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Honoring Our Collective Leadership and Charting a Just Transition to a Thriving Gulf for ALL

COMMEMORATING THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF HURRICANE KATRINA

AUGUST 21st -26th

RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY: THE PEOPLE’S STORY

In the aftermath of one of the most dangerous storms in history, our communities were RESILIENT, but the reality is that we are not all RECOVERED. This year we commemorate Katrina 10 by lifting up the people’s experiences: stories of resilience, of reinvention and of the ongoing process of recovery.

Please join us as we commemorate

Gulf South Rising: Climate Justice Convergence
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice: www.dscej.org
• Conversation, Strategy and Networking space centered on climate change and its impacts, anchored by HBCU student leaders.

PxP NOLA is hosting the US premiere of our short documentary, Storm Surge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and Disaster Capitalism, on the anniversary of the cataclysmic event. Following the documentary, there will be a panel discussion with local intellectuals, activists and organizers.

The short film was created in collaboration with youth from PxP NOLA, Friend of a Friend and The Real News Network.

Free and open to the public. Refreshments to be served.

Survivor’s Village Rally
Lower9 Resilience Festival:http://l9rfest.org/
• Festival includes: Tribute to Music Legends Concert; Volunteer Recognition, Community Recognition and Food Vendors!
• Talk about what helped us survive and how we continue to survive; cultural presentations. Sunday Service to pray for continued recovery. Saturday and Sunday.

he goal of the tent city protest is not to commemorate what happened in 2005, but to fight the ongoing injustices against the poor black residents of New Orleans and to build a movement for the right to return for the 100,000 Black New Orleans citizens who were forcibly removed from their homes and excluded from the efforts to repopulate the city. In their names we make the following demands: