On June 5th in Philadelphia, Slamistas Kazembe Balagun, Lenina Nadal, Jed Brandt, John Kim, and Sasa Ynoa spoke about SLAM’s innovative approach to organizing and why we were fighting for free university education.
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Audio from June 5, 2009 event with SLAM speakers in Philadelphia
Posted in access to education, anti-war, audio, Black community and SLAM, childcare access, Decolonization of the mind, hip-hop, interviews/speeches, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, Palestine, police brutality, queer liberation, Radical people of color organizing, SLAM founders, Uncategorized, women of color on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lenina Nadal, interviewed December 27, 2008
Posted in access to education, anti-war, Decolonization of the mind, hip-hop, interviews/speeches, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, police brutality, pre-SLAM radical CUNY organizing, Radical people of color organizing, SLAM founders, Uncategorized, women of color on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lenina Nadal, December 27, 2008 Lenina Nadal was a founding member of the CUNY Coalition Against the Cuts and SLAM. Having graduated in 1997, she returned in 2000 to help create SLAM’s organizer training institute. She is a filmmaker, playwright, and poet, and works for the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. Visit http://www.performingprofound.com interviewed [...]
What I Will, spoken word poetry by Suheir Hammad, video directed by Lenina Nadal
Posted in anti-war, Decolonization of the mind, hip-hop, Palestine, SLAM founders, spoken word, Uncategorized, video, women of color on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This Suheir Hammad video was made for SLAM X, the 10th anniversary of SLAM. Directed and edited by Lenina, camera by Eddy, starring Bravo as the taxi driver. Cab lenders – Nas and Bravo. Suheir was a founding member of SLAM at Hunter College. Special thanks to the Hammad family for letting the SLAM X [...]
