Join ARC-Southeast as we kick off the new year Visioning for RJ!
This is will be a time and space to envision what you want reproductive justice to look like in your community!
We’ll have food, laughs, and heartfelt conversations as we ground ourselves in the reality of today and dream of a bigger and better tomorrow!
https://www.facebook.com/events/770175256828467/
Join Charis, The Agnes Scott College Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, and the Religious Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Departments in welcoming public intellectual and queer theologian, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza for a wide-ranging discussion in celebration of their new book, Activist Theology. Activist Theology bridges the gap between academia and activism, bringing the wisdom of the streets to the work of scholarship, all for the sake of political liberation and social change for marginalized communities. This is an invitation–a powerful and provocative call-to-action–to academic theologians to the work of social activism through movement building. Activist Theology summons all to take up radical acts of labor that uses scholarship and contemplation to build bridges with a difference and make connections of solidarity, rooted in collective action. Featuring poetry by Brittni “Ree Belle” Gray, this rich and interdisciplinary work draws on continental philosophy, queer theology, and critical class theory inaccessible and artful ways, using story, personal narratives, and sharp cultural analysis to bring the clarity to the methods, sources, and objectives of activist theology. This is a Charis Circle From Margin to Center Literary Event. The suggested donation is $5. No one is turned away for lack of funds.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1486756018131144/
Join Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, Inc. and the Georgia Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Coalition at Rally for Roe to celebrate the 47th anniversary of Roe v. Wade
We want to support Georgians in fighting for social, economic, and political equity across the intersections of reproductive justice. This event is also to let folks know about the continued efforts to fight reproductive threats across the state of Georgia!
The event will take place in the Legislative Office Building Room 514. Remember to bring ID and passion for justice! Lunch will provided.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1066391373718011/
New year, new chance to meet community around a table filled with great food!
Come out to 2020’s first LET’S EAT!, a queer + trans community potluck, put on by Southern Fried Queer Pride on Wednesday, Jan 22nd from 6PM to 8PM. This dinner is open and free to all.
We highly encourage folks to bring dishes, sides, treats, and more. Please post in this event what you’d like to bring! SFQP will be making food and bringing dishes from community businesses and startups.
Flyer artwork by the amazing Ash Walsh
This is a sober/dry space.
The potluck starts at 6PM at Neighborhood Church (1561 McLendon Ave NE Atlanta, GA 30307). Entrance to church is on McLendon Ave. Parking can be found on surrounding streets and in the church lot located on Mell Ave. The Edgewood-Candler Park MARTA Station is a quarter-mile away. Neighborhood Church has ADA accessible ramps, ramped entrances, doors and restrooms. If you have any accessibility questions/needs, you can email us here: contact@southernfriedqueerpride.com
Southern Fried Queer Pride is a Atlanta based organization empowering Black & QTPOC-centered communities in the South through the arts! For more info, find us at: southernfriedqueerpride.com. For questions, email us at: contact@southernfriedqueerpride.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/442875299717499/
Help Anarchist Black Cross team up with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) to get out this month’s newsletter to prisoners in the southeast! Help fold, seal and stamp letters!
The Insight newsletter keeps prisoners who’ve requested it up to date on prison revolts, resistance and revolutionary activity on the outside. It’s a way to support prisoners’ struggles, keep them connected with others working for liberation, and let their voices be heard by publishing their words.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2593669407533289/
Charis welcomes Blair Imani, author of Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History, to celebrate her new book, Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream. Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life–a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes in twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative paired with illustrations, author and activist Blair Imani examines the largely overlooked impact of The Great Migration and how it affected–and continues to affect–Black identity and America as a whole. Making Our Way Home explores issues like voting rights, domestic terrorism, discrimination, and segregation alongside the flourishing of arts and culture, activism, and civil rights. Imani shows how these influences shaped America’s workforce and wealth distribution by featuring the stories of notable people and events, relevant data, and family histories. The experiences of prominent figures such as James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X), Ella Baker, and others are woven into the larger historical and cultural narratives of the Great Migration to create a truly singular record of this powerful journey. This is a Charis Circle From Margin to Center Literary Event. The suggested donation is $5, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
https://www.facebook.com/events/548303969348812/
Mark Your Calendars 📆 Friday, January 24th!
