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The Race Liberation Alliance of Ithaca, New York is hosting the First Annual
Summertime Block Party on Saturday July 7, 2007 outside the Greater Ithaca
Activities Center, 318 N. Albany St., Ithaca. The purpose of the event is to
foster a greater sense of community unity across diverse cultural, ethnic and
socio-economic lines while promoting social justice and sustainable
lifestyles.
This fun event is free and open to the public and will last from 3:00 to
7:00 PM.
Just a few highlights of the Summertime Block Party:
* Live soul, reggae and hip hop music from Thousands of One, Mbusi and
The Ithaca Afro Project
* Michelle Berry, former Poet Laureate of Tompkins County, will emcee.
* Keynote speaker Shakoor Aljuwani is a social and environmental
activist hailing in from New Orleans (Buffalo, NY is his home!).
* Winners of the recent Youth Poetry Slam will perform, as will the
Ithaca High School International Dance Troupe.
* The First Baptized Church and GreenStar Cooperative will provide an
organic chicken BBQ­with lots of vegan options­to benefit the Race
Liberation Alliance.
* More than 25 organizations working on social justice and/or
sustainability issues will offer informational displays and tables.
* A raffle will offer many fabulous prizes, including free Grassroots
weekend passes, Hangar Theatre tickets, Kitchen Theatre Counter Culture
tickets and much more.
The Summertime Block Party is sponsored in part by Alternatives Federal
Credit Union, GreenStar Cooperative Market and Green Clean. Our partners for
the
event are GIAC, the Multi-Cultural Resource Center, and S.T.A.M.P./Green
Guerrillas.
Tentative Schedule of events (subject to change):
3:00-3:45 Ithaca Afro Project with Yacouba Diarra
3:50-4:20 Youth Poetry Slam
4:25-5:10 Keynote Speaker Shakoor Aljuwani
5:15-6:00 Mbusi with Thousands of One
6:05-7:00 Thousands of One
7:00 Raffle winners announced
(Ithaca High School International Dance Troupe will perform during Thousands
of One)
Can't come to the block party but want to support it? Come to GreenStar
Cooperative Market on Sunday, July 1, from 3:00-5:00 pm to visit us at our
table,
learn more about the Race Liberation Alliance, and purchase raffle tickets.
To purchase raffle tickets:
Elizabeth Field, 607-280-1960
Apologies for cross posting!
Na gwv' do hi ya - Peace.
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Gay Nicholson, Ph.D.
607-533-7312 (home office)
607-279-6618 (cell)
1 Maple Avenue
Lansing, NY 14882
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Sustainable Tompkins
Program Coordinator
w_ww.sustainabletompkins.org_ (http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/)
Southern Tier Energy$mart Communities
Regional Coordinator
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850
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