[imc-st.louis] Katrina Victim to Speak on Continuing Havoc

[Fitzdon at aol.com]

Gateway Green Alliance/Green Party of St. Louis
P.O. Box 8094, St. Louis MO  63156
314-727-8554  E-mail: fitzdon at aol.com  www.gateway-greens.org

For immediate release: August 1, 2007

Contact: Don Fitz, 314-727-8554

Katrina Victim to Speak on Continuing Havoc

August 1, 2007. St. Louis, Missouri.  In 2005, Hurricane Katrina made the 
link between St. Louis and New Orleans even stronger.  Today, many who live in 
St. Louis are refugees from New Orleans.  Almost two years after Katrina ravaged 
the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands of families, mostly Black, are still 
dispersed throughout the four corners of the United States and prohibited from 
returning to their homes

Malcolm Suber, National Organizer for the People's Hurricane Relief Fund, 
will speak at a press conference on continuing havoc in the lives of Katrina 
victims.  The press conference will be at:

11:00 am, Wednesday, August 1, 2007
CAMP Building, 3026 Cherokee [at Minnesota, in St. Louis City]

According to Suber, "Of the US$850 million dollars in international aid to 
the United States after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, only $40 million have been 
used. The distribution of supplies, medications, and services offered were 
delayed -- if not rejected -- by the federal government."

At the end of August 2007, an independent international tribunal will take 
place in New Orleans to judge those responsible in the federal and state 
governments in the United States.  Mr. Suber encourages New Orleans refugees living 
in St. Louis to attend the tribunal.

Malcolm Suber will be the featured speaker at a panel on "Environmental 
Racism in the Aftermath of Katrina."  The panel and following discussion will be 
at: 

7:00 pm, Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Legacy Books & Café, 5249 Delmar [near Union, in St. Louis City]

Joining Mr. Suber on the panel will be Don Fitz, addressing the part that 
global warming has in creating increasingly violent hurricanes throughout the 
world.  The panel will also include Lizz Brown and Deidra Thomas-Murray, who will 
explore the disastrous effect that policies of William Roberti have had on 
public schools in St. Louis and New Orleans.  Zaki Baruti, of the Universal 
African Peoples Organization, will moderate the panel.

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