[News] PARC 10th Anniversay Celebration

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ReVOluTionaRy LoVe
A 10th anniversary benefit party for the Prison
Activist Resource Center

WHY:
To celebrate PARC's 10 years and the growth of an
anti-prison movement

WHEN:
Saturday, February 21, 2004. 6-9pm.
Dancing afterwards.

WHERE:
Little Baobab Senegalese restaurant
3388 19th Street at Mission Street, SF

WHO:
Performances by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, DJ Sake-1, Luis
Monterossa aka The Genie, Baby Jaymes, Raw Knowledge

COST:
$10-15 suggested donation at the door
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
$10 for dinner

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Three-time SF Poetry Grand Slam winner and member of
1999 national slam champion Team San Francisco, Marc
Bamuthi Joseph is an arts activist currently living
in Oakland, California. He founded and continues to
host "Second Sundays", the nation's largest ongoing
monthly spoken word gathering. Bamuthi's first solo
evening length work, "Word Becomes Flesh," premiered
in fall of 2003 to sold-out shows and rave reviews.

Bamuthi has done several performances with the
current stars of the Spoken Word and music scene and
has released a spoken word CD Seeking, worked with
Linkin Park's Joe Hahn for MTV, and performs on the
CD "185 Progress Drive" (Alternative Tentacles
Records: 2000) His proudest work has been with Youth
Speaks where he developed the Living Word Festival
for Literary Arts and mentors 9-13 year old writers.

DJ Sake-1
DJ Sake-1, born and raised in San Francisco, is a
founding member of the (((Local 1200))) Sound System,
as well as an active member of the Bay area hip hop
scene.  DJ Sake 1 brings a conscious, party-rockin
approach to the functions he performs at, mixing a
diverse cross section of soul music forms from hip
hop to dancehall reggae to new soul. He holds down
residencies at legendary parties like FABRIC,
SOULVILLE, LUSCIOUS, PAUSATIVITY, TALKING BOOK, CANDY
HOUSE.  Sake-1 and the (((Local 1200)) crew are
committed to the idea that artists have a
responsibility to impact the world around them,
rather than help people avoid dealing with social
issues.

The Genie
The Genie is Luis Monterossa, a passionate, socially
aware San Francisco expatriate who turned a lot of
heads in this city when he bum-rushed the 2002 DMC Championships and
gave the audience an unexpected treat. Ever since then, he's been
playing around Montreal, blowing people away with his on-the-fly
productions.  The Genie recently recorded the album Rebel Music, with
the aid of Montreal's High Life Music and his good friend DJ Horg, an
album that attempts to capture the essence of his live show.

Baby Jaymes
Baby Jaymes and his five piece band have been sharing
their r&b, funk and soulful hip hop style opening for
the likes of Goapele, Cameo, Raphael Saadiq, Tony
Toni Tone and Jon. B. Baby Jaymes hails from East
Oakland, and just released his debut album Ghetto
Retro.

Raw Knowledge
Raw Knowledge is a local spoken word artist and
member of Entartete Kunst, a class-conscious
worker-owned collective that produces and distributes
no-field electronica, radical literature and
propaganda that promotes positive social change.  She
performs frequently around the Bay Area. Her album
Nemesis to Silence has been called "a raw nerve of
anger, passion and hopefulness. . ."


ABOUT THE PRISON ACTIVIST RESOURCE CENTER
The Prison Activist Resource Center is an
Oakland-based collective founded in 1994 in response
to the unprecedented expansion of the prison system
over the past two decades. For ten years, PARC has
provided practical support to prisoners, prisoners'
families, students, educators and activists who are
building a movement to resist the prison industrial
complex. We build networks for action and produce
materials that expose both human rights violations
and the myths that sustain widespread injustice and
abuse in prisons and in the communities most affected
by mass-incarceration.  PARC has inspired and
motivated a generation to take positive action
against the mass-incarceration system and the
institutionalized racism that drives it.

We strive to create a world in which prisons are not
needed and could not be justified.







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