ALERT: See POC Zine Project #RaceRiotTour member QUESE IMC, TONIGHT in Chicago! 

If you’re in the Chicago area, you have TWO opportunities TONIGHT (July 20, 2013) to see QUESE IMC in action. Here are the details:

1) The 11th Annual Sound System Block Party

Energy Alley Stage @ The Silver Room

1442 N. Milwaukee

Chicago, IL

QUESE goes on at 8:15pm

The Sound System Block Party is a day long celebration of Music, Art and Dance. They bring diverse art to a diverse community with 3 Stages and over 50 performances of Music and Visual Artists. What started off as a small gathering of friends has become Chicago’s best homegrown Block Party, 5,000 strong!

After the block party, go support this rad event featuring QUESE IMC at multikulti, where POCZP held a #RaceRiotTour event last year:

2) Quennect 4 Gallery presents: E.M.P.A.C.T. (Everyone’s Music Politics Activist Community Throwdown)

A fundraising event for GIRL TALK!

July 20, 2013

9p – ?? (QUESE IMC will go on at about 11:15 pm)

Q4/Multkulti

1000 N. Milwaukee Ave., 4th floor, Chicago IL

Girl Talk is a volunteer supported program for girls, ages 12-17, who are detained in the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center (JTDC). A survey of the girls, conducted by CFJC, found that they faced serious concerns on a daily basis, including sexual assault and other forms of violence, relationship and conflict resolution, education and employment, legal rights, and a wide range of health issues.

Programming and services related to these issues were almost non-existent through the detention center. Girl talk provides the girls in the detention center a space to be free from the jail they find themselves in.

Chicago Girl Talk Collective is a group of women who run a program for the girls and young women temporarily incarcerated at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.

Project NIA is proud to be incubating the revived Girl Talk.  For more information about Project NIA, visit http://www.project-nia.org.

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QUESE IMC co-presented with POC Zine Project at the 2013 L.A. Zine Fest and is leading the indigenous solidarity strategy/coalition building for this year’s #RaceRiotTour. We will be sharing more details about this critical component of the tour in the coming weeks.

EDITOR’S NOTE [9/16/2013]: QUESE IMC is no longer the Indigenous Solidarity Coordinator for POCZP.

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SUPPORT POC ZINE PROJECT

If everyone in our community gave $1, we would more than meet our fundraising goal for 2013. If you have it to spare, we appreciate your support. All funds go to our 2013 tour, the Legacy Series and the poverty zine series.

DONATE link via PayPal: http://bit.ly/SHdmyh