[Anthsoc] For those of you interested in social justice and/or hip hop music!

[Anthropology Society]

Hey folks,

One of UW's newest clubs, the Red Path Society, is hosting an event
next week that may be of interest to some of you. If you are
interested in social justice and/or hip hop music, I highly recommend
you to come check it out. More information about the event can be
found below.

Tickets are on sale in the vendor ally of the SLC from 10-3 tomorrow
(Wednesday) and next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (day of the show).
You can also buy them from the Red Path Society and Students for
Palestinian Rights at Clubs Day this Thursday and Friday. Tickets are
$9 in advance, and $10 at the door.

Cheers,

Erin Stieler
AnthSoc executive member

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For one night only on January 19, in the Tri-City, the Red Path
Society, in cooperation with BASICS Community News Service and Barrio
Nuevo from Toronto, will be bringing you the renowned political
hip-hop trio Rebel Diaz.

Rebel Diaz is based out of the Bronx and Chicago. It consists of
Teresita Ayala (Lah Tere) and brothers Rodrigo Venegas (RodStarz) and
Gonzalo Venegas (G1).

The children of Chilean activists, RodStarz and G1 grew up in
Chicago’s North Side, and Lah Tere was raised in Humboldt Park,
Chicago. Rebel Diaz identify with and position themselves within a
history of political resistance through music, specifically citing the
Nueva canción movement.

Although Rebel Diaz met in Chicago, Illinois, Rebel Diaz was not born
until the three moved to the Bronx - the birthplace of hip hop – to
continue their political activism through hip hop. Rebel Diaz see
themselves as reclaiming hip hop as a tool in the larger struggle
against oppression. RodStarz and G1 work with youth in the South
Bronx, teaching them to use music to express themselves. In March
2009, Rebel Diaz opened the Rebel Diaz Arts Collective, a community
arts center that includes a performance space, a multimedia studio, a
computer lab, and an art gallery located in an abandoned warehouse in
the South Bronx.

The show will also feature performances by local radical spoken word
artists and rock musicians. It will be held at Federation Hall on the
University of Waterloo campus. Tickets will be 10$.

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About Red Path:

The Red Path Society is a new radical collective being built as a tool
for social action and political education in the Tri-City area in
south west Ontario. New members, allies, and guests are requested to
contact us directly at uwrpsociety at gmail.com.

Our effort is largely born out of many years of frustration with the
existing channels for dialogue, political activism, and academic
radicalism. We are single-mothers, students with debt up to our
eyeballs, Natives, members of the queer-and-trans community,
immigrants and refugees, the unemployed and underemployed. Amongst us,
we have Atheists and the Uncertain, we have devout Muslims and
Christians, Sikhs and Jews, people of faith, people of colour, and
people of all walks of life.

We are divorced from the worst of the mainstream, but compassionately
in love with the regular folks at its core.

We are intimately bound to the working class, by blood and sincerity,
by experience and history. Our common struggle is to build a better
world, to take small steps towards a bigger dream.

Our motivations may be diverse, but fairness and justice unify our positions.

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About Students for Palestinian Rights

http://sfpr.uwaterloo.ca/

Students for Palestinian Rights (SFPR) is a non-profit human rights
organization based at the University of Waterloo. SFPR does not
officially endorse any Israeli or Palestinian political party, nor
does it select between a one-state or two-state solution.

Mission Statement

SFPR is committed to

1. Educating University of Waterloo Students and residents of the
Waterloo region about International law and how it pertains to the
Israeli-Palestinian impasse
2. Promoting the recognition of the Palestinian people as the
indigenous people of Palestine and working in solidarity with other
indigenous peoples, on and off campus, in a wider struggle for land,
dignity, and rights.
3. Advocating for the end of Israeli colonialism and all forms of
imperialism that infringe upon the right of the Palestinian people to
self-determination
4. Combating all forms of oppression, racism, discrimination,
misinformation and misrepresentation directed at Palestinians
5. Promoting the Palestinian cause in Canadian political spheres
6. Stressing that struggle of the Palestinian people is not a struggle
against the Jewish people, but rather a struggle against the
colonialist and imperialist policies of the Israeli government and the
ideology upon which the state was formed.



For more information about the concert as well as Students for
Palestinian Rights, please visit http://sfpr.uwaterloo.ca/