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TRACK 1 - RAYZER SHARP
TRACK 2 - THE BEST I CAN
TRACK 3 - FEEL SOMETHING
TRACK 4 - FED UP
TRACK 5 - FREE YOUR MIND
TRACK 6 - LAST OF THE PO'RICANS
TRACK 7 - WARN THEM
TRACK 8 - CROCBAX
TRACK 9 - YOU DON'T KNOW
TRACK 10 - FEELING
TRACK 11 - LET IT BE KNOWN
TRACK 12 - WALK ON WATER
TRACK 13 - HOPE
TRACK 14 - ACROSS 110TH STREET
TRACK 15 - FMNB (HOW SWEET)
TRACK 16 - SO ALIVE
THE WELFARE POETS was formed in the Spring of 1990 with the purpose of using culture as a tool of resistance, and in the summer of 2000, the group released their first independent album "Project Blues." In May of 2005 the collective put out their second album "Rhymes For Treason."
The collective just released the CD compilation against the death penalty, “Cruel and Unusual Punishment," and is currently working on their fourth album.
Some of the Colleges and Universities:
Boricua College; Brown University; Buffalo State University; Central Connecticut State; Columbia University; Cornell University, CUNY – BMCC, City College Hunter, Queens College; Dartmouth University; D’youville College; Eastern Connecticut State University, Harvard University, Haverford College, Hostos, Hunter; Ithaca College, Johnson and Wales; Marymount Manhattan College; Middlebury College; Montclair State; Mt. Holyoke; New York University; New Jersey Institute of Technology; Pratt University; Princeton University; Rutgers University; Smith College; Stevenson College; Stonybrook University; Swathmore; SUNY Albany; SUNY Binghamton SUNY Buffalo, SUNY New Paltz; SUNY Old Westbury; SUNY Purchase; Syracuse University; Union College; UC Berkeley; University of Illinois (Champagne); University of Maryland; U Mass. at Amherst; University of Pennsylvania; University of St. Thomas (Houston); Vassar; Wesleyan and Yale
Some of the Cafe's/Clubs/Community Centers:
The Beal Bodtch Cafe; Bowery Poetry Club; Brecht Forum; Bronx Academy of Art and Dance; Brooklyn Moon Cafe, Café Creole; Cafe Zapata (Berlin, Germany); Flying Sauvage (Berlin, Germany); Café Largo; Cafe Teatro Batey Urbano (Chicago); CBGB; Como Cocoa Café; Cooper Union Great Hall; The Cotton Club; The Culture Project Theater (45 Bleecker); Frank’s Place; Joloff's Café; Julia De Burgos Cultural Center; Lincoln Center (Summer Festival); Plan B Bar (Brixton, London); Nia Bar (Brixton, London); Jamm (speaker'c Corner (Brixton, London); The Rainbow pub (Birmingham, England); Lot 51; The Newsroom Bar; Nuyorican Poets Café; The Nuyorican Café in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico; Remy Lounge; Rockwells Bar, Sista’s Place; The Bourboun Street Club in Amsterdam (Holland); The Puffin Room; Sounds of Brazil (SOBs); Strictly Roots Café; Segundo Ruiz Belviz Cultural Center (Chicago);The Temple Bar (Cali); The Harold Washington Cultural Center (Chicago, Ill.); Taller Puertoriqueno (Philadelphia) and The Living Project (Waterloo,Iowa)
Some of the Special Events:
The 30th Anniversary of the Attica Uprising, MLK Center, NYC 1997; Protest against 100 years of US colonialism in Puerto Rico at the U.N (July 25th 1998);Critical Resistance Conference, University of California at Berkley (September 1998); 130th Anniversary of El Grito De Lares – San Francisco, California (September 1998); 1st performance in Puerto Rico at the Nuyorican Café (May 2001); Viequethon – opposing the Navy’s continued occupation of Vieques, Puerto Rico (May 2001); Rally against war in Iraq at the U.N (Feb 15th 2003) with more than 200,000 protesters; the 40th Anniversary of Malcolm X’s death – February 2005 at the Abyssinian Church, NY; Malcolm X Jazz Festival, Oakland, California, May 2005; the World Youth and Student Festival, Caracas, Venezuela August 2005; The Point Center in the Bronx hosted President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, November 2005; Socialism Conference 2006: NYC at Columbia University; International African Arts festival, July 2006 and 60th Birthday Celebration for Pam Africa of the Move Organization, November 18th 2006.
