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Seattle Emcee J. Infinite http://www.reverbnation.com/justbeinfinite arrested at #HipHopOccupies #OccupyTheHood #OccupySeattle action today http://youtu.be/rBNrSOUdAGY

2011-11-11T17:01:00.001-08:00

Seattle Emcee J. Infinite http://www.reverbnation.com/justbeinfinite arrested at OccupyTheHood #OccupySeattle action today

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Police arresting #OccupySeattle #hiphopoccupies #ows members at Horace Mann school in Central Area

2011-11-11T15:26:00.001-08:00

Police are at Horace Mannn threatenning to arrest members of occupy Seattle protesting misuse of public space

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We Are The 99% Candidate Forum 11/3 #occupyseattle #hiphopoccupies #occupythehood

2011-10-28T11:42:00.001-07:00

By now you should have received your ballots for the Nov. 8th election in the mail. If you are like many, who are busy making it with life and don't know the candidates or the issues, don't worry, we got you covered...come to the WE ARE THE 99% Candidate Forum (details below) with your ballot in hand and find out who's who and whats' what!

"We must understand the politics of our community and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what part politics play in our lives. And until we become politically mature we will always be mislead, lead astray, or deceived or maneuvered into supporting someone politically who doesn’t have the good of our community at heart." - Malcolm X, "Ballot or the Bullet"-1964

Candidate Forum

Thursday, Nov. 3rd, 6pm-9pm

Monicas Village Place Community Room

140 23rd Ave (Enter on Main St.)

Click to RSVP http://weare99candidateforum.eventbrite.com/

The recent Occupy Wall Street and it's affiliated movements has highlighted the dissatisfaction with the current state of electoral politics among young people and many others.This forum will provide an opportunity for young voters to learn about the candidates for Seattle City Council & Seattle School Board to entities that have been dancing to the tune of the 99%.

All candidates for Seattle City Council & Seattle School Board have been elected. Bring your ballots and make your decision!

The Young Voters League exists to encourage political participation from younger voters, to facilitate dialogue between young voters and political candidates, and to assist young people in registering to vote and engage political process.

The event is co-sponsored by:

- UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center
- United African Political Affairs Committee
- Seattle Displacement Coalition
- United 4 Youth Coalition
- Mothers Outreach Movement
- African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center
- Seattle Hip Hop Summit Action Network Youth Council
- Brothers Building
- Association for Africentric Development
- Freedom Outreach Seattle
- All City Chop
- Black Women & Men United for Union Jobs
- Bruce Lee Community Peace Garden Organizing Committee at the UW
- Kickit4aCause Entertainment & Promotions
- Theroughbred Fitness & Boxing

In solidarity with:

- Occupy Seattle
- Occupy Wall Street
- Occupy Together
- Occupy The Hood
- Hip-Hop Occupies

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@upc206 at @BennaroyaHall W/ new@SeattleSymphony Director Ludovic Morlot

2011-09-18T18:07:00.001-07:00

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Be mindful of the difference between activity and revenue generating activity.

2011-09-15T08:39:00.001-07:00

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To be successful you must know that the power within you can overcome than the forces against you #noweaponshallprosper

2011-09-15T07:54:00.001-07:00

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2011-09-09T09:24:00.001-07:00

Link up if your self motivated team player and a big thinker willing to take small steps

Great mtg 2day at @thesourcemag w/ @ashcathem206 @Ericafordnyc @ilovemylife planning for #PeaceWeek2012 #sea2nyc http://t.co/kQnR7LO

2011-09-02T17:52:00.001-07:00

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Hip Hop Global Exchange Project #sea2nyc

2011-09-02T12:04:00.001-07:00

The Hip Hop Global Exchage project embraces the power of Hip Hop as a platform for cultural exchange, trade, social and economic development for young people worldwide. Our inaugural trip is to New York City the birthplace of Hip Hop.

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Thank you to everyone who helped make Umoja Fest 2011 a great success...enjoy the photos more coming soon #umojafest #seafair

2011-08-09T08:48:00.001-07:00

Thank you to everyone who helped make Umoja Fest 2011 a great success...enjoy the photos coming soon! #umojafest #seafair

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2011 #UMOJAFEST Parade in effect @umojafest #seafair #seattle #blueangels

2011-08-06T13:58:00.001-07:00

#umojafest 2011 parade

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Live on air at www.hollowearthradio.org

2011-08-03T22:49:00.001-07:00

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In the lab @upc206 with Zach @allcitychop working on @umojafest 2011 T shirt #umojafest

2011-08-02T22:17:00.001-07:00

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J-Live performing in Seattle Flyer

2011-07-14T14:43:00.001-07:00

jlive_seattle2011_flyer.pdf Download this file

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2011-07-04T12:38:00.001-07:00

Freedom is to FREE the DOME and Freedom aint FREE You gotta pay attention

2011-06-30T23:33:00.001-07:00

You just a copy of a replica of knock off BLACKUP

2011-06-30T23:10:00.001-07:00

waiting for Shabazz Palaces to hit stage BLACK UP

Register now! >> @UNCFPacificNW Walk for Education at @umojafest 2011 http://give.uncf.org/seattlewalk

2011-06-29T19:19:00.001-07:00

Come join us for our first Walk since 2000!

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Join us on Facebook (I Support UNCF - Pacific NW)

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2011-06-26T21:00:00.001-07:00

is anybody else watching the BET Awards like WORD Really

Great Session @upc206 Studio today with Angel Mitchell Antwon Vinson and Qehmet...Journeying Thru Life...Living..Learning...Loving! >> feeling this record! #goodmusic

2011-06-25T20:13:00.001-07:00

Good music #yesss!

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2011-06-19T18:28:00.001-07:00

With the divorce rates and single parent rates being what they are in USA we need a Parents Still Together Day! #HFD

2011-06-19T17:11:00.001-07:00

Shout out to the women who let fathers strugglin with their roles have a goodfathers day with their children regardless

Congratulations to @GRG206 Rainier Beach seniors that graduated today t

2011-06-13T19:40:00.001-07:00

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Check @UPC206 All Stars performing live at "Lights On Japan" Benefit show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD5EYgZJqlU&feature=youtube_gdata_player #Japan #Seattle

2011-06-07T11:01:00.001-07:00

Peace & Love

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2011-06-03T18:11:00.001-07:00

People make stuff but stuff don't make people...#therealspiel

2011-05-23T10:22:00.001-07:00

Im pretty critical in my analysis but I prefer to create than critique

2011-05-23T00:45:00.001-07:00

Killing me softly

2011-05-23T00:37:00.001-07:00

OOh la la la

2011-05-23T00:10:00.001-07:00

Music is supposed to inspire

2011-05-23T00:06:00.001-07:00

Might win some but u just Lost One

2011-05-23T00:03:00.001-07:00

Sweetest Thing ok letsgo L

2011-05-23T00:02:00.001-07:00

L Boogie on stage Everything is Everything

2011-05-22T23:55:00.001-07:00

Lauryn Hill two hours late crowd not happy

A beautiful Sunday...Your body is your temple and exercise is prayer come get in with @sticrbg at @UPC206 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124610244284867

2011-05-22T10:58:00.001-07:00

Click to RSVP - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124610244284867

Stic.Man (Dead Prez) - Back On My Regimen ft Divine RBG Video (The Workout)

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2011-05-14T22:30:00.001-07:00

I had no idea L-Boogie aka Ms. LAURYN HILL @MsHillMvngTrg live
w/ @DeadPrez in Seattle next Sunday 5/22 @Showboxsea...did you?

Check out the new 2011 Umoja Fest African American Seafair Celebration website www.umojafamilyfest.com @umojafest #seattle #seafair

2011-05-12T11:57:00.000-07:00

We are in full swing of bringing together a great event for this year and community partners are the key so put the "U" in Unity and join Team Umoja today!

Like Umoja Fest on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Umoja-Festival-African-American-Day-Parade/123262747683976

Follow Umoja Fest on twitter - twitter.com/umojafest

Post, email and share our sav- the-date flyer below.

