Event Title
Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
Description
With the livelihood and culture of Gulf Coast residents once again at risk from BP’s drilling disaster, New Orleans writer Jordan Flaherty delivers his new book "Floodlines" as a timely account of catastrophe, community and resistance. Flaherty tells the stories of public housing residents, gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, women prisoners and grassroots activists in the struggle for justice in a post-Katrina landscape. (On tour with Haymarket Books)
About the Lecturers: Jordon Flaherty, a writer and community organizer based in New Orleans and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Oakland-based queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher and part-time professor at UC Berkeley
Document Type
Event
Start Date
20-10-2010 12:00 PM
End Date
20-10-2010 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Hurricanes--Social aspects--Louisiana--New Orleans; Disaster victims--Louisiana--New Orleans
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Post-Katrina landscape, Grassroots activists
Rights
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Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
Fairhaven College Auditorium
With the livelihood and culture of Gulf Coast residents once again at risk from BP’s drilling disaster, New Orleans writer Jordan Flaherty delivers his new book "Floodlines" as a timely account of catastrophe, community and resistance. Flaherty tells the stories of public housing residents, gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, women prisoners and grassroots activists in the struggle for justice in a post-Katrina landscape. (On tour with Haymarket Books)
About the Lecturers: Jordon Flaherty, a writer and community organizer based in New Orleans and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Oakland-based queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher and part-time professor at UC Berkeley
