SEIZE THE MOMENT- HIP HOP ARTISTS AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS

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SICCNESS FAMLEE!!!
Organization Im with is puttin on a Big event at Geoffrey's in the Town this Saturday afternoon. Got to register to vote to get in!!! No money will even be accepted at the door. DEADLINE TO REGISTER TO VOTE IS JAN 21st even tho the actual voting date is Feb 5th.

Everyone is welcome, but you know Im pushin for O'BROTHA!!!!
Naw, rilly tho everyone is encouraged no matter who you going for...
Read on...


MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Media/Event Contact:
Charles Johnson
510.776.4644


“SEIZE THE MOMENT”
HIP HOP ARTISTS AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS
Voter Registration Drive
Saturday, January 19th at 1:00pm -- Geoffrey’s Inner Circle, Oakland



Oakland, CA- this year’s Presidential race is arguably the most important election in this country’s history. It is the year when we--the people--can alter the entire landscape of politics as we know it. The Town Business Network (TBN) is moved to action by this historical opportunity and gathering its coalition of local Bay Area Hip Hop artists and community activists to raise awareness of the California voter registration deadline-- January 21st.

“Seize The Moment” - Citizens who are not registered by January 21st will not be able to vote in the upcoming election, and they will be disenfranchised for yet another year. With only one week before the registration deadline for the upcoming California Primary Election, Town Business Network is launching its “Seize the Moment” campaign to ensure that all eligible voters between the ages of 17 ¾ and 35 years of age are registered.

The collective will kick-off its “Seize the Moment” voter registration drive on Saturday, January 19th at 1:00 p.m., at Geoffrey’s Inner Circle, 410 14th St. in downtown Oakland. There is no fee to attend, but you must be registered to vote.

The event will be a fusion of education and entertainment designed to show the “hip hop generation” that their vote counts. Attendees will enjoy performances from the Bay Area’s finest artists in Hip Hop, R & B, Spoken Word, and Comedy—all promoting the theme that it is vital that we wake this “Sleeping Giant”. This event is unique in itself because you can’t attend unless you registered to vote.

“We don’t want your money, we want your vote!” said Organizer Charles Johnson. Co- Organizers, Geoffrey Peete, Dedoceo Habi, Nina Everett-King, and Qa’id Aqeel are deeply concerned and disturbed by the lack of knowledge of the political process in the hip hop community of the San Francisco Bay Area. “Many say that the young people in my generation are lost and will never amount to anything, “said Tyranny Allen, owner Verse's Shoe Academy and member of the organizing group. “We are proof that this is not true. We are not lost, we are simply disconnected.” Allen hopes to engage many more new voters to participate in this upcoming election and will continue to organize and empower young Oakland residents.

Town Business Network members include a who’s who in the Bay Area community activists, artists, and entertainment industry. The coalition includes Too Short, Oakland Post publisher Paul Cobb, Bishop Keith Clark, Rick Rock, Mistah F.A.B, Honorable. Keith Carson, Keak Da Sneak, Zion I, Goapele, Davey D, Boots from the Coup, E- 40 and many more. Using Hip-Hop as the collective interest, the members of the Town Business Network strive to be agents of social change that will help educate and empower new voters.

Stay tuned for more excitement. Town Business Network is planning a Hip Hop summit later this year with national known entity The Hip Hop Summit Action Network, operated by Russell Simmons and Benjamin Muhammed.

For more information contact Charles Johnson 510.776.4644.



WHO: SEIZE THE MOMENT
WHAT: VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE – HIP HOP ARTISTS
WHERE: Geoffrey’s Inner Circle, 410 14th Street, Oakland, CA
WHEN: Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 1:00 p.m.
CONTACT: Charles Johnson 510.776.4644

 

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!!!UP!!!
Tell any youngstas yall know to fall thru on Saturday!!!

Town Buisness Network (TBN)

 

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Tell any youngstas yall know to fall thru on Saturday!!!
Town Buisness Network (TBN)

Nice post.
Im try to swing by saturday afternoon with some younger folk..who aint registered ..c ya when i c ya.

 

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Oakland Post publisher Paul Cobb

This gentlemen was just placed on the witness protection program administrated by the oakland Police. It doesnt say wheter he is getting Britney Spears/Paparazzi Type Protection Or more like some Sammy "The Bull" Gravano type service.

