Blog Title: Gotta Eat

JOIN US FOR OUR 2nd CREATIVE HEIGHTS EVENT SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29th 2008 DOOR OPEN @ 3pm ( stoop art sale ) & SHOW STARTS @ 6pm... To honor and acknowledgment of our freedom fighters who fought for right to vote...for the opportunity to run in office...for the right to be here as we are now..... Creative Heights would like to invite you to a get together to talk, sing, rap, dance, play music and create all in the spirit of justice for the people by the people.... You've got to love a country where just one specific day is chosen to express feelings of gratitude... No Thanx Given came about as a theme that is intended to create a platform for the people to speak up and speak out about the progress and desires of indigenous people everywhere...The Indigenous people of this country were driven out of their homes by Europeans...Since 1970, the United American Indians of New England (UAINE) have observed a National Day of Mourning on the fourth Thursday of November...This 'holiday' holds more truth than any of the commercial, socially constructed holidays (Columbus Day, anyone?) observed in the U.S. today...As the UAINE website points out, the only true thing about the romanticized myth of Thanksgiving is that the European settlers would not have survived were it not for the Wampanoag... This is the same sort of national amnesia that lets us buy Uncle Ben's rice bowls and Aunt Jemima's maple syrup... It's convenient and painless for those with privilege and insulting and damaging to those without... Now, I'm not saying we should do away with the general idea of Thanksgiving!!!! Of course we should be thankful EVERYDAY... Just don't forget to thank and pay homage to those that don't get thanked enough... WHO'S ALREADY DOWN: PERFORMANCES : AGALLAH 20 GRAND PIKASO Fesah Rollins Investigative Reports Kahlil Khan Lesilayn Shadz of Red Spiritchild and more!!! GUEST DJ's : JUJU AKA 1st CLASS LIVE PAINTERS : Ibrahim Yakut Lichiban Caktuz Tree In ASSOCIATION WITH WHITEGOLD!.. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! DIRECTIONS : A/C , 3 to NOSTRAND AVE. 770 ST Marks Ave @ Corner of New York Ave

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