Public Enemy

RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose:
This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly Self Directed Learning Environment.

This Zine is Peoples guide to arguably the "Greatest Rap Music Group of All Times", PE.
A Public Enemy guide with photos, videos, links, feeds, news, comments, group blog and forum. Also providing the latest news on our Freedom Fighters (PP and POW) as the PE logo represents.

Public Enemy, better known by fans as PE, is a seminal hip hop group from Long Island, New York known for their socio-politically conscious lyrics, criticism of mainstream /coporate media and active interest in the issues and concerns of the African American community. Their latest LP, a collection of unreleased tracks, "Beats and Places," was released on the 8th of November 2005.

They will be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.

They are ranked #44 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list and in the near future, should be one of the first rap artists inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Help us document their history and journey with your photos, videos, links, feeds, news and comments. Share with the community in our PE group blog and discussion forums.

In the interest of being ture to the PE message and Logo this wikizine will also keep the community up to speed on those socio-political issues and topics their music so powerfully speaks to. This will and should include issues and current events involving the present day Black Power Movement and our Nu Afrikan Political Prisioners and Prisoners Of War.

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Celebrating Mumia Abu-Jamal's 55th birthday: April 24, 2009, at the Humanist Hall in Oakland, California

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April 24, 2009, at the Humanist Hall in Oakland, California:

Celebrating Mumia Abu-Jamal's 55th birthday and the release of his new book "Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A."

The featured speakers included: Angela Davis, Ed Mead, Tony Serra, Chela Simone, The Molotov Mouths, Nina Serrano, Richard Brown, POCC Minister of Information JR, Noelle Hanrahan, Lynne Stewart, Mistah F.A.B., and more.

The event was produced by Prison Radio & City Lights, and co-sponsored by Labor Action Committee for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Poor Magazine, Mobilization to Free Mumia, Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC), International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the National Lawyers Guild.

Read the SF Bay View Newspaper report and listen to the complete audio recording of this event at www.blockreportradio.com in parts one and two.

"More Than A Book Party" events were held across the US around April 24, in Philadelphia (including a Revolutionary Week of Events), NYC, Oakland, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland, Seattle & Olympia, WA, Houston, Washington, DC, and Baltimore.

You can purchase Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A. directly from City Lights Books. In Mumia's words, "This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities, but in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the hidden, dank dungeons of America… It is law learned in a stew of bitterness, under the constant threat of violence, in places where millions of people live, but millions of others wish to ignore or forget. It is law written with stubs of pencils, or with four-inch-long rubberized flex-pens, with grit, glimmerings of brilliance, and with clear knowledge that retaliation is right outside the cell door. It is a different perspective on the law, written from the bottom, with a faint hope that a right may be wronged, an injustice redressed. It is Hard Law."

Read reviews by: Carolina Saldaña, Linn Washington, Jr., J. Patrick O'Connor, Jaisal Noor, Todd S. Burroughs, Harvey “Tee” Earvin, and Kiilu Nyasha

Below is the interview with Mumia about his new book, then followed by the book's foreword, written by Angela Y. Davis.

http://abu-jamal-news.com/article?name=jlboak

From: Hans Bennett <hbjournalist@ gmail.com>
Hi folks,
I have just finished posting up a whole bunch of videos from the April 24 event for Mumia that was held in Oakland, California. Because this was very time-consuming, it took a little while, but as they say "better late than never." Be sure and check out the wide range of speakers and performances, and please help spread the word.

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