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Great day @upc206 with @therealsame @deseanmahonie_LOE #move4mann #itmb #LOE

2011-05-09T20:53:00.001-07:00

Builders build. Young CEOs on the move.

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2011-05-08T16:58:00.001-07:00

JET Terry set the bar high...next up Mal C lets see what it do...#seattlehoops #nbaplayoffs

2011-05-08T15:18:00.001-07:00

Not such a #HappyMothersDay for #Lakers Moms...

2011-05-08T14:55:00.001-07:00

Odom and Bynum brands taking a beating via social media right now. Not good for next contract negotiation. #gamerecognizegame

2011-05-08T14:36:00.001-07:00

I hear the JET Terry aka is on the runway! Lakers sleeping like air traffic controllers!

2011-05-07T12:01:00.001-07:00

Be nice to nerds cuz one day you will work for one

2011-05-05T11:11:00.001-07:00

Stop crying and start scoring!! How can you score if you don't shoot??? #do-or-die #GRG

2011-05-05T07:53:00.001-07:00

Get Up Get Out and Get Something!...The only thing that comes to a sleeper is a dream! #Early

2011-05-02T10:01:00.001-07:00

The spirit is resilient but the mind is fragile. #humannature

2011-05-01T21:43:00.001-07:00

Every hero needs a villain Bin Laden gone #whosnext #staytuned #obama

2011-05-01T20:50:00.001-07:00

Watching Megamind with my son

2011 Umoja Fest African American Seafair Celebration - Save The Date! @umojafest #seattle #seafair

2011-04-18T16:38:00.001-07:00

August 5-7, 2011
Judkins Park, Seattle, WA

African American Day Parade, Saturday August 6th
23rd & Union to Judkins Park

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2011-04-17T12:32:00.001-07:00

There is no perfection outside of reality

2011-04-11T18:48:00.001-07:00

African Americans more likely to suffer from heart disease Why

2011-04-10T07:31:00.001-07:00

salute to all the women who sacrifice their bodies and put their lives on the line for us to have life as we know it

2011-04-09T18:12:00.001-07:00

Thick shakes with wimpy straws no progress without struggle

2011-04-07T18:13:00.001-07:00

I am man down like whoa

Great energy in the building planning for Umoja Fest 2011 African American Seafair Celebration #seattle

2011-04-05T23:53:00.001-07:00

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Umoja Fest 2011 planning meeting

2011-04-05T19:48:00.001-07:00

Planning meeting going hard

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2011-04-05T09:23:00.001-07:00

No I'm not lucky I'm Blessed!...#yesss

SistaSoulSpeak: Poetry & Spoken Soul Creative Writing Cipher @UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center Today #seattle #poetry #themove

2011-04-05T07:41:00.001-07:00

SistaSoulSpeak: Poetry & Spoken Soul Workshop
Tuesdays 4pm – 6pm
Artist In Residence: Nicquitta “Khmet” Brooks

SistaSoulSpeak is a poetry and spoken word workshop focused on giving young women an opportunity to discover and share the beauty within and express themselves creatively through writing and performing poetry and spoken word. Participants will explore inspirational materials and then create their own. A great release and pick-me-up for young women who may be stressed from life issues. Participants will also have opportunities to perform and be introduced to other personal development resources.

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Health is Wealth...Movement is Medicine! Raise The Bar Theroughbred Boxing #Seattle #bartendaz

2011-03-30T17:43:00.001-07:00

Repping at Garfield Teen Life Center

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Mentors Needed ==>>Young Geniuses Science & Engineering Club at UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center...Thursdays 4pm-5:30pm @upc206 #seattle

2011-03-30T11:50:00.001-07:00

Mentors needed ==>>Young Geniuses Science & Engineering Club at UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center. Thursdays 4:30pm - 6:00.

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Young Geniuses Science & Engineering Club

Thursdays 4pm -6pm

UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center

The young Geniuses Science Club seeks to expose youth to fun and educational experiences in math and science. Using a culturally relevant approach that highlights indigenous people’s contributions to the field of science, children are engaged in various projects including age appropriate chemistry experiments and fun with robotics and solar.

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One Word Can Change A Nation! ==>> SistaSoulSpeak Writing Cipher @ UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center @upc206 #seattle #plantseedsgrowdreams #wordisbond

2011-03-30T09:52:00.001-07:00

SistaSoulSpeak: Poetry & Spoken Soul Workshop
Tuesdays 4pm – 6pm
UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center
Artist In Residence: Nicquitta “Qehmet” Brooks

SistaSoulSpeak is a poetry and spoken word workshop focused on giving young women an opportunity to discover and share the beauty within and express themselves creatively through writing and performing poetry and spoken word. Participants will explore inspirational materials and then create their own. A great release and pick-me-up for young women who may be stressed from life issues. Participants will also have opportunities to perform and be introduced to other personal development resources.

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SistaSoulSpeak Writing Cipher @ UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center #seattle

2011-03-29T20:18:00.001-07:00

One word can change a nation!

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Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy visits Seattle University Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership #seattle #sports #business #seattleu

2011-03-29T10:42:00.001-07:00

Seattle, WA - Members of Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy visited the Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership at Seattle University. Dr. Galen Trail, Coordinator of the MSAL program hosted the visit giving youth an opportunity to audit his Consumer Behavior class and observe final presentations by the graduate students.

Dr. Trail gave and overview of the program as well as highlighted the importance of managing your personal brand, developing a marketing plan for yourself and building a network to help you achieve your goals. He also shared the current employment of students at the program that ranged from interns at minor league baseball franchise to director of operations for major sports organizations.

Youth attending the program had positive reactions to the experience.

"We learned about marketing and how to target our audience in order to expand our fan base." said Warsame "DJ Same" Warsame a junior at Rainier Beach High School and aspiring entertainment entrepreneur.

Najee Ali, a student at Seattle Central Community College stated "It showed me what steps to take. If football doesn't work I plan to go to law school and become a sports agent or major in communications and become a broadcaster...he taught us about building networks and getting to know people."

Steve Banks of Banks Sports Ventures and agent for Rodney Stuckey of the Detroit Pistons also joined the group providing insights as a working professional in the field. Sharing his thoughts on the Game Recognize Game Sports Marketing Academy Banks added "When I was a youngster I didn't have programs like this...being from the hood and able to come on the campus of Seattle University...so the access, I was impressed...you might see me in class next time you come!"

About Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy
Founded in 2008, the GAME RECOGNIZE GAME Urban Sports Management Academy is an experiential learning project for at-risk youth. The project introduces youth to the many business and career opportunities surrounding professional sports. Participants gain valuable skills including decision making, strategic planning, marketing and resource management by planning the annual Heal The Hood Outdoor Youth Basketball Tournament at Umoja Fest community basketball tournament and related activities. The curriculum uses professional sports as a lens to examine the attitudes and behaviors necessary for success on the court or playing field and in life. Guest speakers include professional and college athletes, sports agents, entertainment lawyers, sports journalists and more. For more info contact Earl Parker at 206.683.9164 or via email at earlparker21@yahoo.com

About Seattle University Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership Program
Seattle University offers a master’s level sport management degree (Master’s degree in Sport Administration and Leadership - MSAL) and a joint JD/MSAL degree with the Law School. The MSAL program provides an education that is both immediately applicable to sport management careers and yet is still driven by advances in theory across a wide variety of disciplines. Started in 2006, the program has graduated 66 students so far and has 88 currently in the program, with each new class adding 30 more in a cohort. Graduates are employed by sport organizations such as the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Storm, Seattle Sounders, Seattle Mariners, Major League Soccer, Seattle University, University of Washington, Stanford University, Everett Silvertips, Tacoma Rainiers, Arizona Western University, Willamette University, and Montana State University.

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Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy visits Seattle University Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership #seattle #sports #business #seattleu

2011-03-26T18:38:00.001-07:00

Youth attending the program had positive reactions to the experience.

