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Guests: Marcie Hughes & Val Serrant speak about the a Stupa Benefit Concert this Friday, November 20, at The Unity Church of Berkeley, for the completion of the Stupa Park in the Santa Cruz mountains at Pema Osel Ling, one of our much loved sacred sites in the Bay Area. This will be a true Vox Mundi gathering of vocal artists. The music of Voice Divina, an improvisational ensemble that draws together women voices from South America, France, Lebanon and the US, will premier. Our next guest is Michael Cooper, who is featured with Con Funk Shun, November 18 – 22, 2009 @ Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. Visit www.therrazzroom.com; Tamika Nicole follows. She will talk about her sophomore release, "The Art of Letting Go" and her concert tonight @ Yoshi's San Francisco, Nov. 18, 10:30 PM; we close with Ari Wohlfeiler is an organizer with Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex. Critical Resistance works around the US to dismantle our reliance on imprisonment, change how we think about harm and violence, and build political power to demand meaningful change. If technology provides a signal, Climbing Poetree, Alixa and/or Naima might join us also to talk about their California Tour and the CR fundraising event they are a part of this Thursday, Nov. 19, 6 PM, called NOURISHING ABOLITION: Critical Resistance w/ ANGELA DAVIS; Climbing Poetree, Sparla Swa, Destiny Arts…Dinner, a Silent Auction. The program begins at 6 PM at the 1st Unitarian Church, 685 14th Street, Oakland. For information call: (510) 444-0484 ext. 1 or croakland@criticalresistance.org Childcare is available.