I want to wish you the very best for the New Year. Unfortunately a New Year doesn’t provide us with a new slate. All of the problems that we faced in 2009 are still with us as we start 2010. This year must be one of more intense struggle if we are to overcome the public lethargy and the setbacks that we have faced.
As a media worker my area of particular concern has to do with telling the stories of poor, oppressed and marginalized peoples who are routinely ignored by mainstream media and increasingly neglected by listener-sponsored, non-commercial media. My efforts and energies will be devoted to addressing these inequities and exposing the government/corporate efforts to reduce our rights, squander our resources and make war against people around the world. I hope that you will join me in fighting these powerful entities.
However, intense struggle doesn’t mean that we can’t take time out to have some fun. Toward that end I am asking you to attend the People’s Solidarity Concert. The concert was conceptualized by the “Take Back WBAI Coalition" and endorsed by dozens of supporters.
PEOPLE'S SOLIDARITY CONCERT
PARTY HEARTY TO BEGIN THE NEW YEAR
Friday, January 8, 2010 – 7 pm till Midnight
at Local 32-BJ
101 Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave.)
between Watts and Grand St, in lower Manhattan
Sick and tired of government transferring wealth from the workers to the bankers - well, you wouldn't know it from the mass and liberal media who ignore or distort our voices. So no matter what your issue is, the question is how do we get our stories heard and who tells them in 2010? Begin the new year with a solidarity concert and eat, drink, and meet those who'll work to get the voices of the people heard.
PERFORMERS:
Sonia Sanchez, nationally recognized poet
Heritage OP, percussion sensations
Fred Ho, jazz baritone saxophonist
Kinshasa and Friends, jazz & vocalist
Louis Reyes Rivera, poet, WBAI radio host “Perspective”
The Doo Wop Classics
Sponsored by the People's Organization for Progress and The Alliance for Progressive Media
Donation $15 (no one turned away)
Travel: #1, A, C, E trains to Canal Street, Manhattan
Information:646-506-9422
Current List of Endorsers:
Pam Africa
Stanley Aronowitz
Father Luis Barrios
City Councilmember Charles Barron
Esperanza Martell
Our Common Ground with Janice Graham
Ralph Poynter
Operation P.O.W.E.R. (People Organizing
Working for Empowerment & Respect)
Lynne Stewart Support Committee
Valerie Van Isler
Tim Wise
ACT UP/NY (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/New York)
Afrikan Poetry Theatre
Alberto Lovero Bolivarian Circle of NY
Anti-Racist Alliance
Asia Pacific Action
CEMOTAP (Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People)
December 12th Movement
DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving)
Family & Friends of Dr. Mutulu Shakur
FIST - Fight Imperialism Stand Together
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
Iglesia San Romero de las Americas
International Action Center
International Support Haiti Network
Marvelous Light Crusade World Outreach Ministries
Masjid Al-Taqwah
Million Worker March Movement
National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO)
New York Coalition for Neighborhood School Control
New York Solidarity with Katrina & Rita Survivors
Northeast Region Survivors Assembly
Pakistan USA Freedom Forum
Peace Health Center
People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
People's Organization for Progress (NJ)
ProLibertad (Freedom Campaign for Puerto Rican Political Prisoners)
Puerto Rican Alliance of Los Angeles
Queers for Peace and Justice
Resistance in Brooklyn
Rockland County Immigration Coalition
Roots Revisited
S.E.E.D.S., Inc.
Sisa Pakari Labor Center - Queens
Working People's Voice Publication