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Raise The Bar Fitness & TheRoughBred Boxing Seattle...Bartendaz 206 Mindup! #bartendaz #boxing #seattle #healthiswealth

2011-03-25T17:10:00.001-07:00

Health Wealth and Knowledge of Self for Man Woman & Child!

UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center presents Raise The Bar Fitness & Theroughbred Boxing workout every Wednesday 3pm-5pm at Garfield Teen Life Center. Health is Wealth...Movement is Medicine! Bartendaz 206 Mind Up!

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It all comes down to the money...handle biz or the biz will handle you #mindyourownbiz #gamerecognizegame #wordapp

2011-03-13T14:03:00.001-07:00

From Seattle to Wisconsin to North Africa...it is what it is...Who's eating and who's not...

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Washington Legislature is closing budget gap with student debt | <<--- Follow the money trail!

2011-03-13T13:53:00.001-07:00

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Guest columnist

Washington Legislature is closing budget gap with student debt

Guest columnist and college senior Logan Bahr argues that the state Legislature is closing its budget gap on the backs of students, who are having to take on more debt to pay higher tuition.

By Logan Bahr

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College is a taxing business.

Lectures, midterms, and finals must be complemented by volunteer work, internships, research and professional development. Students know that in order to be competitive we have to compete with the global economy. That's neither hyperbole nor lament; it's a reality we embrace!

We know with adequate skills and education the possibility to make a significant impact on the world is closer than ever before. So to cobble together enough money to pay tuition, we take out student loans, work when we're not studying, or even drop out to make money so that we can return and finish.

Unfortunately, at a time when a college education has never been more important, Olympia's understanding of an appropriate use of tuition has fundamentally changed. The money students pay for their education is no longer considered a fee paid to a school for instruction. Now students and their families are considered a "revenue source," a phrase normally reserved for taxes. Those are policymakers' words, not mine.

It should be widely known that tuition has risen 130 percent in the last 10 years. Today's higher tuition rates are the result of economic decline and revenue shortfalls. Cutting higher education seemed like an easy solution. It's a fairly large portion of the budget, it's not an entitlement, and it's constitutionally unprotected. Budget writers estimated a tuition increase and then took that amount — and more — out of universities' state funding.

What's more troubling is the new practice of distributing tuition dollars paid to university accounts for services once paid for out of the state General Fund. For example, the 2011 supplemental budget cuts the State Need Grant by $25 million. Those state funds went back into the General Fund to pay for a variety of things that have nothing to do with higher education. The Legislature then took an unprecedented step and replaced the funds with money from each college's tuition accounts.

It's a scary thought that tuition is simply another revenue source to be used for whatever state service is deemed needy; perhaps paying for a park or a prison.

State tuition practice violates an even more basic economic rule: solving a short-term shortfall with long-term loans. Slashing university budgets means state savings and higher tuition. Those savings are enabled, in large part, by students accruing more high-interest, long-term loans that will be paid off long after graduation. In other words, the state is indirectly closing its budget gap with student debt.

Students and families are now the majority funders of Washington's universities. But privatization of public higher education is not the answer to the current crisis.

The public higher education system should be a paramount concern and public governance must be maintained.

But, if the state is unwilling or unable to fund public higher education and, accordingly, if tuition must rise, then students should be assured that those funds will not be used as a state "revenue stream," but as a fee paid to a university for educational services rendered.

Students realize the challenges brought on by globalization and see the extraordinary opportunity to excel. We embrace this new landscape with cautious optimism.

What we cannot embrace is the philosophy that students are simply a revenue source used to pay for anything in the state budget.
Tacoma native Logan Bahr is a senior at Central Washington University and a student member of the CWU Board of Trustees.

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Young Geniuses Science & Engineering Club at UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center...Thursdays 4pm-5:30pm...Mentors needed! @upc206 #seattle #younggeniuses #wordapp

2011-03-10T21:09:00.001-08:00

Young Geniuses Science & Engineering Club at UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center. Thursdays 4pm - 5:30. Mentors needed.

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Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy visits Seattle University Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership #seattle #sports #business #seattleu

2011-03-10T20:48:00.001-08:00

Members of Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy with Dr. Galen Trail, Director of the Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership at Seattle University and NBA Agent Steve Banks of Banks Sports Ventures.

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Malcom X's daughter Ilyasah Shabazz visits UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center in #Seattle #growingupx #malcolmx #hiphop #upc206

2011-03-04T19:47:00.001-08:00

Ilyasah Shabazz stopped by the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center to share a few moments while in Seattle for the screening of Prince Among Slaves. She spoke with members of the UPC and Seattle Hip-Hop Summit Youth Council and stressed the importance of us becoming aware of our power and using it effectively to shape our communities and world.

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Seattle Hip Hop Artists & Community Rally's for Equal Access to Union Jobs #seattle #hip

2011-02-28T15:54:00.001-08:00

Hip-Hop Artists and community Rally for Jobs in Seattle

Seattle, WA - February, recognized as black history month brings many images of African Americans organized and mobilized, marching for jobs and economic and political equity and a better quality of life.

Recently in Seattle, Hip-Hop artists and community members rally for jobs in Seattle. "The best way to honor black history is to make black history...we’re standing on the shoulders of giants" said Wyking Allah of the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center who joined an inter-generational group organized as Black Women & Men For Union Jobs and representatives of the Coalition for Equitable Union Empowerment at a rally for equitable hiring held Saturday at the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 19 Union Hall.

Poet and Spoken Word artist Geneiva Arunga was on hand to voice her support for the effort. “I’m here today so that we can get more union jobs with the Longshoremen...we need black women and black men to have more opportunities to be hired for these positions”.

African Americans, we need jobs and we’re still trying to get them.” said said M.I.H. Entertainment recording artist D.O.8.

Label mate and mc Money Mark added “They talking about we need to stop all the crime...we need to look at the basis of the problem...we need jobs! Are we supposed to sit out here and starve?”

“Families are hungry, families need food, we need opportunities for employment to secure our future.” stressed spoken word artist Toohuti Ptah.

Determined to let their voices be heard, the group braved rainy weather and hostile longshoremen seeking to intimidate and provoke confrontation.

"We're here for a peaceful protest...we're not here to argue...said coalition spokesperson Latanya Horace emphasizing the desire of the group to focus on the issue and not get distracted with personal confrontations.

“We’re gonna fight the right way...and we’re gonna fight to the end and we know we’ll win.” said a community member identifying himself as Syed.

The rally and press conference was part of a growing movement for equity in hiring practices and supporting the recent class action charges against the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union which jointly administer the hiring of longshore workers in the Port of Seattle.

The charges, filed on February 10th with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Washington State Human Rights Commission (WSHRC), detail how the employer and union are systematically excluding Blacks and other perspective non-white applicants from the waterfront's hiring process.

The waterfront employers and union recruited a significant number of new applicants to their industry in mid-January via a “lottery”. The process “was a complete slap in the face to the unemployed and underemployed in our community and every community.” according to Horace.

“It was clearly designed to let as few people as possible find out about the longshore job opportunity who are not already industry insiders. This opportunity was not advertised to the Black community at all, even though our people disproportionately live in the areas that are most impacted by the cargo container traffic between the Port of Seattle and the Puget Sound's major industrial warehouses.” she added.

Equal Employment is particularly important to black communities. Recent U.S. Department of Labor reports showed the unemployment rate for African Americans hovering at twice the national average not accounting for those who have been out of the labor market as "permanently unemployed which some say bring the number closer to 25%. For African American teens, the unemployment rate is 44%, higher than any other group.

Stakes are high as Seattle prepares to break ground on major infrastructure improvement projects including the Viaduct replacement, 520 bridge and light rail expansion bringing highly coveted liveable wage jobs to the city.

"We'll be back" Horace stated, reflecting the general sentiment of the group who left inspired, feeling that effort was well worthy of their time despite the hostile weather and hostile attitudes they faced.

