Real Media: Katrina survivors on video...

Okay, this is necessarily short - I don't have time, and just want to ask that people support this effort. also crossposted on Democrats Abroad Japan

I met the Color of Change folks at YearlyKos, and it was inspirational to hear how they used the blogosphere as a tool to get word of insanity like the racist persecution in the Jena 6 case

So I signed up. And I promised to do something tangible every week. Money is too tight to mention, but I have a voice in the blogosphere, and I'm hoping to use that voice to greater effect than I have in the past.

And so we come to Color of Change's Katrina project. I'll let them tell it, below:

We all know the headlines dominating the public conversation around Hurricane Katrina: politicians making declarations but doing very little, levees not being rebuilt, and thousands of people who want to return home but can't.

But we rarely get a chance to hear Katrina survivors speaking in their own words, talking about where they are today and how they are moving forward to rebuild their lives. On the second anniversary of Katrina, we wanted to connect folks around the country, as directly as possible, to Katrina survivors -- creating a window into their lives. And we wanted to provide a platform for Katrina survivors to make their stories heard, now and into the future.

The result is VoicesFromTheGulf.com. Check it out and participate here:

http://www.colorofchange.org/...

VoicesFromTheGulf.com launches today with stories from ten different individuals and families, each with a unique perspective and experience. But that's just the start. In the coming weeks and months, we hope to add hundreds more stories, as survivors who want to share their stories are connected to volunteers who have a video camera and Internet connection. The site makes it easy. Survivors and videographers fill out a simple form and, based on geography, are put in contact with one another. They then get together, shoot their video, and upload it to the VoicesFromTheGulf.com website.

Please join them, and help bring folks' attention to the project. My great hope is that local people will get the support they need to change the course of this ongoing tragedy.

Peace.

•  I just posted a diary about...

  ...where I am 2 years later (short answer: Seattle.)

  Thanks so much for this information and the links.

  I meet so many people -- yes, even way up here in the North Left Corner of the 48 -- who feel that they cannot go home.

  It's such an enormous human tragedy!

  by seasalt on Fri Aug 24, 2007 at 07:45:08 PM PDT