Art, Music, & Culture to Help End Poverty

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Art, Music, & Culture to Help End Poverty
by Jason Bosch on Sep.21, 2009, under Art, Events, Film, Music,
Speaking

Art, Music, & Culture to
Help End Poverty
Thursday, October 29
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
Calling all artists, musicians & creative people who support economic
justice!

In cooperation with the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign,
ArgusFest is helping to coordinate music and cultural support in
Denver and Boulder around the upcoming “March to Fulfill the Dream”.
This historic poor people’s march will travel from the Katrina-torn
Gulf through the Mississippi Delta and on through the Rust Belt
culminating in Detroit at the 2010 US Social Forum.

On Thursday, October 29th at 7PM we will be holding a meeting to share
information about the upcoming march and cultural events being
organized across the country in support. We will be joined by writer
and organizer Lee Ballinger (of Rock-a-Mole Productions and Rock Rap
Confidential).

Today, America is facing unprecedented economic decline. Not since the
Great Depression have so many people been facing poverty and
homelessness. Cheri Honkala of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights
Campaign notes that many once upper middle class people have now lost
their financial security and are only one paycheck away from living on
the streets and the situation is expected to get worse. It is not
hopeless though. People are educating themselves about how we got to
this place and how we can move forward towards economic justice.

We are calling on artists, musicians, poets, and performers who wish
to learn more about the fastest growing social movement in America
today and get culturally involved.

Please make it down to the Mercury Café on Thursday, October 29th 7 PM
for Art, Music, & Culture to Help End Poverty!