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."
I think it means, shake your environmentally recycled, 'green' breast implants that mommy and daddy bought for your 15th birfday.
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.
I finally got it. It's these fraking work 'puters.
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