Berkeley’s Juneteenth
June 12th, 2009
One of InBerkeley’s Twitter followers, Roger Jenn, asked whether Berkeley’s Juneteenth celebration was happening. The festival, to mark the end of slavery, was not held last year, and there have been on again, off again reports. It looks like Juneteenth will take place tomorrow from 10 to 5 on Adeline, between Ashby and Alcatraz.
Roger Jenn has created a truly scholarly bibliography of Juneteenth for the curious.
The Live Oak Park Fair is also held this weekend, on both Saturday and Sunday.


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Almost all men, women and children are subservient to a matrix of control, and we act in ways that maintain this enslavement. Although our centralized system of corporate governance has hurt us and our ancestors over many decades and centuries, we are ignorant of the many tens of thousands of malevolent actions that have been planned and executed against us. Our dissenting voices are ignored by the mass media, and our real needs are denied by the powerful.
If you are tired of merely complaining about being enslaved and seeing others threatened with more enslavement, join us in Slaves Anonymous to make local changes to improve your security. You and your neighbors have the autonomy, creativity, diversity, potency and transcendence to become self-owners and create the conditions necessary for emancipation of your local community from the tyranny of colonization, corporatism, debt-based money, empire, eugenics, fascism, psychopathy, serfdom, slavery, or whatever-you-want-to-call-it. You can create ways that lead to less bondage and more humane treatment for your neighbors and yourselves. Solutions for the common man, woman, or child have been and forever will be grassroots ones that emerge organically from within each of us. Let’s work together: You create solutions in your community; I’ll create them in mine.
I’m working on replacing the missing images in the bibliography and other early Berkeley Juneteenth Web pages as I have the time.
You might find History of the Juneteenth Celebration (http://rogerjenn.googlepages.com/historyofthejunteenthcelebration) and The Southeast Texas-East Bay Music Connection (http://rogerjenn.googlepages.com/thesoutheasttexas-eastbaymusicconnection) interesting, despite some missing images.
–rj