Katrina_Coasts

From The Gulf Coast To The West Coast, Katrina Before and After

KPFK PACIFICA RADIO 90.7FM LOS ANGELES TO BROADCAST
A RADIO DOCUMENTARY FEATURING KATRINA SURVIVORS IN CALIFORNIA
KPFK Pacifica Radio 90.7FM Los Angeles/98.7FM Santa Barbara will air its radio documentary, "From the Gulf Coast to the West Coast: Katrina Before and After" on:

Wednesday May 17 from 4pm-6pm
Wednesday May 31 from7am-9am

Thursday June 8 from 7pm-9pm .

Listen To An Archive Of This Broadcast Online: [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ]

The documentary produced by KPFK explores the underlying humanity beneath news reports and images through the personal stories of ten Katrina families and individuals who have relocated to Northern and Southern California. The program features ten survivors, devastated and traumatized by Katrina, who willingly share their journey of struggle and survival in their own words. KPFK's 2-hour broadcast is a representative selection from the ten interviews. During each broadcast, listeners will have the opportunity to call in and discuss the issues with two humanities scholars who consulted the project. KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles/98.7FM Santa Barbara seeks to provide the public with an understanding of the social dynamics and economic factors currently shaping the lives of California's newest neighbors and to stimulate public discourse about needs and solutions. To locate survivors, KPFK's team contacted individuals, community organizations and nonprofit groups directly in touch with survivors. The team also visited the Dream Center in Los Angeles where hundreds of newcomers first arrived in Los Angeles.

This project is made possible, in part, by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities as part of the Council's statewide California Stories Initiative. The Council is an independent non-profit organization and a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Council and the California Stories Initiative, visit www.californiastories.org.or call KPFK at (818) 985-2711 ext.214.

This documentary explores the underlying humanity of the stories of ten survivors of Katrina whose life experiences are rooted in the cities of Louisiana and Mississippi. In their own words, the survivors narrate their harrowing experiences before, during and after the disaster hit. Devastated and traumatized, ten of our fellow Americans are uprooted from their homes in the Gulf Coast and have now relocated to California. Ten people, ten different experiences.

Survivors:

Listen To The Full Length Interviews Of These Survivors By Clicking The Links Next To Their Pictures:

- Freddie and Cynthia Monroe are both nurses before relocating from New Orleans to Woodland Hill, California.

Freddie Monroe Full Length Interview

Cynthia Monroe Full Length Interview

- David Mince, a fifty-year old white man was an electrical engineer.

David Mince Full Length Interview

- Mary Armstrong, in her sixties, uprooted from New Orleans and now resides in Fremont, California with her ninety two years old mother.

Mary Armstrong Full Length Interview

-Theodore "Teddy" Meyers is paralyzed from the waist down and had to swim to safety.
Theodore Meyers Full Length Interview

- Hattie Conerly is a eighty-three-year-old mother of eleven children and many grandchildren. Her life centered around family before Katrina.
Hattie Conerly Full Length Interview

- Pastor Camelia Lloyd works for a church in Riverside, California.

Camelia Lloyd Full Length Interview

- John Hall, a disabled truck driver, was dislodged from his home by Katrina in Mississippi and now lives in a church rescue center in Bakersfield, California.