[GPSCC-chat] Media Advisory - Cheri Honkala Bay Area Tour Oct 21-22

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MEDIA ADVISORY FOR:  Thursday Oct 18th

CONTACT:
Shamako Noble, Racial and Economic Justice Organizer 408-624-2999, shamakonoblemusic at gmail.com


Real Talk, Real Action: Green Party VP Candidate
and Homeless Advocate Cheri Honkala Hits the Bay Area  Circuit: San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley 

Green Party Vice Presidential candidate and Homeless Advocate will be in the  Bay Area this weekend from Sunday October 21 to Monday October 22nd. She will be participating at events in the community and at a community  college in various parts of the Region. 

Sunday night, Cheri Honkala will be at Silicon Valley De-Bug (www.siliconvalleydebug.com) in San Jose from 6pm-9pm. She will be joined by Hip Hop artists and  community educators DLabrie (www.dlabrie.com) and Rahman Jamaal of  Rondavoux Records, and the Metfizix. On Monday October 22nd, Cheri  Honkala will start the day at De Anza college in Cupertino where she  will be speaking at a really for Voter Awareness month. Following this,  she will be in Oakland at the screening of Brooklyn Castle being hosted  by the Hip Hop Chess Federation and Youth Uprising in Oakland from 4-5.  She will then be participating on a panel discussion in San Francisco  hosted by Davey D at a location yet to be determined. Cheri will be  concluding her trip in Berkeley at the headquarters of Green Mayoral  Candidate and founder of UC Berkley students for Hip Hop, Kahlil Jacobs  Fantauzzi from 7pm-9:30 pm. 
 
Honkala is National Coordinator for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights  Campaign, one of the country’s largest multi-racial, inter-generational  movements led by the poor and homeless. Compelled by her own experience  as a homeless, single mom, Honkala has spent nearly three decades  working directly alongside the poor to build the movement to end  poverty, and has organized tens of thousands of people to take action  via marches, demonstrations and tent cities.

    All the information on the tour will be posted at www.jillstein.org on October 19.
 
WHEN: Sunday and Monday October 21st and 22nd
WHERE: Silicon Valley De-Bug, Da Anza College, Youth Uprising, Kahlil for  Mayor Headquarters 
WHO: Cheri Honkala, Green Party VP candidate and the National Coordinator for the Poor People’s  Economic Human Rights Campaign
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