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DESCRIPTION:Fiery Activist Jane Jackson\nto be Remembered \n\nWith great sadness but 
 with loving joy in the knowledge her tireless campaigns for civil rights 
 and the disabled helped build a better world, a memorial service for Jane 
 Jackson will be held \non Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. at St. 
 James Episcopal Church in Oakland.  Ms. Jackson died last September during 
 a visit to Cuba.  \n\nShe was friend equally of powerful leaders and 
 powerless victims, recalled her pastor, John Rawlinson.  “Jane was 
 unforgettable, traveling everywhere in her wheelchair covered with decals 
 and slogans,” he said.  “The pledge to ‘go any distance, bear any 
 burden, fight any foe in the cause of freedom’ wasn’t for her just a 
 line in one of John F. Kennedy’s speeches,” he added.  “Jane lived 
 those words – every syllable.”\n\nFather Rawlinson explained that Ms. 
 Jackson became an associate of Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the struggle to 
 end the apartheid system of racial discrimination in South Africa.  At 
 home, she led the drive to establish the sister city relationship between 
 Oakland and Santiago, Cuba, working with then-Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown and 
 Cuba's President Fidel Castro.  \n\nShe served on the City of Oakland's 
 Disability Commission.  She was a member of the board of directors of 
 Pacifica, the national public radio network which operates KPFA - FM in 
 Berkeley.  For years, she was a civil rights activist and voter 
 registration worker in the Bay Area and the \nsouthern U.S.\n\nMs. Jackson 
 is survived by her two daughters and her grandchildren.  A third, adopted 
 daughter resides in Cuba. \n\nThe public is welcome to attend the service, 
 Father Rawlinson said.  St. James is located 10 blocks east of Lake 
 Merritt, at the southeast corner of 12th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard.  
 The church was founded in 1860.  A tradition of community involvement dates 
 from the founders’ offer of free pews to all worshipers,  contrary to 
 charging pew rental fees, at the time a customary practice which excluded 
 many Christians from church membership.  \n\nAmple free parking is 
 available on site.\n\n#   #   #\n \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/16/18461653.php
SUMMARY:Jane Jackson Memorial
LOCATION:St. James Episcopal Church 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/16/18461653.php
DTSTART:20071116T210000Z
DTEND:20071116T230000Z
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