For more information email blackwomenandmen@hotmail.com.

The coalition meets on Friday's at 6pm @ the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center. 1107 24th Avenue in Central Seattle.

-HipHopNationNews © 2011. All rights reserved.Hip-Hop

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Black History Is World History...Each One Teach One!

2011-02-22T10:37:00.001-08:00

Each One Teach One. Don't let the history be a mystery.

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2011-01-26T17:22:00.001-08:00

What did people think about the State Of The Union speech?

Sew Beautiful Fashion Program Seeks Volunteers & Partners

2011-01-17T14:53:00.001-08:00

Subject: Sew Beautiful Volunteers

Dear Friends,

I am grateful that this past year Sew Beautiful has been able to empower the lives young women of color, broaden their creative minds and help them to realize that beauty is within. In 2011 we plan to reach the lives of many more! With the help of volunteers our program can reach its ultimate potential, from those who would be willing to spare just a couple of hours a month. I appeal to all of you to help Sew Beautiful in our undertaking.

Sew Beautiful is a youth empowerment mentoring organization for young women of color dedicated to the exploration of fashion careers. The mission of Sew Beautiful is to promote the fashion arts by encouraging entrepreneurship and education. Our goal is to raise awareness, and offer support through activities, mentorship and discussion.

Here are some areas where you can help:

Marketing
Social Media
Mentors
Fashion Industry Speakers
Soliciting Donations
Event Planning
Public Relations
Advisory Board
Photography
Video Editing/Production
Graphic Design

and so much more...

For more information to find out how you can help, please contact me directly at 253.228.7301 or via email at sewbeautifulprogram@yahoo.com. We look forward to your support!

Kanika Green
Founding Director

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2011-01-11T17:40:00.001-08:00

Knowledge-Knowledge = Metacognition. Observing and being aware of your own thoughts and mental processes. Review and renew. #knowthyself

2011-01-11T16:22:00.001-08:00

Handle business or business will handle you. #gamerecognizegame

2011-01-10T10:56:00.001-08:00

Are you moving the pieces or are you a piece being moved? #gamerecognize game

2011-01-09T14:28:00.001-08:00

Who's playing and who's getting played? Who's paying and who's getting paid? Do the math and find yourself in the equation. #gamerecognizegame

UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center Hip-Hop Communiversity featured on KEXP Why Music Matters #seattle #kexp #musicbiz #hiphop #206

2011-01-06T11:56:00.001-08:00

Click to go to the story:

http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/01/05/why-music-matters-music-money/

Wyking Garrett teaches the Music Biz & Artist/Label Development class at the Hip-Hop Communiversity

Produced by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch, AIR’s Live Interactive Resident for Fall 2010. Editorial oversight by Kevin Cole. Engineering help by Matt Ogaz. Live Interactive is a collaboration of KEXP and AIR, the Association of Independents in Radio with financial support from AIR members worldwide, Recovery.gov, and the National Endowment for the Arts which believe a great nation deserves great art.

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UPC Artist Development Workshop & Open Mic Sessions @therealsame #themoveboy

2011-01-04T18:16:00.001-08:00

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Check out UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center Hip-Hop Communiversity featured on KEXP 90.3 FM show about Music & Money this afternoon www.kexp.org

2011-01-04T12:20:00.001-08:00

Check out UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center Hip-Hop Communiversity featured on KEXP 90.3 FM this afternoon about Music & Money www.kexp.org

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Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): Teamwork makes the dream work! #Kwanzaa

2010-12-28T13:07:00.001-08:00

Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together. Teamwork makes the dream work!

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2010-12-26T20:20:00.001-08:00

First day of Kwanzaa UMOJA means UNITY we can do more together than we can apart. One people one destiny all for one and one for all!

Game Recognize Game Sports, Hip-Hop & Biz Event 2moro w/ @bartendazgiant Hassan & @MistahFAB tomorrow @ Garfield

2010-12-16T13:28:00.001-08:00

Health, Wealth & Knowledge of Self....lets go!

Check out the overwhelmingly positive reactions of students and staff at Rainier Beach HS in Seattle on Tuesday

Bartendaz NY1 News

Sports Career Awareness Day

The purpose of the Sports Career Awareness day is to use students interest in sports as a window to the many career and business opportunities in the robust multibillion dollar sports and entertainment industry. Also to use lessons from sports to highlight what it takes to be successful in other aspects of life.

Youth will be exposed to opportunities such as sports agency, scouting, team ownership/operations, coaching, sports medicine, fitness training, business administration, entrepreneurship, journalism, film/video, marketing, education, social entrepreneurship and more.

Event Highlights:

Careers In Sports Panel

This Careers In Sports panel testimonials from the personal experience of professionals who have achieved success in the sports industry. They will share their academic and career journey including important classes and experiences, college and professional development. Confirmed panelists include:

Steve Banks, NBA Agent for Rodney Stuckey Detroit Pistons
Bookie Gates, Chaffey Sports
Rick DuPree, Director - Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club

Special Invited Guest:

Mistah F.A.B. - Recording Artist

Keynote & Demonstration

Hassan “GIANT” Yaseen, Celebrity Trainer/Founder G.I.A.N.T. Thinking, Inc.

Bartendaz X Doctors
http://www.5min.com/Video/Learn-about-Bartendaz-114223188

-Wyking

Hassan "Giant" Yasin

Hassan Yasin, a.k.a. GIANT, is the Founder and Director of Giant Thinking Inc., A Human Repair Agency and Bar-Tendaz, a Physical Fitness, Alcohol Awareness & Self Empowerment program Over the past ten years Hassan Yasin has spoken to over 75,000 young people and has become one of the most dynamic motivational speakers in the northeast. His presentations have won recognition and acclaim, sparking interest in the Giant Thinking Inc. message.

Yasin’s Giant Thinking presentations and Bar-Tendaz demonstrations offer a powerful and inspirational self-awareness program that empowers participants to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their lives. Demonstrations and presentations leave participants with concise actions they can immediately take to work toward achieving their goals. Though most of his efforts are aimed at helping inner city youth obtain and maintain a sense of worth and positive destiny,the training transcends age and station in life.

Punctuated with thought-provoking examples and exercises, Giant Thinking Inc. and Bar-Tendaz presentations and seminars are proven in enabling participants to set and achieve goals, establish values by which to live, and face lifes challenges and opportunities in a manner that will bring about success. Giant coined the phrase “Exercise Evolution” to describe his unique blend of calisthenics, physical and mental fitness exercises. We believe that when offered together a Giant Thinking seminar and Bar-Tendaz presentation are the unbeatable one-two combination for success!

Mr. Yasin possesses a unique gift, and offers the information he shares with an amazing, inspirational and eclectic speaking style. It is the blend of this style and a timely and effective message that has allowed him to become a sought-after speaker in the New York City educational arena at not only the elementary level, but in middle and high schools as well. He has been inundated with offers to instruct the teaching and counseling staff at various schools and centers throughout the city.

Hassan Yasin is available for professional seminars for public audiences and corporate clients nationwide. He is well known for his Physical Fitness / Male Empowerment Programs, workshops as Principal for a Day (PFAD) in the New York City public school system, Board of Education Alternative High Schools, New Beginning Programs, private schools, Tier 2 Shelters, Faith Based Organizations, The Department of Juvenile Justice, and numerous Correctional Facilities. He has won a number of awards for the lives he has touched over the last 10 years. With his innovative concepts and unique style, Hassan Yasin is certainly dedicated to making sure that Giant Thinking / Bar-Tendaz becomes the premier program for those who seek to better themselves and our youth.

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Celebrity Hip Hop Trainer Hassan "GIANT" Yasin founder of Bartendaz Fitness Movement @ Garfield HS tomorrow #Seattle

2010-12-16T11:32:00.001-08:00

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DV One aka Toby Fresh blessing the wheels @UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center

2010-12-14T23:33:00.001-08:00

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2010-12-14T15:52:00.001-08:00

Showing Hassan Giant of the Harlem Bartendaz the 206

Sewing 101 @ UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center w/ Carlisia Minnis Mac Fashion House #seattle #fashion

2010-12-04T16:33:00.001-08:00

Sew Beautiful young designers in training with Carlisia Minnis Mac Fashion House.

