Events

Lets add some lucha love to this really crazy situation and drum up support for the small demo starting at 4:00 at Powell and Market outside Powell St. BART.

Last fall in Jena, Louisiana, the day after two Black high school students sat beneath the "white tree" on their campus, nooses were hung from the tree. When the superintendent dismissed the nooses as a "prank," more Black students sat under the tree in protest. The District Attorney then came to the school accompanied by the town's police and demanded that the students end their protest, telling them, "I can be your best friend or your worst enemy... I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen."1

A series of white-on-black incidents of violence followed, and the DA did nothing. But when a white student was beaten up in a schoolyard fight, the DA responded by charging six black students with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

It's a story that reads like one from the Jim Crow era, when judges, lawyers and all-white juries used the justice system to keep blacks in "their place"--but it's happening today. The families of these young men are fighting back, but the odds are stacked against them. Together, we can make sure their story is told, that this becomes an issue for the Governor of Louisiana, and that justice is provided for the Jena 6. It starts now. Please add your voice:

Regular Bateria Lucha workshop where we'll be working on Maracatu and other arrangements applied to the Maracatu instruments (alfaias, caixias, gongue, etc). Timbals are also welcome.

$10 and up sliding scale for the 2 hour class. No one turned away for lack of funds.

As usual, if you can meet at 6:50pm at our house to help haul gear, that'd be great.