dfr 9/14/2007
Aho Mitake Ayasin
Guests:
10 PM -Michele Welsing
Communications Director
Southern California Library
www.socallib.org
Sick Symphonies - DJ FM
11 PM - Mikki Willes- Founder of the Elevate Film Festival
Elevate is the first 48 hour film festival to challenge the international film community to create works of social and global importance. For more info: www.elevatefilmfestival.com/
J-LOVE Author of "That White Girl"
Book reading and community dialogue on the power of Hip-Hop culture as
well as critique on race, power, and privilege. Junior High and High
School Teachers and students encouraged to attend.
12 PM
Percee P
"No other MC has waited as long to record a debut, but what Percee's done in the meantime has made him a legend"
- Resonance
www.stonesthrow.com
Playlist:
Fidel -
DJ Counterstryke
DJ Orator
New Album:
Events:
*BACK 2 SCHOOL BLOWOUT BOOK SALE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2007 AT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LIBRARY 10:30 AM - 4 PM
LOS ANGELES— Thousands of low-cost used and new political and historical books and pamphlets will be available at a one-day-only book sale in South Los Angeles. The Southern California Library’s last book sale of the year, it will feature the newest stock in years. New and rare books will be available at discounted prices, including such titles as Paul Robeson: Here I Stand; The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy; Harvest of Empire, by Juan Gonzalez; Watts: The Aftermath, by the people of Watts; Native Son, by Richard Wright; Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser; and much more. The book sale will take place at the Library, located at 6120 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles (between Slauson and Gage), Saturday, September 15, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public; families and children welcome.
*IMIX Books Presents:
J Love Author of "That White Girl"
Book reading and community dialogue on the power of Hip-Hop culture as
well as critique on race, power, and privilege. Junior High and High
School Teachers and students encouraged to attend.
IMIX Bookstore
Tomorrow Saturday September 15th, 2007
4 PM - 5:30 PM
5052 Eagle Rock Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90041
323 257 2512
www.imixbooks.com
www.jennifercalderon.com
"That White Girl", is a coming of age story traveled by a white girl
who flirts with the color lines. In the process Amber gets allured by
the call of thug life and becomes immersed in the world of gangs and
graffiti. Amber twirls through tales of risky crimes and party times
until illusion and reality collide resulting in a painful tragedy.
White Girl explores the humiliations and triumphs that occur when an
outsider breaks boundaries and becomes involved with the art, politics,
and lives of people perceived as different. On a more personal level,
the book chronicles Amber's inner struggle for identity and
self-expression, and ultimately her transformation from gang-banger to
Hip-Hop activist.
"In J-Love's masterful hands, Amber's story taps into the dramatic
difficulties of simply trying to find one's unique place in a deeply
fractured world. Here's a voice we've been waiting for."
JENA 6 Petition
The Town of Jena: One of those little towns is Jena, Louisiana, a 3,000-strong, 86% white community nested in central Louisiana's LaSalle Parish. Several hundred teenagers live in the town, and Jena's only high school, unsurprisingly named Jena High School, is public. This means that, under the Brown v. Board of Education precedent, it's integrated. Well, most of it, anyway.
Nooses on the Tree: On the campus of Jena High School is a big, shady tree. According to students and others from the local community, it was understood that the tree's shade was for white kids. A black teenager attempted to sit under it on August 31st, 2006; accounts vary as to whether or not he was prevented from doing so. The next day, three nooses were found hanging in its branches. The white students who admitted to hanging the nooses were suspended for three days.
Integrating the Shade: Several days after the noose incident, a group of black students gathered and sat under the tree in protest. White students' parents called the police, and LaSalle County's white district attorney stormed the campus with armed police and gave an impromptu lecture to the black students who had gathered under the tree. 'I could end your lives with the stroke of a pen,' he reportedly told them.
The Jena Six: On December 4th, 2006, a fight broke out on the campus of Jena High School. During the struggle, a white student was beaten. He was taken to the hospital, but was released shortly thereafter and attended another school function that night. The six black students were rounded up by police and charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder. Each of the students faced up to 100 years in prison. Jena High's ordinary penalty for a fight at school is three days' suspension.
