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10/2, 10/4, 10/9 in SF: Reportbacks from New Orleans
by via Natasha
Friday Sep 30th, 2005 1:37 PM
Just back from NEW ORLEANS, bay area members of the Common Ground Collective are giving two report backs in San Francisco…JUST IN: MALIK RAHIM FROM COMMON GROUND IN SF THIS TUESDAY
NEW ORLEANS REPORT BACK!

Just back from NEW ORLEANS, bay area members of the
Common Ground Collective are giving two report backs
in San Francisco…

This Sunday, October 2nd at 7:00pm
At Station 40, 3030B 16th Street @ Mission, San
Francisco
(be aware that you will climb two long flights of
stairs)

AND

Next Sunday, October 9th at 7:00pm
At Artists’ Television Access (ATA), 992 Valencia @
21st, San Francisco
(wheelchair accessible)

Members of a medical and health care caravan who just
returned from working in Algiers with the Common
Ground Collective will share stories and a slide show.

PLUS...
JUST IN: MALIK RAHIM FROM COMMON GROUND IN SF THIS
TUESDAY

Tuesday, Oct. 4, 7pm
An ANSWER Coalition Special Event
EYEWITNESS NEW ORLEANS WITH MALIK RAHIM & OTHERS
Women’s Building, 3543 18th St (btwn Valencia &
Guerrero) San Francisco

Malik Rahim, a longtime community activist in New
Orleans (and San Francisco), will talk about the
situation in New Orleans today in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina and the disastrous response by the
Bush administration and other government agencies.
Malik, who lives in the Algiers section of New
Orleans, will discuss the grassroots community relief
and rebuilding efforts underway through the Common
Ground Relief organization.

Other participants in the program will include Maurice
Campbell, Community First Coalition; Gloria La Riva
and Bill Hackwell of ANSWER who traveled to New
Orleans, Baton Rouge and Houston in the days following
the disaster.

A new 14-minutes video, “Heroes Not Looters:
Eyewitness New Orleans and Houston,” will be shown.

Donation of $3-10 requested. No one turned away for
lack of funds.
This event will be a fundraiser for Common Ground
Relief in New Orleans.
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