Bear Creek Social Center in Talent is hosting a film screening of “Welcome to New Orleans.” The film documents on-the-ground mutual aid efforts led by the Common Ground collective in New Orleans in the wake of the devastating destruction and flooding brought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Common Ground, a mutual aid collective led by former Black Panther Malik Rahim and others, organized in the Algiers and Lower 9th ward neighborhoods and helped popularize concepts like “mutual aid” and “solidarity, not charity.”
Following the screening, we’ll hear directly from local community members who were a part of the original Common Ground collective. Come learn the history of Common Ground, and how local community organizers who were in New Orleans 20 years ago approached “mutual aid” and disaster relief organizing in the wake of the 2020 Almeda and Obenchain fires, and today.
This is a free event. Donations for Bear Creek Social Center are welcome.
Please carpool, and parking in a nearby empty lot if possible. Bear Creek Social Center is in Talent, next to Crown Market.
