[Realhiphopforever] Beats Beat The Police: Commemorating March 15 International Day to End Police Brutality

Sun Feb 28 19:08:19 PST 2016

Beats Beat The Police:
Commemorating March 15 International Day to End Police Brutality

Feast and concert featuring spoken word from King Kimbit and hip-hop by 
Testament from Test Their Logik, Mother Tareka, and Lee Reed and the 
launch of issue 25 of Critical Resistance's newspaper, "The 
Abolitionist"

Opening by Elder Albert Dumont
Emcee: John Akapata
Speakers: Proshanto Smith (Ottawa Panhandler’s Union), Emily Munro 
(POWER), Bridget Tolley (Justice For Gladys Tolley and FSIS), A member 
of Critical Resistance

We acknowledge that Ottawa, and the entire Ottawa river watershed is the 
traditional territory of the Algonquin nation.

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Tuesday, March 15 at 6:30pm - Midnight
SAW Gallery, 67 Nicholas St.
Wheelchair Accessible
All Ages
Pay-What-You-Can
(Suggested donation 5$ - $10)
No One Turned Away

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1647032698896594/
Website: http://endpolicing.wordpress.com
E-mail: endpolicing at gmail.com
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In collaboration with Critical Resistance, the Ottawa Panhandler’s 
Union, Prostitutes of Ottawa/Gatineau Work Educate and Resist (POWER), 
Justice For Gladys Tolley, OPIRG-Ottawa, CKCU 93.1 and CHUO 89.1FM.

Schedule:
6:30pm – Start
6:45pm – Opening with Albert Dumont
7:00pm – Feast
8:00pm – Critical Resistance on the violence of policing
8:30pm – King Kimbit
9:15pm – Mother Tareka
10:00pm – Lee Reed
10:45pm - Testament from Test Their Logik
11:30pm - Closing

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Beats Beat The Police

Join us on March 15 for a feast and spoken word and hip-hop concert!

We will also be commemorating the work being done to end police 
brutality and to celebrate the people, groups and movements working for 
a world without the violence of policing.

It will also be a launch for issue 25 of "The Abolitionist". This issue 
is on POLICING. The Abolitionist is written mostly by prisoners, former 
prisoners, and community advocates, and is a paper that discusses and 
analyzes the prison industrial complex, in order to figure out what it 
will take for us to realize a world without cages.
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King Kimbit

Born as Thu Anh Nguyen in the nation’s capital, King Kimbit takes great 
pride in her roots and heritage while recognizing that her home is here 
in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory. King Kimbit is the daughter 
of a Vietnamese school teacher and a Vietnamese artist, both of whom 
escaped Viet Nam by boat after the war. With her inherited artistic 
abilities, King Kimbit has made a name for herself as a spoken word 
artist across the country as well as in the United States. In 2012, King 
Kimbit was crowned Champion of Urban Legends Poetry Slam as the first 
woman to have won the series, and with that, went on to compete with the 
Urban Legends team in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (the national 
level completion for team poetry slam). In the same year, she was part 
of the Ottawa Youth Poetry Slam project, who won provincials. Since 
then, King has been featured in the Ottawa Versefest Women’s Showcase, 
and various shows around the city. King Kimbit has also featured at the 
Union of North American Vietnamese Students Association's Tenth Annual 
Conference in Anaheim, CA and the 11th conference in Dallas, TX. King 
Kimbit is passionate about working with youth and has facilitated poetry 
workshops for youth in Ottawa, Vancouver, and Washington, DC. Aside from 
poetry, King Kimbit also expresses her art through music. King Kimbit 
has been singing since she was able to speak and grew up performing at 
events for the Vietnamese community in Ottawa.

King Kimbit VERSeFEST 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6FYkz3kK9U
King Kimbit on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kingkimbit
and on Facebook: https://soundcloud.com/kingkimbit

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Mother Tareka

Sax blasting, direct acting, flute tooting, pedal pumping MC Mother 
Tareka is an adopted Hamilton son. 1 part activist, 1 part musician, all 
parts amazing.. Tarek is musically best known as the frontman for the 
Hamilton Hip-Hop-fusion outfit Mother Tareka & The Greezy Steez. Made 
for anti-racism, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, anti-sexism, 
anarchist, and environmentalist movements!

Mother Tareka on Soundcloud: https://mothertareka.bandcamp.com/

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Test Their Logik is a revolutionary anti-authoritarian hip-hop duo that 
have been making music together since 2007. Their first music video 
“Crash The Meeting” led to their arrest during the police repression 
that took place for the 2010 G8/G20 meetings in Toronto. Since then they 
have put out a second album, “Arrested Development”.

Crash The Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ninV5yx7FW4
Democracy’s Bankrupt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxNeeNztto
To check out and download (free) their two Albums, “A” and “Arrested 
Development”: http://www.testtheirlogik.com/#

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LEE REED is a Hamilton O.G. and a veteran of the Kanadian Indie music 
scene. For 20 years he's been stomping stages and studios, spewing his 
unique brand of fiery, anti-capitalist rant-hop. From mouthpiece for the 
legendary Warsawpack, through to his solo work REED has left a dark 
krylon tag across the landscape of the nation's Indie HipHop scene, and 
a jumbo fuel tanker on the fire of revolutionary music worldwide. REED's 
most recent release, 2015's "The Butcher, The Banker, The Bitumen 
Tanker" spent 14 weeks on the National Campus Top 10 HipHop charts, with 
2 weeks in the #1 spot. Hide your bankers! Hide your cops!

Bazooka Rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpZsTnT__O0
This Microphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGvRbHY2W8s
For Lee Reed’s new album, “The Butcher, The Banker, The Bitumen Tanker”: 
https://leereed.bandcamp.com/album/the-butcher-the-banker-the-bitumen-tanker-2

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Our collaborators:

Justice For Gladys Tolley:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/169936953175061/?fref=ts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9VJmkTPVnU

Critical Resistance:

http://criticalresistance.org/

POWER:

http://www.powerottawa.ca/
Challenges: Challenges: Ottawa area sex workers speak out: 
http://www.powerottawa.ca/POWER_Report_Challenges.pdf

Ottawa Panhandler’s Union:

This channel is a document of encounters with Ottawa police: 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7OL9DzIFT_7WnjXjX3nnGA

CKCU 93.1

http://www.ckcufm.com/

CHUO 89.1 FM:

http://chuo.fm/