Dr. M/Marvin X's Revolution on the Rocks Book Tour 2012

October 25, Thursday, 7pm, Brecht Forum, NYC, tribute to Pablo Neruda and Louis Reyes Rivera
October 26, Friday, 7pm, Newark, NJ, Blue Mirror on Clinton Avenue, with Amiri and Amina Baraka
October 30, Tuesday, NYC, Fatherhood Project
TBA Revolution Books, NYC
November 1, Thursday, Sankofa Books, Washington DC
Nov. 2, Friday, Black Power to Hip Hop Town Hall Meeting at Howard University
Nov. 3, Sat., Tribute to the Ancestors reading at Black Power to Hip Hop
Nov. 4, Sunday, Book party at Umoja House, Wash. DC
Nov. 9, Friday, Book signing at Moonstone Arts Center, Philadelphia
Nov. 16, Friday, Book signing at Black and Nobel Books, Philly
Nov. 17 Black Power Babies Discussion, Restoration Plaza Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Nov. 18 State of the Black World Conference, Howard University, Wash. DC
Nov. 22, Reading with Francisco Mora Catlett's Afro Horn

Information and booking: Sun in Leo PR 718-496-2305
prgirl@suninleo.com

Oakland Ain't Bad

Greetings

The McClymonds 1962 Class Reunion was a great success. Leonard Gardner and I were there with our TV camera crew filming the well dressed and beautiful West Oakland people and their friends. Carol Curtis, Joe Ellis, Glen Beamon and Thomas Angelo, to name a few, were making sure that every one was having a fine time.

The West Oakland Stories were flowing as we filmed to get clips for our TV show to be scheduled on OURTV, CH 78, television station in Oakland - so many positive stories about the 40's 50's and 60's. So much encouragement for us to keep on documenting us while we are alive because we are the last of our kind.

Remember the West Oakland Stories are about the REAL Oakland Black people being shown talking about living in that period of time and making a positive difference in Oakland, the country, and the world.

Next, we will be at the Teens of the 40's, 50's and 60's on November 24, 2012 filming this dinner and dance.

Any of you who would like to be part of this historical filming development, telling your positive story about this period of time and/or just showing your face so you can be filmed and preserved for all time, so that our children, grandchildren, great great grandchildren and future generations will see and hear the real stories from us and not from some one else twisting our history.

Come to Defremery Park club house facility in the big dance hall room on February 16th 2013 at 12:30 P.M.

Please let us hear from you so that we can get even better stories from you in the DeFremery club house atmosphere.

''OAKLAND IS NOT BAD'' We are projecting a positive image of Black Oakland. The Slave System teaches us to all ways talk about how bad Black people are. So let us counterfit the Slave System and talk about all the positive things we know we did and are still doing. Click on this link http://kakakiki.com/kakakiki/2011/12/13/the-slave-system-%E2%80%9Cis-invisible%E2%80%9D/

URGENT: As in everything we need money to continue. You know how serious we are so give as generous as you can. Don't let this die because of lack of funding.

Make check or money order out to Ed Howard/WOS

Mail to: 1305 Franklin St, Ste 205

Oakland, CA 94612

Contact: Ed Howard at 510.734.9759 or

Leonard Gardner at 510.238.4600

Spread the word

Ed Howard

Producer, Director

Leonard Gardner
Producer

Muhammida El Muhajir: Hip Hop the New World Order

Hip Hop: The New World Order a documentary by Muhammida El Muhajir Hip Hop: The New World Order - Trailer Hip Hop: The New World Order affirms Hip Hop culture as a powerful vehicle for self-expression by youth around the world, empowering them in the areas of education, economics, politics, entertainment, and new media. The project embarks on the groundbreaking mission to unearth the practice and business of Hip Hop culture worldwide. Simply put, the film gives a global perspective to a music and culture so often vilified in the media.  What began as a small project over 10 years ago in Japan has mushroomed into a rare archive and video survey of pioneering artists and communities in eight countries around the Hip Hop world during the turn of the 21st century. The gritty footage shot on digital video uncovers everything from Japanese hip hop fans who spend up to a thousand dollars to chemically transform their hair into dreadlocks, Cuban raperos spitting rhymes in Spanish with the exception of a few English curses and young South Africans who used hip hop as battle music during the final days of apartheid resistance. US Hip Hop heavyweights Method Man, Questlove (The Roots), anddead prez lend their insight and experience with Hip Hop across the waters while international pioneers including Zeebra (Japan), DJ Vadim (UK), Roots Manuva (UK), Ferris MC (Germany), Oxmo Puccino (France), and Marcelo D2 (Brazil) provide unprecedented history and access to global hip hop insights. About the Filmmaker Muhammida El Muhajir is a diverse visionary filmmaker and entrepreneur. She has studied traveled and worked extensively throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and The Caribbean. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from Howard University and pursed graduate studies in International Relations at the University of Ghana. Muhammida honed her talent and network in media and entertainment as a casting director, talent manager, positions at the William Morris agency and as entertainment marketing manager at Nike, Inc. spearheading innovative projects with artists such as Outkast, Alicia Keys, Mos Def, and Wyclef. She serves as creative director and producer at Sun in Leo, Inc., an international creative marketing agency that develops strategies for brands such as Gatorade, K-Swiss, Diesel, and Volkswagen. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Poetry for Neruda and Louis Reyes Rivera

The BRECHT FORUM 451 West Street New York, NY 10014 (212) 242-4201 Directions Thursday, October 25, 2012 7 - 9 PM Sliding scale:  $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Subscribers         La Casa Azul will have books to sell at the event. Lacasaazulbookstore.com    Can't make this event? See instead Chris Rhomberg, NWU member and author of The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor, talk about epoch-making strikes in the U.S. Click here for more information.         Our Americas From Pablo Neruda to Louis Reyes Rivera   An Evening of Spoken Word Poetry and Music Pablo Neruda Louis Reyes Rivera    The Brecht Forum, the National Writers Union and La Casa Azul bookstore have come together to celebrate the life and work of Pablo Neruda and Luís Reyes Rivera, two great poets with different styles yet united by their connection to the masses and their involvement in the fight against fascism, racism, colonialism and imperialism.     They made music with words; Neruda's echoing the pulse of the Andes, Reyes Rivera's, the African riffs of jazz. Their poetry covered every significant event of the 20th century, from the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil war, the liberation struggles in Africa and Latin America to the Civil Rights Movement.  Pablo Neruda became known as a poet as a teenager. He wrote in a variety of styles including surrealist poems, historical epics, love poems and political manifestos. In 1945 he appeared in a stadium in San Paulo to read in honor of the Brazilian revolutionary communist leader, Luis Carlos Prestes to 100,000 people.  He occupied many diplomatic positions and once served as senator for the Chilean communist party. In 1971 he received the Nobel Prize for literature. Poet/essayist, teacher, political activist, radio host, long-time member of the NWU, Louis Reyes Rivera liked to be known as the Janitor of History. He taught Pan-African, African-American, Caribbean and Puerto Rican literature and history to generations of City College students, and was the recipient of over 20 awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award (1995). He appeared in Jazz clubs and festivals with The Sun Ra All-Stars Project, Ahmed Abdullah's Diaspora, and his own band, The Jazzoets.  Poets! Sign up to read your poem in honor of Neruda & Rivera. Contact Tim Sheard at:sheard2001@gmail.com

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