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Heroes
God Almighty!Sitting Bull, Winnie Mandela, Arundhati Roy, Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Ho Chi Minh, Sojourner Truth, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Emma Goldman, William Blum, Jomo Kenyatta, Allen Ginsberg, Rita Mae Brown, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Alice Walker, Tariq Ali, Albert Memmi, Barbara Smith, Crazy Horse, Ramsey Clark, Simon Boli var, Angelina Grimke Weld, Eduardo Galeano, Edward Said, Sunera Thobani, Aime Cesaire, Zapatista National Liberation Army, Mark Twain, Marcus Garvey, Vandana Shiva, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie, Tecumseh, Toussaint L'Ouverture, June Jordan, Eugene Debs, Huey Newton, Bell Hooks, Hannah Arendt, James Connolly, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ward Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Bobby Sands, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Leonard Peltier, Stan Goff, Assata Shakur, Maya Angelou, Kuwasi Balagoon, Toni Cade Bambara, Martin Luther King, Jr, H. "Rap" Brown, Russell Means, James Baldwin, David Walker, Immortal Technique Maria W. Stewart, John Trudell, Augusto Cesar Sandino, Rita "Bo" Brown, Susan B. Anthony, Tom Borge , Thomas Paine, Sergio Arceo, Utah Phillips, Jose Morelos, Grace Lee Boggs, Oscar Romero, Ralph Chaplin, William Jelani Cobb, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Rosa Parks, Chief Atai, Miguel Hidalgo, Norman Solomon, Muhammad Ali, W.E.B. Du Bois, William Upski Wimsatt, Dick Gregory, Steve Biko, Sonia Sanchez, Frederick Douglass, Eldridge Cleaver, Paul Robeson, Vine Deloria, Chief Seattle, Harriet Tubman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bob Marley, Chief Joseph, Wole Soyinka, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Cherre Moraga, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Will Rogers, James W. Loewen, Luther Standing Bear, Ohiyesa, Winona LaDuke, Albert Einstein, Audre Lorde, Denis Hayes, Earth Liberation Front, Wangari Maathai, Friedrich Engels, Judi Bari, Robert Bullard, Manfred Max-Neef, Edward Abbey, Toni Morrison, Mary Daly, Julia Butterfly Hill, David Suzuki, Louise Michel, Peter Singer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Carl Oglesby, Bernadette Devlin, Subcomandante Marcos, Mother Jones, Welfare Poets, George Jackson, Etienne de la Boetie, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, Albert Camus, Howard Zinn, The Coup, Karl Marx, Patrice Lumumba, Joan Baez, Mao Tse-Tung, Daniel O'Connell, Daniel Berrigan, Emma Goldman, Adrienne Rich, A. Philip Randolph, Mordechai Vanunu, Public Enemy, Mario Savio, Mario Hardy Ramirez, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Cornel West, John Brown, Fred Hampton, Michael Franti, Franz Fanon, David Gilbert, Rod Coronado, Fidel Castro, Michael Albert, Ramona Africa, Ida B. Wells, Martin Niemoller, Paul Laraque, Cynthia McKinney, Pete Seeger, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ewuare Osayande, Guillermo Gomez-Peta, Jose Marti, Robin Morgan, Jean Jacques Dessalines, Amiri Baraka, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pedro Albizu Campos, Starhawk, Guy Fawkes, Wendell Phillips, Chinua Achebe, Yuri Kochiyama, John Africa, Helen Keller, Mikhail Bakunin, Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, Noam Chomsky, Fela Kuti, Gloria Steinem, Heinrich Heine, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Michael Berg, Marilyn Buck, Black Hawk, Salvador Allende, George Santayana, Patrice Lumumba, Aurora Levins Morales, Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis, Michael Parenti, Geronimo, Jello Biafra, Greg Palast, Langston Hughes, Chuck D, Pablo Picasso, Joe Hill, Martin Espada, Cherrie Moraga, Woody Guthrie, Thom Yorke, Mutulu Shakur, Nikki Giovanni, Jeff Chang, Gary Delgado, Susan Sontag, Peter Tosh, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sarah Grimko, Shirley Chisholm, Bernardine Dohrn, Susan Faludi, Virginia Woolf, Mariam Makeba, Paula Giddings, Rebecca Walker, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Aung San Suu Kyi, Camille Paglia, Simone de Beauvoir, Alicia Banks, Sylvia Ray Rivera, Gloria Anzaldia, Robin Tyler, Alexander Berkman, Mother Jones, Studs Terkel, H Rap Brown, August Spies, Barbara Ehrenrei, ch Shirin Ebadi, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Kathy Kelly, John Stockwell, Desmond Tutu, David P. Richardson, Eric Alterman, Magdaleno Rose-Avila, Gary Null, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, John Edgar Wideman, Michel Foucault, Last Poets, Lenny Bruce, Shaka Sankofa, Kevin Cooper, "Zamba" Boukman Dutty, Fannie Lou Hamer, Simone Weil, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ernesto Cardenal, Medgar Evers, Chico Mendes, Chris Hedges, Randolph Bourne, Elias Rashmawi, Woody Harrelson, Smedley Butler, Tim Wise, Camilo Mejia, The Mau Mau, John Oliver Killens, Oscar Brown Jr., Dr. Khalid Muhammad etc.
