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DESCRIPTION:Oakland, CA - For the third year in a row, Alameda County’s Transgender 
 Day of Remembrance ceremony will be held in Oakland, CA on November 16, 
 2008 at Preservation Park’s Niles Hall. Last year's event in Alameda 
 County was attended by over 120 people; up to 200 are expected this year. 
 Planned by Tri-City Health Center’s TransVision program, the event will 
 be one of over 200 ceremonies across the nation and in many foreign 
 countries to commemorate this day.\n\n\nThis is year marks the 10 Year 
 Anniversary of the Transgender\nDay of Remembrance. \n\n\nThe 10th Annual 
 Transgender Day of Remembrance will honor transgender and gender variant 
 individuals killed due to anti-transgender violence over the previous 
 twelve months. Most recently, in Sacramento, police are investigating the 
 death of a transgender woman pulled from the American River on Sept 21 as 
 suspicious. She was 22-years-old.\n\n\nAs well as remembering transgender 
 victims of violence and hate crimes, the event will recognize HIV/AIDS and 
 tobacco-related illness as two other major health issues that have 
 disproportionately affected transgender people living in Alameda County. 
 This year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance Event is scheduled for 
 Preservation Park in Oakland on Sunday November 16, 2008.  Held inside the 
 elegant Nile Hall, the doors will open at 5pm and the ceremony will begin 
 at 5:30. It is open and free to the entire community. \n\n\nThe event 
 features keynote speakers, including elected officials and key community 
 members, dramatic presentations, testimonials and the reading of names of 
 those who have been lost in the past year. Of course we have been working 
 on an exciting, diverse program of speakers and performers that include 
 Miss Major, Vicky Kowlakowski, and live music from Kari McAllister and The 
 Transcendence Gospel Choir, the world's first transgender gospel choir. 
 \n\n\nThis year, Community Endorsements have come from: Congresswoman 
 Barbra Lee (D-9), Congressman George Miller (D-7), Senator Ellen Corbett 
 (D-10),\nAssembly member Sandre’Swanson (D-16), Lavender 
 Seniors,\nTransgender Law Center, Lou Sullivan Society,\n FTM 
 International, \nCenter of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention, 
 UCSF\nMetropolitan Community Church of San Francisco,\nThe Peninsula MCC, 
 United Church of Hayward, UCC, \nSan Leandro Community Church, Eden United 
 Church of Christ,\n\n\nTransVision is a program serving transgender women 
 with HIV and other health-related services provided through Tri-City Health 
 Center, a non-profit community based health clinic in Fremont. \n\nThe Day 
 of Remembrance began in 1999 as a way to draw attention to the issue of 
 anti-transgender violence.  The event was initially created to mark the one 
 year anniversary of the death of a Massachusetts transgender woman, Rita 
 Hester, whose death remains unsolved.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/28/18547102.php
SUMMARY:THIRD ANNUAL ALAMEDA COUNTY TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
LOCATION:Sunday, November 16, 2008\nPreservation Park, Nile Hall\n668-13th 
 St.\nOakland,CA  94612\n5:00-7:00 PM\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/28/18547102.php
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