Almost Home: 2006 Spring Tour (WM3 Benefit)

Thu, May 11
8:00pm-2:00am
$12

Event Info: beam.to/almosthome

There will be a raffle/auction table at this event with all proceeds
going directly to the WM3 defense fund. Also, you may purchase the
book: ALMOST HOME by Damien Echols as well.

Michale Graves
ALMOST HOME; 2006 SPRING TOUR -
WM3 World Awareness Day June 3, 2006

On March 31, 2006 Michale Graves will spearhead a two-month long
national campaign to promote Damien Echols new book called "Almost
Home". "Almost Home 2006" will hit 55 cities across the country
leading up to WM3 World Awareness Day on June 3, 2006.

Graves says, "It is my intent to reach out to as many people as I
can, as so many others have in the past, using the media, the
internet, spoken word, music and activism to give Damien's' words and
story a greater chance of being heard and continue this fight for
truth and justice where there has been none so far. I urge everyone
to help, contribute and get involved in this anyway that they can."

For over 10 years Damien has been an inmate on death row for a crime
he did not commit. He, along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley
have become known as The West Memphis Three, and though the story of
their arrest and conviction is widely known, most people don't know
the real people behind the sound bites and the TV news segment clips.

Almost Home is a message to you from a faraway place. It is a message
from a 12-foot by 9-foot cell in a cinderblock building surrounded by
coils of razor wire in the middle of a dirt field in Arkansas. A
young man named Damien Echols wrote it and it chronicles his life and
his experiences in a way that clearly illuminates him, not as a
monster, but as a human being.
Damien has spent much of his time behind bars diligently maintaining
his integrity and his sanity by writing. Almost Home is the product
of that self-discipline, and in it you will meet someone who has
survived an ordeal many of us would find impossible to live through.
This is a fascinating and disturbing case, as complicated as it is
controversial.

Please take the time to review the facts of this case by starting
with this website: www.wm3.org Additional information can be found
in two excellent documentary films directed by Joe Berlinger and
Bruce Sinofsky: PARADISE LOST: THE CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS
and its sequel PARADISE LOST: REVELATIONS and the book DEVIL'S KNOT
by Arkansas journalist Mara Leveritt.

This case, among many other things, represents the destructive power
of superstitious hysteria when it is allowed into a contemporary
American courtroom. This issue needs to be carefully examined fairly
reported and taken on by all of us.

TOUR DATES / WM3.ORG / HORROR HIGH
PURCHASE THE BOOK AT: beam.to/buyalmosthome

Anje Vela
415-948-8391
Vela Entertainment - president
COWAPUNKA! - www.cowapunka.com

Venue:

Cafe Du Nord
2170 Market Street
San Francisco
415-861-5016
http://www.cafedunord.com

http://www.cafedunord.com/?page=directions

Additional Info:

415-948-8391
http://beam.to/almosthome