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DESCRIPTION:Stop the Repression! Fundraiser for Alex Sanchez\n\nAlex Sanchez’s family 
 migrated from El Salvador in the 1970s. He was a former gang member who 
 turned his life around becoming an internationally recognized peacemaker 
 and co-founding Homies Unidos in Los Angeles in 1998. On June 24, 2009, 
 Alex was arrested and named in a federal indictment based on weak evidence, 
 charging him among a group of twenty-three others as an active gang member. 
 He is being held without bail in spite of widespread support for his 
 release.\n____________________________________\n\nFriday September 25, 
 2009, 6pm\nBarrios Unidos\n1817 Soquel Avenue\nSanta Cruz, CA\n\nLive 
 Broadcast on La Onda Bajita KPFA.org\n\nOn September 25, we will host a 
 movie and music fundraising event in support of Alex Sanchez. In addition, 
 guest speakers from Homies Unidos and Barrios Unidos, will address issues 
 on current gang suppression activities and how the war on gangs is a war on 
 marginalized youth of color.\n\nCome check out hip-hop artists:\n\nBROWN 
 BFLO,\nPara La Gente, \nMachetero, \nPoetic S., \nReporte Ilegal \n\nand 
 our featured documentary movie, "Hijos de la Guerra." This event will be 
 broadcast live on KPFA "La Onda Bajita" and local pirate radio stations. 
 More music will be announced.\n\nHIJOS DE LA GUERRA (movie 
 synopsis)\n\nHijos de la Guerra tells the story of the Mara Salvatrucha 
 (MS-13), an international Hispanic street gang founded by Salvadoran civil 
 war refugees, which the U.S government singles out as the fastest-growing 
 and most violent gang in the\ncountry.\n\nThe film explores the individual 
 motivations behind gang membership and the ensuing explosion of fratricidal 
 violence, as well as the complex role of social and government policy in 
 attempting to contain and yet unintentionally encouraging the spread of the 
 gang.\n\nAt its inception, the newly formed gang channeled the widespread 
 trauma that a genocidal civil war had wrought on an entire generation of 
 orphaned and militarized kids into fanatical violence. This formed the 
 basis for MS-13's explosive growth.\n\nArtist 
 Website's\nhttp://www.myspace.com/thebrownbuffaloproject\nhttp://www.myspace.com/paralagente\nhttp://www.myspace.com/mentespeligrosas\nhttp://www.myspace.com/poeticstimulator\nhttp://www.myspace.com/reporteilegalmusica\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/26/18619691.php
SUMMARY:Stop the Repression! Fundraiser for Alex Sanchez: "Hijos de la Guerra" and Hip Hop Show
LOCATION:Barrios Unidos\n1817 Soquel Avenue\nSanta Cruz, CA\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/26/18619691.php
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