[PAA-Discuss] FW: [houston] Katrina Film Screening August 18

[Lee Loe]

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Subject: [houston] Katrina Film Screening August 18

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Bryan Parras
713.303.5811
lucas77 at sbcglobal.net


Houston (April 8, 2006) – “After The Wind, Child, After The Water’s
Gone
”, a documentary on the Environmental Health Concerns of Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita will be screened at the Rice Media Center, August 17,
2006 at 8:00 PM.  Admission is $6.
Director Bryan Parras and Producer John Sullivan began this project with a
limited mandate from the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences Center for Environmental Toxicology at the University of Texas
Medical Branch in Galveston Texas. They were asked to meet with community
based environmental leaders to determine how the NIEHS could best
collaborate with local groups in research and capacity-building efforts.
The two film-makers then embarked on a fact-finding journey that ranged
through greater Baton Rouge, Orleans, St. Bernard, Jefferson, Lafourche,
and Terrebonne Parishes, and the city of New Iberia. They returned twice,
attending the Louisiana Environmental Action Network conference in Baton
Rouge in November, and again in December, to gauge the progress of
recovery efforts in Chalmette, a petrochemical industry fence-line
community in St. Bernard Parish, south east of New Orleans.
This screening is a joint effort by two local environmental organizations.
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS) is an environmental
justice organization that is committed to the promotion of environmental
rights in communities of color and low-income populations within the state
of Texas. The Citizens League for Environmental Action Now (CLEAN) exists
to inform and educate citizens about environmental abuses so that they
will take action to protect their children, future generations and
endangered species.
We hope you enjoy watching after the wind, child, after the waters gone
Please remember the people you see gave graciously of their time and
energies in hopes that the rest of us might better understand and
empathize with the plight of coastal Louisiana; home of so much of our
energy industry infrastructure, a nexus of ongoing struggles by
African-American, Houma and Cajun communities for basic environmental,
social and cultural justice, the most bountiful and endangered estuarine
fishery in the Lower 48, way-station for innumerable species of migratory
birds, and the cradle of so much of our national culture