04.29.08
Hip Hop Concert to Save Native American University
A Hiphop concert featuring Kiwi and the Blue Scholars will be held on Friday May 2, 2008, at 7 pm at The Sacramento State University Ballroom. This is a project of UC Davis’s Students Organizing for Change and the Muslim Student Association in cooperation with Sacramento State University.
Geologic aka Prometheus Brown of Seattle’s Blue Scholars and San Francisco’s Kiwi, formerly of Native Guns, both Filipino-Americans will be the emcees. They will be working to promote people power awareness that addresses the human rights crisis and government corruption in the Philippines.
Bayan-USA, an alliance of progressive Filipino American organizations advocating for social justice and democracy in the Philippines, will be the main concert beneficiary. The local students will also be donating parts of the concert’s profit to DQ student organization. DQ University, the only Native American college in the state was closed due to previous school administration’s corruption. Hence, the school also lost it’s accreditation leaving the students suffering injustice.