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Wyking Report 11-26-2010...Black Friday...Holiday Trees at UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center..

2010-11-26T13:00:00.001-08:00

Being that it is black Friday I thought I would let you know about great deals on live holiday trees supporting a good cause. Trees available this evening. Please help us spread the word.

HOLIDAY TREES FOR P.E.A.C.E FUNDRAISER

@ THE UMOJAFEST P.E.A.C.E. CENTER

Dear friends and family,

Since it's inception in 2008, the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center has become a positive force and a beacon of hope and light for many youth in our community.

The UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center community invites you to join us in making a difference by supporting our 3rd Annual Holiday Trees for P.E.A.C.E. Fundraiser.

The UmojaThe UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center is a community based, multi-faceted youth-centric cultural facility in the heart of Seattle’s historic Central District focused on replacing negative culture with positive culture. The facility includes the audio recording and video production studios, library & reading room, fitness studio, Organic P.E.A.C.E. Garden.

If you or someone you know plans to purchase a live Christmas tree this year, you can make your purchase support the work of enterprising and hopeful young people?

Trees are priced to fit YOUR budget, you can even name your own price!

Place your order today! Better still, tell all your family, friends, church and other groups about this opportunity to continue being part of the change and let us know HOW MANY TREES should be set aside.

Trees will be available for pick up at the center daily from 9am-9pm starting Saturday, Nov. 27th. The UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center is located at 2314 E. Spring St. (24th & Spring St.) in central Seattle. One block south of Union st behind the Post Office.

To place your order today, please call 206.329.1591 or 877.505.6306.

If you do not want a tree but would like to support by making a contribution please do so at www.umojafestpeacecenter.com or mail your contribution to:

AAD-UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center

PO Box 22328

Seattle, WA 98122

Please reference tax ID#14-1798232 for your tax deductible contribution.

Thank you for your consideration and we hope that you can help us make the promise of change a reality.

Thank you.

UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center

UMOJAFEST P.E.A.C.E. CENTER

Report to Community

The UmojaThe UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center is a community based, multi-faceted youth-centric cultural facility in the heart of Seattle’s historic Central District.

UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center engages and trains youth, young adults and community members to be advocates for themselves and community through outreach, training, meeting with elected officials and other stakeholders as well as attending and participating in public forums and hearings.

Advocating for Positive Change

Members of Youth Stakeholders Team meeting with Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn

Councilwoman Jean Godden visits UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center

Community Building Events
Since its inception, the UPC has held several events at the site and throughout the community bringing together thousands people from across the northwest and nation. UPC events offer a unique mix of education, entertainment, cultural awareness and civic engagement from weekly dinners to rally’s to candidate forums.

2010 Event highlights include:

3rd Annual 206 LOVE for Haiti Benefit Concert

2nd Annual Seattle/NW Hip-Hop Leadership Conference

Rap Sessions: Global Hip-Hop, Youth & Economic Recovery

4th Annual Malcolm X Day Conference & Music Fest

Umoja Fest African American Seafair Celebration

1st Annual Seattle Hip-Hop Career & Business Expo

UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center Programs
Through partnerships to implement innovative program models in arts, technology and entrepreneurship the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center seeks to provide educational programs that fosters positive, experiential learning alternatives for youth.

Hip-Hop Communiversity

The Hip Hop Communiversity is a learning center started by a group of youth and supporters who felt like sitting around just talking about the school system wasn’t enough. So they started a school! The goal of the project is to coordinate culturally enriching entrepreneurial based activities that address social and community development using technology as a bridge to future employment. The program is hosted at the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center in central Seattle. The Hip-Hop Communiversity features recording and video production studios and free classes in the Music Business, Debate, Politics & Civics, Video Production, Fashion Design & Merchandising, Science of Flow/Art of Emceeing, DJing 101, Event Planning & Promotions and more.

Sew Beautiful Fashion Program

Sew Beautiful is a youth empowerment program for young women of color, dedicated to the exploration of fashion and pop culture media careers. The mission of Sew Beautiful is to promote the fashion arts and encourage entrepreneurship, education and mentorship. Our goal is to help raise awareness, and offer support through activities, mentorship and discussion. Sew Beautiful seeks to build self-esteem of young women, broaden their creative minds and help empower their true beauty within. Participants get an up-close view of the fashion industry with opportunities to meet and work with some of Seattle’s industry experts and get a glimpse of the fashion industry.

GAME RECOGNIZE GAME Urban Sports Marketing Academy

Founded in 2008, the GAME RECOGNIZE GAME Urban Sports Management Academy is an experiential learning project for at-risk youth. The project introduces youth to the many business and career opportunities surrounding professional sports. Participants gain valuable skills including decision making, strategic planning, marketing and resource management by planning the annual Heal The Hood Outdoor Youth Basketball Tournament at Umoja Fest community basketball tournament and related activities. The curriculum uses professional sports as a lens to examine the attitudes and behaviors necessary for success on the court or playing field and in life. Guest speakers include professional and college athletes, sports agents, entertainment lawyers, sports journalists and more. For more info contact Earl Parker at 206.683.9164 or via email at earlparker21@yahoo.com

African American Heritage Festival & Parade

The annual Umoja Fest African American Heritage Festival & Parade is the oldest and largest African American community festival in the northwest and a shining example of youth using their creative energy to build stronger and safer communities. All members of the community are invited to participate and help make this event an overwhelming success.

Programs in Development

Youth Chess Academy

The UPC Chess Academy introduces youth to critical thinking and problem solving skills using the game of chess as a lens to examine the attitudes and behaviors necessary for success in life. The program is intergenerational and also helps youth develop positive relationships with adults.

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The Real Thanksgiving #thanksgiving

2010-11-25T19:09:00.001-08:00

The End of American Thanksgivings
A Cause for Universal Celebration
Black Commentator

Nobody celebrates Thanksgiving quite like Americans celebrate Thanksgiving.
It is reserved by history and the intent of "the founders" as the supremely
white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar. No
Halloween of the imagination can rival the exterminationist reality that was
the genesis, and remains the legacy, of the American Thanksgiving. It is the
most loathsome, humanity-insulting day of the year - a pure glorification of
racist barbarity.

We at BC are thankful that the day grows nearer when the almost four
centuries-old abomination will be deprived of its reason for being:
white supremacy.
Then we may all eat and drink in peace and gratitude for the blessings of
humanity's deliverance from the rule of evil men.

Thanksgiving is much more than a lie - if it were that simple, an historical
correction of the record of events in 1600s Massachusetts would suffice to
purge the "flaw" in the national mythology. But Thanksgiving is not just a
twisted fable, and the mythology it nurtures is itself inherently evil. The
real-life events - subsequently revised - were perfectly understood at
the time
as the first, definitive triumphs of the genocidal European project in New
England. The near-erasure of Native Americans in Massachusetts and, soon
thereafter, from most of the remainder of the northern English colonial
seaboard
was the true mission of the Pilgrim enterprise - Act One of the American
Dream. African Slavery commenced contemporaneously - an overlapping and
ultimately
inseparable Act Two.

The last Act in the American drama must be the "root and branch"
eradication of all vestiges of Act One and Two - America's seminal
crimes and
formative projects. Thanksgiving as presently celebrated - that is, as a
national
political event - is an affront to civilization.

