Poet Gary Hicks - Featured Artist Oct 2015 BFUU Monthly Open Mic
Channel: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE HEART OF BERKELEY
Date: 06/10/2016

Poet Gary Hicks was the Featured Artist on October 9, 2015 at 7 PM at the invitation of Cynthia Jean Johnson who was our rotating host for that month. 

On October 5, 2016 Vic Sadot proposed to Gary that he could make a video for the quality audio recording captured by David Yandle, the BFUU Social Justice Committee Tech Team Sound Engineer. The video was uploaded to the Social Justice Committee’s “SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE HEART OF BERKELEY” YouTube Channel. Please share this video if you like it! Thanks! (1280x720 px; mp4; 3:52 GB; 31:05 minutes)

Berkeley Fellowship Monthly Open Mic happens every 2nd Friday of Every month! Join us! Note to Musicians/Performers: Sign-up begins at 6:30 pm for 20 ten minute spots!

Featured Artist: Gary Hicks: Gary Hicks has been involved in civil rights, housing advocacy, peace with justice and cultural preservation for the last five decades. Author of two volumes of poetry plus numerous publications, he is a member of the Boston Liberation Poets Collective and the Revolutionary Poets Brigade of San Francisco. The Featured Artist performs sometime between 8 and 8:30 pm!

October Host: Cynthia Jean-Johnson: Cynthia Jean Johnson is a well-known Berkeley community activist. The long time former chair of the BFUU Social Justice Committee remains active with the SJC as Vice-Chair. Cynthia also serves on the Local Station Board (LSB) of KPFA Pacifica, the Ecumenical Peace Institute (EPI), and Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas (MITFA). Cynthia has long understood the power of songs of struggle and the role of music in keeping people in touch with what matters most.

This event happened in Historic Fellowship Hall, 1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita St), Berkeley, CA. Fellowship Hall is wheelchair accessible via the ramp on Bonita Avenue.

War Times/Tiempo de Guerras – Articles by Gary Hicks
http://www.war-times.org/search/node/gary%20hicks


Gary Hicks: Writer - By Francesca
www.war-times.org/node/557
Jun 8, 2013 – Gary Hicks reads and writes/publishes poetry, runs a venue in Berkeley, where he ...
Asian media weighs in on the US government shutdown - Blog entry - By Gary Hicks
www.war-times.org/asian-media-weighs-us-government-shutdown

Oct 6, 2013 – Gary Hicks's blog Gary Hicks It just wouldn't complete the picture of the US ...
The collected poems of the Affordable Care Act
www.war-times.org/collected-poems-affordable-care-act
Blog entry - By Gary Hicks

Sep 27, 2013 – Gary Hicks's blog Gary Hicks (Originally published in Mother Jones By Tim ...
Obama's argument is deeply flawed...op-ed from China Daily USA
www.war-times.org/obamas-argument-deeply-flawedop-ed-china-daily-usa
Blog entry - By Gary Hicks

Sep 28, 2013 – Gary Hicks's blog Gary Hicks Chen Weihua, the author, is the Editor of China Daily ...
Bertolt Brecht: applied poetry
www.war-times.org/bertolt-brecht-applied-poetry
Blog entry - By Gary Hicks

Nov 1, 2013 – Gary Hicks's blog Gary Hicks Written in the late 1930s by the German playwright and ...
BRICS and Africa, 1960-2013: The struggle to get out from under
www.war-times.org/BRICS