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Tue Aug 22 2006 (Updated 09/07/06)
One-Year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Great Flood Commemoration Events
In the Bay Area, several events were held to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans. People planned to honor those who have died, fight for the right to return for all those who are still displaced, and demand an end to blatant racial discrimination in post-Katrina New Orleans A Katrina Community Commemoration was held on Tuesday, August 29th at the First Unitarian Church in Oakland. Read more about Local events | imc_pdf.gif Flyer Other Bay Area events included a film festival on Sunday, August 27th in SF, a press conference on August 28th at FEMA Headquarters in Oakland ( imc_photo.gif Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 ), and a vigil that night. SF Critical Mass commemorated Katrina on August 25th by remembering the great earthquakes that have rocked the city, and acknowledging the fact that climate change will bring additional disasters to San Francisco.

New Orleans Network lists over 50 commemorative events that will be held in the New Orleans area. New Orleans Indymedia reports that the People's Hurricane Relief Fund is helping to organize an August 29th memorial march.
One Year Later Katrina Didn't Close the Racial Divide | Mayor Nagin Tells Black Journalists ‘No One’s Covering’ His City | Ethnic Media Share Survival Stories One Year After Katrina | Katrina’s One–Year Anniversary Yields Harsh Retrospective

Spike Lee has produced a cable-TV documentary about the devastation of New Orleans, and the film has been described by one network executive as "one of the most important films HBO has ever made." It was screened at the New Orleans Arena on August 16th, days before it aired on the cable network. The four-hour film is entitled "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts." It will be shown again on August 29th, the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall.
Spike Lee Discusses "Levees" | Spike Gets It Right in 'Levees,' Says New Orleans Resident | HBO's When the Levees Broke website | Wikipedia's When the Levees Broke page

Indybay's Past Coverage: FEMA Evicted from Oakland, 2/06 | Lower 9th Ward Fights Home Evictions, 1/06 | Community Rights March, 12/05 | Caravan to Nola 11/05 | Common Ground Calls for Help, 10/05 | SF Nola Reportbacks, 9/05 | Unhoused Survivors Transferred to Arkansas | Bay Area Health Workers Join Common Ground | West Coast IMCistas Report from Houston | ANSWER Delegation Reports | Celebrating Spirit of Resistance | Katrina Timeline | Katrina Updates from the First Days | Flooding Was Predictable | Bay Area Rallies Demand More Support | Katrina Causes Destruction | Resources for Finding Katrina Animals | Animal Rescues in the Gulf

SC-IMC features: Santa Cruz Media Exec Panders to his Financial Interests in Editorial | One year after Katrina

US Indymedia's Katrina Coverage
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