Public Information Office

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

DATE:            May 25, 2006

CONTACT:   Donna Myers, 206.546.4717 

SCC New Orleans relief team presents:
Did you see the levee break?
Tuesday, May 30, 8:30am – 2:30pm

Shoreline, WA — Malik Rahim, New Orleans resident and co-founder of Common Ground Collective, a grassroots organization started to help rebuild New Orleans, discusses the racism, violence, corruption and criminal neglect experienced in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, at Shoreline Community College from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 30^th in the PUB.  Rahim joins a delegation of Shoreline Community College students, faculty and staff that traveled to New Orleans to help in the relief efforts, and former Black Panther leader, Aaron Dixon, who will speak from 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.   Hour-long presentations will be made from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

            For more information, contact Prof. Linda Warren at 206.546.6987 or email at lwarren@shoreline.edu.  For more information about Common Ground Collective, please visit the web site at http://www.commongroundrelief.org/.

            Shoreline Community College is located at 16101 Greenwood Avenue North, just west of Aurora Avenue and north of Seattle city limits.

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