St. Augustine Community "Coming Together" for Diverse Local Inauguration

Community "Coming Together..." for Diverse Local Inauguration

Join "Coming Together..." and be part of a multi-cultural, multi-generational grass-roots gathering to be held here in downtown St. Augustine on Tuesday, Jan. 20, for a public local TV viewing of Barack Obama's Inauguration Ceremony as it is taking place in Washington, D.C.

Come together to see and hear Obama with your St. Augustine friends and neighbors at our big community Inauguration Celebration in the historic Plaza de Constitution any time between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20 (2009) -- at the same time of day our new U.S. President will be sworn in and taking office in the White House.

Instead of everyone sitting at home watching TV, let's gather together starting at 11 a.m. to see our 44th President being sworn in at 12 Noon and then watch and hear him deliver his Inaugural Address on big screen television with loud audio speakers in the downtown outdoor Plaza.

Prior to Obama's swearing in at noon, there will be musical entertainment by renowned guitarist/singer Elizabeth Roth, and the youthful singing group, "Outtasight," from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. Also, for your information, there will definitely not be lots of public officials making speeches as part of this basically non-partisan, non-political special neighborhood program.

A major grassroots coalition of humanitarian and social-change community groups are supporting this event, including the Stetson Kennedy Foundation, People for Peace and Justice (PPJ), Grandparents for Peace, Central Florida Veterans for Peace (Chapter 136), People United to Support the Homeless (PUSH), The 40th ACCORD, The Foot Soldiers Remembrance Project, the Lincolnville Neighborhood Association, the West Augustine Improvement Association and the American Legion (Post 194) Color Guard, among others.

All residents and organizations, churches, schools, government and civic groups, are invited to take part in this show of growing neighborhood unity, which seeks to encourage and develop a broader multi-cultural society in our area hometowns.

You, too, can be part of this ushering in of a new era for the future of St. Augustine and America: A "Coming Together..." of the many separate segments of our local society -- black, white, latino, asian, rich and poor, youth and elderly -- to unify this county and this country, to make us one whole community of communities.