August 29, 2015 marks the ten-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in southeast Louisiana, the subsequent collapse of the man-made flood protection system, and the ensuing Federal Flood. As WWOZ General Manager David Freedman wrote in 2012, New Orleans hasn't "recovered", but we have moved on.
Let's remember to take a moment to reflect on both what we lost, and on how far we've come, since that awful August morning. Here's a list of Katrina 10 events.
WWOZ Thanks the Katrina Network
In the months following the failure of the federal levee system in New Orleans, a group of 31 community radio stations from around the world lent a much-needed hand as WWOZ struggled to stay on the air.
WWOZ salutes this group of stations — now affectionately called the Katrina Network — for embodying the true spirit of community radio, as well as the notion of Guarding the Groove. The Katrina Network is commemorated on the back of the WWOZ Live Broadcast Truck (pictured) as a testament to the power of community radio stations working together.
In November 2012, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the Katrina Network helped WFMU, a community radio station in Jersey City, NJ.
The Katrina Network | |||
| KALW San Francisco, CA | KDHX St. Louis, MO | KBOO Portland, OR | WJFF Jeffersonville, NY |
| KSVR Mount Vernon, WA | WOMR Provincetown, MA | WMPG Portland, ME | WBGO Newark, NJ |
| KDNK Carbondale, CO | KOTO Telluride, CO | WFHB Bloomington, IN | KRCB Rohnert Park, CA |
| WLIU Southampton, NY | WCWP Southampton, NY | KZFR Chico, CA | WEMU Ypsilanti, MI |
| KBCS Bellevue, WA | KSDS San Diego, CA | CKUA Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | 3PBS Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia |
| KGNU Denver, CO | WGDR Plainfield, VT | KXCI Tuscon, AZ | KUVO Denver, CO |
| KRFC Fort Collins, CO | WRFG Atlanta, GA | WFCR Amherst, MA | KPFT Houston, TX |
| KQED San Francisco, CA | KEXP Seattle, WA | WFMU Jersey City, NJ | Community Radio Working Together! |
