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DESCRIPTION:The State of California helped provide leadership towards our modern 
 Juneteenth Movement via Assembly Bill 1749 (Longville) 2002 signed by then 
 Governor Gray Davis. \n\nJuneteenth 2003, California Juneteenth Freedom Day 
 was celebrated by statue the 3rd Saturday of June with an accompanying 
 required Governor Proclamation for Juneteenth.\n\nJune 2021, Juneteenth 
 became our newest Federal Holiday, yet in California it is uniquely a 
 quasi-optional holiday.  Throughout the State of California the transition 
 from a "Black" backyard BBQ, community Black Music Month celebration and 
 much more... the transition to a fixed US Federal Holiday is a future 
 notion in California.\n\nOur official Juneteenth Flag is the brainchild of 
 activist Ben Haith, at the urging of former National Juneteenth Observance 
 Foundation, President, Dr. Ronald Myers. \n\nBen Haith created the flag in 
 1997 with the help of collaborators, and Boston-based illustrator Lisa 
 Jeanne Graf brought our symbol to life.  \n\nOur official Juneteenth Flag 
 will one day fly throughout all 58 California counties and in our nearly 
 100 California cities with 100,000+ residents.  Honoring the nearly 2,000 
 United States Colored Troops who helped preserve the Union and end chattel 
 slavery throughout America. \n\nMonday, June 3, 2024, we strategically 
 plant a small mustard seed, hoisting our official Juneteenth Flag and 
 offering it to the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom for Executive authority 
 align California Juneteenth with the only US Federal Holiday needing 
 special consideration, marking this 175th Year of our California 
 Constitution Convention, marking the transition from Mexican Common Law to 
 English Common Law. \n\nIndeed Freedom is never free... we hold these 
 truths to be self-evident.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/06/02/18866965.php
SUMMARY:Inaugural California Juneteenth Flag Raising Ceremony - Honoring USCT from California
LOCATION:Our Global Juneteenth Flag Raising Ceremony take place at Noon all around 
 the world.  Juneteenth is our agreed upon date to celebrate the beginning 
 of ending chattel slavery at the final Confederate States of America Port 
 at Galveston Island, Texas
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