Rosie Perez, Moby, The Roots, Julia Stiles, Ned Lamont

Join Katrina Evacuees on Anniversary

New Book Launched: It Takes a Nation celebrates how 30,000 evacuees were housed by everyday people

ALL PROFITS TO BENEFIT ACORN

WHO: Rosie Perez, Julia Stiles, Moby and The Roots

Connecticut Senate Candidate Ned Lamont

Katrina Evacuees

WHAT: Katrina anniversary benefit performance

It Takes a Nation book launch

WHERE: Crobar Nightclub

530 West 28th Street (between 10th and 11th Ave)

New York, NY 10001

WHEN: Thursday, August 24 at 8pm

The event will include musical performances and readings as well as the launch of Palace Press International’s new book It Takes a Nation, due out nationwide on September 1.

The book chronicles how thousands of American families were brought together - regardless of race, economic background, religious or political differences - through MoveOn Civic Action’s HurricaneHousing.org program.

HurricaneHousing.org paired over 30,000 evacuees with MoveOn members willing to open their homes. It Takes a Nation presents an oral history, candid, first-person accounts of twenty-nine of these evacuees during the first two weeks following Hurricane Katrina as well as stunning photographs to chronicle their stories.