| Powerful, Raw, and Inspirational that Captures the Original Spirit of Activism, Love and Hopefulness at the core of Hip Hop Culture and Peoples Movements Everywhere. This is Movement Music. This is Hip Hop ! The album is now available on all the major corporate sites like Itunes, etc... but also through our Independent Virtual Store Front! We encourage that of course. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/globalblockcollective1 The Global Block Collective will be hosting in person release parties in NYC, Orlando, Washington DC., Detroit, and other cities TBD. (More information on the tour to come) Thank you for joining in the celebration and lets go! Here are videos for the first two singles from the album songs that helped to create the soundtrack for the global convergence movement known as Occupy Wall Street. Rerelease: Occupation Freedom: OWS Hip Hop Anthem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19pp93T6WMw All Streets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ZbTt1cCTI Coming Soon the Videos for the highly anticipated releases, "Block by Block" and "Our City" - check out the songs today athttp://www.cdbaby.com/cd/globalblockcollective1 |
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PRESS RELEASE Media Contact: For Immediate Release Monica Arias Miranda, President and CEO February 14, 2013 518-895-5453 / monica@hcnewyork.com For Love of the Community: 40 Rising Latino Leaders Announcing NY’s 2013 40 Under 40 Rising Latino Stars ALBANY, NEW YORK (02-14-13) – The Hispanic Coalition NY, Inc. is proud to announce the 2013 NY’s 40 Under 40 Rising Stars. The Program recognizes members of the Hispanic/Latino community under the age of 40 who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments and achievements in the areas of business, educations, politics, non-profit sector, community service, and more. The Rising Stars have demonstrated a quality of performance that indicates they are Leaders among their peers and will continue to develop into distinguished members in their community. WESTERN REGION: Luis Emilio Ormaechea (35) Associate Attorney, Underberg & Kessler LLP, MarCe Zerrate (34) Founder, Colomba WNY, Inc. CENTRAL REGION: Taino James Palermo (28) Youth Development Director, YWCA of Syracuse & Onondaga County, Inc. CAPITAL REGION: Sandra Barkevich (39) Student & editor, The Student Connection, SUNY Empire State College,Kathleen O. Broadus (25) Festival Chair, Knickerbocker Film Fesitval, Claudio Gomez (28) EOP Senior Academic Advisor, University at Albany, SUNY – EOP, Ruber Rodriguez (35) Bookkeper, Glenmont Job Corps Academy, Fabrizia M. Rodriguez (25) Attorney, Law Office of Fabrizia M. Rodriguez, Esq. MID HUDSON REGION: Delsie Howey (36) CEO, Christ Our Lord Overpowers Religious Separation (C.O.L.O.R.S.), Jerry Maldonado (38) Program Officer, Ford Foundation, Julieth Nuñez (20) Student, Bard College, Hector S. Rodriguez (35) Legislator, Ulster County Legislature LONG ISLAND REGION: Silvana Diaz (27) Publisher, Noticia Newspaper,Melissa Ann Fernandez (21) Student, Adelphi University, Saul Linares (34) Activista Comunitario Hispano, Eliana Lopez (27) Editor, Noticia Newspaper, Marcos Maldonado (31) Director of Development, Mentoring Partnership of Long Island, Ana R. Martinez (29) Brentwood Gardens Community Organization/ Brentwood Board of Education, Amaury Munoz (21) President and Founder, Heart of Justice, Carmen Julia Piñeyro (36) Chief of Staff, Phil Ramos/Inc. Village of Freeport Trustee, Darlina Marielys SanchezVolunteer/Student, Long Island Civic Engagement Table (LICET), Manny Velasquez-Paredes (39) President, NSHMBA NYC & Department of Labor NEW YORK CITY REGION: Jazmin Chavez (30) Coordinator of Communications and Digital Outreach, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Rosa Chen (23) Member, DREAM Scholars, Rafael E. Dominguez (34) Director of External Affairs, National Puerto Rican Day Parade, Andrea Garcia (39) Public Affairs Manager, New York State Unified Court System, Carlos Guevara (35) President, Organizacion Juventud Ecuatoriana, Eder Holguin (39) Virtual Fan Network, Robinson Iglesias (30) Attorney, The Law Office of Robinson Iglesias, Vicki Javier (24) Legislative Analyst, New York City Council, Lourdes Lanzot (38) Executive Assistant, UFCW Local 888, George Martinez (38) Founder/Director, Global Block Foundation, Katherine Mateo (23) Student, Stanford Law School, Jessica Medina (30) President/Founder, Loving Curves Collective LLC, Richard Nunez-Lawrence (36) President/CEO, Latino Food Festival, Lilliam Perez (37) Senior Advisor, Office of the NYS Attorney General, Juliana Perez Calle (22) Change Maker, The World, Pedro Antonio Rivera (36) Attorney, Law Office of Pedro Antonio Rivera, Yajaira Saavedra (24) Co-Founder, DREAM Scholars, Armando Somoza (31) Program Manager, Urban Arts Partnership The 2013 Recognition Program & Reception is a ticketed-only-event and more information about tickets will be released shortly. For Sponsorship Opportunities/Journal Advertising and additional information visithttp://www.hcnewyork.com/sponsorship-patrocinio.html or call 518-512-9747. The Hispanic Coalition NY is committed to empowering through education and by serving as a forum for engaging the public in a cultural exchange of ideas and views on social, civic, educational, and economic issues affecting the Hispanic-Latino Community. www.HCNewYork.com # # # Originally printed on The Blog on Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-ashton/music-for-occupy_b_2270215.