29 for the 29th

KIN's 29 for the 29th are designed to provide everyone – regardless of how much time they may have – opportunities to support the rebuilding effort and help keep New Orleans in the public eye and at the center of national conversation.

1. Become KIN. Register yourself, your group or your congregation at www.katrinaaction.org.
2. Take part in commemorative events near you. Check www.katrinaaction.org for local listings.
3. Create an account and upload information and photos from commemoration actions in which you participated.
4. Download and distribute KIN materials at local events.
5. Make sure your place of worship, campus, organization, etc., is not doing business with companies that have profiteered off of Katrina and its aftermath. Click here for a list of companies cited by Congress for overcharging federal contracts.
6. Contact your city council member directly to encourage them to introduce the Selective Contractor Divestment Resolution.
7. Get ten other people to call the same city council member(s).
8. Collect signatures to push your city council to introduce and pass the Selective Contractor Divestment Resolution.
9. Meet with delegates to the Republican National Convention demanding that Katrina not be forgotten.
10. Write a letter to national media outlets like CNN and MSNBC asking them to do a better job of covering recovery issues. Let them know we want more stories that help shine a light on government neglect and corporate profiteering.
11. Send a Katrina Just Recovery delegation to the Nashville and Mississippi Presidential Debate on September 26 (Mississippi) and October 7, 2008 (Nashville). More details on debates here.
12. Demand the Passage of the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act.
13. Start a Katrina Solidarity Study/Action Group.
14. Take 5 to get 10 Take a few minutes to encourage others to become KIN folk, too.
15. Organize 10 friends to make a donation to the many groups organizing to make things better. For information or to make a donation contact the Gulf Coast Funders for Equity at the 21st Century Foundation Hurricane Katrina Recovery Fund.
16. Hold a Just Recovery Bake Sale. The goodies will give you an opportunity to spread the word and the funds you raise can help a great group do even better work.
17. Organize and Lead a solidarity prayer breakfast in your community on the anniversary of Katrina or throughout September.
18. Encourage your faith community to volunteer in the Gulf Coast.
19. Conduct a Katrina Truth and Reconciliation Commission at your place of worship, on your campus or in your community.
20. Sponsor a mental health worker.
21. Light a candle in remembrance on the 29th day of each month.
22. Read the Katrina Litany on the 29th of each month.
23. Have a moment of silence on the 29th day of every month.
24. Join the faith community to adopt-a-school-to-purchase-new-books. Contact: Susan Smith revsuekim@sbcglobal.net
25. Support a survivor community outside of the Gulf region. Ask local pastoral counselors, therapists to donate services to Katrina survivors. Chances are there is a community near you.
26. Ask your local library to feature books and forums on Katrina-Rita and its aftermath.
27. Organize regular social gatherings (reunions) for survivors to see each other and simply socialize.
28. Contribute construction materials to the Samuel D. Proctor Public Storehouse. Contact: Susan Smith revsuekim@sbcglobal.net.
29. Organize a group to see “Trouble the Water,” one of the great new documentaries on Katrina and its aftermath. Go to Trouble the Water to see when it’s coming to a theater near you.