Post Katrina Education in New Orleans: A Human Rights Violation
For the first time ever this Nov. 9, the UN Human Rights Council will issue a decision on the US Government's human rights record. How would you grade New Orleans' human rights record? Is your child's treatment in the RSD a human rights violation? Did the demolition of public housing violate international law? What does the proposed OPP expansion have to do with education and human rights? Do you have a right to a dignified job that pays a living wage?
Most importantly, how do we work together to demand human rights for all New Orleanians?
Join poets, artists, parents, organizers, musicians and youth from around the city (including Sharon Jasper, A Scribe Called Quess?, Monique Harden, Jonathan Brown, Aesha Rasheed, Robert Goodman, Sam Jackson, Alice Craft Kerney, Brad Ott, Endesha Juakali, Revolutionary Theater from the Daylaborers' Congress, Dimekia Morgan, and folks like you!)
Tuesday, Nov. 9
First Grace United Methodist Church,
3401 Canal St., Corner of Canal and Jefferson Davis
Free Food served up hot at 5:30 pm
Speakers and music start at 6:00 pm
Sponsored by: Campaign to Restore Housing Rights, Center for
Constitutional Rights, Children's Defense Fund, C3/Hands of Iberville,
Committee to Reopen Charity Hospital, Community Justice Section of the
Loyola Law Clinic, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, Louisiana
Justice Institute, MayDay New Orleans, Family and Friends of
Louisiana's Incarcerated Children, Greater New Orleans Organizers'
Roundtable, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, Safe
Streets/Strong Communities, Southern Poverty Law Center, Survivors
Village, Take Back the Land, U.S. Human Rights Network Land and
Housing Action Group, and Unity of Greater New Orleans.
