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ReVOluTionaRy LoVe<br>
A 10th anniversary benefit party for the Prison<br>
Activist Resource Center<br><br>
WHY:<br>
To celebrate PARC's 10 years and the growth of an<br>
anti-prison movement<br><br>
WHEN:<br>
Saturday, February 21, 2004. 6-9pm.<br>
Dancing afterwards.<br><br>
WHERE:<br>
Little Baobab Senegalese restaurant<br>
3388 19th Street at Mission Street, SF<br><br>
WHO:<br>
Performances by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, DJ Sake-1, Luis<br>
Monterossa aka The Genie, Baby Jaymes, Raw Knowledge<br><br>
COST:<br>
$10-15 suggested donation at the door<br>
(no one turned away for lack of funds)<br>
$10 for dinner<br><br>
ABOUT THE ARTISTS<br>
Marc Bamuthi Joseph<br>
Three-time SF Poetry Grand Slam winner and member of<br>
1999 national slam champion Team San Francisco, Marc<br>
Bamuthi Joseph is an arts activist currently living<br>
in Oakland, California. He founded and continues to<br>
host "Second Sundays", the nation's largest ongoing<br>
monthly spoken word gathering. Bamuthi's first solo<br>
evening length work, "Word Becomes Flesh," premiered<br>
in fall of 2003 to sold-out shows and rave reviews.<br><br>
Bamuthi has done several performances with the<br>
current stars of the Spoken Word and music scene and<br>
has released a spoken word CD Seeking, worked with<br>
Linkin Park's Joe Hahn for MTV, and performs on the<br>
CD "185 Progress Drive" (Alternative Tentacles<br>
Records: 2000) His proudest work has been with Youth<br>
Speaks where he developed the Living Word Festival<br>
for Literary Arts and mentors 9-13 year old writers.<br><br>
DJ Sake-1<br>
DJ Sake-1, born and raised in San Francisco, is a<br>
founding member of the (((Local 1200))) Sound System,<br>
as well as an active member of the Bay area hip hop<br>
scene. DJ Sake 1 brings a conscious, party-rockin<br>
approach to the functions he performs at, mixing a<br>
diverse cross section of soul music forms from hip<br>
hop to dancehall reggae to new soul. He holds down<br>
residencies at legendary parties like FABRIC,<br>
SOULVILLE, LUSCIOUS, PAUSATIVITY, TALKING BOOK, CANDY<br>
HOUSE. Sake-1 and the (((Local 1200)) crew are<br>
committed to the idea that artists have a<br>
responsibility to impact the world around them,<br>
rather than help people avoid dealing with social<br>
issues.<br><br>
The Genie<br>
The Genie is Luis Monterossa, a passionate, socially<br>
aware San Francisco expatriate who turned a lot of<br>
heads in this city when he bum-rushed the 2002 DMC Championships
and<br>
gave the audience an unexpected treat. Ever since then, he's been<br>
playing around Montreal, blowing people away with his on-the-fly<br>
productions. The Genie recently recorded the album Rebel Music,
with<br>
the aid of Montreal's High Life Music and his good friend DJ Horg,
an<br>
album that attempts to capture the essence of his live show.<br><br>
Baby Jaymes<br>
Baby Jaymes and his five piece band have been sharing<br>
their r&b, funk and soulful hip hop style opening for<br>
the likes of Goapele, Cameo, Raphael Saadiq, Tony<br>
Toni Tone and Jon. B. Baby Jaymes hails from East<br>
Oakland, and just released his debut album Ghetto<br>
Retro.<br><br>
Raw Knowledge<br>
Raw Knowledge is a local spoken word artist and<br>
member of Entartete Kunst, a class-conscious<br>
worker-owned collective that produces and distributes<br>
no-field electronica, radical literature and<br>
propaganda that promotes positive social change. She<br>
performs frequently around the Bay Area. Her album<br>
Nemesis to Silence has been called "a raw nerve of<br>
anger, passion and hopefulness. . ."<br><br>
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ABOUT THE PRISON ACTIVIST RESOURCE CENTER<br>
The Prison Activist Resource Center is an<br>
Oakland-based collective founded in 1994 in response<br>
to the unprecedented expansion of the prison system<br>
over the past two decades. For ten years, PARC has<br>
provided practical support to prisoners, prisoners'<br>
families, students, educators and activists who are<br>
building a movement to resist the prison industrial<br>
complex. We build networks for action and produce<br>
materials that expose both human rights violations<br>
and the myths that sustain widespread injustice and<br>
abuse in prisons and in the communities most affected<br>
by mass-incarceration. PARC has inspired and<br>
motivated a generation to take positive action<br>
against the mass-incarceration system and the<br>
institutionalized racism that drives it.<br><br>
We strive to create a world in which prisons are not<br>
needed and could not be justified.<br><br>
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