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After Katrina: Solidarity Not Charity, Reclaiming the Gulf

Wednesday January 25, 2006 6:30 - 9 PM

Screening:

A Corner of Her Eye
MiniDV, 18 minutes

An intimate and spooky portrait of three brothers visiting their father in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi who take on Hurricane Katrina as a fun challenge and find themselves fighting for their lives.

Watch trailer

with a report on New Orleans from
the Common Ground Collective

A national dialogue on racism, poverty inequality and injustice began after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. While FEMA and the Red Cross failed at providing immediate support for Gulf "refugees", community-led projects like the Common Ground Collective have continued the work of rebuilding the Gulf offering mutual aid and support from volunteer medical and health providers, aid workers, community organizers, legal representatives and people from all over with broad skills from all walks of life.

Speakers:
Sean White: volunteer with the Common Ground Collective. Sean has been at the Common Ground Collective since September and will have a slide presentation on the Common Ground Project. Sean is an anti-authoritarian/ anti-capitalist activist and organizer and a member of the Socialist Party.

Konrad Aderer: documentarian and producer of Life or Liberty, Farouk Abdel-Muhti: Political Prisoner and other human rights films. Konrad has a short video of Katrina and will speak about his experience during the hurricane. A ten-minute excerpt will be shown from his documentary A Corner of Her Eye.

Others Speakers TBA

Moderated by Greg Pason, National Secretary Socialist Party USA

339 LAFAYETTE ST. (buzzer #11) MANHATTAN, NYC
(corner of Bleecker & Lafayette Sts.)
Info: gpason@... or
212-982-4586

Subway B,D,F Broadway/Lafayette stop or 6 train to Bleecker

Posted by Konrad at 06:00 PM | Permalink

By Katherine Hunt
Last Update: 12:19 PM ET Jan 24, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. , said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. The maximum total value of the contract is $385 million and consists of a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. KBR held the previous ICE contract from 2000 through 2005. The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs, KBR said. The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company said.

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