Doors at 7.30PM
Talk & Discussion 8PM
Our first mixer of 2020 will focus on the the different types of censorship that impede the creation, access and visibility of public resistance art. Art which addresses social issues and both inspire and inform social change, more often than not, motivates censorship stemming from political and economic interests.
Activists/Artists and members of the community are invited to this conversation– facilitated by ATL Radical Art Director, Rozina Shiraz Gilani– and collectively imagine ways that we might confront local art censorship, seek inspiration by artists around the world and uplift voices for change.
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ATL Radical Art Monthly Mixers are a place to:
*Meet our community of protest artists
*Introduce yourselves
*Share your passion projects
*Pitch ideas for future collaborative works
*Get involved in our ongoing programming
Join us & Invite your creative comrades ✊🏾
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ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY:
ATL Radical Art is a collective of local Atlanta artists committed to the creation of a radical and artistic counterculture in response to the social and political climate of our time. Our Artists engage in performances/experiments that shed light on topics of intersectional struggle, liberation and protest from around the globe. Our vision is to create create spaces and works that thrive independent of institutional funding, finding its strength in community support. This community is primarily for people of color, non-men, queer & trans artists across multiple disciplines as well as accomplices who are working jointly with us towards similar goals and prioritize the visibility of said communities in Atlanta’s art scene.
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https://www.facebook.com/events/2396150823967749/
The Trump administration is rapidly escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Not only is each dollar invested in the military industrial complex a robbery from our under-resourced communities, this escalation could set off a domino effect that could mean annihilation for us all.
We are still living in the aftermath of the war in Iraq — which not only saw the deaths of almost a million Iraqis, 4,500 US troops, and set off an endless “War on Terror” — but also represented one of the largest transfers of wealth in Human history. We simply can’t afford not to act.
Join us as we rally in Midtown Atlanta to show solidarity with the people of Iran & to hold our government accountable for their illegal, imperialist actions.
We will gather at Piedmont Park, SW corner near 10th St NE & Argonne Ave NE at 12pm.
**The organizations mobilizing for Jan. 25 in Atlanta are Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition, American Friends Service Committee, ANSWER Coalition, Friends Meeting, Georgia Detention Watch, International Action Center, KSUnited, Metro Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America, Reject Fascism**
https://www.facebook.com/events/1027536444281236/
Disclaimer:
This is geared towards inclusivity however organized by and for Women of Color.
This is a separate event from Women’s March National and Women’s March Atlanta.
Women’s equality rights and women’s reproductive rights are under attack and we must STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK!!!!
Women of color are being murdered across this country through domestic violence or by the hands of people that have sworn to protect and serve. In 2018, there has been at least 26 deaths of violence against trans women and over the period of the last 25 years, American women are 50%more likely to die in childbirth and 4 times higher for women of color. This can change! We can make sure that those that are elected to office ensure laws are passed to protect women.
Plans are in the works for The Official Georgia Women’s Alliance March. All are welcome
If you would like to partner, please send an email to triana_james@yahoo.com
We are also seeking organizers to assist
There will be speakers, entertainment, Birddog Training and political engagement workshops.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2264250750261897/
Protests across India have erupted after the Citizenship Amendment Bill became law, enacted as the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Under the CAA, those fleeing from countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in which they are religious minorities will be provided Indian citizenship. This includes Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, and Parsis, but clearly excludes and discriminates against Muslims
In the state of Assam, we saw the CAA implemented first. This decision, fueled by anti-Bengali and anti-Muslim sentiment threatens severe violence against Bengali migrants and those who are unable to produce documents that prove their citizenship.
Protests throughout India, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, Assam, and Delhi, have resulted in state sanctioned violence from police against peaceful protesters. Police have been firing tear gas and batons against protesters who refuse to disperse.
The relationship that the US continues to foster with the Indian government despite it’s continued and documented discrimination and brutal state-sanctioned violence against Muslims cannot go unchallenged. Join community members as we express our disdain towards the NRC and CAA, and to show solidarity with those on the ground throughout India who will suffer as a result of the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
https://www.facebook.com/events/1270523589810045/
TalkingQRAP is a monthly dialogue space where Queers of Asian-descent get to build community and develop new narratives through diving into our experiences, sharing stories with each other, eating food, and having fun!
