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posted by on February 28 at 15:26 PM
“It’s Bigger Than Hiphop- The Truth Behind The Evergreen Uprising”
“We have spent well over 150 hours, interviewing various eyewitnesses, faculty, administration, and students, as well as collecting and editing over 20 hours of footage,” says (director) Andrew Rutherford, who directed and edited the video for Hip Hop Congress, “We are confident in the quality, content, and accuracy of this film, and hope that it clears up misconceptions and misinformation about what happened that night.”
“We offer the results of our inquiry not only as community media producers and advocates of Hip Hop culture, but also as supporters of the movement towards universal restorative justice and proactive restitution,” says Julie Chang Schulman, Northwest Regional Director for Hip Hop Congress, and author of the video’s script, “we were concerned with what seemed to be the omission of the Olympia Police Department’s role in this incident. If the objective is accountability and preserving the safety of this community, this should be just as important a part of the investigative process as finding those responsible for damages, especially given the preexisting tension between OPD and the Evergreen community.”The National President and Executive Director, Shamako Noble, will be speaking at an event aimed at the Evergreen student community this Friday, February 29th, at 3:00pm, in Lecture Hall 1 at Evergreen State College. Hip Hop Congress will also be screening “It’s Bigger than Hip Hop: The Truth Behind the Evergreen Uprising” for the student body at that time.
For more information email juliec@hiphopcongress.com
lar, and this is coming from someone recently turned off by dead prez's shall we say "confrontational" politics:
i think we can count this event smoothed over. dead prez can and will get booked all over this area for a long time still, and i don't think the "riot" damaged their reputation.
dead prez probably pulls crowds that are more volatile than, say, death cab for cutie's, but i don't think i've heard anyone pin this on them. from what i hear people saying, almost everyone assumes the everygreen kids or the cops got too excited, and i think this video shows everyone's assumptions were right.
impressed with the professionality of the video. shout out to julie C, cherry block's hiphop politico
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