[antiwar-van] June 8-12 MAWO Presents: Vancouver’s First Ever Hip Hop Festival Against War & Occupation

Fri Jun 3 15:47:26 PDT 2005

Subject: Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 18:40:48 -0400 (EDT)

Mobilization Against War and Occupation – MAWO

http://www.mawovancouver.org/hiphop | info at mawovancouver.org | 604-322-1764 

June 3rd, 2005

News Item

For Immediate Release:

Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) presents:

Vancouver’s First ever Hip Hop Festival Against War and Occupation! 

Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) uses Hip Hop Festival to build a movement against war and occupation!

ALL SHOWS FREE !  

Wednesday June 8th: 

Sonar Nightclub (66 Water Street – Gastown). Doors 8pm / Show 9pm

Thursday June 9th: 

El Cocal Restaurant (1037 Commercial Drive). Doors 7pm / Show 8pm (all ages)

Friday June 10th: 

Edmonds Community Centre (7282 Kingsway, Burnaby). Doors 6pm / Show 8pm (all ages)

Saturday June 11th: 

Grandview Park (Outdoor show – Commercial Drive and Charles Street) 12noon to 6pm (all ages)

Sunday June 12th: 

Britannia Community Centre (Commercial Drive at Napier Street) Public forum on 

“Hip Hop as a weapon against war and occupation” Forum from 3:30pm to 6pm (all ages) 

*Complete program attached at bottom.

>From June 8th to 12th Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) is organizing a hip hop festival against war and occupation. This completely free festival will be held in five different venues and will feature more than 25 local hip hop artists, MCs, DJs, break dancers and graffiti artists. 

Every show of MAWO’s Hip Hop Festival Against War and Occupation will be a cultural showcase against war and occupation. The Hip Hop Festival Against War and Occupation features people and groups from all around the world and from all communities including internationally renowned Punjabi hip hop crew Signia, Latino hip hoppers like Pablucci and Platino Latino Productions, Indigenous hip hoppers Sunday School Dropoutz, and East Vancouver-local high school hip hop crews like The Main Offenders and youth break dance groups.

MAWO organizer Ivan Drury explained, “Representing the international struggles of oppressed people for dignity and self determination is at the core of the anti-war movement that Mobilization Against War and Occupation is committed to building. The Hip Hop crews performing at this festival represent the communities in Vancouver and in the world that have been the hardest hit by the current era of war and occupation – young people, people from the third world and especially Indigenous hip hoppers.”

MAWO’s Hip Hop Festival Against War and Occupation is groundbreaking for the anti-war movement in Canada as well as for the hip hop community. 

“The links between hip hop culture and war and occupation have never been more clear than today,” said Hip Hop Festival Against War and Occupation spokesperson Nicole Burton. “From urban youth of all backgrounds to Indigenous reservations across Canada to the Gaza Strip in Palestine, hip hop is blowing up as part of a movement for dignity and justice for people who are oppressed by war and occupation. For the first time in Canada, MAWO is bringing the anti-war movement and hip hop directly together in a festival to strengthen, popularize and diversify the politics and makeup of both movements.” 

On top of massive support from within the hip hop scene in Vancouver, MAWO’s Hip Hop Festival Against War and Occupation has found incredible broad support from sixteen endorsers including the City of Burnaby.

MAWO’s Hip Hop Festival Against War and Occupation is endorsed by: City of Burnaby, Exclaim! Magazine, Capilano Students Union, Terminal City Newspaper, Fire This Time Newspaper, Republic Newspaper, CJSF Radio 90.1 FM (SFU Radio), CITR Radio 101.9 FM (UBC Radio), Youth Third World Alliance, Camobear Records, Boomtown Records, Beatstreet Records, Redcat Records, LiveMusicVancouver.com, Imagination-Treetrunk, and Dreameyes Entertainment, FOCCED 

For more information, contact festival spokespersons:

Ivan Drury 

Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO)

778-889-4761

Nicole Burton

Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO)

604-710-4994

For details on the festival, also see: 

http://www.mawovancouver.org/hiphop 

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Mobilization Against War and Occupation – MAWO presents:

Vancouver’s first ever 

HIP HOP FESTIVAL AGAINST WAR AND OCCUPATION!

Wednesday June 8th

“Voices of the world against war and occupation!”

