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Anti-Violence Rally Canceled Over Safety Concerns
Oaland Tribune ^ | 9/30/2006 | Heather MacDonald

Posted on 09/30/2006 1:32:48 PM PDT by CAWats

OAKLAND — Citing concerns about public safety, city officials Friday canceled an anti-violence rally and concert expected to draw 300 to 400 teenagers and young adults to downtown Oakland.

"Get Hyphy Against Violence," featuring nine musical acts and testimony from victims of violent crime, had been scheduled to take place today at City Hall Plaza, but did not have the required special event permit or adequate security, officials said.

Police commanders said they were concerned that, without enough officers, the anti-violence rally could backfire and create a melee similar to one that erupted after the last Carijama festival, held on City Hall Plaza in 2004.

"It's honorable what they are trying to do, and we're not saying it will be violent," said Niccolo De Luca, assistant to City Administrator Deborah Edgerly. "But because of the public safety concerns, we decided it was best to cancel it."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; ghetto; irony; oakland; oaktown; thereisnotherethere; violence
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To: BallyBill
I'm still trying to find out what "get jiggy with it" means.

I think it means, shake your environmentally recycled, 'green' breast implants that mommy and daddy bought for your 15th birfday.

21 posted on 09/30/2006 2:06:29 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: dhuffman@awod.com
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

JABBERWOCKY Lewis Carroll

(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

I don't think they read anymore in Oakland. They just write down the teachers' summaries of how it exploits some group of non white Americans an move on.

22 posted on 09/30/2006 2:12:16 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: K4Harty; All
An individual is said to "get hyphy" when they act or dance in an overstated and ridiculous manner.


23 posted on 09/30/2006 2:36:03 PM PDT by AtomicBuffaloWings (Still not hot enough, A few of my taste buds are still alive.)
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To: K4Harty
An individual is said to "get hyphy" when they act or dance in an overstated and ridiculous manner.

It does sound like breaking windows and torching cars will be involved. :)
24 posted on 09/30/2006 2:38:10 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: K4Harty

I finally got it. It's these fraking work 'puters.


25 posted on 09/30/2006 3:56:23 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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