How are you, I hope good? Thanks for your support of Krip-Hop Nation! It's been 4 years since Krip-Hop Nation started for disabled Hip-Hop and other disabled musicians. We have done some great work like the first Krip-Hop & Homo-Hop event in Berkeley in 2009 to rocking Liverpool UK at DADA Fest in 2010. We started an international wing of Krip-Hop called Mcees With Disabilities, MWD, with artists from Africa, Spain, UK, Italy, Germany and of course the US. We have put out two CDs and have been on radio shows all over the world.
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Now Krip-Hop Nation's founder, Leroy Moore has pulled in one of his areas of his early street activism and that is fighting against police brutality against people with disabilities into the cultural work of Krip-Hop Nation. I've always dreamed about applying cultural work to this issue with other disabled artists/activists. Well the time is finally here! Krip-Hop Nation and DJ Quad of Fifth Battalion in LA are producing a CD on this issue and a friend who is a retire disabled NYPD officer, Emmitt Thrower, turned artist/film maker/poet in NY has teamed up with Krip-Hop Nation to do a film documentary around this issue focusing on the cultural process of making the Hip-Hop CD by artists with disabilities.
We are having a CD release event/panel on Feb 19th at the main library in SF. Look at the attachment. We are fund rising for travel, accommodation and more. Below is our online campaign. I'm very excited about this and really hope we can make our goal of $2,500.00 with your help.
Wish us luck and read our front page of the site below plus there is a link too below to donate.
"A National Documentary and CD Mixtape Project on Police Brutality Against People With Disabilities. We've entered Phase two of the project, which involves traveling from NY to Berkley California to do interviews with Activists, Victims and Musicians with disabilities working on the CD mixtape by disabled artists Nationally. We will film also a Forum around the issue lead by Krip Hop Nation Founder with a physical disability Leroy Moore. We have already filmed a forum at Syracuse University as well as interviews there and in Boston and Virginia with victims of profiling and Police brutality in those states. Police Brutality in general has been on the rise Nationally and less documented has been the increase in the incidents involving people with disabilities nationwide."
The link to our site is below. Please help make this documentary a reality!
http://www.rockethub.com/projects/5240-where-is-hope
Leroy F. Moore Jr
Founder of Krip-Hop Nation