Eye of the Storm CD-Release Party: Dec 15

*SAVE THE DATE!

Ella Baker Center's Bay Area PoliceWatch and Reclaim the Future Present:

Eye of the Storm
CD-Release Party

An Evening of Hip Hop Poetry, Gospel and Soul Music
Calling for Racial Justice from Oakland to New Orleans

Thursday, December 15, 2005

6:00 pm
Artists and poets speak out against police brutality
and discrimination in Oakland
8:00 pm
Artists and families share poetry, songs and stories
of surviving the hurricanes of our times

La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

With Aya de Leon, Aimee Suzara, Mike Molina, Van Jones, Vukani Mawethu
Choir,
Vernon Bush from Glide, and more!
Original Visual Art Works Premiered

All proceeds to benefit families displaced by the Hurricanes
and grassroots rebuilding efforts

($5 Before 7pm) $10 donation recommended; no one turned away for lack of
funds!

Bay Area PoliceWatch and Reclaim the Future are projects of the Ella
Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, Ca. For more information,
please visit http://www.ellabakercenter.org or call (510) 428-3939 x236.

Eye of the Storm is a collaboration of the Ella Baker Center's programs
Bay Area PoliceWatch and Reclaim the Future. In celebration of Reclaim
the Future's recent release of their CD, we present you with a night of
art, music and poetry that connects the racial neglect of New Orleans to
police brutality in the Bay Area. As the discrimination against poor
communities and communities of color in this country continues to be
ignored and perpetuated, we attempt to break the silence and convey our
message that the path to peaceful streets and true community safety is
not more prisons and police, but ecologically sound and
nondiscriminatory economic development.

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