Tonight in Oakland: Finding our Folk Sendoff

> Date: January 31, 2006 10:37:20 AM PST
> Subject: Don't Miss it! Finding Our Folk: Support Katrina Survivors!
> WED FEB1
>
> Just a reminder, don't miss a great event, come and be inspired by
> youth who are reaching out to bring love and solidarity to Katrina
> survivors.
>
> -------please forward-----------------
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> FINDING OUR FOLK - OAKLAND SEND OFF
>
> Wednesday, February 1st, 7-9pm
> Ella Baker Center, 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,ART IN ACTION
>
> 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