Why is this type of news Front Page atleast Once every few days or weeks for the past several monthes?

OAKLAND -- Police placed Oakland Post Publisher Paul Cobb and another man under protection Wednesday night after the second man said two men he knew to be once associated with Your Black Muslim Bakery offered him $3,000 to lure Cobb to a place where they intended to kill him. The threat came four months after the Post's editor, Chauncey Bailey, was shot to death as he walked to work Aug. 2 near Alice and 14th streets in Oakland. Police say a bakery associate, Devaughndre Broussard, then 19, confessed the next day to killing Bailey because the journalist was planning to run a story on the business' troubled finances. Broussard later recanted and is awaiting trial.
The man, 60, was also one of the witnesses to Bailey's slaying and had recently been befriended by the editor, who sometimes bought him coffee at a local McDonald's. He first met Cobb at the shooting scene.
The man said he was a bakery associate more than a decade ago, and he knew the men from his time there.
Cobb made a series of phone calls to city officials and police Chief Wayne Tucker on Wednesday night, asking for protection for him and for the man he had befriended.
"I am worried for my safety and for my wife's safety," Cobb said.
Tucker was tightlipped when reached Wednesday night.
"We have been in contact with Mr. Cobb and other persons regarding the most recent developments," Tucker said. "The department takes any information regarding threats to persons very seriously, and we act on them very seriously. We have ongoing concerns about anybody whose lives have been threatened." Citing what he called "an ongoing investigation involving alleged crimes associated with Your Black Muslim Bakery," Tucker wouldn't discuss the matter further.
The man who tipped off Cobb to the threats spent several hours at the Post's office Wednesday.
"They wanted me to set up Mr. Cobb for a few thousand dollars," the man said shortly after a city police officer took statements from him and Cobb.
The man said he was approached in the area of Lake Merritt on Wednesday morning by two men that he identified only by Muslim first names. He said he knew them and exchanged a traditional greeting in Arabic. He said they then offered him money "to set up" Cobb.
Cobb was returning to his office after attending an appearance in the city by former President Clinton when he found the man outside the Post's office.
Cobb called police and said he was surprised when the first officers who responded were homicide detectives who said they were working on the investigation of Bailey's killing. Both Cobb and the man spoke with them.
A uniformed officer, Anthony Banks, later took statements about the threats.
Cobb said he reacted hesitantly at first, telling the man "you'll go to jail" for making a false police report if the information proved untrue. The man stuck with the story.
The Post's deadline was blown Wednesday night as Cobb spoke with police and gave an interview to the Chauncey Bailey Project. Cobb said he expected the paper's Friday edition to be published on time but with a later press run.
Cobb has been reluctant to say much publicly since Bailey's slaying, and he had received other threats in the weeks following Bailey's death. He said he was unsure why someone would want him killed now.
The bakery headquarters on San Pablo Avenue in North Oakland recently was sold through U.S. Bankruptcy Court proceedings to a nonprofit group that offers services to people with AIDS. The bakery's former CEO, Yusuf Ali Bey IV, is jailed awaiting trial in a kidnapping and torture case and an unrelated real estate fraud scam.
Bey IV, a son of bakery founder Yusuf Bey, said in a taped interview with police that he didn't know Bailey was working on a story about the bakery until after he was killed. Broussard, in the confession he later recanted, said he acted alone.
Shortly after the shooting, police said it appeared unlikely that Broussard conceived and executed the crime without help. They have made no other arrests.
Another bakery associate, Antoine Mackey, who roomed with Broussard and who knew him from the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco, where they both grew up, was seen driving a white van away from the bakery the morning of the killing.
The van was later seen near the slaying scene, and Broussard said he used it to get there.
Mackey has not been charged. There is a warrant for his arrest out of San Francisco that was issued in mid-August for failure to appear for a court hearing.

((plug>> Az-Animal

 

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Damn that's crazy. This ain't affiliated with the event tho. Don't wanna scare folks off.

Paul runs the Oakland Post newspaper that helps promo community events at low/no cost. Hope he stays safe. He's a good dude.

PERFORMERS WILL INCLUDE KAZ KYZAH, ISE LYFE, CASUAL, BEEDA WEEDA, Young MoSEs, BABY JAMES, and Prince ALi

Plus spoken word artists and Comedians...............

EVENT IS FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just gotta register to vote!!