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一位LA的惠妮歌迷正在號召全美惠妮迷，在七月一號當天於各地集會遊行，呼籲大家以行動關心支持並援助惠妮，讓她早日走出陰霾，並且想要連署推動每年七月一日定為「愛惠日」(We Love You, Whitney - National Day) 。此項行動的發起人Calvin Shears表示：「我希望至少有50~60個城市響應這個活動，我已經聯絡非常多黑人議員、官員、社運團體、電台、報社、學生等等，我們想要集合各方的力量，向惠妮表達我們的支持和愛。」請看相關新聞報導：
Local Resident Supports Troubled Singer
By Shirley Hawkins
LA Our Weekly Staff Writer
A cabaret singer living in the Jefferson Park area plans to hold a press conference and rally to “save” singer Whitney Houston, whose alleged problems with substance abuse have been reported for months on several news shows and in numerous tabloids.
Calvin ‘Cashears’ Shears, has been circulating hundreds of flyers throughout the Los Angeles area featuring photos of a ravaged and emaciated-looking Whitney Houston. Headlines on the flyers proclaim, “She’s Crying Out For Help! Will We Save Her?”
Since circulating the flyers, Cashears said that he has received dozens of calls from individuals and various groups shocked by the pictures and expressing their concern for the multi- Grammy winner.
“We want to send a collective thunderous roar of love to Whitney so that she will see she’s not alone and that we will be there for her as a support system,” said Cashears, a vocalist for 35 years who has performed internationally.
Cashears said that the intense media attention on Houston became apparent when he walked into a convenience store and saw Houston’s haunted face staring back at him from the tabloids. “She looked unrecognizable,” Cashears recalled. “Then I was watching television and I heard about two or three stories about her drug abuse. I felt that they were denigrating her and I became outraged and indignant. I was burning up, I was really mad,” Cashears recalls.
Cashears feels that news media is to blame for contributing to Whitney’s alleged problems. “I feel like the greatest female voice of all time is on the verge of being silenced,” Cashears pointed out. “Whitney is going through a dark and turbulent period in her life and she is being denigrated and castigated in tabloids, newspapers, on radio and television across America. I’m saying to the news media that I’m not going to let you destroy my sister.”
Cashears felt that substance abuse is widespread in the entertainment industry. “I don’t think it’s her fault. She’s just gotten caught up (in the drugs). I want to try to save her. It’s never too late.”
The veteran vocalist said that Houston is his favorite female singer. “The first time I heard her sing, I was in heaven,” said Cashears. “The cultured texture of Whitney’s voice brought more converts to soul music and R&B than any other person in the history of soul music. She sang with passion, vigor and fire,” said Cashears, who has never met the pop diva.
Cashears will be holding a press conference on Monday, June 12 at 11 a.m. in Leimert Park to announce at nationwide “We Love You, Whitney” Day. He hopes to launch a national day of support for the singer, urging a nationwide “reach out” to Whitney day that will be held in several cities throughout the country. “I hope that at least 50 to 60 cities will get involved,” said Cashears. “We will have the rally nationwide July 1 at the simultaneously in all of the cities,” said Cashears. “I am contacting radio stations to get the word out about Whitney and I am also sending out letters to people across the country to lend their support.”
Cashears hopes that more community residents and leaders will get involved. “I’m calling on all “black politicians, ministers, civil rights groups, black radio stations, newspapers, college students and the rest of our people to send a collective message of thunderous love across America to Whitney Houston.”
“ I love her and it breaks my heart to imagine what the world would be without the greatest voice of all time. I’ll do whatever it takes to save Whitney,” said Cashears.
Cashears can be reached at (323) 734-0074.
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