OneBrickOneVoice
28th August 2007, 04:21
Two years since Hurricane Katrina... Two years - since the world watched in horror as bodies floated in the streets of New Orleans....Two years – since the Bush Regime allowed tens of thousands of people – overwhelmingly Black people – to suffer, starve, dehydrate and die in the unbearable heat and humidity and toxic sludge of a flooded city.
Two years since the Bush Regime committed a massive crime against humanity for which it is yet to be punished.
This Orange Friday, August 31--at the south end of Union Square at 5:30 pm-- we will be marking the two-year anniversary of Katrina. We have a sound permit for speakers.
And we have several ideas for the rally, for which we need your help:
* We want to feature "sights and sounds of Katrina," by enlarging powerful images that capture the devastation and abandonment of New Orleans during and after the levees broke... and by playing excerpts of interviews recorded during and after the hurricane.
Help locate powerful photos to enlarge, and help mount them on posters in order to capture the magnitude of the disaster and the Bush Regime's criminal response.
Also, help track down excerpts of interviews with New Orleans residents recorded during the time of Katrina, to be played on a PA system in Union Square.
*Contact local musicians who could lead a New Orleans funeral procession through the park
* Help contact speakers from organizations who address the Bush Regime's crimes during and after Katrina, and who demand the Bush Regime be held accountable for these crimes.
If you can help in any of these ways, including by getting word out to people and organizations, please call Bruce at 347-678-5905.
To read the full text of the powerful statement "Two Years After Katrina" from our Web site, go to www.worldcantwait.net
Two years since the Bush Regime committed a massive crime against humanity for which it is yet to be punished.
This Orange Friday, August 31--at the south end of Union Square at 5:30 pm-- we will be marking the two-year anniversary of Katrina. We have a sound permit for speakers.
And we have several ideas for the rally, for which we need your help:
* We want to feature "sights and sounds of Katrina," by enlarging powerful images that capture the devastation and abandonment of New Orleans during and after the levees broke... and by playing excerpts of interviews recorded during and after the hurricane.
Help locate powerful photos to enlarge, and help mount them on posters in order to capture the magnitude of the disaster and the Bush Regime's criminal response.
Also, help track down excerpts of interviews with New Orleans residents recorded during the time of Katrina, to be played on a PA system in Union Square.
*Contact local musicians who could lead a New Orleans funeral procession through the park
* Help contact speakers from organizations who address the Bush Regime's crimes during and after Katrina, and who demand the Bush Regime be held accountable for these crimes.
If you can help in any of these ways, including by getting word out to people and organizations, please call Bruce at 347-678-5905.
To read the full text of the powerful statement "Two Years After Katrina" from our Web site, go to www.worldcantwait.net