Latest Developments: On June 28th, 2007, Jena Six defendant Mychal Bell was convicted on charges of second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit second-degree battery. He was convicted by an all-white jury, and his attorney--a public defender--called no witnesses on his behalf. He will be sentenced on September 20th, and faces up to 22 years in prison for the schoolyard fight.
www.petitiononline.com/aZ51CqmR/petition.html
Guests:
10 PM -Michele Welsing
Communications Director
Southern California Library
www.socallib.org
Sick Symphonies - DJ FM
11 PM - Mikki Willes- Founder of the Elevate Film Festival
Elevate is the first 48 hour film festival to challenge the international film community to create works of social and global importance. For more info: www.elevatefilmfestival.com/
J-LOVE Author of "That White Girl"
Book reading and community dialogue on the power of Hip-Hop culture as
well as critique on race, power, and privilege. Junior High and High
School Teachers and students encouraged to attend.
12 PM
Percee P
"No other MC has waited as long to record a debut, but what Percee's done in the meantime has made him a legend"
- Resonance
www.stonesthrow.com
Playlist:
Fidel -
DJ Counterstryke
DJ Orator
New Album:
Events:
*BACK 2 SCHOOL BLOWOUT BOOK SALE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2007 AT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LIBRARY 10:30 AM - 4 PM
LOS ANGELES— Thousands of low-cost used and new political and historical books and pamphlets will be available at a one-day-only book sale in South Los Angeles. The Southern California Library’s last book sale of the year, it will feature the newest stock in years. New and rare books will be available at discounted prices, including such titles as Paul Robeson: Here I Stand; The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy; Harvest of Empire, by Juan Gonzalez; Watts: The Aftermath, by the people of Watts; Native Son, by Richard Wright; Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser; and much more. The book sale will take place at the Library, located at 6120 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles (between Slauson and Gage), Saturday, September 15, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public; families and children welcome.
*IMIX Books Presents:
J Love Author of "That White Girl"
Book reading and community dialogue on the power of Hip-Hop culture as
well as critique on race, power, and privilege. Junior High and High
School Teachers and students encouraged to attend.
IMIX Bookstore
Tomorrow Saturday September 15th, 2007
4 PM - 5:30 PM
5052 Eagle Rock Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90041
323 257 2512
www.imixbooks.com
www.jennifercalderon.com
"That White Girl", is a coming of age story traveled by a white girl
who flirts with the color lines. In the process Amber gets allured by
the call of thug life and becomes immersed in the world of gangs and
graffiti. Amber twirls through tales of risky crimes and party times
until illusion and reality collide resulting in a painful tragedy.
White Girl explores the humiliations and triumphs that occur when an
outsider breaks boundaries and becomes involved with the art, politics,
and lives of people perceived as different. On a more personal level,
the book chronicles Amber's inner struggle for identity and
self-expression, and ultimately her transformation from gang-banger to
Hip-Hop activist.
"In J-Love's masterful hands, Amber's story taps into the dramatic
difficulties of simply trying to find one's unique place in a deeply
fractured world. Here's a voice we've been waiting for."
JENA 6 Petition
The Town of Jena: One of those little towns is Jena, Louisiana, a 3,000-strong, 86% white community nested in central Louisiana's LaSalle Parish. Several hundred teenagers live in the town, and Jena's only high school, unsurprisingly named Jena High School, is public. This means that, under the Brown v. Board of Education precedent, it's integrated. Well, most of it, anyway.
Nooses on the Tree: On the campus of Jena High School is a big, shady tree. According to students and others from the local community, it was understood that the tree's shade was for white kids. A black teenager attempted to sit under it on August 31st, 2006; accounts vary as to whether or not he was prevented from doing so. The next day, three nooses were found hanging in its branches. The white students who admitted to hanging the nooses were suspended for three days.
Integrating the Shade: Several days after the noose incident, a group of black students gathered and sat under the tree in protest. White students' parents called the police, and LaSalle County's white district attorney stormed the campus with armed police and gave an impromptu lecture to the black students who had gathered under the tree. 'I could end your lives with the stroke of a pen,' he reportedly told them.
The Jena Six: On December 4th, 2006, a fight broke out on the campus of Jena High School. During the struggle, a white student was beaten. He was taken to the hospital, but was released shortly thereafter and attended another school function that night. The six black students were rounded up by police and charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder. Each of the students faced up to 100 years in prison. Jena High's ordinary penalty for a fight at school is three days' suspension.
Latest Developments: On June 28th, 2007, Jena Six defendant Mychal Bell was convicted on charges of second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit second-degree battery. He was convicted by an all-white jury, and his attorney--a public defender--called no witnesses on his behalf. He will be sentenced on September 20th, and faces up to 22 years in prison for the schoolyard fight.
www.petitiononline.com/aZ51CqmR/petition.html
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