The Freedom Album is a musical CD/compilation dedicated to the welfare of the Puerto Rican political prisoners and their families. The album features over 30 artists from Puerto Rico to the states.
Artists appearing on the album:
The Welfare Poets with Alkebulan (Hip Hop - NYC), Roy Brown (Folk – Puerto Rico), Siete Nueve (Hip Hop – Puerto Rico), Aurora y Zon Del Barrio with Yomo Toro y Sammy Ayala (Bomba, Plena and Salsa - NYC), Division X (Hip Hop - NYC), Intifada (Hip Hop – Puerto Rico), Ilu Aye (Orisha/Afro-Caribbean tradition -NYC), X-Vandals (Hip Hop - NYC), Rebel Diaz with Divino of The D.E.Y. (Hip Hop Chicago/NYC), Alma Moyo (Bomba y Plena – NYC), Ricanstruction (Hardcore/Punk/Hip Hop - NYC), Quique Cruz (Hip Hop - California), Foundation Movement (Boston – Hip Hop), Lourdez Perez (Decima – Puerto Rico), Homeboy Sandman (Hip Hop – NYC), Babalu Machete (Hip Hop – Puerto Rico), Segunda Quimbamba (Bomba – NJ), El David (Hip Hop - NJ), Dr. Loco (Hip Hop NYC), Fernando Ferrer (Salsa/Acoustic), Maria-Isa (Hip Hop -Minnesota/Twin Cities), Velcro y Ikol Santiago (Hip Hop – Puerto Rico), Ray Concepcion y Cafe Con Leche (Salsa – the Bronx), M-Team (Hip Hop – Pittsburgh/ Brooklyn), Bryan Vargas Y Ya Esta (Latin, Nu-Jazz and Afro-beat – NYC), La Bruja (Hip Hop/Reggaeton NYC), MC Natra Y Lady M (Hip Hop – Vieques), Carlos Jimenez (Latin Jazz – NYC), F.A.L.L.E.N. A.N.G.E.L.Z. (Hip Hop – NY and Florida), Nino Blanco (Hip Hop – NYC) and Angel Rodriguez (Guaguanco - NYC).
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"Cruel and Unusual Punishment" was released in February of 2007. It was influenced by the need to combat and dismantle the inhumane death penalty system. The death penalty is both racist and classist in its intention and application. The album was inspired by Hasan Shakur, who was unjustly executed by the state of Texas on August 31st, 2006.
Artists featured on Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Welfare Poets - Rayzer, The Legendary MIC and Jamaki-bo with music from Djibril and Jamaki (Harlem, BX and BK); Abiodun (of the Legendary Last Poets- NYC); HiCOUP (NJ); Blitz (Ghana/NYC); Hasan Salaam (NJ); Chosan (Sierra Leone/London/NYC); Son of Nun (Baltimore); A-Alikes (NYC); Sound Right Reason (Conn); Tru-N-Livin (NJ); Warclub (Cali/Phili); Jav'lin (Amsterdam); InI Mighty Lockdown (New Rochelle); Hec -1 (NYC/Chi); Rebel Diaz - Rodstarz and Lah Tere (Chi/NYC); Wordplay (Cincinnati); JuggaBlak (Mount Vernon); LemBoogie (Mount Vernon); Block McCloud (Brooklyn); Bolos (Brooklyn); Truth Universal (New Orleans) and Wise Intelligent (of Poor Righteous Teachers – NJ).. Go to www.myspace.com/deathpenaltycd for more information.
