National FEMA Trailer Tour

The KatrinaRitaVille Exress FEMA Trailer, featuring authentic voices and artistry of hurricane survivors and community activists, has logged nearly 30,000 miles since August 2007 to promote a more healthy, just and sustainable recovery for gulf coast communities still reeling from the storms of 2005, government neglect and disaster profiteering.  Accompanied by youth activists, recovery volunteers, [...]

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Between July 13 and 23, the KatrinaRitaVille Express FEMA Trailer will be in the Boston area with New Orleans’ own Hot 8 Brass Band and the Finding Our Folk Tour.
You can catch the KRV Express

Sunday 7/13, from 4 – 10pm, at the “Bastille Day Festival” in Harvard Square
Monday 7/14, from 10 – 2pm, at the [...]

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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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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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