Celebrating the unspeakable

White America embraced Thanksgiving because a majority of that population
glories in the fruits, if not the unpleasant details, of genocide and
slavery
and feels, on the whole, good about their heritage: a cornucopia of
privilege
and national power. Children are taught to identify with the good fortune of
the Pilgrims. It does not much matter that the Native American and African
holocausts that flowed from the feast at Plymouth are hidden from the
children'
s version of the story - kids learn soon enough that Indians were made
scarce
and Africans became enslaved. But they will also never forget the core
message of the holiday: that the Pilgrims were good people, who could
not have
purposely set such evil in motion. Just as the first Thanksgivings
marked the
consolidation of the English toehold in what became the United States,
the core
ideological content of the holiday serves to validate all that has since
occurred on these shores - a national consecration of the unspeakable, a
balm
and benediction for the victors, a blessing of the fruits of murder and
kidnapping, and an implicit obligation to continue the seamless
historical project
in the present day.

The Thanksgiving story is an absolution of the Pilgrims, whose brutal quest
for absolute power in the New World is made to seem both religiously
motivated and eminently human. Most importantly, the Pilgrims are
depicted as victims
- of harsh weather and their own naïve yet wholesome visions of a new
beginning. In light of this carefully nurtured fable, whatever happened
to the
Indians, from Plymouth to California and beyond, in the aftermath of the
1621
dinner must be considered a mistake, the result of misunderstandings -
at worst,
a series of lamentable tragedies. The story provides the essential first
frame of the American saga. It is unalloyed racist propaganda, a tale that
endures because it served the purposes of a succession of the Pilgrims'
political
heirs, in much the same way that Nazi-enhanced mythology of a glorious
Aryan/German past advanced another murderous, expansionist mission.
Thanksgiving is quite dangerous - as were the Pilgrims

Rejoicing in a cemetery

The English settlers, their ostensibly religious venture backed by a trading
company, were glad to discover that they had landed in a virtual cemetery in
1620. Corn still sprouted in the abandoned fields of the _Wampanoags_
(http://www.tolatsga.org/wampa.html) , but only a remnant of the local
population
remained around the fabled Rock. In a letter to England, Massachusetts Bay
colony founder John Winthrop wrote, "But for the natives in these parts, God
hath so pursued them, as for 300 miles space the greatest part of them
are swept
away by smallpox which still continues among them. So as God hath thereby
cleared our title to this place, those who remain in these parts, being
in all
not 50, have put themselves under our protection."

Ever diligent to claim their own advantages as God's will, the Pilgrims
thanked their deity for having "pursued" the Indians to mass death.
However, it
was not divine intervention that wiped out most of the natives around the
village of Patuxet but, most likely, smallpox-embedded blankets planted
during
an English visit or slave raid. Six years before the Pilgrim landing, a ship
sailed into Patuxet's harbor, captained by none other than the famous seaman
and mercenary soldier _John Smith_
(http://www.apva.org/history/jsmith.html) ,
former leader of the first successful English colony in the New World, at
Jamestown, Virginia. Epidemic and slavery followed in his wake, as Debra
Glidden
described in IMDiversity.com:

In 1614 the Plymouth Company of England, a joint stock company, hired
Captain John Smith to explore land in its behalf. Along what is now the
coast of
Massachusetts in the territory of the Wampanoag, Smith visited the town of
Patuxet according to "The Colonial Horizon," a 1969 book edited by William
Goetzinan. Smith renamed the town Plymouth in honor of his employers,
but the
Wampanoag who inhabited the town continued to call it Patuxet.
The following year Captain Hunt, an English slave trader, arrived at
Patuxet. It was common practice for explorers to capture Indians, take
them to
Europe and sell them into slavery for 220 shillings apiece. That
practice was
described in a 1622 account of happenings entitled "A Declaration of the
State of
the Colony and Affairs in Virginia," written by Edward Waterhouse. True to
the explorer tradition, Hunt kidnapped a number of Wampanoags to sell into
slavery.

Another common practice among European explorers was to give "smallpox
blankets" to the Indians. Since smallpox was unknown on this continent
prior to
the arrival of the Europeans, Native Americans did not have any natural
immunity to the disease so smallpox would effectively wipe out entire
villages with
very little effort required by the Europeans. William Fenton describes how
Europeans decimated Native American villages in his 1957 work "American
Indian
and White relations to 1830." From 1615 to 1619 smallpox ran rampant among
the Wampanoags and their neighbors to the north. The Wampanoag lost 70
percent
of their population to the epidemic and the Massachusetts lost 90 percent.
Most of the Wampanoag had died from the smallpox epidemic so when the
Pilgrims arrived they found well-cleared fields which they claimed for
their own. A
Puritan colonist, quoted by Harvard University's Perry Miller, praised the
plague that had wiped out the Indians for it was "the wonderful
preparation of
the Lord Jesus Christ, by his providence for his people's abode in the
Western world."

Historians have since speculated endlessly on why the woods in the region
resembled a park to the disembarking Pilgrims in 1620. The reason should
have
been obvious: hundreds, if not thousands, of people had lived there just
five
years before.

In less than three generations the settlers would turn all of New England
into a charnel house for Native Americans, and fire the economic engines of
slavery throughout English-speaking America. Plymouth Rock is the place
where
the nightmare truly began.

The uninvited?

It is not at all clear what happened at the first - and only - "integrated"
Thanksgiving feast. Only two written accounts of the three-day event exist,
and one of them, by Governor William Bradford, was written 20 years after
the fact. Was Chief Massasoit invited to bring 90 Indians with him to
dine with
52 colonists, most of them women and children? This seems unlikely. A good
harvest had provided the settlers with plenty of food, according to their
accounts, so the whites didn't really need the Wampanoag's offering of five
deer. What we do know is that there had been lots of tension between the two
groups that fall. John Two-Hawks, who runs the _Native Circle_
(http://www.nativecircle.com/mlmThanksgivingmyth.html) web site, gives a
sketch of the facts:

"Thanksgiving' did not begin as a great loving relationship between the
pilgrims and the Wampanoag, Pequot and Narragansett people. In fact, in
October
of 1621 when the pilgrim survivors of their first winter in Turtle
Island sat
down to share the first unofficial 'Thanksgiving' meal, the Indians who were
there were not even invited! There was no turkey, squash, cranberry sauce
or pumpkin pie. A few days before this alleged feast took place, a
company of
'pilgrims' led by Miles Standish actively sought the head of a local Indian
chief, and an 11 foot high wall was erected around the entire Plymouth
settlement for the very purpose of keeping Indians out!"

It is much more likely that Chief Massasoit either crashed the party, or
brought enough men to ensure that he was not kidnapped or harmed by the
Pilgrims. Dr. Tingba Apidta, in his "Black Folks' Guide to Understanding
Thanksgiving," surmises that the settlers "brandished their weaponry"
early and got
drunk soon thereafter. He notes that "each Pilgrim drank at least a half
gallon
of beer a day, which they preferred even to water. This daily
inebriation led
their governor, William Bradford, to comment on his people's 'notorious
sin,'
which included their 'drunkenness and uncleanliness' and rampant 'sodomy.
'"
Soon after the feast the brutish Miles Standish "got his bloody prize," Dr.
Apidta writes:

"He went to the Indians, pretended to be a trader, then beheaded an Indian
man named Wituwamat. He brought the head to Plymouth, where it was displayed
on a wooden spike for many years, according to Gary B. Nash, 'as a symbol of
white power.' Standish had the Indian man's young brother hanged from the
rafters for good measure. From that time on, the whites were known to
the Indians
of Massachusetts by the name 'Wotowquenange,' which in their tongue meant
cutthroats and stabbers."

What is certain is that the first feast was not called a "Thanksgiving" at
the time; no further integrated dining occasions were scheduled; and the
first, official all-Pilgrim "Thanksgiving" had to wait until 1637, when the
whites of New England celebrated the massacre of the Wampanoag's southern
neighbors, the Pequots.

The real Thanksgiving Day Massacre

The Pequots today own the _Foxwood Casino and Hotel_
(http://members.aol.com/casinonews/ct-fox.htm) , in Ledyard,
Connecticut, with gross gaming revenues
of over $9 billion in 2000. This is truly a (very belated) miracle,
since the
real first Pilgrim Thanksgiving was intended as the Pequot's epitaph.
Sixteen years after the problematical Plymouth feast, the English tried
mightily to
erase the Pequots from the face of the Earth, and thanked God for the
blessing.