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"Rhymes For Treason" was released in May of 2005. After "Project Blues," the Welfare Poets membership and sound grew, giving more diversity to the type of music performed and venues they could be featured at. From Hip Hop to Jazz, to many Afro-Caribbean musical forms, the new album, Rhymes For
Treason, will definitely offer something for all music lovers who want to uplift the oppressed and yearn revolution.
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"Project Blues" was released in June of 2000. There were only 5 band
members at that point, and the album fused various styles of music from a blues/jazz feeling to Caribbean flavors. It is relentless poetry/rhyming coming from the inner city of New York. Project Blues contains 15 powerful tracks, each uniquely painting pictures connecting local struggles and hardships to a global movement towards the liberation of all humanity.
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Continued Aggression Leads to Mapuche Declaration of War Continued aggressions of the Chilean state has led the Arauco Malleco Coordinator of Mapuche Communities in Conflict (CAM), a radical indigenous Mapuche organization, to formally renounce their Chilean citizenship and declared war on the government. The declaration was issued on Oct. 20, the same day that two trucks belonging to the El Bosque forestry corporation were intercepted by CAM and set on fire in the province of Malleco. As reported by the Latin American Herald Tribune, “the attacks, which began at 1:10 a.m., came hours after five Mapuches were formally indicted under a Pinochet-era anti-terrorism law for similar assaults carried out Oct. 11 near the city of Victoria.” The declaration, much more than a symbolic gesture, comes at a time of increasing violence against Mapuche children and youths, particularly over the past three months, when Mapuche communities began reclaiming illegally occupied lands in the region of Araucania. For instance, according to the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), on Oct. 16 “a large group of police, for as yet unknown reasons, began to fire pellets and tear gas canisters” in a school in Temucuicui, Araucania. “Several children suffered pellet wounds and had trouble breathing,” Hundreds of Mapuche and non-Mapuche activists protested the attack on Oct. 23—including several children, who carried the empty canisters with them as the marched in Temuco, Araucania’s capital.
ON DEC 5 IN L.A THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE WILL COME TOGETHER FOR A CAUSE THE EVENT HAS BEEN ORGANIZED TO PROVIDE AWARENESS & TO INVITE CHANGE INTO THE LIVEZ OF THE CHILDREN OF KAMINA AFRICA DONATIONS FROM THIS SHOW WILL BENEFIT THE KAMINA CHILDREN 'Z HOME. MUCH RESPECT TO ALL THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE. FOR WE RIZE AZ ONE..
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THE ALBUM , "WARN THEM", IS EVERY CONSCIOUS PERSONS DREAM, OF BEAUTIFUL POWERFUL MUZIK, THAT INFORMS TRUTH, THAT GIVES LOVE RIGHT BACK TO THE SOUL . TRACK AFTER TRACK IS THE CONSTANCY OF PURENESS AT IT BEST. FOR THOES THAT BELIEVE IN FREEDOM THIS IS MUST HAVE. BELIEVE ME AND MARK MY WORDS IT WILL BREAK YOU FREE, AND FEEL LIFE AGAIN. MUCH LOVE AND HONOR TO THE WELFARE POETS, FOR GRASPING THE MEANING OF MUZIK.
Just wanted to say thanks, for keeping me up to date with all the news about our fellow P.R . Welcome to FREEDOM to our P.R Prison who were released. LIve life , the struggle it took to get us here. We have come a long way! Celebrate!
Peace and Justice.. The G.O.D. has done it again.. instant classic vibes.. crucial word sound light and power.. Tell the masses the truth.. warn them that it is time to wake up and tek action.. Rayzer you slicing all the fake mc's with this one.. Legendary.. you flex some ill beats on this one... In the movements.. WP for Life..!! everyone pick up and support this music... real welfare for the children..Big UP RALLYUP the YOUTH CAUSE IT"S TIME FOR CHANGE>>
