MARCH AND RALLY COMMEMORATING HURRICANE KATRINA'S SECOND ANNIVERSARY

NEWS RELEASE

Monday, August 27, 2007

Scott Myers-Lipton (510-508-5382, smlipton@sjsu.edu)

Pat Lopes Harris (408-924-1748, pat.harris@sjsu.edu )

MARCH AND RALLY COMMEMORATING HURRICANE KATRINA'S SECOND ANNIVERSARY

Event to Begin at Noon, August 29, at the San Jose Municipal Stadium [MAP]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Gulf Coast Civic Works Project -- a national effort founded at SJSU -- will lead a march through downtown San Jose on August 29 in commemoration of Hurricane Katrina's second anniversary. The march will begin at noon at the San Jose Municipal Stadium and end at 2 p.m. at the San Jose Civic Auditorium. The commemoration will be held from 12:30-1:30 pm at the Tommie Smith and John Carlos Statues on San Jose State's campus. (See attached flier and map of the route.)

The Gulf Coast Civic Works Project is gathering support for federal action to create 100,000 jobs for Gulf Coast residents so they can rebuild their communities. The model for the project is the Works Progress Administration, which helped the nation recover from the Great Depression with a federally funded jobs program that resulted in the construction of many civic landmarks including San Jose's Municipal Stadium and Civic Auditorium.

"By gathering at public work projects, we will remind the nation on the second anniversary of Katrina that there is an effective solution for the problems of the Gulf Coast," Myers-Lipton said. "The Gulf Coast still needs to rebuild homes, schools, hospitals, roads,bridges, parks, and forest lands. This is exactly what our public work projects have historically built."

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