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. Saturday, September 5, 2009 at the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center - 922 San Pedro Tickets: $3-$5 Sliding Scale | 210.228.0201 .
4:00 PM		Workshop - "Hip Hop and Media Organizing Against Displacement" Hip Hop artist Invincible & DJ POW will screen and discuss the hybrid music video/documentary Locusts (2008, 11:27 min) directed by Iqaa the Olivetone and featuring Finale which addresses the physical displacement/gentrification happening in her home city of Detroit and the importance of sustainable community led development while preserving the legacy of our cities. Invincible & DJ POW will lead a participatory discussion about local organizing strategies and generating ideas to bring new people and energy into the local anti-displacement projects.		Invincible & DJ POW
6:00 PM		Exiled in America Exiled in America explores immigration in the United States, focusing on detention and deportation from the point of view of those who are affected most - children. More than 1.5 million immigrants have been deported since 1996, when federal judges lost their ability to decide whether a person should be deported or not. Since then, families have been torn apart, often facing situations that violate human rights. Filmmaker Angela Torres Camarena will be present at this screening.		dir. Angela Torres Camarena 2009, USA, 9:23 min English/Spanish with English subtitles website
		La Hoja Pulitzer Center-supported documentary “La Hoja,” follows Virginia, a hard working mother trying to support her family with her coca farm. She lives far from the offices of the U.N. and State Dept. where coca is ranked next to heroin and cocaine on the list of illicit substances. Her coca harvest is what provides for her children and puts food on the table. Virginia and many tens of thousands of cocaleros in Bolivia are waiting to see if the U.N. removes coca from its blacklist.		dir. Gabrielle Weiss 2009, Bolivia/USA, 10 min Spanish with English subtitles
		Freeing Silvia Baraldini This documentary is a profound inquiry in the life of an American radical. Baraldini was arrested on November 9, 1982 in New York City and later sentenced to 43 years in prison. Her insistence on justice for people who were little more than outcasts, transcends politics.		dir. Margo Pelletier & Lisa Thomas 2008, USA, 99 min English
8:00 PM		The Revival (World Premiere) The Revival gives a candid glimpse into the first meeting of legendary Hip-Hop pioneer Dr. Roxanne Shante and veteran Philly emcee Bahamadia, as they trade stories of their struggles and triumphs in the industry. The Revival, a collage of performances and behind the scenes footage, was filmed by Invincible while on the road in Europe as part of We-B Girlz, an all women independent Hip-Hop tour.  If Hip-Hop is dying, the women in the culture are its only hope of revival.		dir. Invincible & Iqaa the Olivetone 2009, Europe, 17 min English
		Non-Resident Alien A Cuban lesbian hip-hop trio, Las Krudas Cubensi, forges radical roads towards self-expression even as they leave their country behind.		dir. Alejandro Gabriel Cruz Gonzalez 2009, USA, 15 min English/Spanish with English subtitles
		Say My Name Featuring interviews and musical performances from a diverse cast of women including Remy Ma, Rah Digga, Jean Grae, Erykah Badu, Estelle and newcomers Chocolate Thai, Invincible and Miz Korona, this powerful documentary delves into the amazing personal stories of women balancing professional dreams with the stark realities of poor urban communities, race, sexism, and motherhood in a hip hop and R’n’B world dominated by men and noted for misogyny. From emerging artists filled with new creativity, to true pioneers like MC Lyte, Roxxanne Shante, and Monie Love, these are women turning adversity into art.		dir. Nirit Peled 2009, USA/UK, 73 min English
		Saturday Performances - after screening of Say My Name DJ POW ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* P.O.W. (Poet On Watch) is founder and artistic director of the Media Arts & Literacy Institute in Austin, TX.  She’s a DJ, music producer, filmmaker and published poet with Sageburners, her work in progress, due out soon.  P.O.W. is traditional in the diasporic sense of poet as historian, storyteller, Spiritual griot/ sacred Word keeper like poets of the 60's using blood memories to create context for revolution, offering the Word as a way of teaching, organizing, motivating, demanding, understanding and building community.  She is one of those reverberations that you want to burn to at night and say aah.. myspace.com/austindjpow | www.poetonwatch.com | www.blowinupaspot.com | www.malisite.org Invincible ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Invincible's spitfire wordplay has gotten her acclaim from Hip Hop fans all across the world, while her active involvement in progressive social change has taken her music beyond entertainment, and towards actualizing the change she wishes to see. Dubbed by XXL Magazine as "every A&Rs worst nightmare" for rejecting major label deals and general industry politrix, Invincible started her own record label, EMERGENCE, self-releasing her long-awaited full length LP, ShapeShifters, June, 2008. http://emergencemusic.net | www.myspace.com/invincilana DJ Mexican Step Grandfather ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~* The moniker Mexican Stepgrandfather was born in 2007 as a social commentary on the broken lineage between Texas Mexicans, Mexicans, and Chicana/os. MSG has organized and promoted such shows as Till the Border Crumbles (SA),Resist the System (SA), War of Movement Texas Tour (SA, ATX, HOU), and Battle the Corporations (HOU). In his music, Mexican Stepgrandfather samples records, raps, plays guitar, bass, keyboard, drum machine and drums to create intersections of cultural expression and political solidarity. www.myspace.com/mexicanstepgrandfather