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NAASN Panel on Common Ground & NOPD

  •  Scott Crow “Solidarity Not Charity: A Story of the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans”
  •  Jamie “Bork” Loughner On learning opportunities of the Common Ground Story
  •  Jordan Flaherty “Community Organizing Against the Prison Industrial Complex: Lessons from New Orleans to the NYPD to the Jena Six”
  • Moderator: Yasin Frank Southall

Followed by a "lively" Q&A

Malik Rahim Reflects on Katrina, Common Ground & Brandon Darby

Looking back at 5 years of Hurricane Katrina Relief, Malik Rahim, co-founder of Common Ground Collective, looks at the positive and negative causes and effects.  Including his opinion about Brandon Darby, a co-founder who turned out to be an FBI informant.
http://www.commongroundrelief.org
http://bikeforthegulf.org

Finding Common Ground with Anita Roddick

Common Ground Relief dedicated this facility in the New Orleans lower 9th ward to Anita Roddick (deceased owner of the Body Shop) who worked diligently behind the scenes throughout her life for social justice issues and human rights world wide.

Video features Malik Rahim, Kone Shakur, The Rebirth Brass Band, The Revolution 2nd Line and Fiyaya.

New Orleans St. Bernard Public Housing Clean Up Day

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

They assassinated King, April 4, 1968
On April 4, 2006 St Bernard public housing residents returned from forced exile, to clean up and reclaim their homes.

People who had leases with HANO and want to join the lawsuit against HANO can sign up online at: http://publichousing.justiceforneworleans.org

St. Augustine Church Take Over

Capitalism & Racism in Religion
http://www.staugustinecatholicchurch-neworleans.org

Several people occupied St. Augustine Catholic Church in the Treme area of New Orleans, for nearly 2 weeks to draw attention to the unjust treatment this Parrish received from the archdiocese in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

This church is historic; this occupation will be history some day.

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