peace and unconditional revolutionary love
recommended reading "we will shoot back" Akinyele Omowale Umoja.
just a reminder for the upcomings for the remainder of this month. every 3rd black sunday a new black arts movement presents soul sessions at Casa Del Soul Jan 18th Know Your Roots; Know Your Rights. every 4th black sunday a new black arts movement presents: commUniversity. every 3rd tuesday a new black arts movement presents djsss revolutionary sound, dance, lounge parties at BREW. and more oh my ;)... see you in the streets.
was djing with my comrades today at the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee 19th annual dinner tribute. free the land, free all political prisoners, exchange with the youth. fight to win.
every 3rd black Sunday of the month a new black arts movement provides soul sessions for the community. all ages and nationalities come to build, share, learn, listen, create, study, engage, prefigure a new society, eat, express, and be.
Jan 18th a new black arts movement presents
Know Your Roots; Know Your Rights
celebrating revolutionary education & the power of story telling
Sunday Jan 18th 2015
330pm - 6pm
casa del soul
724 empire blvd
brooklyn ny 11213
featuring workshops
Radical Pedagogy
Self Defense & Revolutionary Matriarchy
Storytelling for Social Change
Know Your Rights / CopWatch
Brought to you by:
Scientific Soul Sessions, Urban Art Beat, The Next Youth Coalition
scientificsoulsessions.com
xspiritmental.com
movementinmotion.com
$5 exchange
youth free
Urban Art Beat
A New Black Arts Movement
Spiritchild XspiritMental
Rosa Bettina
Spiritchild
https://www.facebook.com/events/881099435274670/
Jan 20th djsss @ BREW every 3rd Tuesday
i'll be back at BREW on the 1and2's selecting sounds and vibrations of a revolutionary colorful rainbow in motion. honor the legacy of King and moving with the heat of Black Lives Matter. also playing sounds that compliment the vibration of a movement that moves from saying "hands up don't shoot" to... "we will shoot back"
https://www.facebook.com/events/309494349254055/
xspiritmental vibrations presents
dj sss (spiritchild) live
Every 3rd Tuesday (1/20, 2/17, 3/17...)
xSpiritMentalsss
@ Brew 9pm
370 Tompkins, Brooklyn
spinning some worldly sounds and bringing the funk all round. chill, dance, romance, drink, think, be...
featuring freestyle sessions, special guest performances and live musicians.
www.xspiritmental.com
Spiritchild XspiritMental
Spiritchild
https://soundcloud.com/xspiritmental/sets/dj-sss
spiritchild deejays/soul selects emotions. djsss (spiritchild) channels the mood, taps into the collective consciousness and evokes the feelings you desire. by redefining genres and expectations of what you are conditioned to hear, turning you on to new artists, new sounds and new waves. djsss introduces and remixes vibrations that resonate with the soul. from Funk, Hip Hop to the rhythms of South Africa, from Reggae to Eastern European Balkan sounds, from Afro Beat to ambient Lounge Music. let's flow on a musical world trip that stimulates you and everyone in the space to let go of inhibitions, dance like no one is watching and express yourself in complete freedom.
Jan 25th a new black arts movement presents
commUniversity. every 4th black sunday of the month at Casa Del Soul. please RSVP to movement@xspiritmental.com. this month will be our first gathering with a workshop on Hip Hop (the basics 101, a pedogogy of resistance and revolution). we will also have a film screening.
Jan 17th
give thanks for everyone who joined us todayat MXCC. it was an honor to dj and select sounds to compliment the families and political prisoners.
19th ANNUAL DINNER TRIBUTE
to the FAMILIES of our PP/POWs
The theme “In the Tradition” is a reminder that the struggle for Black self-determination, justice and Liberation continues forward. We send this letter to invite a community of new family, friends and younger people, as we look forward to the continued support and participation of those who for close to two decades have helped us pay well-deserved tribute to our captured Freedom Fighters and their families.
Let’s “Pick up the Work” to Educate, Agitate & Organize to
Free our Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War
Malcolm X Commemoration Committee
déqui kioni-sadiki
chair
previous communique from early this month for those that missed the blast...
"To Win victory, To complete an objective, But not to follow through, Is a disastrous Waste." Sun Tzu The Art of War
these are the days of victory and unfortunate loses. "No nation has ever benefited From a protracted war" - Sun Tzu. we are at war, we have been for centuries. it may seem hard to conceptualize considering we have been enslaved only to be "freed" then enslaved again suffering from black codes to jim crow to stop and frisk. you can call it genocide, occupation, an epedemic a pandemic or simply war. you can feel the pressure of the state closing in, showing his true colours. this is when we seize the time. from Spain's new "Gag Law" (Ley Mordaza) to Brooklyn's resistance to continued police repression we fight a similar enemy. so "Know your enemy, Know yourself, and victory is never in doubt, Not in a hundred battles" - Sun Tzu. and do not be fooled, when they in act in such a manner advance. they are showing a need for control which means more repression will follow, but these are signs of generals with no confidence and fear will lead to their destruction along with our continued action.
2014 has blessed us with the freedom of Lynne Stewart, Eddie Conway, Sekou Odinga and the 3 that remained behind enemy lines of the Cuban 5 (Gerardo, Antonio & Ramon). we still have u.s. held political prisoners, prisoners of war if you have forgotten... Maroon, Mumia, Abdullah Majid among countless of others too many to name here as well as the pressure from New Jersey State Troopers to FBI for the capture and return of our beloved Assata Shakur.
after returning from Europe facilitating international/intergenerational workshops; repping the Universal Zulu Nation giving hip hop history/herstory workshops to repping Cop Watch facilitating Know Your Rights Workshops to repping Scientific Soul Sessions prefiguring a new society with praxis and training our comrades abroad with a new black arts movement as well as performing, djing... I'm happy to be continuing the tour and sharing the experiences and knowledge, tactics, stories and techniques stateside from Jan-April 23rd (back to Europe May-June 2015).
also excited to announce a new black arts movement presents our new international hip hop project facilitating youth dialogue through the power of hip hop from NYC, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Tanzania and more TBA.
visit xspiritmental for package and booking email (booking@xspiritmental.com)
Urban Art Beat is proud to announce that in 2015, world traveling freedom singer and revolutionary, spiritchild, will be joining our team as the Director of Partnerships, Programs and International Relations within our UAB International Design branch, expanding the worldview of our participants through the exchange of art, music, performance and revolutionary ideas! He will also be facilitating and building our much needed support base working with youth in prisons, detention facilities and alternative to incarceration programs as well as homeless youth throughout New York City, continuing his work and experience from Art Start.