Bringing together three of this generations foremost activists, feminists, Hip Hop practitioners and journalists. This interactive, multimedia tour, will travel through the country working with youth, immigrants, college students and community organizers to empower and sustain their local communities.

ROSA ALICIA CLEMENTE is a community organizer, journalist Hip Hop activist and the 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate with the GREEN PARTY. She holds a B.A. from University of Albany and received her M.P.S., Masters of Professional Africana Studies and Education at Cornell University. Rosa has been a community organizer and activist for over 15 years. She has been a featured keynote speaker, panelist, and political commentator all over the United States. In 1995, she developed Know Thy Self Productions, a speaker's bureau for young people of color. She began presenting workshops and lectures and to date has presented at over 500 events. Know Thy Self Productions now includes an expanded college speakers bureau which has produced four major community activism tours and consults on issues such as Hip Hop activism, media justice, voter engagement among youth of color, third party politics, intercultural relations between African American and Latino's, and immigrant rights. Rosa is currently working on her first book, When A Puerto Rican Woman Ran For Vice-President and Nobody Knew Her Name; and will begin pursuing her doctorate degree in Black Studies this upcoming fall. She resides in the home of Hip Hop, the South Bronx, with her husband and daughter.

LOVE CALDERON is a white woman who is an author, activist, and social entrepreneur working on issues of social justice, race, and gender. She has authored four books: We Got Issues! with Rha Goddess; That White Girl (optioned for film); Conscious Women Rock the Page! Using Hip-Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change (nominated for a NAACP Image Award) with Marcella Runell Hall, E-Fierce, and Black Artemis; and Love, Race, and Liberation; ÔTil the White Day is Done(finalist in the social change category of the 2010 National Indie Excellence Awards) with Marcella Runell Hall. Her articles on hip-hop culture, white privilege, and social justice have appeared in The New York Times, Self Magazine, The Source Magazine, among others. She has also contributed to WhoÕs Your Mama? The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers(edited by Yvonne Bynoe). For her consistent dedication as an activist, JLove has received numerous awards, including the Union Square Award for her activism, and Self MagazineÕs Self Starter of the Year Award. Her work keeps her on the national lecture circuit where she speaks regularly at conferences and colleges, including Harvard, UCLA, Columbia, and many others. Current projects include producing progressive film, TV, books, and educational materials. JLove graduated Cum Laude from San Diego State University with a B.A. in Africana Studies and received her M.A. in Education from Long Island University. Please visit www.jlovecalderon.com and www.ThatWhiteGirlFilm.com

M-1 of Dead Prez, aka Mutulu Olugabala, is evidence of the resurgence of political action in the Afrikan (Black) community. As one half of the fully automatic rap duo dead prez, M-1 and his partner stic.man have been hitting hard with albums like Let?s Get Free, Turn Off the Radio Vol.1, Turn Off the Radio Vol.2: Get Free or Die Trying, and RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta and their most recent album Revolutinary but Gangsta Grillz wiht DJ DRAMA. He also organized and became the local president of the Brooklyn Chapter of the National Peoples Democratic Uhuru Movement and is an activist with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. In addition, Olugabala has worked with Friends and Family of Mumia-Abu Jamal, the Hands Off Assata organization, and participates in the annual Black August Benefit Concert to Free Political Prisoners. M1 is featured in dream hampton's award winning 2010 documentary Black August documentary. In the last year he has traveled to the Gaza Strip, Senegal, Greece, Italy and Zimbabwe spreading the message of Internationalism, Solidarity amongst African and indigenous through the globe. He has become one of the leading political voices in Hip Hop culture and activism and is working in his memoir.

On July 13th 2008, in Chicago, IL, Rosa Alicia Clemente and former Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, were nominated by the Green Party of the United States, as Vice-Presidential and Presidential candidates respectively. They made up the first women of color ticket in American history and Rosa Clemente was the first Latina in the history of the U.S.A. to be on the vice-presidential ballot in over thirty states.

Rosa Alicia Clemente is a community organizer, radio journalist (WBAI 99.5 FM, NYC-PACIFICA RADIO),Hip-Hop activist and a 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate with the GREEN PARTY. Born and raised in the South Bronx and Elmsford, NY she is a graduate of the University of Albany and received her Masters of Professional Africana Studies and Education at Cornell University. Rosa has been a community organizer and activist for over 15 years. She has been a featured keynote speaker, panelist, and political commentator all over the United States. In 1995, she developed Know Thy Self Productions, a speaker's bureau for young people of color. She began presenting workshops and lectures and to date has presented at over 400 colleges, town halls, rallies and national and international conferences. Know Thy Self Productions now includes an expanded college speakers bureau which has produced four major community activism tours and consults on issues such as Hip Hop activism, media justice, voter engagement among youth of color, third party politics, intercultural relations between African American and Latino's, immigrant rights as an extension of human rights and universal health care.

Rosa's academic work has been dedicated to researching national liberation struggles inside the United States, with a specific focus on The Young Lords Party, The Black Panther Party and the Black and Brown Liberation Movement's of the 60's and 70's as well as the effects of COINTELPRO on such movements. She has also written extensively on Afro-Latino identity and politics, Sexism within Hip-Hop Culture and Hip-Hop Activism, Media Justice, and African- American and Latino unity.

While a student at the University of Albany(SUNY), she was president of the Albany State University Black Alliance (ASUBA) and was appointed Director of Multicultural Affairs for the Student Association in her senior year. At Cornell she was a founding member of La Voz Boriken, a social political organization dedicated to supporting Puerto Rican political prisoners and the independence political movements of Puerto Rico. She graduated with an MPS degree from the Africana Studies and Research Center and wrote her masters thesis on the Political Development of the Young Lords Party from 1969-1974. In 1998 she joined the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and began organizing around issues of police brutality, the Prison Industrial Complex and the freedom of US political prisoners and prisoners of war.

In 2001, Rosa was a youth representative at the first ever United Nations World Conference against Xenophobia, Racism and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa where she sat on the reparations committee and coordinated the Black August South African Hip Hop Tour starring, dead prez, Jeru DA Damaja, Black Thought of the Roots, Boots for the Coup and Talib Kweli. After returning from South Africa she began co-hosting and producing the show Where We Live on Pacifica Station WBAI, 99.5FM in New York CIty. In 2002 she was named by Red Eye Magazine as one of the top 50 Hip-Hop activists to look out for. In 2003 she cofounded and coordinated the first ever National Hip Hop Political Convention(NHHPC) that drew over 3000 activists who came together to create and implement a national political agenda for the Hip-Hop generation. On May 1st, 2003 Rosa traveled to Vieques, Puerto Rico to document the US Naval withdrawal from the island after 67 years of US military control. In 2005 she co-founded the R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop Coalition, a Hip-Hop generation based media justice organization; and in September 2005 10 days after Hurricane Katrina and Rita ravaged parts of the New Orleans and Mississippi, Rosa traveled to the devastated areas as an independent journalist and her on the ground reports were distributed to radio stations all over the world. Rosa has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships and is a frequent contributor on the following media outlets: On the Real with Chuck D on Air America, Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, The Bev Smith Show, Hard Knock Radio with Davey D, Make It Plain on SIRIUS and CNN with Roland Martin as well as numerous other radio shows.

Rosa has recently relocated back to the South Bronx, where she resides with her husband and daughter. She is currently writing her first book: When a Puerto Rican Woman Ran for Vice-President and Nobody Knew Her Name and will soon begin pursuing her doctoral studies in politcal science.

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