> * As an invitation to New
Orleans: Cultural Artist & Activists, Social Service Organizations,
Neighborhood Organizations, and Citizens.
> Where: New Orleans Superdome, Poydras St.
> Time: 11:30am, Procession to Congo Square
> PHONE FOR PARTICIPATION: THE NEW ORLEANS STREET ARTS COUNCIL
> phone: 504-312-9546 or email:
nola_saw_hammer_nails [at] yahoo [dot] com (nola_saw_hammer_nails [at] yahoo.com)
>
> 8/29 – United Front to Commemorate the Great Flood memorial march
> People’s Hurricane Relief Fund is working to coordinate a memorial
event around the anniversary of H. Katrina’s landfall and the ensuing
Flood. PHRF is working with more than 30 grassroots organizations to
plan and execute the memorial. Current plans center on a memorial march
from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 29 beginning at the levee breach in the
Lower Ninth Ward and ending at Congo Square.
> March Schedule:
> - 10 a.m. gather @ Jourdan and N. Galvez, the site of the 9th Ward
Levee Break. Olayeela Daste will preside over a memorial ceremony that
includes the Franklin Avenue Baptist Choir and Zion Trinity, along with
a number of spiritual leaders and Patricia Jones of the Lower 9th Ward
Neighborhood Association. Commemoration planners are requesting that
people bring candles and white flowers.
> - 11 a.m. march
across the Claiborne Street Bridge, take a left onto Poland and a right
onto St Claude. The Hot 8 Brass Band will join the procession as it
crosses Franklin to provide a Second Line beat for the remainder of the
march. From St Claude, the march will proceed to Rampart Street and end
at Congo Square.
> - 1 p.m. commemoration activities continue
at Congo Square with reflections from family members whose loved ones
have passed and from community leaders including Jerome Smith (aka Big
Duck) and Malcolm Suber, as well as the next generation of community
spokespeople, including hip hop artists: Skip UTP, Mia X, Ms. Tee, Sess
4-5 and Mr Meana. These artists will speak about their experience
during and after the Great Flood. Music appropriate to the
commemoration will include gospel, Mardi Gras Indians, African drums,
Suga and others. Sunni Patterson and Wild Wayne will emcee. A healing
tent and memorial wall will also provide support for people at Congo
Square.
>
> Free bus transportation has been arranged
for people from Houston, Jackson, Baton Rouge and Atlanta who want to
attend the Commemoration. For information about Atlanta buses, call
Addis at 770-256-1882; for Houston buses call Gina at 713 433-4194; for
Jackson buses call Chokwe at 601-353-4455 and for Baton Rouge buses
call Demetrius at 504-931-2065.
>
> Visit
http://www.peopleshurricane.org for more information
> Contacts: Malcolm Suber - 504.931.7614,
msuber4366 [at] yahoo [dot] com (msuber4366 [at] yahoo.com)
> Arlene (to arrange interviews)- (504)301-0215 (PHRF office) or (415) 305-7835
>
> 8/29- Desire Street Ministries and Desire St. Academy
> On the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 29 at 10
a.m. CT, students, faculty, family and friends will all gather in the
New Orleans' Upper Ninth Ward at the former ministry and school
headquarters of Desire Street Ministries and Desire St. Academy, at
3600 Desire Street, for a time of prayer, remembrance, and thanksgiving
lead by executive director and former New Orleans Saints quarterback
Danny Wuerffel.
> Desire Street Ministries was established in
the Upper Ninth Ward in 1990 when Mo Leverett, a pastor, musician and
missionary, moved into the Desire Street neighborhood to reach out to
children who were trapped in poverty and crime. Fifteen years later,
the ministry was supporting a church, an academy for urban young men, a
pediatric clinic, and various programs designed to help revitalize the
Desire neighborhood, most of which was lost on Aug. 29, 2005, during
Hurricane Katrina, as is completely devastated the Ninth Ward and
dislocated the entire Desire St. neighborhood.
