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March 12, 2007
spring break, MS and DC
for spring break, another vista and i did a joint trip to biloxi and gulfport (mississippi) for katrina cleanup. we took thirteen students from meredith and peace, and were there for four days - plus one day of driving each way. it was a lot of work, but a really good experience. i was amazed at how much the aftermath of the storm had politicized otherwise apathetic people. we met a lot of people and heard a lot of stories. it still looks like a war zone down there, and probably won't be back to "normal" for ten or twenty years. so i'm glad that we could do a little bit to help out.
friday, after being in the car for thirteen hours, we got back to raleigh. i was home for about half an hour before getting back in the car and driving five hours to dc. about 20 of us went from raleigh for ncor, the national conference on organized resistance. it was almost ridiculously wonderful. i went to workshops on animal rights, radical sustainability, anarchism and pacifism, living in intentional communities, accountability, anarchist economics and worker-owned co-ops, and guerrilla poetry. i learned so much my brain hurt, i met amazing people, i slept on a church floor, had amazing food and food fights. i can't wait to go again next year.
we named this one "zebandra"
radical raleigh!
raleigh kids, day 2. we're getting tired.
and gavin is still insane.
Posted by emily at March 12, 2007 1:30 PM