If you’re in the Tempe, Arizona area tonite, you can put you can move to musica por el movimiento. In direct response to the continued racist and anti-immigrant antics of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, renowned musical artists from Chicago, Detroit, New York, and from the Arizona area are unleashing their lenguas for “Stop the Circus! (Fight for Tolerance, Stop Arpaio)”.

On Wednesday, February 4, 2009 in a shocking display of anti-immigrant racism, the man who calls himself the “Toughest Sheriff in America” publicly chained and paraded 220 immigrant detainees through a gauntlet of media cameras from the Maricopa county jail to outdoor tents. The immigrants housed in the “tent city” will be surrounded by electrified fencing and subject to different disciplinary standards than other prisoners. Disobedience of Sheriff Joe’s “tent city” rules is punishable by chain-gang labor; eerily reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.

Donde :

Stray Cat
2433 E. University Drive
Tempe, AZ
8pm

Scheduled to perform: One Be Lo, Wordsworth, Verbal Kent, G-Owens, Fiyah Station, Nobuddie, Bliss-Writers Bench: Hosted by Wild Life Refuge.

Check out Wordsworth aqui:

Let us not forget the roots of hip hop, as a way of speaking truth to power and reflecting realities ignored in the mainstream media and in portraits of the “American dream”. Protest comes in many forms so let us build movimiento con musica.

For mas informacion contact: Jill Garvey(jill@newcomm.org) at the Center for New Community
312-266-0319 or 773-787-6353 (mobile)