> In the
aftermath of the storm, Leverett and Wuerffel worked tirelessly to
locate the students currently enrolled in the academy who had been
scattered throughout the United States, and find a suitable location to
restart the school, and to care for staff, family, and friends. Shortly
after, Desire Street Academy relocated to Camp Timpoochee, a 4-H camp
located in Niceville, Fla., operated by the University of Florida,
Wuerffel's alma mater.
> CONTACT: Marcia Peterson, (866) 633-0070,
mpeterson [at] desirestreet [dot] org (mpeterson [at] desirestreet.org)
>
> 8/29 – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. -- To commemorate the anniversary of
Hurricane Katrina, The Historic New Orleans Collection will host an
all-day event on Tuesday, August 29, 2006, featuring presentations by
the Times-Picayune reporting staff, winners of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize
for Hurricane Katrina coverage, and a lecture and book signing by
Richard Campanella (Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before
the Storm, August 2006). The anniversary event, free and open to the
public, will be followed by a reception and exhibition viewing.
>
> 8/27-8/29 – The City of New Orleans has planned Hurricane Katrina
memorial activities themed Remembrance, Renewal, and Rebirth on Sunday
August 27, 2006 and Tuesday, August 29, 2006. All City events are free
and open to the public.
> Schedule of Activities:
> Sunday, August 27, 2006
> 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.: Gospel Concert in the 2nd Floor Auditorium, Hall
H, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (900 Convention Center Blvd.).
The concert will reflect on the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, honor
survivors and memorialize the lives that were lost through songs of
praise and worship. The concert will feature a performance by the One
New Orleans Mass Choir and other gospel artists.
> Tuesday, August 29, 2006
> 8:30 a.m.: Prayer Breakfast at Asia Baptist Church (1400 Sere
Street). Mayor Ray Nagin will be the special guest of Dr. William J.
Shaw, President of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. and Dr.
R. B. Holmes, Jr., President of the National Baptist Congress of
Christian Education at a prayer breakfast to pray for the rebuilding of
New Orleans.
>
> 9:38 a.m.: Ceremonial Bell Ringing and Wreath Laying
> Mayor Nagin and Mrs. Nagin will be joined by community leaders,
elected officials, dignitaries, city employees, and the public at 9:38
a.m. on the front steps of City Hall (1300 Perdido St.) to ring
ceremonial bells signifying the series of levee breaches that occurred
throughout the city. Bells will ring for two minutes. (9:38 a.m. – 9:40
a.m.) Simultaneously, members of the New Orleans City Council will lay
wreaths on levees throughout the city.
>
> 10:30 a.m.: Mississippi River Heritage Park Dedication Ceremony
> Mayor Nagin will join City Council President Oliver Thomas and
members of the New Orleans City Council, to dedicate a monument titled,
“A Place of Remembrance,” at the Mississippi River Heritage Park (1100
block of Convention Center Blvd) in remembrance of the victims of
Hurricane Katrina.
>
> Noon: Citywide Interfaith Service
> National, state, and local leaders will reflect and offer
inspirational words of encouragement at the Citywide Interfaith Service
at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (900 Convention Center
Blvd.). Clergy from various religious backgrounds will offer scriptural
readings and prayer. Bishop G.E. Patterson, Presiding Bishop of the
Church of God In Christ Inc. and Pastor of Temple of Deliverance Church
of God In Christ in Memphis, Tennessee, will deliver the Keynote
Address.
>
> 2:00 p.m.: One New Orleans Procession in the tradition of a Jazz Funeral from
> the Convention Center to Superdome
> The Traditional New Orleans Jazz Funeral Procession will be a 1.5
mile march, led by Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré, from the Ernest
N. Morial Convention Center to the Louisiana Superdome. The procession
will include first responders, national, state and local elected
officials, dignitaries, jazz musicians and the community at large. The
traditional jazz funeral procession will honor first responders and the
victims of Hurricane Katrina.
