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DESCRIPTION:Join Mission District Activists for a Concert Featuring\nZ.O.N.K.\nThe 
 Genie\nValerie Orth\nAnd DJ Eric Quezada spinning Salsa, Soul and Old 
 Skool\nBenefiting the Mexico Solidarity Network’s Study Abroad 
 Scholarship\nSaturday July 8 at Balazo Gallery! ALL AGES 
 WELCOME!!!\n\nDoors open at 7pm and the show starts at 7:30pm. \n$5 - $25 
 sliding scale, no one turned away.  \nEnjoy a Vegetarian Mexican buffet 
 dinner for $5-$10 sliding scale.   \n\nSinger-songwriter Valerie Orth kicks 
 off the night of amor de Mexico.  She is well known for her role in 
 organizing the Bay Area Sweat Free Coalition that has won anti-sweatshop 
 legislation victories in San Francisco and Berkeley.  But Orth is also 
 emerging as a leading presence in the SF music scene for her innovative 
 acoustic style and passionate performances.  Her strong, sultry voice and 
 witty songs tell of a wry visionary with world-weary experience in love and 
 struggle.  (www.myspace.com/vlomusic)\n\nFollowing Orth will be The Genie, 
 another local favorite with an intensely loyal following for his brilliant 
 experimental guitar techniques.  Genie has even coined his own performance 
 art musical genre, called Scratch Guitar, where he blends blues, hip hop, 
 reggae, drum n’ bass, middle eastern rhythms, bossa nova, and jazz via 
 slide guitar, live-sampling, beat boxing, and unconventional syncopation to 
 create a visually stunning and soulful performance. 
 (www.thegeniemusic.com)\n\nHeadlining the evening will be Z.O.N.K., who 
 describe their unique sound as Portisehead meets Beck meets Bjork meets 
 Gorillaz.  Most fans refer to them though as trip-hop, but the most 
 important thing to know about Z.O.N.K.’s sound is that it is infectiously 
 danceable.  Z.O.N.K. have toured with such diverse acts as Concrete Blonde, 
 the B-52's, De La Soul, Lyrics Born, Lady Kier of Deee-Lite and The 
 Pharcyde.  (www.zonkaholics.com)\n\nFilling the blank spaces between bands 
 will be DJ Eric Quezeda who may have the best salsa, soul and old skool LP 
 collection east of Valencia Street.  Quezeda is a long-time affordable 
 housing and social justice activist who has run for District 9 supervisor 
 and is involved in more progressive Mission District non-profits than seems 
 humanly possible.\n\nThe Mexico Solidarity Network (MSN) sends activists 
 from the United States to live and work with anti-globalization and 
 progressive social movement activists in Mexico fighting for indigenous 
 rights, women’s rights, labor rights and social justice.  MSN sees that 
 international grassroots alliances are critical in the global struggle for 
 democracy, sovereignty, and economic and political justice.  MSN is 
 committed to developing these grassroots alliances on both sides of the 
 US-Mexico border, and organizing to promote dialogue and collective action 
 for social change.  See www.mexicosolidarity.org for more details.\n\nThis 
 concert will raise funds to send a Mission District social justice activist 
 and SFSU student, Amrah Salomón Johnson, on the MSN study abroad tour to 
 Mexico from September to December, 2006.  She will document the social 
 justice movement in Mexico after the presidential election in El Tecolote 
 (www.eltecolote.org) and hold report-backs in the spring at San Francisco 
 State University on the Zapatista movement, the femicides in Chihuahua and 
 Juarez, and the Mexican perspective on immigration to the United States.  
 She is still accepting requests for journalism, research and lectures and 
 can be contacted at bmoviequeen@hotmail.com.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/02/18284764.php
SUMMARY:SF: Mexico Solidarity Benefit Concert: ZONK, Genie & Valerie Orth
LOCATION:Balazo Gallery 2183 Mission Street www.balazogallery.com\nWheelchair 
 Accessible
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/02/18284764.php
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