Invitation to discussion onHip Hop: The Art of Resistancecurated by Movement In Motion NYCAtPace University, New York CityRoom: W607, Time: Saturday, 8th of June 10:00am-11:50amAbstract: Hip Hop As Resistance: The Art of Struggle This workshop gives a brief historical time line of black & brown liberation struggles and resistance through the origins and roots of hip hop. What has been the role of art/hip hop in social struggles? What is hip hop (defined as a culture) and what are the elements that make hip hop? Through various creative exercises, music presentations and discussion we will reignite the imagination with art/hip hop to bring forth solutions and tactics for social change. Examples of the power of Hip Hop through Pedagogy on a global scale are presented from Egypt, India, Germany & Czech Republic.Chair, Speakers: Rukia Lumumba -- Center for Community Alternatives , Rachel Field – Anakbayan, Mikal Amin Lee -- Urban Word & Nomadic Wax/Fresh Roots Music, spiritchild -- Universal Zulu Nation, Left Forum is the largest annual conference of the broad Left in the United States. Each spring thousands of conference participants come together to discuss pressing local, national and global issues; to better understand commonalities and differences, and alternatives to current predicaments; or to share ideas to help build social movements to transform the world.This year's theme of Left Forum is "Mobilizing for Economical/Ecological transformation.” Speakers include Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone and Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia LineraClick here to Register* Please forward widely **More info on panelist and presenters below.Rukia LumumbaDirector of Youth Advocacy Services for CCA New York City · New York, New YorkThe Center for Community Alternatives (CCA) is a leader in the field of community-based alternatives to incarceration. Our mission is to promote reintegrative justice and a reduced reliance on incarceration through advocacy, services and public policy development in pursuit of civil and human rights. CCA serves people in trouble: youth at risk; families in crisis; people struggling to address drug and alcohol problems and HIV and AIDS; and people who have been involved in the criminal justice system who are seeking community reintegration and productive, law-abiding lives. CCA endeavors to address these issues by emphasizing personal empowerment, self-respect and concern for one's community.Rachel FieldMy name is Rachel Field and I am a second year student at Fordham University majoring in African and African American Studies. I am a community organizing and civil rights activist. I am a member of the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition which is an organization that seeks to stop war and end racism. I am also a member of Anakbayan, a organization that seeks to bring justice to the Philippines as well as justice to Filipino youth and workers here in the United States. I am a hiphop activist and artist. I have been an organizer since I was 16 years old, and I was inspired by the conditions of the community I am from. My aspirations in life is to bring awareness to the systemic racial oppression faced by Asian Americans today, and to build greater solidarity between the African and Asian diasporic communities. African American and Asian American solidarity is one of the key links to win the war against racism and have true equal opportunity for all people. HIRED GUNMikal Amin Lee aka “HG” is a Hip Hop/Spoken Word artist, performer, and educator extraordinaire. He is the founder of Fresh Roots Music, Co-founder of Say Word entertainment, an education facilitator for the International Hip Hop media company; Nomadic Wax, and Program Director for Urban Word. As an artist he has a specific focus: Roots, Truth, and Culture. The veteran of several international tours, as well as a U.S. State Department Music Ambassador for 2013-2014, HG continues to spread Hip Hop Culture worldwide through message, mission and mantra.spiritchildspiritchild, as he is known, is a freedom singer from the south Bronx by way of Brooklyn, who uses the arts to cultivate a cultural revolution. He integrates activism and hip hop music production as the founder of the International Movement In Motion Artist & Activist Collective and member of the Universal Zulu Nation. As the Rhythmic Poet of the Hip Hop Fusion Band Mental Notes, he uses his music to converse with his audience to the injustices facing the poor and oppressed, inspiring action on environmental and social justice in New York City and around the world. He is an instructor for songwriting and artist development at several public schools, shelters and alternative to incarceration programs throughout New York, and facilitates that process internationally on seasonal tours in Afrika, South East Asia, Europe and elsewhere.