BRUCE GEORGE's Details
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In a Relationship
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Networking, Friends
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Straight
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5' 10" / Slim / Slender
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Black / African descent
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Virgo
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No / No
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Proud parent
Education:
Post grad
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Entrepreneur
BRUCE GEORGE "When puppets are outlawed, outlaws will have puppets." Posted at 8:58 PM Nov 10 view more
Bruce is an Advisory Board Member with: www.poetryspeaks.com
Bruce is an Executive Consultant with "HIP HOP GROWS UP, Inc." http://www.hiphopgrowsup.com
Bruce has his own online social network via “Ning”: "The People Power Network" a grassroots platform: http://thepeoplepowernetwork.ning.com/
Bruce has joint-ventured with Harold Whaley who's the COO
of Mongram Virtua and Terry Cyrus of OutSpoken Media as Virtual Consultants within "Second Life" www.secondlife.com which is an entire virtual world.
Bruce is one of the founders of an anti-violence/poverty intitiative entitled "The American Experiment Peace Project" www.myspace.com/theamericanexperiment
Bruce is the Executive Consultant/VP of Business Development of Gumbo For The Soul Publications www.gumboforthesoul.com
Bruce is the Executive Consultant/VP Business Development of the "International Hip-Hop Speakers Bureau." www.hiphopspeakersbureau.com
Bruce is the Executive Consultant for Audible,Inc. creating/providing "Top Tier" Podcasting-i-Tune & i-Pod content of celebrities,Spoken Word Artists,rappers, authors,comedians, singers etc.2006
Bruce was a "Panelist" for American Idol Underground's Spoken Word competition: www.idolunderground.com 2006.
Bruce is the Founder of "Ebony Energy Talent Network (EETN): www.ebonyenergytalentnetwork.com" which includes a Speakers Bureau/Talent Network including Dr. Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Malik Yoba, The Last Poets, Umi Smith (Mos Def's mother), Tray Chaney (HBO's the Wire), Black Ice (HBO's Def Poetry))etc. Within (EETN) Bruce created the "Stop the Violence to Increase the Peace, Anti-Gang Violence Initiative." Featuring well-known and respected Ex-Gang Leaders (Bone-Athens Park Blood/cameo in the movie "Training Day", T. Rodgers-BPS, Redstorm-Ex-G.D./Def Poetry (HBO) etc.) from across the country etc.
Bruce has partnered with Ray Mapp of Purpose Publishing, Inc: www.blackmiracles.com Purpose Publishing specializes in Black Inventors (Tee-Shirt series/Posters), publishing, advanced silkscreen printing etc.2006.
Bruce is the Executive Consultant for Rebel Poetry Spoken Word: www.rebelpoetryspokenword.com 2005.
Bruce is the Executive Consultant for Step to The Mic based in Stockton, CA.2005.
Bruce is on the Spoken Word Committee of the New York Chapter of the Recording Academy (Grammys)2004.
Bruce is the Executive Producer/Segment Producer of Focused Digizine, which is the worlds first Digizine to provide edutainment for the Hip-Hop nation. 2004.
Bruce is the President/Co-Founder of Outspoken, Where Word & World Connect a primo Spoken Word Magazine scheduled to launch in the fall of 2004.
Bruce is the Founder/Managing Editor of: The Bandana Republic, a Literary Anthology of Poetry and Prose by Gang Members and their Affiliates. Louis Reyes Rivera is the Co-Founder/Editor and Football Hall of Fame/Activist/Actor Jim Brown of Amer-I-Can has written the Foreword. Soft Skull Press is the Publisher: www.softskull.com
Bruce was the Co-CEO of BGC Entertainment, LLC 2003-2003.
Bruce was the Executive Consultant for Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003 Tony Award Winner).
Bruce was the Executive Producer /Talent Executive Producer of Russell Simmons, Presents Def Poetry (HBO) 1st & 2nd Seasons.
Bruce is the Founder/CEO of SHHH! LLC.
Bruce is the Founder/CEO of Bone Bristle Entertainment, LLC.
Bruce is the Co-Founder of Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam.
Bruce is the Founder/Executive Producer of: Bone Bristle, a Spoken Word Documentary (Feature length film, in post-production). AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS:2006.
