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Call to Action for Haiti Announced @
"SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION"
SF NAACP BENEFIT SCREENING
Shabaka Henley to be Honored at Oakland Event
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Press Release
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For Immediate Release
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Wright Enterprises
P.O. Box 884714
San Francisco, CA 94188
www.wrightnow.biz
415 824 3990-office 415 525 0410-cell
NEWS RELEASE Media Contact:
January 22, 2010 Jackie Wright, 415 525.0410
"Soundtrack for a Revolution Oscar Nomination Hopeful Celebration" Includes Call to Action for Haitian Relief. Youth Photographer
12 yr oldGabriella Mascoll assisted by 10 yr old Eliza Macoll capture
moment at Soundtrack for a Revolution Oscar Hopeful Celebration with Danny Glover. In the photo KTVU reporter Amber Lee speaks with NAACP Vice President Arnold Townsend
as Danny Glover and LaHitz Media's Jacquie Taliaferro listen to Wright
Enterprises' Jackie Wright make the call to action to the standting
room only crowd to have the NAACP Benefit also help Haitian Relief
Efforts by giving to the American Red Cross and Hollywood Unites for Haiti. Click the Image or Click Here for the KTVU Report.
The event was held at the historic Third Baptist Church which is pastored by Reverend Dr. Amos Brown and included filmmakers Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman and producer Gina Harrell.
Soundtrack for a Revolution was screened after the reception in Glover's honor in which he received a City of San Francisco Certificate of Honor presented by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi on behalf of sponsoring Supervisors Sophie Maxwell and Ross Mirkarimi. HE also received the LaHitz Media Sojourner Truth Award
(by artist Eugene White). Special Thanks to AARP-California, Brassfield
Estate Winery, Lynnette and Eugene White, Shabaka Henley, GSA
Communications, The INTERCONTINENTAL SANFRANCISCO, Oakland International Film Festival,
Waymon Olivier, Roland Washington and KPOO, Gerry Dove, Clear Channel,
Agape Limousine Service, Jacqueline Brown and Company and all who made
the event a success!
To continue the response to the Call to
Action for Haiti launched at Soundtrack for a Revolution Oscar
Nomination Hopeful Celebration, make checks payable directly to the
American Red Cross, Hollywood Unites for Haiti and the NAACP Disaster Relief Fund
and mail c/o Wright Enterprises, P.O. Box 884717, San Francisco, CA
94188. All checks will be distributed directly to the organization of
your choice.
 (photo by Jackie Wright 1-14-10) Click
Image or Click Here For More Information on Haiti with Danny Glover on
View From the Bay with hosts Nick Smith and Janelle Wang.Glover all so spoke with ABC 7's Reporter, Don Sanchez. Click this link to see the news report. Speaking of the Obama Administration: "Let me go out on a limb and say this administration will be defined by how it treats Haiti," Danny Glover.
Congratulations to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civic committee for a successful event honoring Dr. King and his legacy with U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris.
More than 500 people gathered for the breakfast to honor community
leaders and hear the powerful presentations by Pelosi and Harris on
Monday January 18, 2010.
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Bay Area Hollywood Actor Shabaka Henley of "Miami Vice," "Lackawanna Blues," and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back,"
stage and television fame will be honored at Miracles of Faith
Community Church as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy is honored on
the eve of Black History Month. See Details Below. Contact Reverend Greggory Brown at (510) 536-6700
for more information. Reverend Brown has been at the forefront of
Oakland calling for social justice in the death of Brandon Morris,
Oscar Grant and other young black men.
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