SFBA Haps (NorCal)

Hal Womack 3-dan

2006-09-16 23:49:31 UTC

I myself am an OWF or Old White Fart, born while both the
all-victorious imperial war-monger Franklin Roosevelt and his
smashingly defeated enemy Adolf Hitler were still alive but just barely
in each egregious individual case. What I know about hip-hop might fit
into a thimble. Of course, the asymptotic evolution of technology plays
hob with old expressions: These days, how many thimbles would it really
take to hold all of the info in the Library of Congress?

MRA or "Moving Right Along": On first reading of "Strategy"s
typically coarse challenge to my post in rmhh, I wondered should
whether it* was actually due some kind of apology for my failure to
include an "O.T." warning label. (* Posters using pen-names fall into
the neuter ghostie category, right, like the ubiquitous anonymous
spokesters haunting the Official Propaganda System alias "mainstream
news media"?) So I googled 4 h-h combos and --guess what?-- "hip-hop +
Mumia*" yields 268K Gits or Google Hits; + Iraq = 11.8 million; + Arab
= 8.68 million and + movie = 39 million.
(*Note that the fake-named degenerate "Itza BM" had already posted its
umpty-dozenth howl for the murder of Mumia.)
Since the second half of my post (Did Strat read that far?) plugged a
movie about Iraq at the Arab film festival, I reckon that the relevance
issue is thereby settled many million times over, even without
mentioning the virtually automatic qualification of a title like BLOOD
OF MY BROTHER {"BOMB"}.

As long as we're here, mizewell throw in another upcoming
NorCal event, to wit, the national 5 October date for the "World Can't
Wait" outfit's rally against the Bush Regime.
http://www.worldcantwait.net/

Notes to be expanded:

MAJ for A) the Supreme Court and B) Revolutionary Committee for the
Liberation of Prisoners and the Slamming of Villains

DOGTIK-kers

ABCOJ

Good Glob!

MAMAS' PAY

Provisional Revolutionary Government of Earth = PRGE

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1) From Da Puke:

Why is that waste of skin Wes Cooke still drawing breath.
He should have been gut shot and left to die years ago.
TANJ.
IBM
What the fuck does this have to do with hip-hop again?
Or am I so famous that people post anything having to do with the bay
area here?
STRATEGY
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2) Legit Coverage:

© 2006 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/657/

Mumia: King of Raptivism

By Carrie Ching, AlterNet
Posted on April 26, 2000, Printed on September 16, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/657/

Thanks to the cultural shift towards Afro-conscious, politicized
hip-hop -- a far cry from the lowrider, booty rap of yesteryear --
progressive activism has found the perfect medium for reaching a new
generation. And Pennsylvania death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal -- the
man, the myth, the mystery -- owes much of his renewed fame to the
publicity he's gained through hip-hop.

Rap groups like Public Enemy, Poor Righteous Teachers, and X-Clan have
been filtering charged Afro-centric messages through their music since
the late 80s. They tackled street violence, racism, and police
brutality -- but rarely have so many artists focused in on one specific
cause as they have for Mumia.

It's standard these days to see "Free Mumia!" tables being set up
beside the stage at hip-hop concerts, with flyers, stickers, and
T-shirts for sale -- and young fans gathered around with genuine
interest, signing petitions. And it's not unusual to find big name
artists like the Beastie Boys, Digital Underground, and The Coup on the
bill for Mumia benefit concerts around the nation. A group of prominent
rap artists, including Aceylone and Chuck D, recently formed a
collective called Mumia 911, their first self-titled single out last
July. And New York-based Project Raptivism -- another collaborative
effort by the Dead Prez, Chubb Rock, and the Last Poets, among others
-- supports political prisoners like Mumia by pledging sales from their
first album "No More Prisons" to the non-profit Prison Moratorium
Project.

Beyond the big concert halls and amphitheaters, Mumia almost always
gets his plug at underground hip-hop shows. On the West Coast, the
political youth coalition Third Eye Movement has fused grassroots
activism with hip-hop as a form of organizing and educating young
people. At a San Francisco benefit in November, Third Eye brought
together hip-hop, blues, spoken word, along with old-fashioned oral
lecturing to protest sweatshop labor, political prisoners, and the
state's forthcoming youth crime bill. In a small club, a quarter
century after the first sparks of the civil rights movement, a woman in
her early 20s led the handful of young people in the audience in
chanting: "Ain't no power but the power of the people, and the power of
the people don't stop!"

It's no surprise that the new politicized hip-hop has snapped up the
"Free Mumia!" campaign. Censorship is no stranger to hip-hop, and Mumia
has fought being silenced since the 1970s -- inside and outside of
prison. And like Malcolm X, another leader with hip-hop appeal, Mumia's
message is easily translated into hip-hop form. Many of his themes are
nothing new, but societal ills like institutionalized racism, the
corruption of the government and media, and the prison industrial
complex are affecting a new generation of marginalized youth, and
creating a new generation of Mumia supporters.

As one high school student from Oakland, California told the online
zine Revolutionary Worker: "It's like now Mumia is trapped. He don't
have nowhere to go. And kids now, we're trapped, we don't have nowhere
to go. So we got to fight his struggle ... the youth are tired of being
under the gun."