== QRAP? ==
Coined by a dear comrade from Southerners On New Ground, QRAP stands for Queer Rad Asian Perspectives.
It’s Queer as in ‘fuck you’, Rad as in politics that go to the root of things, Asian cause our heritage deeply influences our experiences, and Perspectives because we are not a monolith, aaaaand QRAP cause shit’s funny sometimes. Also poop emojis. 💩 💩 💩
== More Info ==
Meetings are held the last Sunday of each month from 4-7pm, always over a delicious dinner and always welcoming new faces. No prior experience with any topic is required, but a willingness to listen deeply is a must!
RSVP here for Talking QRAP: https://tinyurl.com/atlqna
Each month is at a different location so be sure to check back on the FB page and through our mailing list!
https://www.facebook.com/events/461982927807716/?event_time_id=461982931141049
TalkingQRAP is a monthly dialogue space where Queers of Asian-descent get to build community and develop new narratives through diving into our experiences, sharing stories with each other, eating food, and having fun!
== QRAP? ==
Coined by a dear comrade from Southerners On New Ground, QRAP stands for Queer Rad Asian Perspectives.
It’s Queer as in ‘fuck you’, Rad as in politics that go to the root of things, Asian cause our heritage deeply influences our experiences, and Perspectives because we are not a monolith, aaaaand QRAP cause shit’s funny sometimes. Also poop emojis. 💩 💩 💩
== More Info ==
Meetings are held the last Sunday of each month from 4-7pm, always over a delicious dinner and always welcoming new faces. No prior experience with any topic is required, but a willingness to listen deeply is a must!
RSVP here for Talking QRAP: https://tinyurl.com/atlqna
Each month is at a different location so be sure to check back on the FB page and through our mailing list!
https://www.facebook.com/events/461982927807716/
Are you outraged by injustice but don’t know what to do?
New to activism and/or want to get more involved/connected?
Want to support new and current activists/community organizers in solidarity and love?
Activists Recruiting Organizing and Mentoring in Atlanta (AROMA) hosts activist meet and greets every last Thursday of the month, at 7:30pm-9:00pm at the Little 5 Points Community Center.
These are meant as informal and semi-structured gathering to support the local activist community in ATL.
Our relationships are the most important thing – so let’s build up our social solidarity together, and get as many people in involved as we can!
We have an Activist Speed-Friending activity, learn more about what it really means to be an activist, and meet some of the folks on the front lines doing the work needed to transform society and transition into a better world!
If are able, please bring some food, drinks, or donations to share, and please spread the word!
People are finding out about this mostly through word of mouth so please invite anyone you think might be interested in becoming an activist/ community organizer, deepening their activism, or supporting all people to become strong, effective leaders in our movements!
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Activist Calendar: https://activismatlanta.com/activist-calendar
Directory of Activist Organizations in Metro Atlanta: https://activismatlanta.com/directory
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We hope to see you there this month and in the future!
Power to the People!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2667587176636389/
Join Charis in welcoming Marian Meyers to discuss her new anthology, Neoliberalism and the Media. Marian will discuss how the book examines the multiple ways that popular media mainstream and reinforce neoliberal ideology, exposing how they promote neoliberalism’s underlying ideas, values, and beliefs so as to naturalize inequality, undercut democracy and contribute to the collapse of social notions of community and the common good. Covering a wide range of media and genres, and adopting a variety of qualitative textual methodologies and theoretical frameworks, the chapters examine diverse topics, from news coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the NBC show Superstore (an atypical instance in which a TV show, for one brief season, challenged the central tenets of neoliberalism) to “kitchen porn.” The book also takes an intersectional approach, as contributors explore how gender, race, class and other aspects of social identity are inextricably tied to each other within media representation. This is a Charis Circle From Margin to Center Literary Event. The suggested donation is $5, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
https://www.facebook.com/events/518973655364663/
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO FEBRUARY 1, 2020! If you RSVP’d for our old date (Jan 25), you will need to RSVP again.
