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DESCRIPTION:For the third Friday straight, join Healthy Hoodz, the ONYX Organizing 
 Committee and Young Oakland in Oakland's Town Plaza!\n\nThis Friday, we 
 will host:\n\n- opportunities to make art: political pins & buttons\n- add 
 your thoughts and images to an expression wall, draw what you think justice 
 and peace look like\n- a kids zone with arts activities, childrens books 
 for sale and art made by youth visual artists\n- performances by Young 
 Oakland\n- Spoken word by GP Walker, Needa Bee and the Po' Poets, and 
 more\n- pick up free produce and seedlings at the garden giveaway table\n- 
 pick up some free posters by Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza, copies of 
 classic resistance poems, stickers and other art and the art give away 
 table\n- visit the @free store to grab something you need, and if you want 
 leave something someone else may need\n- check out the creations of @ital 
 pinay and\n- plug into the grassroots organizations that are committed to 
 justice in our community everyday\n\n- and participate in our two dialogue 
 sessions:\n1. in commemoration of Black August, how do we stop feeding the 
 genocide machine of the prison industrial complex?\n2. in remembrance of 
 Oakland's latest victims to homicide - 1year old Andrew Jackson and his 20 
 year old father Andrew grant who were murdered Wednesday morning, how do we 
 end the fratricide (killing our own)?\n\nFollowing the speak out and 
 discussion, we will hold a vigil for Baby Drew and his father Andrew who 
 were killed in East Oakland on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013.\n\nat 9pm we 
 take to the streets for a bike ride for @black august (sign making 
 materials will be at the plaza for you to supe your ride with)\n\nWe cant 
 just take the streets when THEY kills us. It is up to ALL of us to STOP the 
 violence in our communities - AND the conditions that cause it. This is 
 third week in a row. Let's keep the momentum going. Let's BUILD a NEW 
 Oakland ...By, For and ABOUT the PEOPLE!!!! with cultural resistance in the 
 plaza!\n\nA town plaza is a central meeting place for the people of the 
 community. OG Plaza is our town center, our neutral meeting place for free 
 speech and public dialogue. it was the epicenter of a bay area youth 
 movement in the '90s were hundreds of thousands of youth and their 
 supporters closed down public schools to open freedom schools; halted the 
 construction of new juvenile detention centers; interrupted major 
 corporations profit flow. it was the epicenter of the largest uprising in 
 response to police terrorism in the history of the United States during the 
 days of rage around Oscar grant's murder. it became the epicenter for 
 occupy Oakland.\n\nAnd we continue to gather there to continue the momentum 
 of resistance that is OAKLAND.\n\nIn this spirit, we have committed to 
 being in the Plaza EVERY Friday in the month of Black August and every 
 First Friday of the month there after in the name of culture as a weapn and 
 art as resistance!\n\nTHIS IS NOT OCCUPY! THIS IS OAKLAND!\n\n- a city with 
 a long history of cultural resistance - be it the pachunga wars of the 
 1940s, or the black panther songs and posters, or the philippino political 
 theater troupes over the decades, or the native american cultural 
 gatherings, or the era of political hip hop, or multiethnic cultural worker 
 coalitions, or black and brown muralist collaborations, or graph krus, or 
 political poster makers...the list goes on and on and on. we are a city 
 that has always understood and employed arts and culture in the forefront 
 of justice.\n\nIf you are a visual or performance artist and would like to 
 lead an art activity or perform, please reach out to Needa Bee or Mona 
 Goldiño for next months art out.\n\nIf you are a GRASS ROOTS organization 
 and would like to table at Art OUT - please hit up She Cat.\n\nIf you would 
 like to endorse this event - hit up She Cat\n\nSee you in the streets,\nthe 
 ART OUT! crew\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/08/18741209.php
SUMMARY:All Out for Baby Drew and His Young Father
LOCATION:Oscar Grant Plaza.  14th & Broadway.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/08/18741209.php
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