STV Mission:
The Stop the Violence Movement (STVM) is a non-profit organization deeply rooted in the Hip Hop community with a mission to advance an ongoing series of movements to diminish global violence through education, critical dialogue, grassroots organizing and direct action.
The STVM achieves its mission by providing organized programs, workshops, symposiums and media campaigns that heighten the awareness of the effects of violence, create multi-generational dialogue and supplies parent and youth oriented educational tools for conflict resolution.
The STVM is calling upon fellow celebrities to take action. We are calling upon the mass media to address the images they put forth. We are calling for balance! Balance within ourselves, balance in the media, in our communities, in the world.
What Is Violence?
The first step in preventing violence is to understand it. Violence is an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power. Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent. Violence is unnecessary and costly. Violence kills what it intends to create. Violence is any activity that is consciously used to hurt oneself, another individual or group of people, whether through mind, body or spirit.
“The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who Is Invovled?
The arts yield a powerful influence on our collective culture. We are a collective of artists, activists, entertainers and educators who understand that we are powerful role models. We are taking responsibility. We intend to combine the power of the media and the arts to create our “hammer” so that we may shape our reality, a non-violent reality.
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” - Bertolt Brecht
Celebrities Invovled:
50 Cent, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Busta Rhymes, Cassidy, Channel Live, Chingy, Daddy-O, Doug E. Fresh, Dr. Cornell West, Fat Joe, Immortal Technique, Jamel Shabazz, Just Ice, Lin Que, Ludacris, Martin Luther King III, MC Lyte, Melle Mel, Pastor Troy, Rick Ross, Siagon, Smoothe da Hustler, Speak Truth To Power Human Rights Defenders, Talib Kweli, Tai Phoenix, Whodini, Various professional atheletes, and Zulu Nation.
And of course...
The Teacha.
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