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DESCRIPTION:Uhuru Movement urges Maker Faire organizers to include Uhuru Foods at San 
 Mateo event\n\nOn Friday afternoon, May 22, 2009, Uhuru Foods was notified 
 by Nancy Davis of Ovations Food Service that Ovations was unilaterally 
 cancelling Uhuru Foods’ contract to have a food booth at Maker Faire. She 
 refused to give any reason. The Maker Faire takes place at the San Mateo 
 Event Center on May 30 and 31.\n\nUhuru Foods is a volunteer fundraiser of 
 the Uhuru Movement that raises urgently needed funds for important programs 
 of the black community. The programs include the African Village Survival 
 Initiative (AVSI), a collective response from the African community to the 
 economic crisis facing black communities worldwide. The fundraiser also 
 supports the All-African People’s Development and Empowerment Project, as 
 well as the African People’s Education and Defense Fund, which is working 
 to overturn the disparities faced by black communities in education, 
 health, health care and economic development.\n\nCoordinator of Uhuru 
 Foods, Maureen Wagener states: “We believe that excluding Uhuru Food runs 
 counter to the mission of the Maker Faire. It ensures that the festival is 
 an exclusive enterprise that does not include the voice, perspective and 
 struggle of the African working class. They are choosing to exclude African 
 led programs for true sustainability and justice that African people are 
 leading through the Uhuru Movement.” \n\nShe continues, “In these 
 critical times when the African community already faces short life 
 expectancies, high infant mortality rates, untenable poverty and police 
 brutality, murders and imprisonment almost daily, the crisis is deepening 
 for African people. We believe that attendees to the Maker Faire want to 
 support African people’s solutions to these problems. Those attendees and 
 our volunteers are being denied this opportunity.”\n\nUhuru Foods is 
 launching a campaign to reverse the cancellation of the fundraiser and 
 asking the community and Maker Faire to support the programs of the Uhuru 
 Movement.\n\nFor more info, contact 510-851-4492, Oakland@uhurufoods.org, 
 go to www.uhurufoods.org. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/25/18598048.php
SUMMARY:Press Conference: Black community fundraiser shut out of Maker Faire
LOCATION:Uhuru Furniture\n3742 Grand Avenue\nOakland, CA 94610
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/25/18598048.php
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