2009 – Bruce was nominated for an Award entitled: “The 7th Annual in the Trenches Award.” This award is given to those who are change agents throughout the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-ub20zlAFY&feature=player_embedded
2009 - Bruce received a State of California Senate Certificate of Recognition for his book “The Bandana Republic, a Literary Anthology by Gang Members and their Affiliates.” The certificate was signed by Senator Mark Leno of the 3rd District.
2009 - Bruce received a Letter of Commendation –United States Senate- for community work and uplifting people in need. The letter was signed by Senator Dianne Feinstein.
2009 – Bruce received a Certificate of Recognition for being “In the Trenches” as a motivating force in empowering change. The certificate was awarded by Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services, Inc. The certificate was signed by Dr. George W. Davis (Executive Director) & Mr. Frank Williams (Director of the Senior Ex-Offender Program)
2009 – Bruce received a Certificate of Honor via San Francisco’s 7th Annual “In the Trenches Awards Ceremony” for the impact his book “The Bandana Republic, a Literary Anthology by Gang Members and their Affiliates” is having in society.
The certificate was signed by the Mayor of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2009 – Bruce received a “Community Recognition Award” and a “Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition.” The Award was signed by a Member of Congress (the Congress women’s name was not legible).
2009 – Bruce received a “Certificate of Honor” by the Board of Supervisors City and County of San Francisco for his book ““The Bandana Republic, a Literary Anthology by Gang Members and their Affiliates.” The certificate was signed by Supervisor Sophenia Maxwell and nine other members.
2009 – Bruce received a “Certificate of Recognition” from the State of California Secretary of State for his endless dedication t uplift those in need. The certificate was signed by the Secretary of State Ms. Debra Bowen.
Bruce was awarded the 2006 Honorary Membership, Rhyme N Chat Interactive Poetry Organization. This award was in appreciation for his support given in 2005 by Rhyme N Chat for Bruce continuing to be a positive force in the continued growth of RNC.2006.
Bruce was honored by Disilogold Soul Magazine as one of the Top Twenty Five Men of The Year, in a category with fellow honorees Michael Baisden, Bill Cox, Omar Tyree, Bill Mc Creary etc. 2005.
Bruce was the recipient of the distinguished Trail Blazer Award presented by Great Publishing Company, LLC. 2004.
Bruce was the Honorable Recipient of the Disilgold Soul Magazines Most Sought After Poet by The Media.2004.
Bruce was the Recipient of the YouNity Reviewers Guild Living Legendary Spoken Word Artist of The Year.2004.
Bruce was the recipeint of the Disilgold Soul Magazines Most Innovative Anthology of the New Year.
Bruce is the Founder/Managing Editor of "The Bandana Republics Anthology of Poetry and Prose from Gang Members and Their Affiliates."
2008 – Bruce received a “Certificate of Recognition” by the “Red I Gravy Affair End The Chao’s Program” for his work inmates at the San Bruno County Facility Jail in San Francisco California. The award was presented by Rashna Owens-Clark (Program Facilitator)
2008 -Bruce received the “Sparkle Award” for community activism Presented by Maelan Magazine: www.maelanmagazine.com
Bruce has been given an award in his name entitled: The Bruce George YouNity Reviewers Guild Award of Excellence presented by Disilgold Soul Literary Review Magazine.2003.
Bruce was the Co-recipient of the Nuyorican Poetry Cafe's First Annual Miky Award for Def Poetry Jam.2003.
Bruce was the Co-recipient of the 62nd Annual Peabody Award for Def Poetry Jam (HBO).1999.
Brooklyn Moon Cafe's Slam Team Winner- Apollo Theater.1999.
Brooklyn Moon Cafe's Slam Team Winner against the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe's Slam Team.1998.
Winner of the African Poetry Theatres annual poetry contest in 1998.
Super Slam Winner of the Hottest Poets slam contest in 1998.
Received a Certificate as a Member in Good Standing with the International Society of Poets in 1996.
Winner of Upscale Entertainments talent contest (won for poetry)in 1994.
Winner of the African Poetry Theatres annual poetry contest in 1986.
I'm a writer, poet, visionary, entrepreneur, active-activist, Socialist, proud father/grandfather etc. You may know me as the Co-Founder of Def Poetry Jam and the Founder of The Bandana Republic. I come out of gang culture so I know about it first hand. As a result I have been committed to getting our brothers/sisters in gang culture to tie their rags together through the arts. It's about 5ive up! 6ix up! No 5et-trip! B^C^ L3ts bang tha 5y5tem! DrOpPIn hat3 & pOPpIn Luv! 5ho em dat B'zs & C'zs no foo 4 Dem Fak aSS WanNa beees & ceees. L3ts ti3 thos3 rag5 tog3th3r. Uhuru!
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