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Recently, Global Block founder George Martinez, was featured on CNN Espanol's program, "Fuera de Camera"- in a discussion about OWS vs the Wolf of Wall Street. "No somos corderos, somos los protectores contra el lobo" CNN Español Ocupa con Hip Hop vs 'El lobo de Wall Street' http://mexico.cnn.com/videos/2014/02/26/corderos-de-ocupa-vs-el-lobo-de-wall-street http://www.amazon.com/The-Organic-Globalizer-Political-Development/dp/1628920033
The Organic Globalizer is a collection of critical essays which takes the position that hip-hop holds political significance through an understanding of its ability to at once raise cultural awareness, expand civil society’s focus on social and economic justice through institution building, and engage in political activism and participation. Collectively, the essays assert hip hop’s importance as an “organic globalizer:” no matter its pervasiveness or reach around the world, hip-hop ultimately remains a grassroots phenomenon that is born of the community from which it permeates. Hip hop, then, holds promise through three separate but related avenues: (1) through cultural awareness and identification/recognition of voices of marginalized communities through music and art; (2) through social creation and the institutionalization of independent alternative institutions and non-profit organizations in civil society geared toward social and economic justice; and (3) through political activism and participation in which demands are articulated and made on the state. About the Authors (Editors) Christopher Malone is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Pace University, USA. He is the author of Between Freedom and Bondage (2007) and co-editor of Occupying Political Science (2013). George Martinez is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Pace University, USA, and is founder/CEO of the Global Block Foundation. He serves as Cultural Envoy and Hip-Hop Ambassador for the U.S. Department of State. He is the creator of the term, Organic Globalizer. Special thanks to all of the additional authors for their very significant contributions to this critically important project. Table of ContentsPart I: Foundations The Organic Globalizer, Christopher Malone, Pace University; George Martinez, Pace University No Church in the Wild: Politics, Morality, and Hip-Hop in the Political Science Classroom, Craig Douglas Albert, Georgia Regents University, Augusta Part II: Culture Hip Hop, Spirituality & Empowerment From The South Bronx to the South of Florida to South America, Walter Hidalgo, Columbia University The (Un)Conscious Underground White Rapper: Racial Silence, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Alternative White Rappers, Matthew Oware, DePauw University Part III: Social Change Beautiful Like Diamonds In the Sky: Hip Hop’s Impact in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Kendra King, Oglethorpe University Hip-hop and the Reconfiguration of Blackness in Sao Paulo: The Influence of African American Political and Musical Movements in the 20th Century,Jaqueline Lima Santos, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Representations of Chinese-ness in Afro-Cuban Hip-hop During Post-Soviet Era Cuba, Angela Ju, University of California, Los Angles Hip-hop and the Dialects of Political Awareness: Young Immigrant Rappers and the Recognition of Difference in Vienna, Austria, Barbara Franz, Rider University Asserting Identity Through Music: Indigenous Hip-hop and Self-Empowerment, Anne Flaherty, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville A New Story: Critical Education, Counter narratives, and Hip-Hop Organizing, Paul Kuttner, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Mariama White-Hammond, Project HIP-HOP Part IV: Politics And Law For All The Girls That Never Thought They Could Win: Hip Hop, Feminism, And Political Action, Melissa V. Harris-Perry, Tulane University; Sara Kugler Anna Julia Cooper Research Project, LLC The Rise of the Politics of Visibility, Last Resort, and Disregard in the Oakland Underground Rap Music Scene, H. Lavar Pope, Lehigh University Liberation Hip Hop: Palestinian Hip-Hop and the Politics of Resistance, Denise DeGarmo, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Men or Monsters? The Votings Rights Act of 1965 and Applied Uses of the Commercial Rap Artist, Joy Boggs Copyright Outlaws & Hip-hop Moguls: Intellectual Property Law and the Development of Hip-Hop, Richard Schur, Drury University Whirl Trade: The Precarious Image of HipHop in Global Economies, Fahamu Pecou The Belly of the Beast, Keesha M. Middlemass, Trinity University Occupy Freedom, Occupy Equality: Race and Class in the Occupy Wall Street Movement, Christopher Malone, Pace University; Davina Anderson, Pace University; George Martinez, Pace University Bibliography Index Founder George Martinez Launches Critical RE:BOOT Radio Show on Star Com - KKRP Lazer 1610 am1/2/2014 Critical RE:BOOT is a no holds barred critical opinion and tool based analysis show hosted by internationally recognized award winning artist, activist, educator George Rithm Martinez broadcast on the Star Com Radio Network / KKRP AM 1610.
Tune in every week on Saturday from 9 - 10am est/ 8- 9am cst live or catch the replay on the website. Visit Critical RE:BOOT listen to the show "...Mr. Wolkoff, who plans to turn the site into luxury housing, said he hired more than a dozen men and began whitewashing the factory’s walls around 3 a.m. The work was finished by 7 a.m...." See link for a Wall Street Journal article on the white washing of the ic http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/11/19/5pointz-graffiti-is-painted-white-overnight/ For more information on upcoming support opportunities visit: https://www.facebook.com/Save5Pointz To download and complete a NYC landmark form in support of 5 Pointz please visit: Landmark Form |
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