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DESCRIPTION:This four part event includes: a screening of the post Katrina documentary 
 Finding Common Ground in New Orleans; a screening of Food, Water 
 Revolution, a short doc about the Iraq Veterans Against the War march in 
 support of the gulf coast; a presentation by New Orleans-based organizer 
 Suncere Shakur; and a question/answer dialogue with the filmmaker Walidah 
 Imarisha and Suncere. More information below or email 
 channelzeromedia@gmail.com.\n\nThis tour is a fundraiser for the Common 
 Ground Collective.\n\nPLEASE GO TO WWW.MYSPACE.COM/CHANNELZERO MEDIA FOR 
 UPDATED INFORMATION!\n\nRoxie Cinema\n3117 16th St\n12:00 noon\nAdmission= 
 $8.00 \n\nFINDING COMMON GROUND IN NEW ORLEANS\n\nThis 24 minute 
 documentary, shown through activist and poet Walidah Imarisha’s lens, 
 looks at the effects that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have had on New 
 Orleans and the surrounding area. Through compelling and often heart 
 wrenching interviews with residents, survivors, activists, volunteers and 
 officials, the landscape of a city devastated by a natural disaster but 
 more by criminal negligence, trying to rebuild comes to light. This film 
 includes exclusive footage shot in the makeshift bus station jail known as 
 “Camp Amtrak” and interviews with officials at the jail about the 
 city’s criminal justice system, or lack thereof. The short documentary is 
 able, through the lens of personal accounts that speak to broader issues 
 and concerns, to capture the pain, the loss and the hope of New 
 Orleans.\n\nFinding Common Ground in New Orleans has been or will be 
 screened in the Women of Color Film Festival, the Sankofa Film Festival, 
 The New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival, the Harlem Film Festival and 
 the Black Lily Film Festival, along others. It has received a Director’s 
 Choice Award during the Black Maria Film Festival, and was the recipient of 
 the PIFVA Winter 2006 Film Subsidy. For more 
 information:\nwww.myspace.com/channelzeromedia (watch a 7 minute version of 
 the film!)\n\nFOOD, WATER, REVOLUTION\nIn March 2006, Veterans Against the 
 Iraq War organized a march from Mobile, Alabama to New Orleans, LA in 
 support of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Did you see any media coverage 
 of this event? Neither did we. That’s why we’re presenting this video 
 Food, Water, Revolution! that documents the march and makes clear the 
 connection between the U.S. presence in Iraq and the government negligence 
 in responding to the needs of victims of Hurricane Katrina – in one word, 
 capitalism!\nDanya Abt: 10 min | color | 2006\n\n\nSUNCERE SHAKUR\n\nAn 
 organizer for over 15 years, Suncere Shakur has worked on issues affecting 
 black communities on a grassroots level. At the age of 14, Shakur helped to 
 form Fatima, a community grocery program. While based in his home town of 
 Washington, DC, Shakur co-founded Café Mawonaj, a grassroots coffee 
 house/meeting space, and MayDay, a housing rights group. He was 
 instrumental in the formation of a chapter of the Anarchist People of Color 
 while in Asheville, North Carolina, and was one of the organizers of the 
 2004 Regional APOC Conference. Shakur has spent the past 19 months in New 
 Orleans as part of Common Ground Relief, a New Orleans first response team 
 of radicals. He has set up six distribution centers, two free breakfast 
 programs, a Saturday legal clinic, and was an important part in the effort 
 to save the oldest black Catholic Church in America, St. Augstine. He is 
 featured in the short documentary Finding Common Ground in New 
 Orleans.\n\nWALIDAH IMARISHA - A historian at heart, reporter by (w)right, 
 rebel by reason, Walidah helped to found and served as the first editor of 
 the political hip hop publication AWOL Magazine. She was one of the editors 
 of the 911 anthology Another World is Possible. The bad half of the poetry 
 duo Good Sista/Bad Sista, Walidah is also the director of the post-Katrina 
 documentary Finding Common Ground in New Orleans. She does anti prison 
 organizing with the Human Rights Coalition, a group of prisoners’ 
 families and former prisoners and is on the board of the Central Committee 
 for Conscientous Objectors, which does anti militarism organizing work.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/22/18419805.php
SUMMARY:REMAINS AND REBIRTH: An Event Around Katrina
LOCATION:Roxie Cinema\n3117 16th St\n\n12:00 noon\nAdmission= $8.00 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/22/18419805.php
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