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Live indymedia coverage of 'terror rap' debate this thursday

imc-london | 15.08.2006 23:44 | Culture | Free Spaces | Indymedia | Terror War | London

STREAMED LIVE THIS THURSDAY

This thursday, 17th August, Aki Nawaz lead singer of the radical rap band Fun-da-mental, will be at the rampART social centre in East London to debate Islamophobia, racisim and the health of freespeech and democracy in the UK. Joining him on the platform will be renowned human rights lawyer Louise Christian, Natacha Atlas, Ken Fero of Injustice Films, Shahrar Ali of the Green Party and John Pandit of Asian Dub Foundation.

The event starts at 6.45pm but if you can't make it you can catch it live online via indymedia.

The Sun calls him the suicide bomb rapper, MPs want him arrested and his record company refuses to support his latest album. All is War (the Benefits of G-Had), is causing a storm with its direct political lyrics dealing with terrorism, war, Muslim identity and western hypocrisy. Its provoked outrage from politicians and the press, prompting Radio 1 to ban it from its playlist and the distributors to declare it too hot to handle.

Organised by Red Pepper magazine, the event will begin with a forty minute film followed by debate and then an exclusive premiere of the video for suicide bomber song.

The venue is the squatted social centre in Rampart Street, off Commerical Road.
See www.rampart.co.nr for details and directions. Seating is limited so arrive on time.

The event will be streamed live via indymedia on rampART radio. You can listen to the audio by tuning into rampART radio ( http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/rampART) using your favorite audio player. To watch the live video feed, download the VideoLAN (VLC) media player from  http://www.videolan.org/ and tune in to  http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/rampART.ogg

Further details from:
www.redpepper.org.uk
www.rampart.co.nr
www.redpepper.org.uk

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the lost stream

17.08.2006 19:13

i have been trying to at least listen to the programme and it seems that the streaming link is blocked. a friend from Iraq, from Najaf, a refugee and a very educated person came to visit me, so that we could both listen to the discussion. it is nothing new to have been censured by a F-d-M moderator. am i wrong if i presume that he disabled my computer to would receive the stream. me and the Iraq friend had followed and looked at the discussion for few minutes as mr. Nawaz tried to argue his motivation to release the album ... we have been listening to some "old" protest religious singing and keep smiling about how the english "revolutionary" artistic muslim tends to change the world and make it a better place.

thanx, brothers!

as usual greetings from Amsterdam from Bojana K. Grabar

Bojana K. Grabar
mail e-mail: bayyna@maktoob.com


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