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Showing videos filed under: hip hop
Maria Isa & Lah Tere: Dancing to the Puerto Rico Revolution
March 5, 2011"Now we have the opportunity to open our books and write our history. Now we're baking the bread and we're going to make them eat it," says Maria Isa, hip-hop artist and activist. Maria and fellow Puerto Rican artist Lah Tere were in Puerto Rico when protests began last year--protests that have seen students and workers in the streets over budget cuts and tuition hikes, seen peaceful demonstrators teargassed by police. Protests as dramatic as anything in the UK, Egypt, Tunisia, or Wisconsin--yet almost never seen on US news despite taking place in the US.Maria Isa & Lah Tere, Water On The Table, & Immigration
March 4, 2011"Now we have the opportunity to open our books and write our history. Now we're baking the bread and we're going to make them eat it," says Maria Isa, hip-hop artist and activist. Maria and fellow Puerto Rican artist Lah Tere were in Puerto Rico when protests began last year--protests that have seen students and workers in the streets over budget cuts and tuition hikes, seen peaceful demonstrators teargassed by police. Protests as dramatic as anything in the UK, Egypt, Tunisia, or Wisconsin--yet almost never seen on US news despite taking place in the US.Jasiri X and M-1: We All Shall Be Free
February 10, 2011The revolution continues in Egypt, and in addition to creating new coalitions and partnerships as different groups come together in the streets, it's inspiring artists around the world. Jasiri X and M-1 of Dead Prez have a new track, "We All Shall Be Free," illustrated with scenes from the protests in Cairo.Khaled Fahmy, Medea Benjamin, and City of Joy
February 9, 2011The revolution in Egypt at first was less about poverty and labor than it was about police brutality and the mistreatment of the people by a repressive regime. But now, Khaled Fahmy notes, the growing labor movement in Egypt is coming to the fore, following two years of concerted effort and protest by workers across the country.Billy Wimsatt: Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs
October 20, 2010Billy Wimsatt made a splash when he was 21 with the book Bomb the Suburbs--the "bomb" of the title meaning graffiti, not weaponry. Sixteen years later, he's back with a new book, and a new strategy, though with no less enthusiasm and fire for change. Instead, he says, it's time "to play the game in a more sophisticated way—to win."Micha Kurz, Billy Wimsatt, and Voting on CEO Pay
October 19, 2010Peace talks between Israel and Palestine are "a calming pill. Kind of a time game," according to Micha Kurz, co-director of Grassroots Jerusalem and a founder of Breaking the Silence, an organization of former IDF soldiers speaking out about their experiences in the Occupied Territories. While the talks stall, settlement building continues, and settlement building, Kurz notes, becomes a "fact" that makes the idea of a Palestinian state less viable.The Narcicyst: Hamdulillah
September 22, 2010Last fall, we spoke to a group of young hip-hop activists who were part of a groundbreaking trip to Palestine with Native American youth. The Narcicyst was one of those activists, and his new video is all about breaking borders. Created as a collaborative effort by 10 photographers from all over the world, the video shows the faces of people: DJs, MCs, poets, architects, teachers, doctors, parents and children.David Kirby, Election 2010, and The Narcicyst
September 21, 2010The FDA is holding public hearings this week on genetically modified "AquAdvantage" salmon, destined, if they make the cut, for your dinner plate. Meanwhile, congressional investigators are looking into an outbreak of salmonella that sickened over 1500 people. And nobody's talking about the superbug, MRSA, being found in pork. What's wrong with our food system?Mos Def: It Ain't My Fault (It's BP's)
August 10, 2010"It Ain't My Fault" is an old New Orleans tune, a familiar one to anyone who's been around the city. The chorus has taken on new resonance in recent years, and especially in the wake of BP's oil flooding the Gulf of Mexico.At a recent benefit for Gulf Aid, hip-hop artist Mos Def put some new lyrics to the song that personalize the newest tragedy to hit the city of New Orleans.Celebrating Nina Simone
April 3, 2010Nina Simone died seven years ago this month, but her legacy of heartfelt, transformative music that spoke truth about the injustice that she saw all around her remains. A recent tribute to her took place at New York's Harlem Stage, with members of the Black Rock Coalition, and Patricia Cruz of Harlem Stage and composer and perfomer Imani Uzuri joined us in studio to discuss Simone's impact on their careers and using music and art to carry a message to the world.
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