https://www.facebook.com/events/156613505129553/?active_tab=discussion The Afro Yaqui Music Collective will be performing at Multicultural Artists Unite on February 8th. The band is an assemblage of revolutionary musicians that unite the musical traditions and the political struggles of Indigenous, African-American and Chican@ nations in the language of hip-hop and jazz.We come with good news! In November 2017, over 100 delegates representing 19 countries and 12 indigenous nations gathered in the Venezuelan state of Yaracuy to collectively draft a planetary plan of action for the salvation of Mother Earth. Under the maroon leadership of three afro-descendant farming communities in the municipality of Veroes, we made a collective commitment to constitute the First Ecosocialist International: to reverse the destructive process of capitalism; to return to our origins and recuperate the ancestral spirituality of humanity; to live in peace, and end war. Founding delegates from this new International will report and share their plan of action--with Gizelxanath, Manuel, Ingrid Elísabet, and Matt Meyer.The event is also a tribute to Oscar López Rivera, the Puerto Rican patriot imprisoned for over 35 years by the US for seditious conspiracy, was released in May 2017 and is coming to Southern California this February on a speaking tour. He has been in LA addressing Puerto Rico’s colonial status in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Revolutionary peace activist Matt Meyer will report from the front lines of the campaign to free Oscar and push for the decolonization of Puerto Rico.Also speaking/performing will be Souel Spiritchild Fénix (Spiritchild) of a new black arts movement, the rEvolution of the original Black Arts Movement from 1965--that is internationalist, revolutionary matriarchal, eco-socialist, majority oppressed nationality leadership, and valuing the principles and characteristics of indigeneity and art equivalent to politics.Ernesto Villalobos, Winston Byrd, Julz Powell, Alex Heflin and Beni Rossman make up an incredible band from Mexico and the United States, co-led by Gizelxanath and Ben Barson.We invite you all to a soul session at MCAU, at830pm for an evening of soul shattering Green Destiny Weapon--bearing visions of a maroon-indigenous post-commodity future where Mother Earth reclaims primary in human relations.