National FEMA Trailer Tour

To confront the Gulf Coast’s surprising and alarming absence from the presidential debates so far, the KRV Express rolled into Austin just hours before CNN’s Thursday evening debate at the University of Texas. With clutch assistance from UT Law students active in the Student Hurricane Network (who scored ample parking the night before), we snaked [...]

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The KatrinaRitaVille Express national FEMA trailer tour is in Austin TX for today’s CNN Democratic Presidential Debate at the University of Texas.
The FEMA trailer will appear today by the UT Austin campus at 4 pm, at the corner of E. Dean Keaton St. and Robert Dedman Drive (see map, below).
This will be an open [...]

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To help address the invisibility of coastal Alabamans still reeling from Katrina, the KRV Express headed to the University of South Alabama for “Katrina Revisited: A Conversation on Recovery, Communities and Policy.” Our entourage arrived at the historically Black campus shortly before sunset, with a simple message written on the trailer’s side – “Got House?” [...]

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Please join the “KatrinaRitaVille Express” FEMA Trailer for CNN’s democratic presidential debate at the University of Texas on Thurs. February 21.
This is a rare opportunity to place our region’s unaddressed recovery/justice needs squarely before the candidates, media and US electorate. Our FEMA Trailer and a caravan of survivors/speakers from coastal AL, MS, LA and [...]

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