RACE AND CLASS CLEANSING IN POST-KATRINA NEW ORLEANS
Kreider Room of Marbeck Center, Bluffton University
Speaker: Endesha Juakali, founder of Survivors Village, New Orleans, a site where several Bluffton volunteers have visited since the flood. Survivors Village and Endesha^aEURTMs work were featured in the recent Spike Lee HBO documentary, If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise. His presentation will include clips from this compelling 4 hour film.
The Los Angeles Times says: ^aEURoeIn If God is Willing and Da Creek Don^aEURTMt Rise Spike Lee returns to New Orleans^aEUR|to assess what might be called the damage being done by the recovery. He also assesses the actual recovery, the illusory recovery, the psychological recovery, and the assault on the recovery that is the BP oil spill^aEUR|which most definitely shows the scars of human mismanagement, corruption and greed.^aEUR