No More Prisons
No More Prisons - The meeting place of all those interested in Billy Wimsatt's book or the Raptivism CD No More Prisons and the issues they discuss.Friday, January 31, 2003
CONTACT: Rosa Clemente
Knowthyself72@msn.com
917.660.2187
DATE: January 29, 2003
KNOW THY SELF PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS THE 2003 HIP HOP ACTIVISM TOUR
“SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER!”
Due to last years overwhelming success of the Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win tour at over 15 colleges and universities, Know Thy Self Productions Inc. is proud to present an additional speaking and organizing tour. The “Speak Truth to Power” tour is dedicated to educating, organizing, and mobilizing the Hip Hop generation. We are a collective of award winning; published group of grassroots organizers, community activists, radio and print journalist’s, filmmakers, teachers, artists and entrepreneurs. We are ANTI-WAR, we support the call for reparations, we demand the immediate release of United States political prisoners, the immediate cessation of U.S. Naval practices on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico and are fully committed to ending sexism in our communities. Our goals are to empower and promote self-determination within the Hip Hop generation and amongst youth. Through keynote addresses, presentations and interactive workshops participants will be able to discuss their views, identify community issues, which they believe are important, and effectively use Hip Hop culture as a tool for revolutionary change and social justice. The “Speak Truth to Power” tour will commence with Rosa Clemente and Lumumba Akinowle-Bandele at Wesleyan College on February 10th 2003.
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ROSA CLEMENTE is a Black Puerto Rican community organizer, scholar-activist and journalist. She was named by Red Eye magazine as one of “50 top Hip-Hop activists to look out for in 2002.” She is the founder and owner of Know Thy Self Productions Inc., co-host and producer of PACIFICA RADIO WBAI’S Where We Live and a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
AKIBA SOLOMON is a regular contributor to BET.Com, has written on Black women’s images and self-esteem and has spoken extensively on women in Hip Hop and Hip Hop journalism.
DARE TO STRUGGLE, DARE TO WIN (with Fred Hampton Jr. and M1 of dead prez) will address, through the elements of Hip Hop culture, issues which effect Black and Latino/a communities such as; the prison industrial complex, the struggle to free U.S. Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War, and the need for Black and Latino/a youth to reclaim their culture and use it as a tool to educate, organize, and mobilize their communities.
DR. RON DANIELS a veteran social and political activist, is the Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and an outspoken expert on police brutality, hate crimes and reparations. Daniels played a leading role in the historic Million Man March, is convener of the State of Black World/Institute of the Black World and contributes to countless magazines and newspapers around the country.
FRED HAMPTON JR. is a former political prisoner who was released in September 2001 after being falsely imprisoned for nine years. Since his release, Hampton has continued to expose the brutal prison conditions that exist and organizes to release U.S. political prisoners, prisoners of war and prisoners of conscience. (Fred Hampton Jr. participates in the Dare to struggle, Dare to win tour only, for other inquiries please email us and we will forward to appropriate parties.)
JENNIFER CALDERON aka J-Love is a community activist and a freelance writer whom contributes frequently to countless Hip Hop magazines on the issues of white cultural appropriation. J-Love is a teacher at the El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice, a co-creator of SISTA II SISTA, an organization and freedom school for young women of in color in Brooklyn, co-founder of the Active Element Foundation and co-founder and producer of the annual B Boy and B Girl summit.
JESSICA SANCLEMENTE is a Latina youth organizer around the issue of police brutality. She has been an activist since the age of 15 and is currently an organizer for the Justice Committee of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights. She has experience organizing around issues of racial violence, immigration, and domestic violence.
LUMUMBA AKINWOLE-BANDELE is a community activist and a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Lumumba is a former student of Brooklyn’s first black independent school, Uhuru Sasa Shule (Freedom Now School) and currently organizes around police brutality, the freedom of political prisoners and is active in concert production.
MARINIEVAS ALBA is an activist, educator and writer. She is the founder and director of Hip Hop L.E.A.D.S., a New York-based youth leadership project which uses Hip-Hop culture to engage young people in a comprehensive social justice education program, Hip-Hop and other forms of popular culture to her community development and organizing activities in the U.S. Marinievas is co-founder and co-director of the International Hip-Hop Exchange (IHX).
TANIA CUEVAS-MARTINEZ is a Mexican born, US based independent filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. At the age of 16 Tania was already behind the scenes of many hip-hop videos and soon began to combine her love of film and music. Cuevas uses guerilla tactics to take stories and make them easily accessible to youth and people of color.
TOUR TOPICS
-YOUTH OF COLOR SAY NO to GEORGE BUSH’s WAR: Speaking out and mobilizing the Masses
-Its Bigger than Hip Hop: Political activism in the Hip Hop generation
-The Institute of the Black World Intergenerational Dialogue with Dr. Ron Daniels, Rosa Clemente and others
-Take back the airwaves: How progressive youth are creating their own media outlets
-Black and Latina/o student relations
-Legacy of Resistance: Children of Political Prisoners Speak Out
-White Like Me- Cultural appropriation or authentic love?
-Women and Hip Hop: Our time to Rhyme
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