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On May Day 2010, nine days after his 66th birthday, Si Kahn will retire from his position as Grassroots Leadership’s Founder and Executive Director. To mark his 30 years of work with the organization, and to welcome the new leadership team that will help launch Grassroots Leadership into its next 30 years, Si will undertake his most ambitious U.S. concert tours ever. The Farewell to Grassroots Leadership Tour will focus on reconnecting with fans of many years, both personal and organizational; making new friends; sharing a host of recent songs in a warm concert setting; and raising funds to help ensure the organization’s sustainability after his retirement. Fees from these performances will go to support Grassroots Leadership’s national Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention, the appalling new practice in which children as young as infants are imprisoned together with their parents (for more information: http://www.grassrootsleadership.org/Detention.html).

To help celebrate Si’s retirement:

Strictly Country Records will release Si’s 16th CD, Courage, featuring the superb production and playing of Jens Krüger of the Krüger Brothers, with harmonies and liner notes by country music legend Kathy Mattea. Si’s third and most recent Strictly Country release, Thanksgiving, was recognized as the #1 CD, #1 song and #1 artist for November 2007 by the Folk-DJ list, which measures international airplay.

Berrett-Koehler, the San Francisco publishing house, will simultaneously issue Si’s new book, Creative Community Organizing, based on his 45 years as a community, civil rights and labor organizer. Berrett-Koehler previously published The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy, co-authored with public philosopher Elizabeth Minnich.

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