digitalpharaoh™

I agree with something Prince Paul just said:

You can NOT call yourself Hip Hop if you don’t help.

I’m calling out EVERY rapper that’s out now to give from their multi-million dollar bank accounts. If YOU don’t help - and those of us who don’t have a lot are helping - what gives you the right to call yourself hip hop?

To anyone I know that has ever picked up a microphone, used a turntable, rhymed, wrote graffiti or had dreams of hip hop since the movement began:

DJ Kool Herc, the father of Hip-Hop, is in need of surgery and is seeking financial help due to a lack of health insurance.
ANY amount you can give is better than not giving at all.

DJ Tony Touch is planning to host a benefit on for him on Tuesday (February 1) at Sutra in New York City.

If you grew up loving and living hip hop then you should have no problem finding - at the least - a dollar to send.

Donations to DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell) Donations to Kool Herc can be sent to:
Kool Herc Productions PO Box 20472 Huntington Station, NY 11746
or via PayPal to cindycampbell1@aol.com (his sister).

Kool Herc is in urgent need of medical care.

There’s no health insurance plan in hip hop.

All Donations can be sent to:

Kool Herc Productions PO Box 20472 Huntington Station, NY 11746

Washington’s continued support for the Egyptian dictatorship in the face of massive pro-democracy protests is yet another sign that both Congress and the Obama administration remain out of touch with the growing demands for freedom in the Arab world. Just last month, Obama and the then-Democratic-controlled Congress approved an additional $1.3 billion in security assistance to help prop up Hosni Mubarak’s repressive regime.

In the course of some pro-democracy civil insurrections, such as those in Iran and Burma, Washington has strongly condemned the regime and provided strong words of encouragement for the pro-democracy activists challenging their repression. In a couple of cases, such as Serbia and Ukraine, the United States and other Western countries even provided limited amounts of economic assistance to pro-democracy groups. Most of the time, however, and particularly if the dictatorship is a US ally like Egypt, Washington has shown little enthusiasm for such freedom struggles.

The United States has defended its support of the Mubarak dictatorship as part of the war on terror, seeing the Egyptian regime as a bulwark against Islamic extremism; however, the main organizers of the massive street protests are the 6 April youth movement, which is not only alienated from the secular Mubarak regime, but from the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists, as well. The Brotherhood refused to back up the protesters through the morning of January 25, (though it later opportunistically endorsed them as it witnessed hundreds of thousands of ordinary Egyptians joining the protesters’ ranks). The demonstrators being beaten, shot and tear-gassed by US-supplied equipment want freedom and justice, not theocracy.

(Read that again…beaten, shot and tear-gassed by US-supplied equipment)

While European leaders strongly criticized the crackdown, as of the afternoon of the second day of the protests, Hillary Clinton still refused to criticize the Egyptian government. Despite appearances to the contrary, Clinton insisted that “the country was stable” and that the Mubarak government was “looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people,” despite the miserable failure of the regime in its nearly 30 years in power to do so. Asked whether the United States still supports Mubarak, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Egypt remains a “close and important ally.” As during the Tunisian protests, the Obama administration tried to equate the scattered violence of some pro-democracy protesters with the far greater violence of the dictatorship’s security forces, with Gibbs saying, “We continue to believe first and foremost that all of the parties should refrain from violence.”

Finally, after 36 hours of heavy police repression, Clinton issued a statement urging “Egyptian authorities not to prevent peaceful protests or block communications including on social media sites.” Rather than calling on the dictator to step down, she encouraged him to take more responsible leadership, saying, “We believe strongly that the Egyptian government has an important opportunity at this moment in time to implement political, economic and social reforms to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people.”

At the height of the protests, as tens of thousands of pro-democracy activists nonviolently occupying Tahrir Square in the center of Cairo were being brutally assaulted by police, Obama delivered his State of the Union address. While claiming that the United States supports “the democratic aspirations of all people,” he made no mention of Egypt, nor of the dramatic events unfolding there which, outside of the United States, were the major focus of the world’s media at that hour.

The repressive nature of Egypt’s Mubarak dictatorship has been well-documented by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Freedom House and other groups. This is a country where a simple gathering of five or more people without a permit is illegal. Peaceful pro-democracy protesters are routinely beaten and jailed. Martial law has been in effect for nearly 30 years. Independent observers are banned from monitoring the country’s routinely rigged elections, from which the largest opposition party is banned while other opposition parties are severely restricted in producing publications and other activities.

So what’s worse…a radical, Muslim extremist group possibly taking over the country? Or US…the US…remaining in power through Mubarak?

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