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DESCRIPTION:Danny Cassidy Healthcare Benefit\nOur friend Danny Cassidy is facing a 
 challenging fight with cancer. As you know, Danny has been a tireless 
 advocate for Irish culture, social justice and learning. In an effort to 
 provide financial assistance during this difficult time, Danny and 
 Clare’s friends are coming together to organize a testimonial and 
 fundraiser event and appeal to the Irish and Irish-American community for 
 help. Please join us. \nThe day will feature speakers, musicians, a raffle, 
 an auction and door prizes.\nDaniel Cassidy was born in Brooklyn, New York. 
 He has been a merchant seaman, union organizer, professional musician, and 
 award-winning filmmaker. His film “Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs”, 
 about the Struggles of the North of Ireland, was nominated for an Emmy. He 
 is a co-founder of the Crossroads Irish-American Festival and the Irish 
 Studies Program at New College of California, where he taught Irish Studies 
 and Media Studies until the school recently closed. \n\nHis new book How 
 The Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads, was 
 published by CounterPunch Books in July, 2007. He won the American Book 
 Award for\nnon-fiction in November 2007.\n\nDanny recently received several 
 job offers from local colleges, but was unable to accept them due to his 
 illness. He also was forced to cancel scheduled readings across the country 
 while he undergoes treatment. Hopefully, if his health improves, he may be 
 able to resume his life’s work of promoting Irish and Irish-American 
 Studies. He is still managing to write a bi-monthly column for the Irish 
 Echo newspaper in NYC called, Slanguage. Log on 
 to:http://www.irishecho.com/index.cfm.\n\nUnfortunately, due to the closing 
 of New College, Danny’s insurance coverage was terminated and Danny will 
 now require ongoing and costly medical care. Danny and his wife, Clare find 
 themselves in a very difficult financial situation.  And after you help 
 Danny, please help build a labor movement that can win a national 
 healthcare system in this country as exists in the rest of the 
 industrialized world, paid for with our tax dollars, so that when we need 
 medical care, dental care, or any other healthcare, it is free of charge. 
 \nFor more information, 
 see:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2008/Cassidy.htm\nand\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2008schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/28/18511850.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Danny Cassidy Healthcare Benefit
LOCATION:Harrington’s Bar & Grille 245 Front Street,  San Francisco  (at 
 Sacramento St) (near Embarcadero BART, California St cable car), Buses: 1, 
 10, 41\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/28/18511850.php
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