Sonar Nightclub (66 Water Street)

Doors 8pm / Show 9pm

FREE!

Signia – Internationally renowned Punjabi-influenced hip hop crew

Groundbreakers – Local independent conscious hip hop – ALBUM RELEASE!

Sunday School Dropoutz – Manik, Os12, and Sichuan, Famous local Indigenous hip hop crew (As part of their ‘Bear spray mix tape’ tour)

Syck Sense – includes DJ Doolz, MC Practical, and CAP C

Ndidi Cascade – Local independent hip hop sensation

OSO and Pablucci – local Latin hip hop MCs

DJ Dani B & DJ Ted D – Local DJs

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Thursday June 9th:

“Stop the War Abroad and at Home!”

El Cocal (1037 Commercial Drive)

Doors 7pm / Show 8pm

FREE!

All Ages! 

Illa Brown – Local MC / hip hop host, the backbone of Vancity

Sunday School Dropoutz - Manik, Os12, and Sichuan, Famous local Indigenous hip hop crew (As part of their ‘Bear spray mix tape’ tour)

Ghos Fienz – Van City party hip hop at its best

Okalani – Indigenous free-style soul

Freedom Sun – Local anti-imperialist MC

Influents - Live band local hip hop

Chadio with Azreal – Union sponsored unreal hip hop crew

Dj Excede – Local DJ sensation

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Friday June 10th:

“We’re Youth, We’re Students, We’re Anti-war!”

Edmonds Community Centre (7282 Kingsway – Burnaby)

Doors 6pm / Show 7pm

FREE! 

ALL AGES!

Lady Sincere –Indigenous free style MC

Platino Latino Productions (PLP) – Latin hip hop crew

Sunday School Dropoutz - Manik, Os12, Sichuan, Famous local Indigenous hip hop crew (As part of their ‘Bear spray mix tape’ tour)

Burnaby North High School Break Dance Crew – High school break dance crew
 how can you go wrong?

The Main Offenders – Notorious East Van Hip Hop

Groundbreakers - Local independent conscious hip hop – ALBUM RELEASE!

DJ Doolz – To make you move and groove, part of Syck Sense 

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Saturday June 11th:

“All Peoples, All Day, for the Self Determination of All Oppressed Nations!”

Grandview Park (Commercial Drive at Charles Street)

12noon to 6pm

OUTDOOR SHOW!

FREE!

ALL AGES! 

Threat From Outer Space – Vancouver’s independent hip hop at its best

Britannia High School Break Dance Crews – High school break dance heroes on their own turf

Spokes – Reverse Priorities member on the back of his new solo album, ‘Driven’

Sketchbros – “the most urgent voices in BC Hip Hop” – Georgia Strait

Emotionz  - Van City hip hop heavy staple MC

Genetics – Hip Hop young women trio

Milky Way Travelers – Live, chill, hip hop and soul

Tapwater – Runnin with Redcat records, local hip hop crew

Freedom Sun – Local anti-imperialist MC

Sunday School Dropoutz- Manik, Os12, Sichuan, Famous local Indigenous hip hop crew (As part of their ‘Bear spray mix tape’ tour)

Platino Latin Productions - Latin hip hop crew

Azrael / Aspire – Union sponsored Hip Hop heads

DJ Rhek One, Helpcomputer, DJ Kid knowledge & Hayze, DJ Dani B, DJ Doolz – A collection of all the best DJs Van City has to offer 

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Sunday June 12th:

“Hip Hop as a Weapon Against War and Occupation”

Free Public forum to close off the Hip Hop Festival Against War and Occupation

Britannia Community Centre (Commercial Drive at Napier Street)

3:30pm to 6pm

FREE!

ALL AGES!

Manik 1derful  - Local Indigneous MC and member of ‘Sunday School Dropoutz’ and the Haida Council on the rise of Hip Hop as a means of resistance on Indigneous reservations across Canada

Aaron Mercredi – Redwire Native Youth Media and Youth Third World Alliance on the emergence of Hip Hop as resistance in Palestine and throughout the third world.

Nicole Burton – Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO), on the reasons for this festival and the important of the merging of the anti-war movement and hip hop

PLUS: Hip Hop music videos from around the world 

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For more information see: 

http://www.mawovancouver.org/hiphop 

Call: 778-889-4761 

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