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HAWKS INTERNATIONAL PULLS OUT OF 2007 NEW YORK LABOR DAY CARNIVAL CELEBRATION

July 11,2007

For Immediate Release
Source: Hawks International Inc.
Contact: Hawks International Inc.
info@hawksintl.com

Video: available at:
1) http://www.hawksintl.com/hawkslaborday2006.wmv

Photographs available at:
2) Jewels of The Caribbean Hawks International Labor Day 2005

To our many friends & supporters who have participated and enjoyed our Labor-Day Carnival presentation over the past 30 + years, and to the general public as a whole, we wish to thank you for your support during this period. Unfortunately we have come to the decision that we can no longer participate in the West Indian Day Carnival presentation because of the increasing cost, lack of funding, inability to host fund raising events, the inconvenient and excessive restrictions imposed by the NYPD and the inability of WIADCA (West Indian American Day Carnival Association) to properly represent the producers of this significant event, perhaps the largest of it’s kind in the USA.

This festival generates almost $300 million for the City of New York while the producers are forced to pay their own way even a fee to WIADCA to participate in the Carnival Celebration on the Parkway. While we are certain that the absence of Hawks International alone will not be felt, we have decided that this is an exercise in futility which must now come to an end. We are cognizant of our commitment to sustain the rich culture of the Caribbean and the necessity to pass the tradition on to generations of the future. Should conditions change for the better to foster an infrastructure in which we the producers can thrive we stand poise to continue our contribution. We look forward to the continued support at other Hawks International fund raising activities.

Our Motto: Dare to Forge the Future.

For further information visit Hawks International call 732.406.5231or email info@hawksintl.com

ENDS
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Hawks not on the road for Labor Day...That's crazy...

wow

Damn this sucks, no Hawks on the Parkway!!!

bye golly I think I've got it!

What you got??

MILK!

yuh too fass

u still ah breast feed

Nice...when can I get some??

no I stop breast feedin when I was 2 weeks old?

*clutches jugs* smaddy offer yuh sumting?

I thought you was offering me some milk...

that crazy.hawks not on the parkway this year. if that the case seasme flyers has no comptetion any more. in that gives seasme flyers again win this year. besides brokertte

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I would like to Thank all the fake haitians, who came out during the west-indian parade-2k9, but who has no roots to caribbean island nation.but bought a flag to represent !!!!!!
Thanks again see you phony people next year !!!!!!! ,2k10.


(R.I.P Grandpa-your memories will always be here with me !!!!).

I'm Chillin in New Orleans,Louisiana with Beyonce' and Lil Wayne and lil' Fizz (b2k),Fleur-de-lis (imix creole,homegirl) .Drinking some Hand-Grenade (Liquor Drink), near The Bayou.

New York Shitty White Ruling Class PIMPING Allyuh Culture to the tune of $300 MILLION

3 MILLION ah allyuh let that Money Bags Bloomberg and others MudderfuKKKers Walk in Front allyuh Parade and Dont Demand NOTHING in Return.

At Least ask the MudderfuKKKers for $10 Subway or Bus Fare or make the Goddamn Public Transportation FREE in Brooklyn on that day.

IT'S B-O-R-O-K-E-E-T-E.....and no, BOROKEETE wins this year, hands down, unless Rango or 1199 comes up with some really really hot, off the wall designs (which i doubt IMO), then Borokeete gets it for this year....or at least they should...

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"Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can."
- Arthur Ashe

"I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with the pain."
Baldwin, James Writer and Activist (1924-1987)

"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."
Anderson, Marian Singer (1897-1993)

that point i can agree with......that would make life soooooooooo much easier that day

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"Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can."
- Arthur Ashe

"I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with the pain."
Baldwin, James Writer and Activist (1924-1987)

"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."
Anderson, Marian Singer (1897-1993)