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Meeting highlights Katrina-Rita disasters
By
Gloria Verdieu
San Diego, Calif.
Published Apr 28, 2007 5:35 PM
On April 21 organizers Kojo Livingston and Darrel “Sess 4-5” Warren
began the first leg of the People’s Hurricane and Relief Fund’s
West Coast Tour here in San Diego. The Coffee House on 30th and Broadway was
standing room only. A very diverse crowd came to get an update on what is
happening on the Gulf Coast 18 months after Hurricanes Rita and Katrina
hit.
Kojo Livingston, Darrel ‘Sess 4-5’ Warren, Ryan Wadsworth, Arthur Saenz.
WW photo: Gloria Verdieu
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Students came from San Diego State University, Point Loma High School, San
Diego FIST (Fight Imperialism - Stand Together) as well as some teachers from
some of the local schools. Tchaiko Kwayana from Point Loma High School spoke of
some of the work students at that school are doing to get books, art supplies
and computers to the schools in New Orleans. Some students from SDSU had gone
to New Orleans during spring break to see it for themselves as well as to find
out what they could do to help.
The program started with filmmaker Arthur Saenz showing his video “Down
But Not Out.” This film set the tone for Sess and Livingston to talk
about the struggles that the people in New Orleans are dealing with on a
day-to-day basis.
The two organizers will also be meeting with activists in Los Angeles, Santa
Cruz and San Francisco.
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