{"id":39594,"date":"2014-10-23T10:35:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/?p=39594"},"modified":"2014-10-23T12:06:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T15:06:44","slug":"dia-de-los-muertos-con-motivo-de-alcopops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/dia-de-los-muertos-con-motivo-de-alcopops\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcopops Day of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><br \/>\n  <head><br \/>\n    <META http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/META><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}<\/p>\n<p>BODY {\nFONT-SIZE: 0.83em; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\"\n}\nA {\nCOLOR: blue\n}\n#divWide\n{\nmargin:0;\nmargin-top:1.33em;\n}\nLI {\nFONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\"\n}\n<\/style>\n<p><\/head><br \/>\n  <body topmargin=\"0\" leftmargin=\"0\"><br \/>\n    <\/p>\n<div id=\"divHeadline\" style=\"width:800px;margin-left:10pt\">\n      <!-- #Begin headline --><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\">\n        <b>Alcopops Day of the Dead<\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        <b>Youth Protest Deadly Alcohol Products<\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <!-- #End headline -->\n    <\/div>\n<div id=\"divBody\" style=\"width:800px;margin-left:10pt\">\n      <!-- #Begin release --><br \/>\n<!-- #Begin Wide Release --><\/p>\n<div id=\"divWide\">\n<p>SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 23, 2014 \/PRNewswire- HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; According to Alcohol Justice, in remembrance of youth who have fallen victim to alcohol-related harm, Youth for Justice are leading a Day of the Dead procession to Mi Pueblo Food Center and Circle K in San Rafael. They will be asking these local Canal-neighborhood retailers to voluntarily stop selling dangerous youth-attractive flavored malt beverages (FMBs) known as <a href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/campaigns\/stop-alcopops\" target=\"_blank\">alcopops.<\/a>  Each year 4,300 people under age 21 die from <a href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/images\/factsheets\/AlcoholMarketingYouth2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">alcohol-related injuries<\/a> while costs of underage drinking (including medical, loss of work, and quality of life costs) run as much as $60 billion annually. This is the 5<sup>th<\/sup> time that Circle K has been targeted and the 4<sup>th<\/sup> time for Mi Pueblo. Previous attempts to meet with corporate leaders of both businesses have been met with indifference.<\/p>\n<p>Logo- <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20110727\/DC41105LOGO\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20110727\/DC41105LOGO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What:<\/b>      <br \/>Demonstration \/ March<\/p>\n<p><b>When:<\/b>     <br \/>Friday, October 24, 2014, 7-8 P.M.<\/p>\n<p><b>Where:<\/b>   <br \/>Circle K 981 &#8211; Francisco Blvd. E, San Rafael, <br \/>CA 94901 (7 P.M.)<\/p>\n<p>Mi Pueblo Food Center &#8211; 330 Bellam Blvd, <br \/>San Rafael, CA 94901 (7:30 P.M.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Who: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Alcohol Justice <\/li>\n<li>Alcopop-Free Zone\u00ae Marin Coalition <\/li>\n<li>Bay Area Community Resources <\/li>\n<li>Canal Welcome Center <\/li>\n<li>Canal Community Businesses, Parents &amp; Residents <\/li>\n<li>First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael <\/li>\n<li>La Plaza Market <\/li>\n<li>Marin County Probation Department <\/li>\n<li>Marin County Health and Human Services <\/li>\n<li>Project Avary Peacemakers <\/li>\n<li>San Rafael Police Department <\/li>\n<li>San Rafael City Schools <\/li>\n<li>San Rafael Alcohol and Drug Coalition <\/li>\n<li>Trips for Kids         <\/li>\n<li>The Recovery Station TV Series <\/li>\n<li>University of San Francisco School of Nursing <\/li>\n<li>Youth for Justice <\/li>\n<li>YMCA <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why:<\/b>   Youth-attractive alcopops, or Flavored Malt Beverages (FMBs):      <\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Are pre-mixed, sweetened alcoholic drinks that taste like juice and soda <\/li>\n<li>Are packaged in brightly-colored cans, similar to energy drinks <\/li>\n<li>Are priced low enough to effectively target underage drinkers, especially young women <\/li>\n<li>Can be shelved wherever beer is available &#8211; including convenience stores and gas stations <\/li>\n<li>In supersized 24 oz. single-serving containers with 12 percent alcohol are the equivalent of 4-5 beers <\/li>\n<li>Encourage underage consumption and binge drinking which leads to serious alcohol-related harm <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Additional Information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcopopfreezone.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.AlcopopFreeZone.us<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>CONTACT<\/b>: <br \/>Michael Scippa 415 548-0492 <br \/>Jorge Castillo 213 840-3336<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- #End Wide Release --><\/p>\n<div id=\"divMediaContact\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- #End release --><\/div>\n<p>\n  <\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcopops Day of the Dead Youth Protest Deadly Alcohol Products SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 23, 2014 \/PRNewswire- HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; According to Alcohol Justice, in remembrance of youth who have fallen victim to alcohol-related harm, Youth for Justice are leading a Day of the Dead procession to Mi Pueblo Food Center and Circle K [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}