The Radical Artists Movement presents Sean-Toure and Legion Lost live in concert! Join R.A.M. for an evening of arts and activism, hiphop and roots rock!
With a special appearance by Kim Snowden of the Coalition against the BGE Rate Hikes to update the community on the Coalition’s fight to pass legislation reducing BGE rates to pre-rate hike levels. R.A.M. will also take a moment to commemorate the life and times of Marcus Garvey, leader of the United Negro Improvement Association and the creator of the Back to Africa movement.
General Admission: $6
Location: 2640 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD
(R.A.M. is premiering its monthly series, R.A.M. Presents! Subsequent R.A.M. Presents! will be the third Thursday of every month)
7:30 - 8:30 - open mic/music w/ Slick Vic Low & DJ (?)
8:35 - 8:45 - united workers presentation w/ visuals
8:45 - 9:00 - special performance (uwa musical fam?)
9:00 - 11pm- featured performances artists include:
- Sean-Toure *hip hop
- Ryan Harvey *folk
- R.A.M. (radical artist movement w/ Ron W., Jahannibal, Jassaga, and S.O.N.) *spoken
word/hiphop/experimential (experiential) drumming
- Joel David *acoustic
*not necessarily in this order*
this event is byob, there's a store w/ in walking distance but no open containers will be
allowed outside.
An amazing concert with independent Hip Hop artists from around the country, coming together to build opposition to the continuing occupation of Iraq. With performances by:
Akir
Son of Nun
A Alikes
Articulate
DJ Chela
readnex poetry squad
plus testimony against the occupation from Cindy Sheehan from Gold Star Families For Peace, Iraq Vets Against the War and Military Families Speak Out, and with Rev. Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus as MC. More info…
On 19 January 2007, R.A.M. (Radical Artist Movement) along with Legion Lost participated in a benefit performance @ 2640 for Red Emmas in honor of Dr. King. This is one of the pieces I performed. Additional videos here.
Historical amnesia always favors oppressors
Ignorance is most powerful
when wearing the uniform
of intelligent organization
The truth of self-realization
is Spiritual Balance
for eternal generations
No brute can tear into you
And no tyranny can bury you
The discipline of the doer
is the knowledge of work
and the art of exertion and order
Slavery is blasphemy
to the human condition
And is the construct of evildoers
and the bullies of industry -
Earth desecrated by vampire empires
People are given no time
to know themselves,
regurgitating indoctrination -
clones of the perfected circuitry
and vulnerable prey to the horrific structures
and constrictions of the ever transient Mob Kingdoms
who magically mask their muck and slime
behind
mounds of manufactured illusions of cleanliness
Only your heart and your art
can offer true liberation and freedom
It is time for fire-music
It is time for the language of rebellion
and creative revolution
to lift the righteous forces
from the spell of the diabolical ruling classes
Refusing to mirror the madness of your rulers
is to first appear to be outside of your sanity
But this is the first real spiritual appeal
to the Creator’s gateway, establishing
a true, divine solidarity -
at one with your Soul’s ascendency, infinitely
in sanity
What may be good for barbarians
is not good for me
What may be good for Christ-killers
is not good for me,
therefore
i separate myself from the sickness of the planet
i separate myself from the sickness in the community
i separate myself from the sickness of many ideologies
i separate myself from the sickness of the nation-state
i separate myself from the sickness of production, wear,
rust, and distrust
i separate myself
i separate myself
i separate myself
i separate myself
from the Psychotic Republic