ladies…STOP THIS!
a man tells you to prove you love him (when already in a relationship with another girl) so you tat his name on your stomach…WHAT!
STOP THE FOOLISHNESS!
PR FREEDOM PROJECT ALBUM RELEASE PARTY September 16, 2009
Attention: Music & Entertainment editors
Internationally acclaimed artists
Set to Perform in El Barrio
For
Freedom CD Release Party
Yomo Toro, Roy Brown, Zon del Barrio, Siete Nueve & The Welfare Poets
take a musical stand for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
New York, NY – September 15th, 2009 – In an effort to raise funds for the remaining Puerto Rican political prisoners, The Puerto Rican Freedom Project celebrates the release of “The Freedom Album,” a musical compilation featuring Boricua artists from the Island to the Diaspora. One of the Island’s foremost political folk singer, Roy Brown will be on hand alongside the Fania music legend, Yomo Toro who will be joining East Harlem’s own Zon del Barrio. Further, the concert will bring old and new school performers together with the strength of the politically conscious Hip Hop artists from P.R., “Siete Nueve” and New York’s own The Welfare Poets, the socio-political hip hop fusion band spearheading this project.
Scheduled for Thursday, October 1, 2009 at the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center located at 1680 Lexington Avenue (between 105 & 106 Sts), the event takes place at the Taller Boricua’s Multi Arts Space on the first floor. Doors open @ 8 pm with a $20 admission. The Freedom Album will be on sale that evening.
The Puerto Rican Freedom Project is a coalition of artists, activists and organizations that have come together to put out this project. It is co-sponsored by Aurora Communications and Taller Boricua, with additional support from the Prolibertad Freedom Campaign, Cemi Underground and The Zol Lab. To find out more information about the overall project and to purchase advanced tickets log onto www.prfreedomproject.org and www.myspace.com/thewelfarepoets
or for advanced tickets, click here
The Freedom Album is a musical CD/compilation dedicated to the welfare of the Puerto Rican political prisoners and their families. The struggle for Puerto Rico’s independence stems back to the late15th century when Christopher Columbus under the auspices of the Spanish Crown, first invaded the Caribbean island. The modern struggle for Puerto Rican sovereignty, clutched in the grasp of the United States, has also been waged by Puerto Ricans from the island to the states who yearn freedom. Since July 25th 1898, Puerto Ricans have moved against America’s hegemonic wishes to liberate their island. This fight has lead to various generations of Puerto Rican political prisoners.
In September of 1999, then US president, Bill Clinton, granted clemency to twelve Puerto Rican patriots, who had up to that point, been incarcerated for close to twenty years. A few of the Puerto Rican political prisoners who were not granted clemency,Oscar Lopez Rivera, Carlos Alberto Torres and Haydee Beltran Torres, remain confined, in addition to Avelino Gonzalez Claudio, the fourth of the current Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, who was most recently incarcerated in February of 2008. To learn more about the Puerto Rican political prisoners, go towww.myspace.com/freeourpoliticalprisoners andwww.prfreedomproject.org
Artists appearing on the album:
The Welfare Poets with Alkebulan (Hip Hop – NYC), Roy Brown (Folk – Puerto Rico), Siete Nueve (Hip Hop – Puerto Rico), Aurora & Zon Del Barrio with Yomo Toro y Sammy Ayala (Bomba, Plena and Salsa – NYC), Division X (Hip Hop – NYC), Intifada (Hip Hop – Puerto Rico), Ilu Aye (Orisha/Afro-Caribbean tradition -NYC), X-Vandals (Hip Hop – NYC), Rebel Diaz with Divino of The D.E.Y. (Hip Hop Chicago/NYC), Alma Moyo (Bomba y Plena – NYC), Ricanstruction (Hardcore/Punk/Hip Hop – NYC), Quique Cruz (Hip Hop – California), Foundation Movement (Boston – Hip Hop), Lourdez Perez (Decima – Puerto Rico), Homeboy Sandman (Hip Hop – NYC), Babalu Machete (Hip Hop – Puerto Rico), Segundo Quimbamba (Bomba – NJ), El David (Hip Hop – NJ), Dr. Loco (Hip Hop NYC), Fernando Ferrer (Salsa/Acoustic), Maria-Isa (Hip Hop -Minnesota/Twin Cities), Velcro y Ikol Santiago (Hip Hop – Puerto Rico), Ray Concepcion y Cafe Con Leche (Salsa – the Bronx), M-Team (Hip Hop – Pittsburgh/ Brooklyn), Bryan Vargas Y Ya Esta (Latin, Nu-Jazz and Afro-beat – NYC), La Bruja (Hip Hop/Reggaeton NYC), MC Natra Y Lady M (Hip Hop – Vieques), Carlos Jimenez (Latin Jazz – NYC), Fallen Angelz (Hip Hop – NY and Florida), Nino Blanco (Hip Hop – NYC) and Angel Rodriguez (Guaguanco – NYC).
The Puerto Rican Freedom Album Release Party September 9, 2009
Price:
$20
Start Time:
Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 8:00pm
End Time:
Friday, October 2, 2009 at 12:00am
Location:
Julia De Burgos 1680 Lexington AVE.
Street:
between 105th and 106th streets
Mural Dedication on 122nd Street and 3rd Avenue. Thurs. 9/3 @ 11am September 1, 2009
An invitation from:
Cathleen Lewis
Manager of High School Programs
New Museum
Groundswell Community Mural Project, the New Museum on the Bowery, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, are merging resources to create a community mural in East Harlem painted by teens employed by the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program. Mural Location: VIM Store, 2253 Third Avenue (122nd St & Third Avenue), New York, NY 10035.