> A traditional New Orleans Jazz
Funeral is a musical tribute honoring the passing of noted members of
the community. This cultural ceremony is distinguished by an assemblage
of musicians, usually featuring several brass band elements who stage a
procession. The procession begins with the playing of the dirge, a
slow, mournful, solemn tempo that expresses a somber respect for the
deceased. At a certain point, the procession picks up the tempo and
energy in celebration of the positive accomplishments of the individual
and an acknowledgement of his or her zest for life.
> Contact: For more information about memorial activities, please e-mail
katrinaanniversary [at] cityofno [dot] com (katrinaanniversary [at] cityofno.com).
>
> 8/29 – St. Bernard Parish daylong remembrance beings at 10 a.m.
with the dedication of an illuminated, stainless steel crucifix and
stone monument bearing the names of the 129 St. Bernard Parish
residents who died in Hurricane Katrina. The monument will be located
at the site of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet
> Coordinator: St. Bernard Parish Council
> Contact: Tony “Ricky” Melerine, parish councilman and committee
co-chair and Charlie Reppel, chief of staff for Parish President Junior
Rodriguez
>
> 8/29 –Back to the 9th on the 29th
> Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans plans a “Back to the
9th on the 29th” lunch (12 noon) at the Shirley Landry Benson PACE
Center at St. Cecilia (4201 N. Rampart St.) to recognize Catholic
Charities’ dedication to models of excellence in healthcare, education,
housing and economic development in the neighborhoods of New Orleans.
> Coordinator: Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans
> Contact: Sarah Comiskey, associate director of communication - 504-596-3023,
scomiskey [at] archdiocese-no [dot] org (scomiskey [at] archdiocese-no.org)
>
http://www.ccano.org
>
> 8/29 –Interfaith Prayer Service
> The Archdiocese of New Orleans will hold a prayer service from 7
to 8 p.m. on August 29 at St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square hosted
by Archbishop Hughes. Members of 12 faiths, including Catholic, Jewish,
Muslim and Hindu will participate in this service. The Louisiana
Philharmonic Orchestra will play in Jackson Square from 8:00-8:55, and
at 8:55, the Katrina bell (twin to the 9/11 bell in New York City) will
be rung to commemorate the lives lost in Katrina.
>
> SEPTEMBER
>
> Early September – Student Hurricane Network will coordinate a lobbying effort in Wash, D.C.
> Coordinator: Student Hurricane Network
> Contact: Lauren Bartlett,
lauren_bartlett [at] yahoo [dot] com (lauren_bartlett [at] yahoo.com) or Michael Goldstone,
mgoldstone [at] gmail [dot] com (mgoldstone [at] gmail.com)
>
> 9/1 (early Sept.) – Planned opening of Women’s Health Clinic
> With Charity Hospital shuttered, adequate and accessible health
care for New Orleans' uninsured returning residents is in poor shape.
The women of Incite! Women of Color, a collective of feminist activists
dedicated to ending violence against women of color, has partnered with
other local organizations to attempt to open a free health clinic for
women and children in the historic Treme district.
> Coordinator: New Orleans Women’s Health and Justice Initiative
> Contact: Shana Griffin,
ambkeysha [at] yahoo [dot] com (ambkeysha [at] yahoo.com)
>
> 9/12 – Community Forum on Katrina Arrests
> Critical Resistance New Orleans will host a forum to discuss the
plight of hundreds of New Orleanians who were arrested in the aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina for committing “crimes” while trying to care for
their basic needs and the survival of their families. Many of these
citizens spent nearly a year in prison and some still remain behind
bars awaiting charges on issues such as public intoxication or
trespassing. Critical Resistance will host community forum at 7 p.m. on
Tues., Sept. 12 at Ashe’ Cultural Arts Center.
> Coordinator: Cricitical Resistance New Orleans
> Contact: 504.304.3784 or visit
http://www.criticalresistance.org/katrina
>
>
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