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I spoke with Green Party
Vice Presidential
Nominee Rosa Clemente about Green Party values, her involvement
with the Hip-Hop movement, journalism, and grassroots democracy. We talked about
the need for Change in America and the means to that end.
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Rosa Clemente
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I spoke with Dr. Jared
Ball, assistant professor of communications studies at Morgan State
University in Baltimore, MD., an independent journalist, a radio host with WPFW
89.3 FM in Pacifica Radio Washington, DC, the Editor-at-Large of the Words,
Beats and Life Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture and founder of FreeMix
Radio: The
Original Mixtape Radio Show
– a freely distributed monthly hip-hop mixtape
dedicated to the practice of emancipatory journalism. Dr. Ball is navy veteran
who served during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, a graduate of Frostburg State University
with a degree in history, a graduate of the Africana Studies and Research Center
at Cornell University with a masters degree in Africana Studies and a graduate
of the University of Maryland at College Park where he earned a doctorate in journalism
and media studies. Dr. Ball is also involved with the Malcolm
X Grassroots Movement and is a founder of the Congressional
Black Caucus.
Dr. Ball and I discussed some aspects of the history of, and the future of,
this democracy built on the blood sweat and tears of genocide and slavery and
presently controlled by a corporate media and a small minority who continue
to reap the benefits from the labor of the middle and lower class - which is
intimately tied to race and gender. We discussed some means toward the end of
elevating the peoples of this nation and this planet to a world based on human
rights, equality, equity, and recognition of our state as a Global Village.
 Head-Roc,
the DC Mayor of Hip Hip, and I spoke about his song Change in America (CIA)
and the core values which are lacking proper representation in this country
- as wrought in his tune CIA. We referenced his 2005 release "Negrophobia"
and spoke about his new funk/soul ensemble The
GODISHEUS (gotta see us) INternational Funk Train (The GIFT).
Some Important links:
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spoke again with Ellen
Hodgson Brown, J.D. about her latest publication "THE
NOT-SO-INVISIBLE HAND: HOW THE PLUNGE PROTECTION TEAM KILLED THE FREE MARKET"
and the blatant manipulation of the stock market during October, as noted specifically
in the middle of OCtober when the price of gold took a nose dive when it should
have, according to market wisdom, continued to climb against the value of the
falling dollar.
Jared Ball and Head-Roc at Juke Joint UMD 09-21-07
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