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A T-Shirt That Grow Independent Radio in the US, While Supporting an Artist in Colombia- (Ends April 11)

3/13/2014

In 2013, Critical Reboot was founded as a way to connect grassroots organizers, activist artists and people with solutions or "solutionistas", through reliable news, critical analysis and tool driven discussions. The Critical Reboot radio program is heard on over 20 stations throughout the US and around the world online and on satellite radio. With the support of the Global Block Foundation, we are thrilled to begin our "Marketplace" section with a special limited edition t-shirt designed by Colombian graffiti artist and member of the Global Block Network, Hera Rayo. The aim of the "Marketplace" is to produce collaborative support projects that connect talented socially conscious artists to the global economy. A portion of the proceeds of every "Marketplace" item sold will go to supporting the work of the collaborating artists. www.criticalreboot.com

BUY NOW, SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE $
https://www.booster.com/criticalrebootlimitededition?share=9491394674190512

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Hip Hop For Peace - Universal Zulu Nation Community Day (NYC) Jan 26

1/24/2014

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Universal Zulu Nation & 3rd Eye (Sol)ation
presents

UZN Community Day a Hip Hop Cultural Event: LET'S TEACH P.E.A.C.E.

www.zulunation.com / www.zulunations.org / www.zulufaces.com

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SUNDAY JANUARY 26, 2013 :: 12 PM- 6 PM @ 3rd Eye Solation

www.3rdeyesol.com

Featuring all the Core Elements of Hip Hop Culture: MC, DJ, Breakers, Graf Art, BeatBox, Workshops, Family & Community!!

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Hosted By:

~ ReKae Medina aka Supreme Energe (UZN)
www.facebook.com/rekae.medina
www.facebook.com/pages/Supreme-Energe-ReKae-Medina/247748831937335
www.rekaemedina.tumblr.com

Equipment Provided By:

~ NY Centric Entertainment LLC
www.facebook.com/pages/Nycentric-Entertainment-LLC/133166736786518

Photographed by:

~ Danny Caicedo of Dan's Photography
www.danphotographs.tumblr.com

Videographed by:

~ TBA

Music provided by:

~ DJ Cabin (UZN/ NY Centric Entertainment)
www.facebook.com/DJCABIN

Workshop:

~ TBA

Workshop By:

~ TBA

Performances By:

~ Prince Akeem (UZN)
www.facebook.com/dwaves.dabeast1?fref=ts

~ Split Personality (UZN)
www.facebook.com/IamSplitP

~ ATMA (GREP)
www.hiphopug.com/atma.htm

~ Samael (UZN/FRC)
www.facebook.com/samuel.mccausland

~ LC The Poet (UZN)
www.facebook.com/LCthePoet

~ Sunni Chi

Live Art By:

~ TBA

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Sponsors/Supporters:

~ Universal Zulu Nation (UZN)
www.zulunation.com / www.zulunations.org / www.zulufaces.com

~ 3rd Eye Solation
www.3rdeyesol.com

~ NY Centric Entertainment LLC
www.facebook.com/pages/Nycentric-Entertainment-LLC/133166736786518

~ Guerrilla Republik (GREP)
www.guerrillarepublik.org

~ Movement In Motion (MinM)
www.movementinmotion.com

~ Dan's Photograpy
www.danphotographs.tumblr.com

~ New York State of Mind
www.facebook.com/NYStateOfMind1

~ Global Block Foundation
www.facebook.com/GlobalBlock

~ Visual Caffeine
www.vimeo.com/visualcaffeine

~ More TBA!!!

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FREE for all ages and for all FREE!!!

SUBWAY:

J,M trains to Halsey Street station (about a 4 block walk)

BUS:

B26 to Halsey Street & Broadway ( about a 4 block walk)

Driving:

www.hopstop.com/search

3rd Eye Solation
1501 Broadway (btwn. Cornelia St. & Jefferson Ave.)
Bushwick, BK, NYC 11211

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Global Block Collective's "Occupation Freedom" Selected One of Most Important Political Rap Songs Ever

10/24/2013

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Emergency Action Alert : Help Defend and Preserve the United Nations of Hip Hop...5 Pointz (NYC)

6/20/2013

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5 Pointz represents the living embodiment of the global Hip Hop culture and has an intangible value in this world and physical significance to the City of New York. Through its connection with graffiti, which is one of Hip Hop’s 5 original elements 5 Pointz has a living historical and cultural value, serving as a global beacon of unity, hope and creativity and should be preserved as a NYC landmark.

Global Block believes that 5 Pointz represents the following 4 criterion for preservation status:

- Represents a masterpiece of human creative genius and the rich tradition of New York City Arts.

- Represents an important interchange of human values, over a span of time within NYC dedicated monumental arts and landscape design;

- Bears a unique and exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition which is living or which has disappeared;

- Is directly and tangibly associated with living traditions, ideas, and beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance.

If you agree that 5 Pointz should be preserved as a NYC Landmark and converted into a protected Hip Hop/ Urban arts and educational museum and institute, then please join in this movement now!

Download the NYC Landmark Application, Complete it and Send it back to
[email protected]
(Subject: I Support 5 Pointz)

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Occupation Freedom: Movement Music the Album is Now Available!

5/25/2013

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Global Block Collective: Occupation Freedom (Movement Music)

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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Immortal Technique, George Martinez & The Global Block Collective, Jasiri X and More to "Occupy Sandy"

12/16/2012

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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

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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."

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\"Occupation Freedom\" - Ground Zero and the Global Block Collective Goes Viral!

10/18/2011

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New Music in Solidarity with #occupywallst from Global Block Music

10/10/2011

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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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A T-Shirt That Grow Independent Radio in the US, While Supporting an Artist in Colombia- (Ends April 11)

Hip Hop For Peace - Universal Zulu Nation Community Day (NYC) Jan 26

Global Block Collective's "Occupation Freedom" Selected One of Most Important Political Rap Songs Ever

Click For Complete Story

Emergency Action Alert : Help Defend and Preserve the United Nations of Hip Hop...5 Pointz (NYC)

Download the NYC Landmark Application, Complete it and Send it back to
[email protected]
(Subject: I Support 5 Pointz)

Occupation Freedom: Movement Music the Album is Now Available!

Immortal Technique, George Martinez & The Global Block Collective, Jasiri X and More to "Occupy Sandy"

\"Occupation Freedom\" - Ground Zero and the Global Block Collective Goes Viral!

New Music in Solidarity with #occupywallst from Global Block Music

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Download the NYC Landmark Application, Complete it and Send it back to
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