An Evening Around Katrina

SUNDAY, MAY 27th:
San Francisco, California
12 p.m.
Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St.
$8



REMAINS AND REBIRTH: A WEST COAST KATRINA TOUR

It has been a year and a half since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf
Coast, forever changing that region and the national political landscape.
The media coverage has grown sporadic and shallow. To combat this
misrepresentation and to present images of oppressed peoples organizing and
rebuilding in the face of oppression, come to a screening of "REMAINS AND
REBIRTH: An Evening Around Katrina."

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 [at] gmail.com.



FINDING COMMON GROUND IN NEW ORLEANS

This 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.

Finding 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:
http://www.myspace.com/channelzeromedia (watch a 7 minute version of the film!)

FOOD, WATER, REVOLUTION
In 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!
Danya Abt: 10 min | color | 2006

SUNCERE SHAKUR




An 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.

For more information, go to http://www.commongroundrelief.org.

WALIDAH IMARISHA