Visit our new event page bit.ly/FEB2020SOI to RSVP!
Interested in making a change in your community, but not sure how to get started? Curious about Reproductive Justice and how to be an agent for radical change? Do you want to learn how to show up and advocate for the Trans and GNC community?
Join SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW for our SPARK Organizing Intensive Training & Brunch. Here you will have the opportunity to learn about organizing for Reproductive Justice, talking to your legislators, gentrification in Atlanta and policies to be on the lookout for this legislative session.
All of our trainings and conversations will be rooted in how we can SHIFT THE NARRATIVE by uplifting Trans/GNC folx in policy, highlighting different ways to be civically engaged, and uplifting Trans folx survival and happiness, not just trauma.
This is an excellent opportunity for anyone to heavily engage with pressing issues that affect our communities. This will also be an important lead up training in preparation of SPARK’s LegislateTHIS! (more information on LegislateTHIS! is coming soon).
Light refreshments and brunch will be provided!
https://www.facebook.com/events/454843742106452/
Plant a Seed with the Apocalypse Training Collective (ATC)! Come by on Sunday afternoon the weekend of Imbolc for:
**SEED SHARE* Bring seeds to share if you have them, but you don’t have to bring seeds to participate. We’ll be sharing seeds, along with growing information and cultural notes related to the seeds. Special thanks to Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, a worker-owned cooperative in Virginia, for helping support this seed share.
*RESOURCE CORNER* Early February is a great time to make some plans for your garden. We’ll have books, resources, and people available to help you grow food and medicine in a variety of settings (backyard gardens, community gardens, container gardens, windowsill gardens, public spaces, etc.)
*MEET ATC ORGANIZERS* Learn about ATC, our work, and ways to get involved as a volunteer, session leader, co-organizer, and more. Share your ideas for queer and trans skill-building in 2020.
*LOGISTICS AND ACCESSIBILITY* This event centers queer and trans people and is free for all queer folx. Suggested donation for allies. Antagonists not welcome. This event is open house style, so drop in at any time between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Resources will be available the entire time. Seeds are available until they’re gone.
Neighborhood Church provided this space for us as an act of solidarity with queer and trans people. ATC is not religiously affiliated in any way.
The venue is fully wheelchair accessible. The event will take place in the Community Room on the ground floor. Accessible parking spaces are available in front of the church off McLendon — take the ramp or stairs directly to the orange door on the ground floor. All bathrooms will be made All Genders for this event.
General parking is available in the lot behind the church, off of Mell Avenue. From the parking lot, walk to the left or right side of the building and continue until you reach the orange door. Do not go up the stairs.
THERE WILL BE SNACKS! (light refreshments, coffee, tea)
Questions? Email us at apocalypsetrainingcollective@gmail.com or send us a message.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2528224917436361/
When we unite & fight, we win. When we win, we CELEBRATE!
Join us to celebrate Racial Justice Action Center, Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative – SNaP Co., Women On The Rise and 7 years of movement building in Atlanta!
This is our official party to kick off 2020 and celebrate our organizational spin-offs, so don’t miss it!
More details soon.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1370634899807460/
ATL Social Justice Orgs & Hip Hop Culture Unite to: “BREAK OUT THE VOTE with an All Ages BLOCK PARTY! to Get Out the Vote since we all REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA! Come hear from local Grassroots Activists doing work to improve lives in Georgia & witness the rawest forms of Hip Hop Culture! B Boys, B Girls, Poppers, Lockers, Graphiti Art, Dancers of all forms welcome. From 1pm to 8pm we’ll commit to get out the Vote in March & November 2020. Come enjoy some food & drink & Network with a Coalition of Freedom Fighters dedicated to a Just future! $5-10 suggested donation. Not required, All ages welcome! Hosted by “Renegade Culture” & FTP Founder, Kalonji Jama Changa, “Voices of Dissent” Host Dougie-The Abolitionist “Our Revolution Georgia”. To table at this Event or participate in any way call 470-255-9439. See ya there!
