Community and Resistance Tour: Knowledge and Tools for Spreading Justice

FloodlinesThe Community and Resistance Tour seeks to communicate about current struggles for justice and liberation, from the current BP Oil Drilling Disaster devastating the Gulf Coast to nooses hung in the northern Louisiana town of Jena. From women organizing inside prisons to cultural resistance. The tour also seeks to connect communities of liberation, and to build relationships between grassroots activists and independent media. This tour is for anyone interested in issues of health care, education, criminal justice, housing, or the ways in which systems of racism, patriarchy and other forms of oppression intersect with these struggles.

Austin's leg of the tour will feature Brother Jesse Muhammad and Jordan Flaherty. Brother Jesse is a journalist, award-winning blogger at jessemuhammad.blogs.finalcall.com, experienced community organizer, and touring national motivational speaker. Jordan, a journalist and community organizer based in New Orleans, was the first journalist with a national audience to write about the Jena Six case, and played an important role in bringing the story to worldwide attention. His post-Katrina writing in ColorLines Magazine shared a journalism award from New America Media for best Katrina-related coverage in the Ethnic press. He is the author of Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6.

When: Sunday, December 5th @ 7pm
Where: Monkey Wrench!