KNOW THY SELF PRODUCTIONS
presents the
BLACK, BROWN, GREEN HIP- HOP SUSTAINABILITY TOUR
2008 VP Candidate GREEN PARTY
Rosa Clemente, 2008 Green Party Vice-Presidential Candidate
Mutulu Olugabala aka M1 of dead prez
Kahlil Almustafa, Nuyorican Slam Champion, author of From Auction Block to Oval Office
Rosa Clemente is a community organizer, Hip-Hop activist, radio journalist, and is the first Latina in the history of the U.S. to be on the ballot as a Vice-Presidential candidate with the Green Party.
Born and raised in the South Bronx, Rosa is a graduate of the University of Albany and received her Masters of Africana Studies and Education at Cornell University.
In 1998, 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 seven major tours.
In 2003 Rosa co-founded & coordinated the first ever National Hip-Hop Political Convention which mobilized 3000+ activists to create and implement a national political agenda for the Hip-Hop generation. In 2003, she traveled to Vieques, Puerto Rico to document the US Naval withdrawal 67 years of control by the US military. In 2005, she co-founded the R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop Coalition, a media justice organization; and in September 2005 10 days after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, Rosa traveled to the devastated area as an independent journalist broadcasting her on-the-ground-reports to radio stations across the world.
Rosa has 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 hosts the radio show HIP HOP STATE OF MIND, on WBAI 99.5FM in New
SIGNATURE PRESENTATION:
Black & Brown International Unity: New Global Majority, New Politics, New World
For more info visit www.rosaclemente.org
Hip-Hop Legend
Mutulu Olugabala aka M-1 of dead prez is evidence of the resurgence of political action in the Black community. As one of half of the Hip-Hop duo dead prez, M-1 and his partner stic.man have revolutionized hip-hop 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 RGB: Revolutionary But Gangsta.
Mutulu is in the best tradtion of an activist who uses his art to organize. Mutulu is an expert in the relationship between the Black revolutionaries that split from the civil rights movement in the early 1960's and created the Black Power Movement which gave birth to other groups such as the Young Lords Party, the American Indian Movement and the original Rainbow coalition.
SIGNATURE PRESENTATION:
It's Bigger than Hip-Hop: Sustainability for a Radical Hip-Hop Generation
For more information visit www.deadprez.com
Slam Champion
kahlil almustafa is known as the People's Poet, whether for a mass rally of hundreds of people, a nightclub, church, university or a backyard family reunion. almustafa is the 2002 Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion and the author of four book of poetry and his debut CD CounterIntelligence. His collection of 15 years of poetry, Growing Up Hip-Hop, is used in classrooms from the elementary to the university level. almustafa recently completed the "100 Poems For 100 Days" project where he wrote 100 poems in the first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency soon to be published in a collection of poems entitled, From Auction Block to Oval Office.
SIGNATURE PRESENTATION:
Poetry & Critical Dialogue: Reading of From Auction Block to Oval Office: 100 poems in 100 days of Obama's presidency
For more information visit www.kahlilalmustafa.mvmt.com
FOR BOOKINGS AND INTERVIEWS CONTACT US: hiphopstateofmind@rosaclemente.org or rosaclemente2010@gmail.com
GREAT FOR:
Black History Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hip-Hop Appreciation Month
Puerto Rican Heritage Month
Women's Herstory Month
National Poetry Month
PRESENTATIONS:
Black & Brown International Unity: New Global Majority, New Politics & a New World
It's Bigger than Hip-Hop: Sustainability for a Radical Hip-Hop Generation
Poetry & Critical Dialogue: Reading of From Auction Block to Oval Office: 100 poems in 100 days of Obama's presidency
Poetry is Not a Luxury: Writing & Performing Poetry for Social Justice
Ain't I Hip-Hop Too? Challenging Patriarchy, Sexism & Homophobia in Hip-Hop
From the Young Lords to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: The History of Puerto Rico, Nuyoricans and Colonialism
History of the Black Panther Party and COINTELPRO
PRESENTE! Latinos y Latinas in the 21st Century: Going Beyond Imposed Identities, Politics & Borders
Speaking & Building Truth to Power: Media independence for People of Color
Who is Black? A Puerto Rican Woman Claims her place in the African Diaspora
FEATURED ORGANIZATION:
CHECKTHEWEATHER.NET is a national online community and web platform to support and amplify the voices of young people of color in the U.S. fighting for environmental justice.
KARI FULTON, Co-founder, Editor
Kari Fulton is an award-winning youth climate and environmental justice organizer. She is National Campus Campaign Coordinator for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC). Her work has been featured on The Sundance Channel, and in Elle andGlamour Magazine.
FEATURED FILM:
The Lost Tapes is a visual account on the current state of hip-hop: in its community, in its industry, and in its overall culture. The filmmaker Justin Thomas, a Bronx native, follows practitioners of hip-hop's founding elements, including: MC'ing, DJ'ing, break-dancing, graffiti, and knowledge, wisdom, and understanding.
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