National FEMA Trailer Tour

Hosted by the Grand and Christina Cultural Arts Center in Wilmington, Delaware, the KRV Express and the Hot 8 Brass Band are in Senator Joe Biden’s home state for a weekend full of cultural and social activities honoring hurricane survivors, volunteers and community activists. Click here for a great article in the News Journal.  It’s [...]

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Posted by Derrick Evans

I am now in a motel parking lot near the Grand Canyon, “stealing” their very weak wi-fi signal on my way to meet up with some of the Gulf Coast Fund folks at the Environmental Grantmaker’s retreat near Santa Fe—six hours east of here.
Russell Freeman and I left San Francisco late last [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Gulf Coast Public Awareness Campaign heads to Bay Area to Highlight Imbalance in Katrina-Rita Recovery
Mississippi coast native and advocate Derrick Evans and a traveling FEMA Trailer will be in the Bay Area and Southern California September 19-23 as part of a national tour to highlight the Gulf Coast’s slow recovery from Hurricanes Katrina [...]

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September 8, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mississippi Gulf Coast Activist Derrick Evans Brings FEMA Trailer to Jimmy Buffett Concert in Foxboro, MA; Leads Public Awareness Campaign to Highlight Imbalanced Katrina Recovery
Foxboro, MA — Mississippi Gulf Coast native and advocate Derrick Evans and a traveling FEMA Trailer appeared outside of Jimmy Buffett’s Saturday concert at Gillette Stadium in [...]

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August 23, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Displaced New Orleans Brass Band and Mississippi Gulf Coast Community Leader to Perform and Speak at Wally’s Jazz Café in Boston
FEMA Trailer Tour joins Finding our Folk tour in Boston
Media Contact:
Amelie Ratliff
617-524-5156
Boston, MA — Today representatives of Louisiana and Mississippi communities most affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita will speak and [...]

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