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<b>--please forward widely--</b><br>
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FREE TAREK MEHANNA!<br>
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!</b><br>
<br>
Please join
us for an evening of music to celebrate the beginning of a month of
intense organizing leading up to the trial of political
prisoner, Tarek Mehanna. Tarek is an Arab Muslim man from the
Boston-area who has been imprisoned after refusing to be an FBI
informant against
his community. More info on his case and what you can do to
support: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.freetarek.com/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.freetarek.com</a><br>
<br>
The Tarek Me<span></span><span>hanna
Support Committee will be in the house presenting updates on the
case and laying out
their strategy for action in the weeks leading up to Tarek's
trial, which begins Oct 3rd!<br>
<br>
<b>SATURDAY, SEPT 10th</b><br>
<b>6pm - 10pm<br>
<br>
@ Community Church of Boston<br>
565 Boylston St<br>
Copley Square, Boston<br>
(accessible by green and orange MBTA lines, and many buses.)<br>
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$5 - -20 suggested donation.<br>
All ages, no alcohol please.<br>
<b>The space is wheelchair accessible.</b><br>
<b>Free on-site childcare available.<br>
</b><i>Email <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:evangreer@gmail.com" target="_blank">evangreer@gmail.com</a>
with accessibility questions or if you need childcare!</i><br>
<br>
Featuring musical performances by:<br>
<br>
<b>BROADCAST LIVE</b><br>
back
by popular demand, new york's explosive hip-hop / rock troupe will
shake the prison walls with their radical sound. <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.broadcastlive.org/"
target="_blank">www.broadcastlive.org </a><br>
<br>
<b>spiritchild of Mental Notes</b><br>
multi-talented mc and freedom singer from the bronx via Brooklyn,
and instrumental in the production of the Silence Broken CDs.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.xspiritmental.com/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.xspiritmental.com</a><br>
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<b>EVAN GREER & FRIENDS</b><br>
full band set featuring new material and Boston DEBUT of the Back
to the Roots project with spiritchild<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.evangreer.org/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.evangreer.org</a><br>
<br>
<b>ABU NURAH</b><br>
beloved social justice focused Muslim rapper / parent / activist
from the Worcester community. <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.myspace.com/abunurah"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/abunurah</a><br>
<br>
<b>MC ELIJAH BLACK</b><br>
conscious hip-hop artist from NYC featured on Silence Broken Vol
1.<br>
<br>
<b>& more TBA!!!</b><br>
<br>
The
concert celebrates the re-release of Silence Broken Volumes 1 and
2,
compilation CDs created to support tarek and his family and spread
music about the prison system and state repression. The new CDs
will be
beautifully packaged in a two CD set and will feature original
music
from artists all over the world including DAM, Climbing Poetree,
Rebel
Diaz, X-Vandals</span><span>, Remi Kanazi, Maya Azucena, Mental
Notes, Taina Asili, Shadia
Mansour, and more. Listen, download, and donate: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://freetarek.bandcamp.com/"
target="_blank"><b>freetarek.bandcamp.com</b></a></span><font
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