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Sunday, June 21, 2020, 2:00pm-4:30pm PST
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KIM MCMILLON’s
“WAKE-UP AMERICA!” Part 1
POETATHON
Line-Up of POETS on June 21, 2020, 2:00pm-4:30pm PST
Kim McMillon
John Curl
Rafael J. Gonzalez
Peggy Morrison
Raymond Nat Turner
Zigi Lowenberg
Wanda Sabir
Jose Hector Cadena
Eugene Redmond
Iris De Anda
Sonia Gutierrez
Genny Lim
Avotcja
Kathryn Takara

Kim McMillon, Ph.D. World Cultures emphasis on Black Arts Movement and African American Literature; President of the UC Merced African Diaspora Student Association
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2. Do you believe the individual can make a difference in a racist society?
3. Have you ever been confronted with racism and how did you handle it?
4. What do you tell your children about racism in the United States today?
5. Do you believe it is possible to understand racial oppression if you are not a person of color?
6. The title of the Poetathon is “Wake-Up America.” What do you see America needing to Wake-Up from?
On June 21, 2020, 2:00pm-4:30pm PST, I, Teresa Jade LeYung, shall be in the audience listening to Kim McMillon, Ph.D. and her fellow poets.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
What’s happening at various branches of California Writers Club?

California Writers Club – Tri-Valley Branch in Pleasanton, California
Saturday, June 21, 2014, 2:00-4:00 p.m. (registration at 1:30)
22-Day Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan presents “Build/Retrofit Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase”
The cost for CWC Members is $10, nonmembers, $15. Anyone interested in the program or the organization may attend with no obligation to join.
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan will show you how to thrive in the publishing arena whether you are the publisher or you’ve sold rights to a third-party publisher. She says: “Reach out, not stress out! By making your name stand for something—to attract targeted consumers (your fans)—who are likely to buy what you have to sell. Learn how to help your fans find you, before and after publication!”
Teresa is the author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW.
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California Writers Club–San Francisco Peninsula Branch
http://www.cwc-peninsula.org/events.html
Memoir into Fiction
Setting Your Characters Free
Mary-Rose Hayes
Adventurer and author, Mary-Rose will show us how to access a character by mining personal experiences and emotions from your own past.
June 21st, 2014 10AM-12PM Belmont Library
Members $10 Non-Members $13, Students $10/ID
First Meeting Free!
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California Writers Club–Sacramento Branch
http://www.cwcsacramentowriters.org/
June 21, 2014, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Gordon Warnock, founding partner at Foreword Literary: literary agent, marketing director and editor for independent publishers, freelance publishing consultant, and college-level writing tutor.
Monthly luncheon is open to the public.
Cost is $14 for members, $16 for nonmembers.
The meeting fee includes buffet lunch and beverage.
Cattlemen’s Restaurant, 12409 Folsom Blvd, Rancho Cordova, CA
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http://calwriters.org/ for list of all the branches
California Writers Club
“Educating writers of all abilities in the craft of writing
and in the marketing of their work”
Sincerely,
http://writingcoachTeresa.com
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan is on the “My Writing Process” Blog Tour.
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW. Click here for print edition. Click here for Kindle edition. “Reach out, not stress out.”
Teresa’s novel Love Made of Heart: a Mother’s Mental Illness Forges Forgiveness in Daughter Ruby is used in college courses and archived at the San Francisco History Center.
Subscribe to “Coach Teresa’s blog” Click here to start.
How Do We Help Libraries?
Seems like we need to constantly watch over beloved underdog libraries. http://saveoaklandlibrary.org/
Again, thank you dear friend Martha Alderson for forwarding the email from Kathy Shepler.
Thank you dear friend Chandra Garsson for stepping out today to participate in the 14 hours-14 branches READ IN to save Oakland libraries. I like your photo album on facebook. I like your 45-second film of me on YouTube.
Here are emails–Oakland Mayor & City Council Members, etc. http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/help-our-underdog-public-libraries-in-every-city-town-incorporated-and-unincorporated-a…rea-in-the-united-states-of-america/ See you tomorrow June 21, 2011, 5:30pm at Oakland City Council meeting
One Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
First and Second Floors
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone:(510) 238-3612
Voice Mail:(510) 238-3611
Email: cityclerk@oaklandnet.com
Apply for a speaker’s card:
http://www.oaklandnet.com/cityclerk/speaker_instructions.htm
Your “film voice” and “camera voice” are mighty. I know you’ll be beautifully “vocal” tomorrow at City Council meeting. Thank you for inspiring me to read Saving Your Library: A Guide to Getting, Using and Keeping the Power You Need by Sally Gardner Reed.
Here’s Amy Martin’s letter to Mayor Quan: http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2011/05/save-oakland-libraries-letter-mayor-quan-librarian-amy-martin Today, Katy Lever from KGO radio interviewed Amy Martin.
Thank you, journalist Don Hudson! Not only did he show up for 14 hours-14 branches READ IN to Save Oakland Library (all branches) but also he helped the wonderful volunteers today.
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I am Teresa LeYung Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart and Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days, asking Mayor Jean Quan, City Council Members, City Administrators, and Everyone who Care about Oakland to please keep Oakland “literate” !
Help our underdog public libraries.
Libraries provide safe space for learning.
Librarians help us identify resources.
Help Oakland survive and thrive by keeping our libraries alive and well.
Email, write letters, call Mayor Quan and City Council Members.
Thank you, Everyone!!!!!
Writing Career Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan





