<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b>CCI Antiracism Lunch Series: Discussion/Concert</b><div style="font-size: 14px; "><b><i>Echoes of Silence: One People, One Planet</i></b></div><div><b><i><br></i></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">With Eco-minstrel and Activist</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Paul Baker Hernandez</span></i></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:353.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">P<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">aul comes to us from Nicaragua where he has founded Echoes of Silence, a network of "artists with broken nails" who support community health, education, ecological and cultural projects, and with whom he continues to write irreverent songs about cell phones, dictators, Starbucks, and more.<br><br> Join us as Paul shares songs in English and Spanish, stories and conversation about environmental, racial and economic justice.<br><br> Once a hermit monk, isolated in the snows of Scotland, PAUL BAKER HERNANDEZ now lives in a Managua shanty town. During his extraordinary life journey he has led an invasion of Queen Elizabeth's private castle to protest nuclear weapons, sung "We Shall Overcome" for 300,000 people as justice and peace warm-up act for Pope John Paul II, joined Joan Jara and Inti Illimani in events reclaiming the stadiums used by Pinochet as torture/extermination camps in Chiles, and fought alongside Salvadoran exiles attacked by death squads - in Los Angles.<br><br> His only weapon was and remains the unique "green guitar he secretly cobbled together from an old drawer, a broken table leg and a retired toilet seat while his fellow monks were at prayer. He weaves Flamenco guitar, Gregorian chant, protest and Latin American song together moving people to build peace through justice.</span> <span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></i></b><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b><div><b>Wednesday, March 17, 2010</b></div><div><b>noon - 1:30 pm</b></div><div><b>Community Change Library on Racism</b></div><div><b>14 Beacon Street, Room 605</b></div><div><b>Boston, MA 02108</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Please join Community Change Staff and friends for inspiring music and conversation.. Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested. </font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;">All proceeds to benefit Echoes of Silence</span></font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: RSVP 617-523-0555, <a href="mailto:pmarcus@communitychangeinc.org">pmarcus@communitychangeinc.org</a></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font><b>Community Change, Inc.</b> was born out of the Civil Rights Movement and in response to the Kerner Commission which named racism as "a white problem." Since 1968, CCI has done what few organizations are willing to do: shine a spotlight on the roots of racism in white culture with the intention of dealing with racism at its source, as well as with its impact on communities of color.</div></b></div></div></div></body></html>