Held SATURDAY 11/1/08 at 8pm

EVENT DESCRIPTION

This Saturday, November 1st, after your door knocking and phone banking, we’ve got the rally for you. In the “Fifth Bloom of Bloom,” BloomBars has joined forces with African Diaspora for Obama for a night of Music, Art & Inspiration to GET OUT THE VOTE. Mario Van Peebles will be our featured speaker along with musical performances by Yvette Benjamin, Kuku, Vicky Leyva, Mbuutu, Anna Mwalagho, Ssuuna and many more. Late Update: We just added Jason Jasper to the line-up!

About African Diaspora for Obama

Barack Obama understands Africa, and understands its importance to the United States. Today, in this new century, he understands that to strengthen our common security, we must invest in our common humanity and, in this way, restore American leadership in the world.

As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he has engaged on many African issues. He has worked to end genocide in Darfur, to pass legislation to promote stability and the holding of elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to bring a war criminal to justice in Liberia and to develop a coherent strategy for stabilizing Somalia.

In 2006, Senator Obama visited Kenya where he spoke truth to power to the leadership about the corrosive impact of corruption, in South Africa he demanded honesty from the government about HIV/Aids, and he met with American military commanders in Djibouti at the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa to discuss the threat of terrorism to U.S. interests and to the interests of our partners in the region. Obama also visited refugee camps in Chad, where he heard first-hand about the experiences of Sudanese women who had been forced from their homes and had their families torn apart, and worse, by Khartoum’s genocidal policies.

Over the last 18 months, Barack Obama has worked with the Kenyan leadership to help resolve the post-election crisis in that country, and he has called for an increase on pressure on Robert Mugabe for stealing elections and sponsoring violence against his own people. Barack Obama continues to speak out against Khartoum’s ongoing war of genocide in Darfur, and has called on Ethiopia and Eritrea to walk back from the brink of war.

Barack Obama will pursue three fundamental objectives on the continent.

• One is to accelerate Africa’s integration into the global economy.

• A second is to enhance the peace and security of African states.

• And a third is to strengthen relationships with those governments, institutions and civil society organizations committed to deepening democracy, accountability and reducing poverty in Africa.

For more on Barack Obama’s plans, please visit African Diaspora for Obama and click on “Obama Advisor: Obama’s Three Objectives for Continent.”

– Witney W. Schneidman, an advisor on Africa to the Obama Presidential Campaign

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WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
Featured Speaker – Mario Van Peebles

Yvette Benjamin (a.k.a. Free) (USA)
Anna Mwalagho (Kenya)
Jason Jasper (USA)
Sitali (Zambia)
KuKu (Nigeria)
Ssuuna (Uganda)
Vicky Leyva (Peru)
Live art by Painter Charles Jean-Pierre
Mbuutu (Uganda)
and Illustrator of Auras Shantell Martin

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