It is a no-brainer that the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Wall Street Project would align itself with the embryonic “Occupy Hip-Hop New York” movement. Both entities, coupled with the global Occupy Wall Street phenomenon, are fighting against tyranny, inequities and mass corporate corruption that conspire to cripple the marketplace of the United States and other industrialized nations.
During the 15th annual Wall Street conference, Jackson will facilitate a thought-provoking panel “Occupy Hip-Hop New York,” a discussion that will bring convene politically conscious intellectuals from the fields of music, media and education to inculcate conventioneers with the machinations of Wall Street exploitation and to develop stratagem to combat its nefarious and corrosive affects.
“All that we have gained in recent years has been attacked,” Jackson elucidates to the media. “We have to protect ourselves from the tyranny of the majority.”
Occupy Hip-Hop is an extension of Occupy Wall Street movement. Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco and a number of other notable rappers, musicians and entertainers have posted up strong in solidarity with the OWS.
Occupy Hip-Hop New York, taking place on Jan. 26, is part of the three-day summit, the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project Economic Summit. The conference in Midtown Manhattan will feature civic and political luminaries as Georgetown University scholar Michael Eric Dyson, rapper Master P, the renowned Adam Clayton Powell IV, and Chuck Creekmur of AllHipHop.com.
—terry shropshire
