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Jamming for Justice
Free, outdoor concert intended to raise awareness of plight of migrant farmworkers
Music and social justice will come together at Gannon on Saturday, Sept. 5, when the University hosts a free, outdoor concert.
The concert, “Jam for Justice,” will run from 2-6 p.m. under the Gannon arch outside the University’s Waldron Campus Center, 124 West 7th. The public is welcome, and freewill donations will be collected.
Attendees will be treated to two local musical acts. Aaron Forsyth of “Letters to the Dead” will open, followed by “The Heliotropes,” featuring Gannon faculty members David Blaetz and Katie Chriest.
Students organized the concert to increase awareness of the plight of migrant farmworkers as well as the work done on their behalf by the Student/Farmworker Alliance, based in Immokalee, Fla. According to the Alliance’s Web site, www.sfalliance.org, SFA is a national network of students and youth organizing with farmworkers to eliminate what it calls “sweatshop conditions” and “modern-day slavery” in the fields.
During the event, students will make available an “awareness table” with information about the SFA and the farmworkers’ struggles. Student organizers plan to make a donation to the SFA using proceeds raised from the event.
In March, one group of Gannon University students making an Alternative Break Service Trip went to Immokalee to work with the Student/Farmworker Alliance. Inspired by their work with the organization, the students hatched the idea for the concert.
Gannon’s Center for Social Concerns and Schuster Fund for the Arts are co-sponsoring Jam for Justice. Several Gannon University clubs and organizations and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern Pennsylvania also are supporting the event.
The rain location is Gannon’s Carneval Athletic Pavilion.
For more information, contact Gannon University’s radio station, WERG, at 814-871-5841.
The concert, “Jam for Justice,” will run from 2-6 p.m. under the Gannon arch outside the University’s Waldron Campus Center, 124 West 7th. The public is welcome, and freewill donations will be collected.
Attendees will be treated to two local musical acts. Aaron Forsyth of “Letters to the Dead” will open, followed by “The Heliotropes,” featuring Gannon faculty members David Blaetz and Katie Chriest.
Students organized the concert to increase awareness of the plight of migrant farmworkers as well as the work done on their behalf by the Student/Farmworker Alliance, based in Immokalee, Fla. According to the Alliance’s Web site, www.sfalliance.org, SFA is a national network of students and youth organizing with farmworkers to eliminate what it calls “sweatshop conditions” and “modern-day slavery” in the fields.
During the event, students will make available an “awareness table” with information about the SFA and the farmworkers’ struggles. Student organizers plan to make a donation to the SFA using proceeds raised from the event.
In March, one group of Gannon University students making an Alternative Break Service Trip went to Immokalee to work with the Student/Farmworker Alliance. Inspired by their work with the organization, the students hatched the idea for the concert.
Gannon’s Center for Social Concerns and Schuster Fund for the Arts are co-sponsoring Jam for Justice. Several Gannon University clubs and organizations and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern Pennsylvania also are supporting the event.
The rain location is Gannon’s Carneval Athletic Pavilion.
For more information, contact Gannon University’s radio station, WERG, at 814-871-5841.
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