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"Dignity For Mexico!"-NO MORE BLOOD!!!

Date:
Saturday, May 07, 2011
Time:
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
Organizer/Author:
Miguel Robles
Location Details:
ArtInternationale Gallery and Art Lounge
963 Pacific Avenue
Between Powell and Mason Streets

Dignity For Mexico!"

An evening of solidarity and celebration in
music, poetry and information

featuring
Some of the Bay Area's most committed Mexican activists,
most politicized, talented and informed painters, poets, singers and musicians as they share and celebrate the heritage and struggle of the people of Mexico.

Featured speakers:
Raul Vargs Robles, Activist/journalist
Pablo Rivera, Comite Frente por la Democracia en Mexico
Luis Magana, Organization de Trabajadores Agricolas de California
Miguel Robles, Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Coalition, (BALASC)

Poets:
Lorna Dee Cervantes-- widely published, highly acclaimed, award winning Mexican-American poet
Miguel Robles--poet/activist, member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, author of At 24th & Mission

Painters: Hersalia Cantoral; Calixto Robles

Singers:
The indominable Maria Machetes
The lyrical Diana Gameros

Food and librations: donations requested


Join us !!
--As we come together to affirm unity with
justice-loving Mexicans everywhere in the Americas
as they fight for the basic right to family, liberty and
a dignified life

--As we stand in solidarity with the Poet Javier
Sicilia's march in Mexico on May 8th in honor of his son,
and thousands of others, who have been brutally killed
by the military in Mexico

-- As we stand united with all whose lives have been lost in
the US fueled "War on Drugs" in Mexico

--As we honor and support those immigrants whose livlihoods
and families have been assaulted by attacks on immigrants
here in the US.

NO MAS SANGRE!!! NO MORE BLOOD!!!

**This event is part of the "Communities Without Borders" series
at ArtInternationale Gallery and Art Lounge and is co-sponsored by
the Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Coalition and the Revolutionary
Poets Brigade
Added to the calendar on Wed, May 4, 2011 9:52PM
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