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Liberation Hip Hop
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START DATE:
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6/14/2008
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START TIME:
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3:00 PM
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1 Hours
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Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
504 827-5858
FREE SHOW - ALL AGES
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War/Militarization
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Event Type:
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Concert/Performance
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DESCRIPTION:
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Liberation Hip Hop
The Struggle for Freedom and the Right Of Return, From New Orleans to Palestine
An Evening of hiphop, R&B, poetry, and more...
Saturday, June 14
3:00pm - 7:00pm
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
504 827-5858
FREE SHOW - ALL AGES
Featuring:
Mohammad Al-Farra - From Palestine Rapperz, the first hiphop group from Gaza, on his first US tour ever!
http://www.myspace.com/palrapperz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I11LqvjZRcc
Abeer aka Sabreena Da Witch - Palestine's queen of R&B.
http://www.myspace.com/sdawitch
Arabian Outlaw - Original Palestinian hiphop from New Orleans.
http://www.myspace.com/arabianoutlawgweedo
http://nolapalestine.no-ip.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=32
Sess 4-5 - Straight out of New Orleans, founder of Nuthin But Fire Records.
http://www.myspace.com/nuthinbutfirerecords
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRKnX597ZXc
Shaheed - Representing the West Bank of New Orleans and Palestine.
http://www.myspace.com/intafadarecords
Truth Universal - Born in Trinidad, raised in New Orleans, conscious hiphop that makes you move
http://www.myspace.com/truthuniversal
http://youtube.com/truthuniversal
Selected poems of Mahmoud Darwish, presented Andy Young and Khaled Hegazzi, Editors of Meena Magazine
http://www.meenamag.com/
Plus Special Guest:
Lamis Deek, from Al-Awda, The Palestine Right To Return Coalition
Lamis is a Palestinian organizer born in Nablus, Palestine and raised in New York. She is an organizer of the US Palestine Popular Conference, and a founder of Lawyers to Palestine.
MC: PoeticOne
Also: FREE FOOD provided by Arabesque
And More....
Sponsored by: Third World Coalition of the American Friends Service Committee, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Meena Magazine, Solidarity New Orleans, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival, Common Ground Relief, New Orleans Palestine Solidarity, and more.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=22760436082
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