Fifteen youth spent the summer working with Groundswell artists to create a mural inspired by the work of legendary artist and activist Emory Douglas. The mural project “What We Want, What We Believe” is in conjunction with the major retrospective “Emory Douglas: Black Panther” currently on view at the New Museum.
As part of the design research process, the teens canvassed the neighborhood and interviewed locals to discuss the issues that the community felt were most relevant. The most common topics were education, health care, and unity. Working with these ideas and concerns, the students, Emory Douglas, and mural artists choose to “remix” images from Douglas’s work together with newly created designs.
It would be a great honor if you would consider joining our organizations and these exceptional teen artists on September 3, 2009 at 11 AM to dedicate this mural which will serve as an intergenerational symbol of past, present, and future.
It would be our tremendous pleasure to share with you the great excitement of celebrating this new community addition, the hard work of these teens, and the coming together of three institutions seeking to extend our shared commitment to introducing new art (and future artists!) to the city of New York.
WARN THEM August 29, 2009
WARN THEM: THE WELFARE POETS RELEASE
NEW HIP HOP ALBUM
After over 15 years of performing, educating and organizing, and 10 years since the release of their first independent album, “Project Blues,” The Welfare Poets are back now with their third and latest album, “Warn Them.” For years known for their socio-politically conscious music, mixing various genres from the Caribbean and Latin Jazz with Hip Hop, “Warn Them” is their first Hip Hop release in its purest form. Rayzer Sharp (R. Ramirez) continues to hold down the group since day one and has expanded the collective since the youngest member, emcee/producer and Harlem Puerto Rican, The Legendary MIC (M. Pacheco) joined the cadre. The band is still going as strong as ever these days, but this new album is a throwback in Hip Hop to a time where there was just an emcee and a producer, but here the Legendary does both.
heres a link so u can hear some of the joints and cop the album
FREE TROY DAVIS (thanks ray) August 17, 2009
original post here
By Bill Rankin and Larry Hartstein
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Troy Anthony Davis the chance to present evidence in court that the condemned man has said for years will clear him of the murder of a Savannah police officer.
The high court ordered a federal judge to “receive testimony and findings of fact as to whether evidence that could not have been obtained at the time of trial clearly establishes [Davis’] innocence.”
Davis sits on death row for the killing of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989. His bid to the nation’s highest court was his last chance in the court system.
Since Davis’ 1991 trial, seven of nine state witnesses have recanted their testimony and other witnesses have implicated Sylvester “Redd” Coles as the shooter. Coles, who has denied killing MacPhail, was at the scene and was the first person to implicate Davis in the shooting.
Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, issued a dissent, saying the federal judge assigned to hear the case will not be able to grant Davis relief. “It becomes stranger still when one realizes that the allegedly new evidence we shunt off to be examined by the district court has already been considered (and rejected) multiple times,” Scalia wrote.
The high court, Scalia said, is sending a judge in the Southern District of Georgia on “a fool’s errand. … I truly do not see how the district court can discern what is expected of it.”
But Justice John Paul Stevens cited prior court precedent that said it would be “an atrocious violation of our Constitution and the principles upon which it is based” to execute an innocent man.
“Imagine a petitioner in Davis’ situation who possesses new evidence conclusively and definitively proving, beyond any scintilla of doubt, that he is an innocent man,” Steven wrote. “The dissent’s reasoning would allow such a petitioner to be put to death nonetheless.”
Stevens was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. The order noted that the court’s newest justice, Sonia Sotomayer, did not participate in the decision.
Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta called the high court’s order “an immensely important decision.”
Still, Bright said, the order shifts the burden of proof onto Davis to show he was innocent. “That’s a much more difficult proposition,” Bright said. “It doesn’t mean it can’t be done, but it’s a significant burden to overcome.”
Tom Dunn, one of Davis’ lawyers, said the defense team was extremely pleased with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant a hearing on the innocence claims. “Although the burden we face is high, we are confident in Mr. Davis’ innocence and our evidence.”
In April, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, by a 2-1 vote, rejected Davis’ last appeal.
Davis’ claims of innocence have attracted international attention, with former President Jimmy Carter and Pope Benedict XVI calling for Davis not to be put to death.
MacPhail’s family and Chatham County prosecutors have long contended Davis is the real killer and should be put to death for the slaying.
“I’m in shock,” said MacPhail’s 75-year-old mother, Anneliese MacPhail of Columbus. “I was really hoping they’d deny this appeal, not just shove it off to somewhere else. They’re just pushing it back and forth to all the courts over and over again. This week it will be 20 years since Mark was killed and I would like it to come to an end. … It’s devastating because we don’t get any peace.”
The fourth of five children, MacPhail had two children of his own. His 21-year-old daughter lives in Texas and his 20-year-old son attends college in Savannah. “I don’t know how he does it,” Anneliese MacPhail said of her grandson. “It’s tearing him apart, because he never knew his father. He was seven weeks old.”
As for Davis, she said, “If you tell yourself for 20 years you didn’t do it, you start to believe it. I’m still convinced he did it.”
In a statement, Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker said the high court’s order allows all parties involved in the case another opportunity to be heard on the issues raised, including the question of recantation. “Hopefully, this hearing will resolve the doubts about the verdict handed down by the Chatham County jury 18 years ago,” he said.