Having subdued, intimidated or made mercenaries of most of the tribes of
Massachusetts, the English turned their growing force southward, toward
the rich
Connecticut valley, the Pequot's sphere of influence. At the point where the
Mystic River meets the sea, the combined force of English and allied Indians
bypassed the Pequot fort to attack and set ablaze a town full of women,
children and old people.

William Bradford, the former Governor of Plymouth and one of the chroniclers
of the 1621 feast, was also on hand for the great massacre of 1637:

"Those that escaped the fire were slain with the sword; some hewed to
pieces, others run through with their rapiers, so that they were quickly
dispatched
and very few escaped. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this
time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire...horrible
was the stink and scent thereof, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice,
and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for
them, thus to enclose their enemies in their hands, and give them so
speedy a
victory over so proud and insulting an enemy."

The rest of the white folks thought so, too. "This day forth shall be a day
of celebration and thanksgiving for subduing the Pequots," read Governor
John
Winthrop's proclamation. The authentic Thanksgiving Day was born.
Most historians believe about 700 Pequots were slaughtered at Mystic. Many
prisoners were executed, and surviving women and children sold into
slavery in
the West Indies. Pequot prisoners that escaped execution were parceled out
to Indian tribes allied with the English. The Pequot were thought to
have been
extinguished as a people.

According to _IndyMedia_
(http://indy.pabn.org/archives/213thank.shtml) , "The Pequot tribe
numbered 8,000 when the Pilgrims
arrived, but disease had brought their numbers down to 1,500 by 1637.
The Pequot
'War' killed all but a handful of remaining members of the tribe."
But there were still too many Indians around to suit the whites of New
England, who bided their time while their own numbers increased to critical,
murderous mass.

Guest's head on a pole

By the 1670s the colonists, with 8,000 men under arms, felt strong enough to
demand that the Pilgrims' former dinner guests the Wampanoags disarm and
submit to the authority of the Crown. After a series of settler
provocations in
1675, the Wampanoag struck back, under the leadership of Chief
Metacomet, son
of Massasoit, called King Philip by the English. Metacomet/Philip, whose
wife and son were captured and sold into West Indian slavery, wiped out 13
settlements and killed 600 adult white men before the tide of battle
turned. A
_1996 issue_ (http://rwor.org/a/firstvol/883/thank.htm) of the Revolutionary
Worker provides an excellent narrative.

In their victory, the settlers launched an all-out genocide against the
remaining Native people. The Massachusetts government offered 20
shillings bounty
for every Indian scalp, and 40 shillings for every prisoner who could be
sold into slavery. Soldiers were allowed to enslave any Indian woman or
child
under 14 they could capture. The "Praying Indians" who had converted to
Christianity and fought on the side of the European troops were accused
of shooting
into the treetops during battles with "hostiles." They were enslaved or
killed. Other "peaceful" Indians of Dartmouth and Dover were invited to
negotiate
or seek refuge at trading posts - and were sold onto slave ships.

It is not known how many Indians were sold into slavery, but in this
campaign, 500 enslaved Indians were shipped from Plymouth alone. Of the
12,000
Indians in the surrounding tribes, probably about half died from battle,
massacre
and starvation.

After King Philip's War, there were almost no Indians left free in the
northern British colonies. A colonist wrote from Manhattan's New York
colony:
"There is now but few Indians upon the island and those few no ways
hurtful. It
is to be admired how strangely they have decreased by the hand of God, since
the English first settled in these parts." In Massachusetts, the colonists
declared a "day of public thanksgiving" in 1676, saying, "there now scarce
remains a name or family of them [the Indians] but are either slain,
captivated or
fled."

Fifty-five years after the original Thanksgiving Day, the Puritans had
destroyed the generous Wampanoag and all other neighboring tribes. The
Wampanoag
chief King Philip was beheaded. His head was stuck on a pole in Plymouth,
where the skull still hung on display 24 years later.

This is not thought to be a fit Thanksgiving tale for the children of today,
but it's the real story, well-known to the settler children of New England
at the time - the white kids who saw the Wampanoag head on the pole year
after
year and knew for certain that God loved them best of all, and that every
atrocity they might ever commit against a heathen, non-white was blessed.
There's a good term for the process thus set in motion: nation-building.
Roots of the slave trade

The British North American colonists' practice of enslaving Indians for
labor or direct sale to the West Indies preceded the appearance of the first
chained Africans at the dock in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. The Jamestown
colonists' human transaction with the Dutch vessel was an unscheduled
occurrence.
However, once the African slave trade became commercially established, the
fates of Indians and Africans in the colonies became inextricably
entwined. New
England, born of up-close-and-personal, burn-them-in-the-fires-of-hell
genocide, led the political and commercial development of the English
colonies.
The region also led the nascent nation's descent into a slavery-based
society
and economy.

Ironically, an apologist for Virginian slavery made one of the best, early
cases for the indictment of New England as the engine of the American slave
trade. Unreconstructed secessionist Lewis Dabney's 1867 book "A Defense of
Virginia" traced the slave trade's origins all the way back to Plymouth
Rock:

The planting of the commercial States of North America began with the colony
of Puritan Independents at Plymouth, in 1620, which was subsequently
enlarged into the State of Massachusetts. The other trading colonies,
Rhode Island
and Connecticut, as well as New Hampshire (which never had an extensive
shipping interest), were offshoots of Massachusetts. They partook of the
same
characteristics and pursuits; and hence, the example of the parent
colony is taken
here as a fair representation of them.

The first ship from America, which embarked in the African slave trade, was
the Desire, Captain Pierce, of Salem; and this was among the first vessels
ever built in the colony. The promptitude with which the "Puritan Fathers"
embarked in this business may be comprehended, when it is stated that
the Desire
sailed upon her voyage in June, 1637. [Note: the year they massacred the
Pequots.] The first feeble and dubious foothold was gained by the white
man at
Plymouth less than seventeen years before; and as is well known, many years
were expended by the struggle of the handful of settlers for existence.
So that
it may be correctly said, that the commerce of New England was born of the
slave trade; as its subsequent prosperity was largely founded upon it. The
Desire, proceeding to the Bahamas, with a cargo of "dry fish and strong
liquors,
the only commodities for those parts," obtained the negroes from two British
men-of-war, which had captured them from a Spanish slaver.

Thus, the trade of which the good ship Desire, of Salem, was the harbinger,
grew into grand proportions; and for nearly two centuries poured a flood of
wealth into New England, as well as no inconsiderable number of slaves.
Meanwhile, the other maritime colonies of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations,
and Connecticut, followed the example of their elder sister emulously; and
their commercial history is but a repetition of that of Massachusetts. The
towns of Providence, Newport, and New Haven became famous slave trading
ports.
The magnificent harbor of the second, especially, was the favorite
starting-place of the slave ships; and its commerce rivaled, or even
exceeded, that of
the present commercial metropolis, New York. All the four original
States, of
course, became slaveholding.

The Revolution that exploded in 1770s New England was undertaken by men
thoroughly imbued with the worldview of the Indian-killer and
slave-holder. How
could they not be? The "country" they claimed as their own was fathered by
genocide and mothered by slavery - its true distinction among the commercial
nations of the world. And these men were not ashamed, but proud, with vast
ambition to spread their exceptional characteristics West and South and
wherever
their so-far successful project in nation-building might take them - and by
the same bloody, savage methods that had served them so well in the past.

At the moment of deepest national crisis following the battle of Gettysburg
in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln invoked the national fable that is far
more central to the white American personality than Lincoln's battlefield "
Address." Lincoln seized upon the 1621 feast as the historic
"Thanksgiving" -
bypassing the official and authentic 1637 precedent - and assigned the
dateless, murky event the fourth Thursday in November.

