What the Bleep Happened to Hip Hop
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“They mine metals for the phones killing trees for the loose leaf/
I write raps on both to tell you what it do, g/”
-Mike Wird
Hip Hop Congress and Move to Amend and are partnering to present: What the Bleep Happened to Hip Hop? ", a public education campaign seeking to raise awareness of the dangerous power corporations currently wield over the hip hop industry specifically, and over our society in general.
What the Bleep is a National Campaign and the beginning of a movement to vision Hip Hop, Culture and the World beyond corporate control. Events will take place over the next two years in Portlan, Denver, San Jose, Oakland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Detroit, San Diego, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Auburn, Sacremento and various other locations throughout the United States. For anyone who thinks that we should be able to expect more out of our music, our art, our literature and our culture this campaign will be right up yor alley.
The cultural terrain of society, is a crucial battlefront in the struggle for social justice. Culture retains it's dynamism by reflecting and creating consciousness. Exploitation and oppression have always been synonymous with popular culture from D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation to the struggle of the media justice movement in the late 90's. The United States of America, long heralded as a melting pot has also been acknowledged as virtual factory for the commodification of culture and the production of a facsimile of culture that greatly resembles the McDonalds of thought, art music and humanity.
Hip Hop Congress is an international grassroots organization dedicated to evolving hip hop culture by inspiring social action and creativity within the community.Move to Amend is a national campaign to amend the US Constitution to abolish the court-created legal doctrines of corporate constitutional rights and money equals speech. Both organizations are explicitly committed to anti-racist and feminist organizing principles, and challenge us to organize, create and assert our humanity.
The "What the Bleep Happened to Hip hop" is a movement for the culture producer of America, to have their voices heard. In order to have a thriving culture, we must be willing to create and represent the truths about ourselves and our communities. This means directly challenging those who have appropriated our culture for means of producing profit. Inclusivity is the heart of this event and we aim to shine a critical lens on race, class and gender in contemporary American culture. This is your opportunity to share, explore and describe "What the Bleep Happened to Hip Hop?" and what we’re collectively going to do about it.
Please support us by donating $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 or whatever you can give to this campaign. We hope to have your support
I write raps on both to tell you what it do, g/”
-Mike Wird
Hip Hop Congress and Move to Amend and are partnering to present: What the Bleep Happened to Hip Hop? ", a public education campaign seeking to raise awareness of the dangerous power corporations currently wield over the hip hop industry specifically, and over our society in general.
What the Bleep is a National Campaign and the beginning of a movement to vision Hip Hop, Culture and the World beyond corporate control. Events will take place over the next two years in Portlan, Denver, San Jose, Oakland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Detroit, San Diego, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Auburn, Sacremento and various other locations throughout the United States. For anyone who thinks that we should be able to expect more out of our music, our art, our literature and our culture this campaign will be right up yor alley.
The cultural terrain of society, is a crucial battlefront in the struggle for social justice. Culture retains it's dynamism by reflecting and creating consciousness. Exploitation and oppression have always been synonymous with popular culture from D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation to the struggle of the media justice movement in the late 90's. The United States of America, long heralded as a melting pot has also been acknowledged as virtual factory for the commodification of culture and the production of a facsimile of culture that greatly resembles the McDonalds of thought, art music and humanity.
Hip Hop Congress is an international grassroots organization dedicated to evolving hip hop culture by inspiring social action and creativity within the community.Move to Amend is a national campaign to amend the US Constitution to abolish the court-created legal doctrines of corporate constitutional rights and money equals speech. Both organizations are explicitly committed to anti-racist and feminist organizing principles, and challenge us to organize, create and assert our humanity.
The "What the Bleep Happened to Hip hop" is a movement for the culture producer of America, to have their voices heard. In order to have a thriving culture, we must be willing to create and represent the truths about ourselves and our communities. This means directly challenging those who have appropriated our culture for means of producing profit. Inclusivity is the heart of this event and we aim to shine a critical lens on race, class and gender in contemporary American culture. This is your opportunity to share, explore and describe "What the Bleep Happened to Hip Hop?" and what we’re collectively going to do about it.
Please support us by donating $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 or whatever you can give to this campaign. We hope to have your support
Organizer
Shamako Noble
Organizer
Oakland, CA
