[Antiracism] Fw: The Beat Goes On Thursday, Dec. 8th

[Maurice Soulfighter Taylor]

We are still accepting sponsors Until Dec 2nd 2005
please send to your contacts Thank You Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor

Thursday, Dec. 8th -“The Beat Goes On”
7pm – 10pm - Cape Cod Lounge in the UMass-Amherst
Student Union
Two Great Events Back-to-Back:

7pm-8pm: SGA Roundtable discussion on “Creating
Movements of Racial 
Justice by Bridging Cultural Activities of Communities
and Student 
Organizations”

8pm – Whenever: Western Mass’ Hottest Poetry Slam
First Prize: $100 Second Prize: $75 Third Prize: $50
***Sign up for the SLAM during the round-table
event***
Featuring Artists of the Evening

M.C. Soulfighter
Poetress Crystal Senter-Brown
D.J. Menya
All Starz Breaking Crew

This event is free and open to the Public. Come in
peace.

Event produced by Community Against Hate and sponsored
by the 
UMass-Amherst Student Government Association.
Co-Sponsors include: Universal Write Publications,
UMass-Amherst ALANA (African, Latino/a, Asian /
Pacific Islander, Native American) Caucus,
UMass-Amherst Student Center for Educational Research
and Advocacy, Massachusetts Campaign for Free Higher
Education, Young Socialists, Amherst College Black
Student Union, UMass-Amherst’s Casa Dominicana,
UMass-Amherst’s Students of Caribbean 
Ancestry (SOCA), UMass-Amherst’s Asian Americans for
Political Action (AAPA), and more.

Message from the founder of Community Against Hate:

The Beat Goes On is an event created in 1997 by
Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor, then president of
African American Cultural society at Springfield
Technical Community College. This is an edutainment
event designed to network the college communities with
the larger communities for socially conscious action
in our communities of the African Diaspora. This event
is dedicated to those that fought and died for our
freedom. In an interview with Kwame Ture before he
died, he stated that he believed that he was dying
from government induced cancer, but that "The beat
must go on." He referred to the beat as the causes
that keep us marching, fighting for justice, and
working toward better living conditions. This event is
dedicated to Ida B. Wells, Harriet Tubman, Thurgood
Marshall, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, as well
as those living to bring us close to the light,
understanding, and actions of freedom as people,
races, religions, as a whole.



		
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