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Benefit for Nadra Foster, victim of KPFA"s police brutality
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
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7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
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La Pena restaurant, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA (Ashby BART)
A party and celebration to raise legal defense funds. Join the KPFA Unpaid Staff Organization for an evening of music, comedy & performance to raise funds for the KPFA programmer hurt and charged with multiple misdemeanors after the police were called in to enforce a "banning."
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http://www.lapena.org/event/978
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A BENEFIT FOR NADRA FOSTER: A PARTY AND CELEBRATION TO RAISE LEGAL DEFENSE FUNDS
An Evening of Song, Story and Performance
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley
January 22, 2009 7pm to 9:30pm
Sliding scale admission - ($20 recommended).
Featuring: Vibraphonist Yancy Taylor, Former San Francisco poet
laureate devorah major, PEN award-winning author Dr. Cecil Brown, the
welfare QUEENS, satirist Khalil Bendib, music by Hairdoo, and civil
rights attorney Osha Neumann.
Background: Nadra Foster, a volunteer radio programmer for over a
decade and graduate of KPFA's Apprenticeship Program, was violently
arrested and removed from the Berkeley radio station by the Berkeley Police
Department in August 2008. The reason cited for "banning" from the progressive radio station dedicated to peace? Printing paper and using the phone. Foster, a young African-American mother of two children, suffered injuries and is facing misdemeanor charges in Alameda County Court. She has secured a lawyer, but needs assistance to cover legal costs and pay medical
bills.
The KPFA Unpaid Staff Organization (UPSO) is the main sponsor of this
event. UPSO is a trailblazing community organizing effort to provide
the benefits of collective bargaining to programmers who volunteer
their time and skills for a majority of KPFA's broadcasts. We are
committed to promoting a peaceful and productive workplace to continue
offering diverse cutting-edge, community-based programming.
Learn more about supporting the work of the KPFA UPSO, and the Nadra
Foster case at Media Justice: KPFA
(http://MediaJusticeKPFA.blogspot.com). All labor donated.
Sponsored by the KPFA Unpaid Staff Organization (UPSO)
First Voice Media Action Program (firstvoicemedia.wordpress.com)
Media Alliance (media-alliance.org)
The San Francisco Bay View Newspaper (sfbayview.org)
and Critical Resistance (criticalresistance.org).
An Evening of Song, Story and Performance
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley
January 22, 2009 7pm to 9:30pm
Sliding scale admission - ($20 recommended).
Featuring: Vibraphonist Yancy Taylor, Former San Francisco poet
laureate devorah major, PEN award-winning author Dr. Cecil Brown, the
welfare QUEENS, satirist Khalil Bendib, music by Hairdoo, and civil
rights attorney Osha Neumann.
Background: Nadra Foster, a volunteer radio programmer for over a
decade and graduate of KPFA's Apprenticeship Program, was violently
arrested and removed from the Berkeley radio station by the Berkeley Police
Department in August 2008. The reason cited for "banning" from the progressive radio station dedicated to peace? Printing paper and using the phone. Foster, a young African-American mother of two children, suffered injuries and is facing misdemeanor charges in Alameda County Court. She has secured a lawyer, but needs assistance to cover legal costs and pay medical
bills.
The KPFA Unpaid Staff Organization (UPSO) is the main sponsor of this
event. UPSO is a trailblazing community organizing effort to provide
the benefits of collective bargaining to programmers who volunteer
their time and skills for a majority of KPFA's broadcasts. We are
committed to promoting a peaceful and productive workplace to continue
offering diverse cutting-edge, community-based programming.
Learn more about supporting the work of the KPFA UPSO, and the Nadra
Foster case at Media Justice: KPFA
(http://MediaJusticeKPFA.blogspot.com). All labor donated.
Sponsored by the KPFA Unpaid Staff Organization (UPSO)
First Voice Media Action Program (firstvoicemedia.wordpress.com)
Media Alliance (media-alliance.org)
The San Francisco Bay View Newspaper (sfbayview.org)
and Critical Resistance (criticalresistance.org).
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