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DESCRIPTION:Art House Gallery and Cultural Center presents a free night of poetry and 
 song in opposition to Berkeley’s proposed anti-sitting law on Friday, May 
 20th, 2011, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm (doors open 6:30 pm), sponsored by the 
 Stand Up for the Right to Sit Down Coalition and The Revolutionary Poets 
 Brigade.\n\nEnjoy an evening of engaged poets and songwriters featuring Dee 
 Allen, Lincoln Bergman, Ava Bird, Carol Denney, Gary Hicks, Eliot Kenin, 
 Arnie Passman, Dottie Payne, Andrea Pritchett, Miguel Robles, Lynn Sugayan, 
 Julia Vinograd, Eleanor Walden, and other special guests.\n\nMembers of 
 Stand Up for the Right to Sit Down include the Homeless Action Center, 
 YEAH!, Youth Spirit Artworks, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency 
 (BOSS), Berkeley Food and Housing Project, Street Spirit, the Pepper Spray 
 Times, and the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC). The Revolutionary 
 Poets Brigade is an international group of poets  who came together in 2009 
 to put their words in the service of struggles in motion.\n\n“A sitting 
 law would make it criminal for Girl Scouts to sit on a chair to sell 
 cookies; for elderly people to sit and rest on a walk; for kids to sit on 
 the sidewalk to tie their shoes.” said Elisa Della-Piana, director of the 
 East Bay Community Law Center's Neighborhood Justice Clinic.   \n\n“Why 
 on earth would we be so foolish as to spend tax payer dollars trying to 
 pass and enforce an ineffective anti-sitting ordinance in these desperate 
 economic times?  We know what works in solving the challenges of 
 homelessness--housing, services and jobs!” commented Sally Hindman, 
 director of Youth Spirit Artworks.  \n\n“The sad thing is that we are all 
 in favor of finding ways to revitalize our public streets, but these 
 measures end up dividing us into people who care about the civil rights and 
 human rights of homeless people and the people who care about the survival 
 of our valued local businesses,” said Terrie Light, Executive Director of 
 Berkeley Emergency Food and Housing Project.\n\nALSO: Stand Up for the 
 Right to Sit Down Coalition will be hosting the world’s first 
 Chair-a-pillar on Sunday, May 22nd, 12:00 noon, at the Downtown Berkeley 
 Bart Station. Bring your own chair and sit down with the Stand Up for the 
 Right to Sit Down Coalition.\n\nCONTACT:\nElisa Della-Piana, Director East 
 Bay Community Law Center Neighborhood Justice Clinic, 510-548-4064 x 365, 
 edellapiana@ebclc.org , and/or Carol Denney, Pepper Spray Times, 
 510-548-1512, cdenney@igc.org\n\nArt House Gallery and Cultural Center, 
 2905 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705, 510-472-3170. The event is free; 
 donations welcome.	\n\n-END-\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/04/18678877.php
SUMMARY:Poetry Reading Against the (proposed) Anti-Sitting Law
LOCATION:Art House Gallery and Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue (at Russell), 
 Berkeley, California.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/04/18678877.php
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