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September 04, 2007
Interview with Curtis Muhammad: Katrina and the history and current state of organizing in the U.S.
Please listen to this interview with Curtis Muhammad
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/04/145214
We turn to a conversation with Curtis Muhammad from the People's Organizing Committee. Muhammad is a native of New Orleans and a longtime activist. During the sixties, he was an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, and co-founded Community Labor United. After the Hurricane hit, he hit the road tracking the New Orleans refugees into shelters from city to city. He first spoke to him in Jackson Mississippi a few days after the flood. On the second anniversary of Katrina, Curtis Muhammad wrote a farewell letter to the left and progressive forces in the United States. He is leaving the country and heading south. Amy Goodman visited him on his front porch in New Orleans and to ask why.
Posted by lois at September 4, 2007 11:47 AM