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ORGANIZING AND RESISTANCE IN NEW ORLEANS<br>
Featuring New Orleans organizers and journalists CC Campbell-Rock and
Jordan Flaherty<br><br>
Monday, January 23, 7:00PM<br>
522 Valencia Street (at 16th St.)<br>
San Francisco<br>
$5 (no one turned away for lack of funds)<br><br>
MORE INFO:<br><br>
New Orleans social justice organizers CC Campbell-Rock and Jordan
Flaherty will speak about post-Katrina organizing in New Orleans and
among displaced survivors of Katrina in the Bay Area and
elsewhere.<br><br>
CC CAMPBELL-ROCK is Editor at the SF Bay View. She is a native New
Orleanian and earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from
Loyola University of the South. A veteran journalist, she has been the
managing editor of three New Orleans-based newspapers and associate
editor of a national magazine, and she has penned several hundred
articles. Prior to her mandatory evacuation from New Orleans,
Campbell-Rock produced and co-hosted “Speak Now or Forever Hold Your
Peace,” a live weekly public opinion cable broadcast, for four
years. She currently resides in Pleasanton, Calif, and has been
organizing with Katrina evacuees in the Bay Area.<br><br>
JORDAN FLAHERTY is a writer and organizer based in New Orleans, and is
part of the editorial collective of Left Turn Magazine. He was in
New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit the city, and has been writing and
organizing in New Orleans since then, working with grassroots
organizations for justice, human rights and the right of return.
Flaherty's articles from the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina have
appeared in publications around the world, including Die Zeit in Germany,
Clarin in Argentina and Juventude Rebelde in Cuba, and on hundreds of
websites including ZNet, CommonDreams, AlterNet and CounterPunch.
In addition, he has written about politics and culture for The Village
Voice, New York Press, Labor Notes, and a chapter in the South End Press
book Live From Palestine.<br><br>
For information, contact:<br>
Sharon Martinas <<a href="mailto:cws@igc.org">cws@igc.org</a>>
or<br>
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
<<a href="mailto:rdunbaro@pacbell.net">rdunbaro@pacbell.net</a>><br>
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