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Our Health Is Our Wealth

Date:
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Time:
11:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Event Type:
Other
Organizer/Author:
PamPam
Location Details:
Brava Theatre
2789 24th St., San Francisco

Come join us for a festival like no other! Experience, good healthy food, holistic health practices, film shorts, and workshops addressing community issues of health, poverty and violence, planning a solution of how to heal our community. For a lot of us, our mental and physical health is at risk, the best way to over come these issues is to come together, educate ourselves, and deal with them collectively. Special panel presented by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, following an excerpt of the movie "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story" addressing Stan, the death penalty, and our civil rights.


Featured films include:

Peace Maker in Sudan.
Details a personal account of the crisis in Sudan which began in February 2003. Indiscriminate killing, mass rapes, looting of livestock and the burning of villages at the hands of government troops and the militias have resulted in 50,000 deaths and forced an estimated 1.2 million people from their homes.

Peacemakers 4 life:
Takes a look at the violence in our community. Illustrates how a communitty coming together can overcome these issues, break the cycle of violence, and unite us in transforming our lives.

Hosted By:
Conscious Eyes TV & KPOO 89.5 FM Radio personality Pam-Pam "theimposingfigure"

Performances, spoken word, live music. The Bay Area's DJ Fonzilla navigates the dance floor.

Special Celebration for Idriss Stelley's Birth day
Idriss was shot and killed by the SFPD
He was shot 47 times.

One of the all too many victims of police brutality.

For more information

About the event: call 415-240-0093 or visit www.coloredink.org About Stan's case:
http://www.tookie.com
http://www.nodeathpenalty.org
Suggested Donation of $10
Purchase of one of the movies at the festival and get in for free!
no one turned away for lack of funds
Added to the calendar on Sun, Aug 14, 2005 11:18PM
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