http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/14126Oh When CODEPINK Came Marching In (To New Orleans On Eve's V-Day)
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For the past year, in preparation for her “V-Day” anniversary, Ensler, the Obie Award winning playwright and performer of the “Vagina Monologues,” laid the groundwork for a NOLA event like no other – a two day love fest transforming the once infamous Superdome into the mega-pink “Love Dome.” Ensler succeeded on all counts. Her herculian effort, with co-producer, Carol Bebelle, provided activism training, health education, and specialized services to the residents of NOLA, for whom she also premiered “Swimming Upstream” (The Katrina Monologues) - a powerful and beautifully performed amalgam of music and monologues which portray the intimacy and emotion of Hurricane Katrina, much as the Vagina Monologues (performed the following evening), portray the intimacy and emotion of womanhood. The V-Day anniversary, in its mission to nurture, educate, empower, protect and transform, was tailor-made for New Orleans, and tailor-made for CODEPINK. Thank you, Jodie, for signing us on.
Like Eve Ensler, CODEPINK has been deeply immersed in New Orleans. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, CODEPINK members traveled to New Orleans and aligned with the grassroots collective, Common Ground, to provide food and supplies to hurricane survivors. Because of this V-Day call to action, several CODEPINKers returned to the city. Others, like myself, visited for the very first time. By Thursday, around sixty CODEPINKers had trekked to New Orleans. By Sunday, HUNDREDS of new CODEPINKers were trekking back home. It’s an ever growing movement -- a vital movement that nurtures interconnectedness and deepens its roots wherever it goes. So it was fitting, with CODEPINK’s commitment to sow the seeds that grow community, that it plant a garden in NOLA. Fortunately, Sarah Rath, a core CODEPINKer who moved to NOLA two years ago, was up to the task. She coordinated with Common Ground and laid the groundwork for a beautiful garden in the Lower Ninth Ward. CODEPINKers who arrived in NOLA on Thursday were immediately put to work. By the end of the day a beautiful garden was planted and a New Orleans-style barbeque was held. Giant drums of incredible food were prepared like I'd never seen before. There’s just no way to adequately describe it.
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