Sold-out Poblete Foundation fundraiser raises thousands
Some of the 450 supporters of The Robby Poblete Foundation attending Saturday’s second fundraiser at the Mare Island Brewing Company on Mare Island.
United Playaz to host ‘no questions asked’ gun buyback in San Francisco this weekend
SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) – Community leaders in San Francisco will be holding a gun-buyback this weekend. Political leaders, police, and family members of gun violence victims are standing together to get as many guns off the streets as possible. Among them, United Playaz, whose mission is to get as many guns off the street as…
RPF 2nd Annual Fundraiser
June 30, 2018, 6 pm- 10 pm The Robby Poblete Foundation will be hosting its 2nd Annual Fundraiser on June 30, 2018, 6 pm – 10 pm at Mare Island Brewing Company, 851 Waterfront Ave., on Mare Island in Vallejo. The event will be catered by League of Chefs and will feature a live auction…
Pinay mother turns grief over losing son to gun violence into an art exhibit & campaign for peace
At first glance, these paintings and sculptures might seem like normal works of art, but take a closer look — and you’ll find within them bits and pieces of an object that’s at the center of a national debate. Art of Peace is an exhibit whose works repurpose metal from unwanted guns and turn it…
Killing machines to art: Confiscated guns transformed into “objects of beauty and grace”
Two right hands are clasped together vertically, the bottom of one a root, the top of the other a tree trunk. But upon closer inspection, those hands are actually pieces of guns. The “Art of Peace” exhibit made its debut last week at a pop-up gallery on Ninth Street in Old Oakland featuring eight Bay…
Pati Poblete turns grief over son’s murder into memoir, art, activism
On Sept. 21, 2014, Pati Navalta Poblete’s world fell apart. That’s the day her son Robby was shot and killed in Vallejo. He was only 23 at the time, with his whole life ahead of him. “He was actually just on the verge of getting offered a full-time job,” Poblete said. Robby worked as a…
Pati Poblete Speaks Out About Gun Violence On Living Above The Drama
In a recent episode of Living Above The Drama, radio host and NIWH Program Director Dr. Georgianna Donadio interviewed Pati Poblete on the impact of gun violence. Learn more about Pati Poblete and listen to their live-recorded conversation below. Pati Poblete spent many years as a San Francisco Bay Area newspaper reporter and journalist, being…
Art of Peace Unveiling Ceremony
RPF will be unveiling its inaugural Art of Peace exhibit on May 11 at 5:30 p.m. at the Temple Art Lofts, 707 Marin Street, in Vallejo, Calif., during the city’s monthly 2nd Friday Art Walk. The event is the culmination of an eight-month project that started with the foundation’s Solano County Gun Buyback held on…
Hands-on Construction Career Fair
RPF co-sponsored the NBACA Hands-on Career Fair on April 20, 2018, at the Carpenters Apprenticeship Training Center in Fairfield, CA. The event included live demonstrations by brick layers, carpenters, cement masons, electricians, insulators, iron workers, sheet metal workers, steamfitters, surveyors, and many more. The event was attended by students from throughout Napa and Solano counties,…
High Number of Black Shooting Deaths Shattering King’s Dream
High Number of Black Shooting Deaths Shattering King’s Dream The steeple of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. served as pastor, can be seen from his tomb. But it is here, at the heart of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, that you…