[S-C] Greenaction Campaign Update and Action Alerts & JULY 22nd BENEFIT CONCERT IN SAN FRANCISCO

[Bradley Angel]

Please visit the Greenaction website http://www.greenaction.org
<http://www.greenaction.org/>  for updates and action alerts including our

*	Summer 2006 Campaign Report 
*	Action Alert in support of Tohonno O’odham Indigenous people in
Mexico fighting proposed toxic waste dump 
*	Stop proposed toxic-spewing crematorium in Richmond, CA 
*	Great story in Deseret News about our campaign in North Salt Lake
City, Utah to pressure Stericycle to close their medical waste incinerator
and replace it with sterilization technology 

 

PLEASE SUPPORT GREENACTION! We rely on donations from supporters to continue
our important and successful campaigns for healthy communities and
environmental justice. Donate online http://www.greenaction.org
<http://www.greenaction.org/> 

Or mail a contribution to Greenaction, One Hallidie Plaza, Suite 760, San
Francisco, CA 94102

 

AND IF YOU LIVE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, PLEASE JOIN US 

SATURDAY, JULY 22ND AT 8 P.M. FOR A SPECIAL EVENT:

“From New Orleans to Bayview Hunters Point, a Benefit Concert for
Environmental and Social Justice”

at the  Cellspace, 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco 

The concert features multicultural performers Fely (from Cote d’Ivoire),
Guerrilla Funk Recording Artist T - K.A.S.H. (Revolutionary Hip Hop), COPUS
(music and spoken word), DJ Tony Moses, and special guest singer/songwriter
Jonathan Richman.  Sakura Koné of New Orleans Common Ground and Bayview
Hunters Point community leader Marie Harrison of Greenaction will speak.

 

The event will raise awareness and funds for two grassroots groups working
with low-income communities impacted by environmental and social injustice.
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, based in San Francisco, is
a leader in grassroots battles for a healthy environment in low-income
communities impacted by pollution. In Bayview Hunters Point, Greenaction
worked with residents to bring about the recent shut down of the dirty PG&E
Hunters Point power plant.  Greenaction works with urban, rural, desert and
Indigenous communities across the west, and help win victories against giant
corporate polluters.

 

Common Ground is a grassroots community-based organization formed by New
Orleans residents hit hard by the Katrina hurricane and the abandonment of
residents by the government. Common Ground is organizing residents and
evacuees in the fight for social and environmental justice in the people of
color neighborhoods devastated by Katrina and governmental racism.

 

T-K.A.S.H is the Truth. Developing his skills on Bay Area revolutionary
hip-hop group The Coup's Steal This Album, Steal This Double Album and Party
Music, brought T-K.A.S.H to create his magnum opus, Turf War Syndrome.  The
album features production work by industry-veteran and fellow revolutionary
hip-hop artist Paris and chronicles tales of street life, redemption and
consequences in the inner-cities of post-911 America.  In addition to
delivering a message behind his music, T-K.A.S.H.'s works include social
justice & community activism and non-commercial radio.  With a fierce focus
on musical quality and content, and a guided intent behind his actions,
T-K.A.S.H. inspires his audience to rise to the occasion and stand firm.

 

Born in Cote d'Ivoire, Fely came into the world surrounded by a rich legacy
of traditional Ivorian music. Fely's first two albums, "Amour Perdu" (Lost
Love), and "Aude a L'amour" (Ode to Love), created a stir in the Ivory
Coast, where they were recorded and promoted.  She filled venues such as Le
Palais du Peuple in Guinea Konakri and the Hotel Ivoire in Abidjan, Ivory
Coast.  A national star at twenty-one, Fely's success  in the Ivory Coast
culminated at a special show "Dimanche Passion" sponsored by the national
television station.  

Last November Fely released her first debut album in the U.S., "De Zere
Gnan" (Meaning after war, an Homage to our Forefathers). She performed on
San Francisco's public TV station, KQED, San Jose's public radio KKUP, and
in a wide variety of venues around the Bay Area such as Ashkenaz, Café
Cocomo and the African American Cultural Center in San Francisco. 

 

Copus combines the timeless quality of classical, jazz, world, blues and
other musical genres coupled with original poetic verse and the result is
Spoken Word / Millennium Music. Featuring the brilliant, passionate piano
compositions of Wendy Loomis and the spoken word artistry of Royal Kent, the
Copus sound bridges millennia.

 

Tickets for the July 22nd benefit concert are a $15-30 donation, sliding
scale. 

 

 

 

 

 

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