Archive for April, 2010
A Presentation by Bernice Johnson Reagon Celebrating her 40 Plus Years of Work with Highlander Reagon began her journey as a committed activist, cultural voice and radical Black woman in her home town of Albany, Georgia, during the early sixties. She was introduced to Highlander by the SNCC field secretaries who came to Southwest Georgia [...]
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Last spring, senators passed the D.C. House Voting Right Act, but not before those who bow to the National Rifle Association—i.e., most of them—attached an amendment gutting city gun regulations. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s hope that the House would pass a clean bill, allowing the gun amendment to be stripped in conference committee, was misplaced. [...]
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Tags: Bad Political Decisions, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Gun Control, Loose Lips, Mike Debonis, NRA, Washington City Paper
Twitter Training
Open Source Training by Upset The Setup Everyone who tweets for the organization should have a personal twitter account and have reviewed the following: Tweet Basics – Example tweet Tiny-URL (adding long URLs to Tweets takes up a lot of characters – tinyurl makes them shorter) Following Re-Tweeet Blocking Users Reporting Spam Deleting Tweets
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NEXT LEVEL
it’s working:
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Tags: 37Signals, Discount, Non Profit, Technology
From teh commentz
In response to my post: Dear Funk the War I’m surprised by so much opposition and even outrage at Upset the Setup’s criticism of FTW’s tactics. In San Francisco, New York and New Orleans, there is much more advanced, thoughtful conversation and coordination around mutual aid, solidarity organizing and protest tactics employed by white anti-racist [...]
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Saturday at Liv
Ethan Spalding Bday Bash Violet Says 5 | XO | Godisheus @Club Liv 11th and U ST NW DC | April 24, 2010 DJ Beezy and DJ Fiyaman on the ones and twos. Presented by Dopeville Tickets are $20 at the door.
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Oh Eleanor
The cognitive dissonance between this 12 day-old tweet and Eleanor Holmes Norton’s position on gun amendment riders to the DC voting bill that was under consideration from the house is BAFFLING. First of all, you haven’t tweeted in 12 days? might as well cancel that joint or fire whoever you have in charge of twitter [...]
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Tags: DC Vote, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Fenty, Gun Amendments, Gun Control, NRA, Steny Hoyer
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Tags: dj eurok, Fonkoze, Haiti, Horizon, MasterCard Foundation, Self Realization, Steveo
RIP GURU
I SELF LORD AND MASTER! RIP KEITH ELAM AKA GURU July 17, 1966 – April 19, 2010
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Shame on Fenty and Norton. It’s time to replace them. Shame on DC Vote. Home Rule is not worth the price of our safety.
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Tags: Fenty, Gun Ammendments, Norton, NRA, Voting Rights
Surock – SP1200 Beat Tape
To bang such bangers out on the classically vintage SP1200 the kid surock deserves more than props. did you know we met when I was teaching a summer class at the Latin American Youth Center on DJing. OLD SCHOOL. PJ USED TO TEACH US THE DJ CLASS.
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Friday Graf: WOW
Broken Fingaz -Graffiti Stop Motion from Broken Fingaz on Vimeo. ILLEST GRAFFITI ART CONCEPT I’VE SEEN IN MAYBE EVER Via El Gran Diego, Via theycallmeenglish.com
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Tags: Broken Fingaz, Graffiti, Graffiti Stop Motion, Innovation
K-Beta “Inglorious Beta”
Yo this is a really dope project. Not a throw-away mix tape, not a demo, but a full blown honest album with some of the finest production in the area. K-Beta and the Inner Loop Records team did a really amazing job executing this project. Release party Friday April 2nd at Tabaq on U Street. [...]
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Hip Hop music, culture and politics from Washington DC. by dj.eurok aka PJ Urquilla aka PEACE JUSTICE UNIVERSAL.
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