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DESCRIPTION:MUMBO GUMBO "HANDS AROUND THE WORLD" HUMAN RIGHTS BENEFIT\nSATURDAY, JUNE 
 12, 8PM -- DAVIS ART CENTER\n\nProceeds to benefit needy children in Haiti 
 & Central America'\n\nOn Saturday evening, June 12 at 8:00 PM the popular 
 musical group Mumbo Gumbo will play for the "Hands Around the World" Human 
 Rights Benefit dance outdoors at the Davis Art Center (corner of Covell & F 
 Sts.). Starting in 1991, Mumbo Gumbo has played every year to benefit 
 humanitarian projects sponsored by the Davis Religious Community for 
 Sanctuary (DRCS) and the  Davis Friends of Rutilio Grande. Dance proceeds 
 benefit projects in Guatemala, Haiti and El Salvador.  Proceeds will also 
 go to the Yolo Interfaith Immigration Network (YIIN) to assist in support 
 of immigrants living in Yolo Co.\n\nIn Haiti proceeds will go to support  
 CHILDREN'S HOPE,  a program created by Leisa Faulkner of Cameron Park. 
 CHILDREN'S HOPE provides medical aid, school supplies and athletic 
 equipment to children in Haiti's most impoverished urban slums. Faulkner 
 will lead her fourth Earthquake Relief delegation to Port au Prince this 
 July.\n\nIn El Salvador financial support will go once again to Comunidad 
 Rutilio Grande,a returned refugee community and Davis Sister City in El 
 Salvador. Funds will provide scholarships for children in Rutilio Grande to 
 attend secondary school in a neighboring community after completion of 
 elementary school.\n\nIn Guatemala funds will go to three human rights 
 programs: A program supporting indigenous widows and elderly men in the 
 village of Santiago Atitlan will receive funds to support a lunch program 
 for the oldest and poorest members in the community.\n\nSecond, proceeds 
 will go to  COVIGUA, a program that promotes the rights of Guatemalans with 
 disabilities. There are few accommodations in Guatemala for people with 
 disabilities in public spaces or facilities such as sidewalks, stairways, 
 street crossings, or buses.\n\nThirdly, funds will go to FAMDEGUA, a human 
 rights group that carries out exhumations of clandestine cemeteries 
 resulting from the more than 600 massacres committed by the Guatemalan 
 military during the 1970's and 1980's. Since the mid '90's FAMDEGUA, which 
 stands for families of the displaced and disappeared in Guatemala, has 
 completed more than 40 exhumations, in spite of continual death threats and 
 harassment by the far right.\n\nTickets to the dance are $15 advance, $20 
 at the door, $10 students at Watermelon Music, 207 E St., Davis  and at The 
 Beat in Sacramento, 1700 J Street. Children 12 and under accompanied by 
 parents are FREE. Tickets also on sale Saturday in the a.m at the Davis 
 Farmer's Market. People are urged to come early to the dance and bring a 
 picnic dinner, along with a blanket or a low chair.\n\nGates open at 7 pm. 
 Light refreshments will be available. In case of rain, the concert will 
 move indoors. For information call (530) 756-6904.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/10/18650405.php
SUMMARY:Mumbo Gumbo Human Rights Benefit
LOCATION:Davis Art Center (corner of Covell & F Sts.) in Davis
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/10/18650405.php
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