Updated Media Release & Artists Statement Updated Media Release & Artists Statement Not In Our Name ArtSpeaks Against the War A Production of the Artists Network of Refuse & Resist! featuring Dilated Peoples,Ozomatli, Blackalicious, Saul Williams, Mystic, The Coup, Hassan Hakmoun, Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra and the Great Voice of UGMAA, Mystic, Jerry Quickley, Wanda Coleman and East LA Sabor Factory with special appearances by Ras Michael, Leon Mobley, Money Mark and video performances by Sarah Jones, Suheir Hammad and Professor Irwin Corey May 12, 2001 @ The Palace Theater in Hollywood (North of Hollywood on Vine) 6:00 p.m. .50 with applicable service charges Visual arts include "From Goya to Golub (includes work by Nancy Spero, Arnold Mesche, Leon Golub among others)" curated by Nina Felshin, Robbie Conal, I.C.U. Arts, Ami Motevalli, Dinh Q. Lee, Lida Abdullah, B+, Bansky, Dread Scott, Mariana Botey, Mear One, Winston Smith, Nancy Buchanan, Sheila Pinkel, Kim Abeles, Erica Cho, Tony Do, Sandra Low, Kat Skraba and many others... Dejays & MC's - Garth Trinidad, Carlos Nino, DJ Nobody, J Logic, Fidel Rodrigues For the full story go to http://www.artistsnetwork.org For a fully functional flyer created by B+ and Soapdesign go to http://www.soapdesign.com/artspeaks/index.htm For more information and to help spread the word: (323) 860-9992 -------------- THE FIRST MAJOR ANTI-WAR CONCERT Each year the artists who work with the network pick a theme. It is always one of great importance to the people and concentrates in many ways their gravest concerns as well as their most courageous resistance. This year, we have chosen to make our music, poetry and art against the war now being waged in our name around the world and at home. ArtSpeaks 2002 is the first major concert against the war. ArtSpeaks 2002 is our fifth concert and may be our most important yet. We are told that this is a war with no end and no boundaries. We are expected to support the rounding up of thousands because of their nationality or religious beliefs. We are expected to go along with the silencing of those who dissent. And in every corner of society, blind patriotism justifies the rapid growth of the politics of intolerance, cruelty and punishment. They are stealing the very air that we breathe. ArtSpeaks is about changing the atmosphere. Our artistic collaboration creates a whole different vision. As the late great jazz pianist Horace Tapscott put it, in times of great social upheaval and change art is "ammunition for the head" - it tears down boundaries of what is thinkable, it clears new pathways, poses profound questions, and carves out critical space in a society in desperate need of change. Please join us.