Lincoln surveyed a broken nation, and attempted nation-rebuilding, based on
the purest white myth. The same year that he issued the Emancipation
Proclamation, he renewed the national commitment to a white manifest
destiny that
began at Plymouth Rock. Lincoln sought to rekindle a shared national mission
that former Confederates and Unionists and white immigrants from Europe
could
collectively embrace. It was and remains a barbaric and racist national
unifier, by definition. Only the most fantastic lies can sanitize the
history of the
Plymouth Colony of Massachusetts.

"Like a rock"

The Thanksgiving holiday fable is at once a window on the way that many, if
not most, white Americans view the world and their place in it, and a
pollutant that leaches barbarism into the modern era. The fable attempts
to glorify
the indefensible, to enshrine an era and mission that represent the nation's
lowest moral denominators. Thanksgiving as framed in the mythology is,
consequently, a drag on that which is potentially civilizing in the national
character, a crippling, atavistic deformity. Defenders of the holiday
will claim
that the politically-corrected children's version promotes brotherhood, but
that is an impossibility - a bald excuse to prolong the worship of
colonial "
forefathers" and to erase the crimes they committed. Those bastards
burned the
Pequot women and children, and ushered in the multinational business of
slavery. These are facts. The myth is an insidious diversion - and worse.
Humanity cannot tolerate a 21st Century superpower, much of whose population
perceives the world through the eyes of 17th Century land and flesh bandits.
Yet that is the trick that fate has played on the globe. We described the
roots of the planetary dilemma in our March 13, 2003 commentary, "_Racism &
War, Perfect Together._
(http://www.blackcommentator.com/33/33_cover_story.html) "

The English arrived with criminal intent - and brought wives and children to
form new societies predicated on successful plunder. To justify the
murderous enterprise, Indians who had initially cooperated with the
squatters were
transmogrified into "savages" deserving displacement and death. The
relentlessly refreshed lie of Indian savagery became a truth in the
minds of white
Americans, a fact to be acted upon by every succeeding generation of
whites. The
settlers became a singular people confronting the great "frontier" - a
euphemism for centuries of genocidal campaigns against a darker,
"savage" people
marked for extinction.

The necessity of genocide was the operative, working assumption of the
expanding American nation. "Manifest Destiny" was born at Plymouth Rock and
Jamestown, later to fall (to paraphrase Malcolm) like a rock on Mexico, the
Philippines, Haiti, Nicaragua, etc. Little children were taught that the
American
project was inherently good, Godly, and that those who got in the way were
"evil-doers" or just plain subhuman, to be gloriously eliminated. The lie is
central to white American identity, embraced by waves of European
settlers who
never saw a red person.

Only a century ago, American soldiers caused the deaths of possibly a
million Filipinos whom they had been sent to "liberate" from Spanish
rule. They
didn't even know who they were killing, and so rationalized their
behavior by
substituting the usual American victims. Colonel Funston, of the Twentieth
Kansas Volunteers, explained what got him motivated in the Philippines:

"Our fighting blood was up and we all wanted to kill 'niggers.' This
shooting human beings is a 'hot game,' and beats rabbit hunting all to
pieces."
Another wrote that "the boys go for the enemy as if they were chasing
jack-rabbits .... I, for one, hope that Uncle Sam will apply the
chastening rod, good,
hard, and plenty, and lay it on until they come into the reservation and
promise to be good 'Injuns.'"

Our military leaders in Iraq continue to personify the unfitness of
Americans to play a major role in the world, much less rule it.

What does this have to do with the Mayflower? Everything. Although possibly
against their wishes, the Pilgrims hosted the Wampanoag for three no doubt
anxious days. The same men killed and enslaved Wampanoags immediately before
and after the feast. They, their newly arrived English comrades and their
children roasted hundreds of neighboring Indians alive just 16 years
later, and
two generations afterwards cleared nearly the whole of New England of its
indigenous "savages," while enthusiastically enriching themselves
through the
invention of transoceanic, sophisticated means of enslaving millions. The
Mayflower's cultural heirs are programmed to find glory in their own
depravity and
savagery in their most helpless victims, who can only redeem themselves by
accepting the inherent goodness of white Americans.
Thanksgiving encourages these cognitive cripples in their madness, just as
it is designed to do.

Things are looking up

We began this essay by saying that "the day grows nearer when the almost
four centuries-old abomination [Thanksgiving] will be deprived of its
reason for
being: white supremacy." We firmly believe this. The wired world works
against the Bushites insane leap to global hegemony, while creating the
material
basis for (dare we say the words) brother- and sisterhood among
humankind. It
becomes clear that the fruits of millennia of human genius cannot be
captured
and packaged for the enrichment of a few for much longer - and certainly not
by a cabal that cannot see beyond the bubble of its own, warped history. The
dim outlines of a new and more democratic world order can be seen in the
often tentative, but sometimes dramatic actions of movements and nations
determined to construct a fairer way to live. As the world witnesses the
brutality,
stupidity and sheer incompetence of the Pirates currently at the helm of the
United States, the urgency of a common, alternative human project becomes
apparent to all. The "end of history" that the Bushites triumphantly
announce
is really the end of them, through a process they have accelerated with
every
deranged action and delusional strategy they have undertaken since 2001.
They are like men in quicksand. White racism as a global scourge will sink
with them, and eventually whither to a mere prejudice rather than a
world-threatening menace.

We at BC are thankful to be alive in the knowledge that a new world is just
over the horizon, close enough to sense, even if we never see it.
We are optimistic about our struggle in the United States - if not, we would
never encourage anybody to fight for anything.

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11yr old Jah Jigga the Future rocking at J. Cole show last night. Footage from CaseyCarter.com #seattle

2010-11-25T10:57:00.001-08:00

11 yr old Jah Jigga the Future rocking at J. Cole show last night. Footage from CaseyCarter.com

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Know Your History: Today, marks the 25th Anniversary of the occupation of Colman School to be a world class African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center

2010-11-24T15:15:00.001-08:00

Know Your History: Today, marks the 25th Anniversary of the occupation of Colman School in Seattle to be a world class African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center providing a center of youth, cultural and economic development in our community.

Due to politics the original vision has yet to be fulfilled, instead we got a condominium development with a sterile museum gallery aka the NAAM Scam. More to come...

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Just got off the phone with my big bro GIANT @bartendazgiant...World famous Harlem Bartendaz to invade Seattle next month...#staytuned #healthiswealth #seattle

2010-11-20T19:55:00.001-08:00

Hood superheroes the Harlem Bartendaz.

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2010-11-18T14:57:00.001-08:00

its amazing that Seattle buses are grimier than NYC buses because NY is way dirtier than Sea

2010-11-18T14:48:00.001-08:00

people watching on third and pine in downtown Seattle interesting to say the least

2010-11-18T12:31:00.001-08:00

Research shows Girls lose their self confidence between 5th and 8th grade -Bill Drayton ...we need to nurture our young queens and they will nurture a better world #wordapp

2010-11-18T12:21:00.001-08:00

I never met Bill Drayton but i can see that we look at things the same in that youth are our most precious but untapped resource #wordapp

2010-11-18T12:15:00.001-08:00

Im honored to be recognized at the Everyone A Changemaker Luncheon with the founder of Ashoka.org Bill Drayton #humbled #seattle

New video @REALROGERS and @THEREALSAME are the MOVE in the booth @UPC206 #seattle #wordapp #newera

2010-11-16T18:57:00.001-08:00

The New Era and I ain't talking about a fitted cap...

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Sewing 101 w/ Mac Fashion House & Sew Beautiful at UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center @UPC206 every Saturday...for the fashionistas @sewbeautiful #seattle

2010-11-13T18:52:00.001-08:00

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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KEXP visits the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center Hiphopreneurs Artist & Label Development Workshop to do story on music and the economy @seattlefm #scom #seattle #KEXP

2010-11-12T11:40:00.001-08:00

Hiphopreneurs CEOs In Training Artist & Label Development Workshop every Thursday @ 4pm

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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