SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER TOUR AND DARE TO STRUGGLE, DARE TO WIN TOUR GAINING NATIONAL ATTENTION

We are proud to announce that the "Speak truth to Power Tour" has added to our rooster 30 year veteran Hip Hop photographer Ernie Paniccioli, hip hop artist/social activist Boots Riley, 2002 Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion and reparations activist Khalil Almustafa, antiwar activist/co-editor of Another World is Possible, Jeremy Glick and Hip Hop duo Dead Prez The "Speak Truth to Power Tour" is dedicated to educating, organizing, and mobilizing the Hip Hop generation. We are a collective of community activists, grassroots organizers, journalist, filmmakers and entrepreneurs who have written and appeared in the Source Magazine, the Village Voice, the New York Times, One World, XXL, Urban Latino, the Black World today, and numerous other publications. We are ANTI-WAR, we support the call for REPARATIONS, we demand the immediate release of United States political prisoners, the immediate cessation of U.S. Naval practices on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico and are fully committed to ending sexism in our communities. Our goals are to empower and promote self-determination within the Hip Hop generation and amongst youth. Through keynote addresses, presentations and interactive workshops participants will be able to discuss their views, identify community issues, which they believe are important, and effectively use Hip Hop culture as a tool for revolutionary change and social justice. For press kits please include address and for all further inquires please contact Rosa Clemente @ knowthyself72@msn.com www.rosaclemente.org (03.01.03) 917.660.2187 and please check out our own J-Loves article, WHITE LIKE ME 10 Codes of Ethics for White People in Hip Hop, at www.daveyd.com.

UPCOMING TOUR STOPS
2.19.2003@ 8pm The Cure 600 Broadway, NY, NY¨2.20.2003 @ 7pm Medgar Evers College, at Nadine Lawe Lounge, Brooklyn, NY 11226¨2.25.03@ 4pm Towson Center Auditorium at Towson University¨2.26.2003 @ 7pm The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, NY, NY 11226¨3.06.03 Hip Hop Against the war¨3.22.03 @ University at Albany, Albany, NY¨3.27.03 @ 7pm North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC

SPEAKERS
Rosa Clemente, founder and owner of Know Thy Self Productions, is a co-host and co-producer of Where we Live and can be heard on Thursdays at 8pm on WBAI 99.5FM, she is a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Co-convener of the State of the Black World Youth Caucus.
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele, member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and co-founder of the Black August Collective.
Marinievas Alba, founder and director of Hip Hop Leads and can be heard on Fridays @ 10:30am on WBAI 99.5FM.
Jehvon Buckner, co-founder of Da Ghetto Tymz newspaper and Hip Hop website, Conscioushiphop.com.
Jennifer Calderon aka J-Love, co-founder of the Active Element Foundation and the annual B Boy/B Girl summit.
Tania Cuevas-Martinez, award winning independent filmmaker and program director of the Hip Hop Film Festival.
Ron Daniels, director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and convener of the State of the Black World Conference.
Jessica San Clemente, youth organizer for the Justice Committee of the National Congress of Puerto Rican Rights.
M1 of Dead Prez and Fred Hampton Jr., former political prisoner.

TOPICS
Black and Latino/a Community Relations
Dare to struggle, Dare to Win! Addresses, through the elements of Hip Hop culture, issues, which effect Black and Latino/a communities such as the prison industrial complex and the freedom of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war (M1 and Fred Hampton Jr.)
It's Bigger than Hip Hop: Political Activism in the Hip Hop Social Movement
Legacy of Resistance: Children of Political Prisoners speak out featuring Kamel Bell, son of political prisoner Herman Bell
No Blood for Oil, the Youth of Color Anti-War Campaign: Mobilizing the Masses in the Crusade against Bush's War
Hip Hop Sisters Collective: Redefining Hip Hop for the Women
Should America Pay: Educational and organizing workshop around Reparations
The Institute of the Black World presents an Intergenerational Dialogue with Dr. Ron Daniels, Rosa Clemente, and other oldskool and newskool grassroots political activists.
The Revolution will be Televised: How progressive youth are creating their own independent forms of media through radio, print, underground HipHop magazines and independent filmmaking
White like me: Cultural appropriation or authentic love? What role do whites play in the culture of Hip Hop
Who is Black? A Puerto Rican Claims Her Place in the African Diaspora

WORKSHOPS
Poetry / Hip Hop Centered Writing¨Student Leadership Development ¨Women's Consciousness Raising¨Youth Activist Training