2008
Annual pARTy AuCTION
Saturday October 4, 2008
6:30 pm
Union Station
800 North Alameda
Downtown L.A.
Silent & Live Auction
including: original art, vintage and contemporary posters.
Elegant Dinner Buffet: On Location Catering
Great Entertainment:
Marcus L Miller w/ Freedom Jazz Movement
http://marcusmillerdrums.com/
Comedian, writer and performer
Sandra Tsing Loh will emcee.
Please join us as we honor these
outstanding individuals:
- Susan Adelman, activist/philanthropist, &
Claudio Llanos, bilingual educator, will receive
the Culture of Liberation Award presented by Jodie Evans.
Susan Adelman is an activist and philanthropist. Claudio Llanos
is a teacher in the nation’s oldest bilingual immersion program.
They fund projects related to peace, civil rights and liberties,
immigrants’ rights, women and children’s rights, health
care, diversity, alternative media and the arts.
- Erin Aubry Kaplan, award winning journalist,
columnist and commentator will receive the Historian of the Lions
Award presented by Ed Boyer.
Erin Aubry Kaplan, Los Angeles journalist and columnist,
writes about African-American political, economic and cultural
issues. She is a contributing editor to the op-ed section of the
Los Angeles Times, and was the first black weekly op-ed columnist
in the paper’s history.
- John Carr, activist artist and founder of Yo!
What Happened to Peace? a collection of anti-war posters
that have traveled throughout the world since 2003, will receive
the Art is a Hammer Award presented by Mike the Poet.
John Carr is a poster artist and anti-war activist. In 2003, he
founded Yo! What Happened to Peace? a powerful collection of posters
protesting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that continues to travel
across the U.S. and internationally.
www.politicalgraphics.org
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