United Roots Partners with Krip-Hip Nation on Music Video Project & Event on February 19th
United Roots partners with the Krip-Hop Nation, a powerful group of international Hip Hop artists and other musicians with disabilities, on a music video project with George Tragic. United Roots will be helping film this amazing new music video, so stay tuned for the release coming soon. Also, please come out and support the Krip-Hop event this Sunday February 19th in San Francisco (information below). For more info on Krip Hop go to: http://activistnews.ning.com/profiles/blog/list
BROKEN BODIES – A Cultural Revolution
Disabled Artists and cultural workers of color release an album on police brutality against people with disabilities
What: Album Release Celebration, Panel & Performances When: Sunday, Feb 19th Time: 1-3:30pm
Where: San Francisco Main Library Koret Auditorium Lower Level – 100 Larkin street, San Francisco.
Check out this video about Police Brutality against people with disabilities:
Krip-Hop Nation, a powerful group of international Hip Hop artists and other musicians with disabilities, 5th Battalion Entertainment of LA led by DJ Quad, a Hip-Hop artist with a disability, Emmitt Thrower, a retired NYPD officer turned media, film maker, playwright with a disability, collaborated to put out a mixtape Hip-Hop CD and film documentary on the issue of police brutality profiling against people with disabilities.
This event will consist of performances from some artists who contribute to the mixtape, a panel discussion with local advocates on this issue, a sneak preview of the upcoming documentary, Where is Hope, by Emmitt Thrower (Wabi Sabi Productions Inc) and a Skype update on the Neli Latson’s (who is a Black young man with autism who was profiled, abused by police in Stanford, Virginia and now is serving time.) by his mother, Lisa Guthrie Alexander.
Police brutality is nothing new, however cases involving people with disabilities has increased in the last ten years. From people with mental health disabilities to the new focus on people with autism, people with disabilities have experienced a shocking rise in police abuse and brutality that ends with injuries and death.
The Bay area has activists who have been on the front line of this issue from Mesha Monge-Irizarry, mother of Idriss Stanelley, who was a Black young man with a mental health disability and was shot by SFPD, Poor Magazine who mixed cultural activism with their media street activism in many cases of police brutality and gave media coverage to campaigns for justice for their family and Mary Kate Connor, Caduceus Psychiatric Services who have spoke about her clients contact with police and is one of the only safe place for people with mental health disabilities, Malaika H Kambon who is a photographer, video maker and has a disability. Malaika uses her artistic lens to capture police brutality on video and many more.