Track Samples
Einstein
https://youtu.be/c79rtwIbBqg
Man Parish-Boogie Down Bronx
https://youtu.be/r0L_AVc1OjE
Chris the Glove-Ice T-Reckless
https://youtu.be/Po13ppITvLU
Message 2-Survival
https://youtu.be/Oi7HQrM1new
Divine Sounds-What people do for money
https://youtu.be/Icuzro5qQpU
Project Future-Ray Gun Omics
https://youtu.be/wW6NJ_N3ZWQ
Mirdq Rock
https://youtu.be/PXDFc9Qn46k
It’s Nasty-Genius of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIO6kmiCkA0
Doug E Fresh-The Show-La di da di
https://youtu.be/lOXMEQytcP8
Batterram-Toddy T
https://youtu.be/cm1Li2Wbqo4
Funk You Up
https://youtu.be/3M8-eIE-gSw
Haunted House of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtoWsqgP_vQ
Whodini-Freaks Come out at night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxwrLLlQwBw
Joe ski Love-Pee Wee Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAnmJGwfWAo
Leader of the Pack-UTFO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbjvJYvqNpg
Buffalo Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckjhFWWlyoY&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=57
Point Blank MC’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3GaLm6dMbw&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=50
Boogie Boys-Fly Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEfg6XU9tdQ&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=48
Crash Crew on the radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W0xogsHvIM&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=47
B Boys-2, 3, Break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LQDa98ihZM&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=40
Roxanne’s Revenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9IFs13w_JQ&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=32
Word of Mouth-ft DJ Cheese
King Cut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RaOSuPIkk&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=23
Marley Marl feat MC Shan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwYNZRecEl4&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=21
Run Dmc-Sucker MC’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62thnVIGhO0
Kurtis Blow-AJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J6Buzte7rM&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=16
Cynotron-Cosmic Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOBUqCIXXWY&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=15
Old School Beats
Fresh 3 MC’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUnvC7J54D8&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=11
Hashim-The Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i46sF1PcqL8&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=9
CD3-Get Tough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfQkUUes-MU&list=PLQaL77nhfqw45c6KyIpLAscMQmjnK8j83&index=4
Fearless Four-Rockin It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOHvOhADAic
Egyptian Lover-What is a DJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqx3I4QqB6o
Egyptian Lover-I need a freak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Cd9wGHtr0
10-Double Trouble at the Amphitheater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpJaGEfUgtM&list=PLpZTCLBhNRe-j8mfrg8r3RHbK0NFLLcOr&index=10
Rhyme Battle-Busy Bee vs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS0dJBDAIjA&list=PLpZTCLBhNRe-j8mfrg8r3RHbK0NFLLcOr&index=2
Planet Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkTyQ0kgmzs
Kraftwork Numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YPiCeLwh5o
Siberian Nights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrGhqCZgh-4
It’s Like That-Run DMC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4pBipNNhdw
T La Rock & Jazzy J-It’s Yours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MLaUp3m3BU
Curtis Blow-Basketball
Paul Bogdan
https://youtu.be/_shxzlTRK44
UTFO-Beats & Rhymes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvHEGFFCAoI
Fat Boys-Stick Em
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wipr12ZmBfw
Davy DMX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl6jKMr05z8
Beat Street-Breakers Revenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9OHu9np5H8
Royal Cash-Radioactivity
https://youtu.be/1C4V5oiBd-Q
Rapper Dapper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL4_RN_whDI
Einstein Beat Box Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c79rtwIbBqg
Reggie Griffin-TechnoFunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl7YTOywhCY
https://www.facebook.com/events/1043074702719778/
May peace be upon you! Please join CAIR Georgia on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, for our fourth annual fundraising banquet!
In addition to our keynote speaker Imam Suhaib Webb, insha Allah, we plan to recognize our outgoing Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell before publicly announcing and introducing his successor for the first time!
Please join us on Feb. 15th to celebrate the work CAIR Georgia has accomplished since 2016, and to help us protect the Georgia Muslim community long beyond 2020.
Early bird ticket sales and sponsorships end Jan. 15th iA, so visit www.cairgeorgia.com or https://buytickets.at/cairgeorgia/331713 to buy tickets!
https://www.facebook.com/events/3176323749047602/