Black August events in Oakland today & tomorrow - Be there!

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For Immediate Release: August 26, 2008
Contact: Shaka At-Thinnin, (510) 597-1504, RoyBoomba@aol.com

WHO: The Black August Organizing Committee

WHAT: 2008 “The Original” Black August: Save Our Children featuring workshops, food and music with Special Guests: Ise Lyfe, the Caribbean All Stars, Naru, Warrior Woman, Emory Douglas, Antithesis Master Drummer Tacuma King, nappy tongues and many more

WHERE: East Oakland Youth Development Center, 8200 International Boulevard, Oakland CA 94621
WHEN: August 30th: 12-8 PM and August 31st: 12-10 PM

Black August began twenty-nine years ago in California’s concentration camps to honor fallen brothers George Jackson, John Jackson, William Christmas, James McClain and Khatari Gaulden.

For the entire month of August, emphasis is placed on sacrifice, fortitude and discipline. It is a time to embrace the principles of unity, self-sacrifice, political education, physical training and resistance. Observers, inside the prisons and out, fast, train their bodies and minds and are visibly active in the community.


The Black August Organizing Committee (BAOC) is a community-based organization which has been in existence for 29 years. We work to free Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War and Prisoners of Conscious. The BAOC actively maintains a community awareness of and involvement in the legal, medical and social issues affecting prisoners in general and politically conscious prisoners in particular. Additionally the BAOC strives to provide healthy alternatives for our youth in the streets and intervene where we can to prevent their entrance into the prison industrial complex.