But the most critical factor in Mumia's hip-hop acclaim is language.
Hip-hop speaks to inner-city youth in a language they can understand
and relate to -- and Mumia is certainly well versed when it comes to
language. His essays and oral lectures have found their way into
hip-hop radio shows, spoken word events, even modern dance
performances. The essay "A Rap Thing" -- in which Mumia criticizes the
commercialization of rap and the corporate influence on hip-hop culture
-- was dubbed by reporter Dalton Higgins of Now magazine in Toronto
"one of the most poignant artifacts of Gen-X hip-hop culture."
(Ironically, the entire audio-tape collection is only available for
sale -- Amazon.com carries it for $10.49.)

Although Mumia is a symbol of the fight against African American
political repression, his appeal stretches beyond the boundaries of
culture, community, even country. Latin hip-hop group Ozomatli -- which
frequently rallies for the Zapatista revolution in Chiapas -- has been
known to give a shout-out to Mumia at their concerts. And Rage Against
the Machine -- which spans the genres of hip-hop, rock, and punk music
-- sponsored a benefit concert in early December, only to be
blackballed by the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police.

But Americans aren't the only ones rallying. Rap groups from across
Europe, and throughout South America and the Caribbean have produced
songs written specifically for Mumia. Last October, a Hamburg-based
artist performed a new bilingual rap he had written for a "Move for
Mumia" benefit concert in Berlin. The song, appropriately titled "Move
for Mumia," opened with the German slogan: "USA -- Hande weg von
Mumia!" (USA -- Keep your hands away from Mumia!). It seems the "Free
Mumia!" movement has been picked up in places where few know who he is,
or the details of his case.
So who is Mumia anyway? Is he a cop killer? Is he a messiah? Or is he
just a man who got caught up in a bad situation, at the wrong time in
history? It seems like it doesn't really matter anymore what happened
that night in 1981, whether he really shot Daniel Faulkner, whether it
was self-defense or not. Mumia is much more than that man sitting in a
cell on Death Row. He's a symbol, a figure to rally around, a focal
point for a new generation of activists searching for something to
believe in. And in his climb to revolutionary fame, he's created an
entire new culture of activism -- with hip-hop in the forefront as the
medium of expression -- a community where movements are created and
communicated which reach far beyond just the life and death of Mumia
Abu-Jamal
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3.) From Me To Crim:

The White House
Washington D.C.

Dear President Bush,

How many people have you murdered worldwide since you stole into
office in 2001? Has anyone in your entourage who can count, kept count
for you? If you want a hopeless legal hassle over semantics, then you
can give me the number for the ones you've "killed" and I'll convert
that datum straight over. A friend of mine is helping to organize the
"World Can't Wait" (to get rid of you) demos on October 5th and I
promised him to ask a few experts for their estimates of the corpse
toll on your watch. So I mizewell start with the horse's ass, right?
Then simply copy this letter to the genuine authorities, from whom I
might actually get a proper reply. This note just to rattle your cage,
Great White Monkey Boy.

While we're talking, Junior, will you finally come clean and give the
Aerial Shaboom, Hank Kissinger Kabal due credit for setting up the
9/11 made-for-TV stunt and the _Sayeret Matkal_ the same for executing
it? This buzz about interior explosives also being used to bring down
the WTC --izzat only a distraction or did your handlers really go to
all that extra trouble for the sake of the fine footage?

You be one doomed bonehead fratrat, a Connecticut Yankee Yalie who
slept over in Sam Houston's house. You think, as it were, that you can
walk forever on a lake of innocent life's blood?

Nigh on fourteen billion eyes are watching you closley for any signs
of humanity. I daresay that we are making our own plans, one of them
already mentioned, to deal with the planetary crisis created by the
tyranny for which you front. Personally I feel that in due time
--after your arrest, trial, conviction and sentencing for multiple war
crimes-- we may be able to use you in physical therapy for some of the
young victims of your current cruel attacks.

The strategy of our law-enforcing rainbow race will surely involve
using free debate on the Internet utterly to vanquish the wretched
anti-Semitic (literally speaking) lies of the Jews' Propaganda System
alias the "Mainstream News Media". Speaking of which, I am CC'ing also
four other foul felons besides yourself, namely the two Senators* from
California & San Francisco's two Congress critters, Tom the Bomb* and
Notorious Nancy.

(*Fails to provide an eddress; so the 3 Jews on the list of 4
"representatives" of a ~98%normal alias "gentile" electorate will have
to read about it here instead.)

Whatever the best estimated figure we do come up with in answer to my
original question, we know that the Scientific Truth = "Way too many,
already."

Sincerely, Hal Womack

24/7 tel.# = 415/788-5701
That Ol' Lonesome Road
San Francisco CA 94133
U.S.A.

http://www.myspace.com/halwomack
http://blog.myspace.com/halwomack
"MySpace" account be extremely buggy
but sometimes the links work directly. Cut & paste into the address
bar a possible back-up.

"BEtween Just yoU & Me & the TELephone KOmpany" =
BEJUMTELKO

From: Hal Womack <***@gmail.com> Mailed-By: gmail.com

To: George Bush <***@whitehouse.gov>
Cc: Nancy Pelosi <***@mail.house.gov>
Date: Sep 16, 2006 4:37 PM
Subject: Body Count?

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Post by STRATEGY
What the fuck does this have to do with hip-hop again?
Or am I so famous that people post anything having to do with the bay
area here?
STRATEGY