The second annual Rising Tide conference is scheduled for August 24-26 at the New Orleans Yacht Club. This is a blogger-organized and supported conference featuring speakers, panels, breakout sessions, and other dialogs on the future of the city of New Orleans.
This year's emphasis is on ground-level, grass-roots efforts. It has become clear to those of us in south Louisiana that we will have to watch the watchmen, as well as take the upper hand is setting the city back on track. To that end, there will be presentations on local politics and how to influence them, making civics sexy, sustainability, levee engineering, and media outreach. The keynote speaker is Dave Zirin, author of Welcome to the Terrordome, published by Haymarket Press, a columnist for SLAM Magazine, a regular contributor to the Nation Magazine, and a regular op-ed writer for the Los Angeles Times.
Sunday is reserved for a hands-on service project in aid of the NOLA school system.
There will, of course, be liveblogging of the event, and materials available online. If you can't come, there is also a paypal link if you'd care to donate (this is a non-profit endevor). Feel free to contact us through the website, or ask questions here.
P.S. Any pimping of the conference on your personal websites/diaries, etc, would be most appreciated. Feel free to copy the graphics from the website, or contact me for any other needs.