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false _____________________ Jerry Ashton There is something about the Occupy Movement -- and especially in its recent incarnation as "Occupy Sandy" -- that brings out the best in us. And the best in us is increasingly found in the music we call Hip Hop. It is difficult not to be aware of the huge, upcoming concert for Hurricane Sandy to benefit the Robin Hood Relief Fund that is scheduled for Wednesday, December 12, at the Madison Square Garden and which will be broadcasted and tweeted widely (#121212concert). It will feature a monster cast of The Stones, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, Paul McCartney and Alicia Keys, for starters. It is destined to attract much-needed relief, expected in the millions of dollars. It will also raise considerable sums for scalpers who are charging up to $60,000 per ticket for choice seats. One can only hope that these predators will also contribute some of this gain to Occupy Sandy -- but, don't count on it. Another concert that will take place at the Brooklyn Bowl on Tuesday, December 18 will also strive to raise funds. What will separate these two events from each other will not be in the amount dollars -- every penny counts -- brought in, but in the community that has gathered to make it a truly personalized event: a concert by the people and for the people that most reflect those communities afflicted by Sandy. Hip Hop Luminaries Donate Time & Energy Three Hip Hop performers in particular will be there to belt out their messages -- Immortal Technique (featured in a podcast interview for the benefit here), Jasiri X, and George Rithm Martinez and the Global Block Collective. If you know anything about these people, you will also know that their music will be a grounded tribute to person-to-person support and resilience. You can also expect righteous swipes at the business and governmental failings that continue to inflict pain not just Sandy survivors, but America itself. This would be expected of a person like Martinez, whose credentials include community and union activism and who practices the craft of college professor by day in teaching "The Politics of Hip Hop" at Pace University and practicing the craft of Hip Hop musician in the evenings and on weekends. Occupy and Hip Hop found each other early on, as exampled by Martinez creating "The Official Anthem for Hip Hop" for Occupy Wall Street, which appears on an album put out by "Music for Occupy." Don't Forget About the (Our) Hood Hip Hop Jasiri X's recent music translates well into this moment, as Sandy would fade in memory without constant reminders like this concert. When Jasiri received the invite to participate in the Brooklyn event, his immediate answer was "Sign me up." Why is he choosing to come up from Pittsburgh to NYC to perform? "I grew up in a socially conscious household. Occupy Sandy is one of the greatest volunteer efforts we've seen in years, and has made the Occupy Movement even more relevant," he declares. Jasiri feels that Occupy and Hip Hop are kindred. "Our music is the soundtrack for revolution," he declares, and finds the Occupy Movement not unlike Hip Hop in getting out its message in impactful, people-centered, and creative ways. Music & Occupy - Forever Together Producer Jason Samel, who is co-presenting the Sandy Relief Concert with Viper Records, was the first to reveal the early collaboration between Occupy and Music. After engaging with the musicians showing up at Zuccotti Park, he put together a colorful Occupy music collaboration called "Occupy This Album" which features "99 tracks by 99 Artists." He sums up the importance of both Occupy and Hip Hop as they both have evolved -- not only for Sandy Relief, but for an ongoing partnership to serve each other's needs. "Occupy's largest victory will prove to be in encouraging people to stand up, speak and be heard. Hip Hop has been doing the same for over 40 years. The beauty of the two coming together time and time again - such as in the case of this concert - shows a unity that, without which, we will certainly fail." He thinks a moment, and adds, "But together, we are unstoppable." Chairman and founder George Martinez in his recent interview on the nationally syndicated TV show, American Latino. As the Occupy Wall Street movement expands beyond Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) in NYC and becomes a global phenomenon, Global Block Music, contributes to the sound track of the movement with the viral OWS Hip Hop Anthem, Occupation Freedom, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pl0pHJg_l8 and a stirring solidarity performance for 32,500+ people at Foley Sq, on Nov 17 for the 2 month anniversary of the start of the occupation movement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5RKTaKz8ts. They were recently asked to take part in the upcoming Occupy Wall Street Benefit Album called , Occupy This Album, which is slated for Winter 2011 realease, and which will feature high profile contributions from artists like, Crosby and Nash, Jackson Browne and Third Eye Blind. In solidarity, Global Block Music Presents, "Occupation Freedom", by Ground Zero featuring US Cultural Ambassador and GBF founder, Hon. George Rithm Martinez and GBF co-founder Clara Sylara Martinez. Beat was produced by F. Bustamante (Medellin). Video was produced and edited by Syd Woodward for Grounded TV on location at Zuccotti Park, NYC. |
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