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The Bandana Republic is a literary first—an anthology that speaks from the standpoint of past and present gang members, a collection of poetry and prose that reflects the creative and intellectual sides of those who come from the undercurrent of urban centers.
Urban youth gangs and street associations are viewed more often than not as training grounds for thugs and felons. Left out are their members' emotional sensitivities, their political consciousness, their individual and collective capacities to assess the social conditions that gave rise to the need for such associations. Left out of the popular dialogue on gangs is the creative impulse that has continued to manifest in popular culture—from the birth of the Blues to Rag Time and Swing, to BeBop, Doo Wop and Hip Hop.
Intergenerational in scope, The Bandana Republic focuses on creative literature written by adolescents from such contemporary gangs as Crips and Bloods, Latin Kings and Black Spades and Neta, Black Gangster Disciples etc. It also includes work by former gang members who have entered the arena of social work or gone on to other careers. The anthology showcases writing by television and film actors Malik Yoba, Ruby Dee, and Jim Brown; performers and lyricists Oscar Brown Jr., Dead Prez, Mumia Abu Jamal etc.all of whom have either come from urban gangs or were closely affiliated with street-based organizations.---------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- About the authors: A former street gang member, having come from one of the more notorious New York urban gangs of the 1950s, the Chaplain Nation, which once comprised as many as 19 separate divisions throughout the borough of Brooklyn, poet/essayist Louis Reyes Rivera is now known as the Janitor of History. He has been studying the craft of poetry since 1960 and teaching it since 1969. The recipient of over 20 awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award (1995), a Special Congressional Recognition Award (1988), and the CCNY 125th Anniversary Medal (1973), Rivera has assisted in the publication of well over 200 books, including editing Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown Publishers, 2001) with Tony Medina.
Considered by many as a necessary bridge between the African and Latino American communities, he is a professor of Pan-African, African-American, Caribbean and Puerto Rican literature and history whose essays and poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Areyto, Boletin, The City Sun, African Voices, and in award-winning collection, including ALOUD: Live from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Of Sons And Lovers, and his own Scattered Scripture. Since 1996, Rivera continues to host a bi-monthly 1st & 3rd Sundays Jazzoetry & Open Mic @ Sistas' Place (where he also conducts his writing workshop), in Brooklyn. He appeared on C-SPAN, as part of the REPARATIONS NOW! rally held in Washington, D.C. and on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry on HBO. Currently, Louis Reyes Rivera can be heard every Thursday, at 2pm, on radio station WBAI (99.5 FM), hosting his show Perspective. Louis Reyes Rivera lives in New York City.
A former gang member (Kaos Crew, BX, NY), Bruce George has been writing poetry for over decades. He is co-founder of Russell Simmon’s Def Poetry Jam, for which he received a Peabody Award, Mikey Award etc. Bruce George has served on numerous panels such as Harvard, The New School, Medger Evens and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture etc., and he has judged hundreds of Spoken Word contests. Bruce George was born and raised in NYC and currently lives in Brooklyn New York.Vist Bruce's myspace page at: www.myspace.com/brucegeorge
The Bandana Republic will be published in the Spring of 2008. For info. go to: www.softskull.com
© 2007 Soft Skull Press, Inc......................................................... ... The Editors of The Bandana Republic (Bruce George/Louis Reyes Rivera),come out of gang culture so they know about it first hand. As a result they are committed to getting our brothers/sisters in gang culture to tie their rags together through the arts. It's about 5ive up! 5ix up! No 5et-trip! B^C^ L3ts bang tha 5y5tem! DrOpPIn hat3 & pOPpIn Luv! 5ho em dat B'zs & C'zs no foo 4 Dem Fak aSS WanNa beees & ceees. L3ts ti3 thos3 rag5 tog3th3r.PEOPLE & FOLK! Uhuru!
........................................................... We the Editors of “The Bandana Republic…” would like to give Comrade luv to: Tripple OG T. Rodgers (ABPSN,PhG), Oscar Brown Jr. R.I.P., Vice Lord Nation,Sonny Carson, Fred Hampton (The Black Panther Party for Self Defense), Stephen B. Biko, Bobby Hutton, George Jackson, Alex Alonso, Insane Vice Lords, Khalid Muhammad, Huey P. Newton, Brown Side Locos 758 Gang, OG Stanley “Tookie” Williams, Malcolm X, The Savage Skulls, The Savage Nomads, Mickey Cobras, Ambrose, Angelo, Africa Bambaataa (Mighty Zulu Nation), Adisa Banjoko (The Bishop of Hip Hop), Melvin Banks, Amiri Baraka, OG King David Barksdale (BGD), OG Madd Ronald of the Rollin'20s Bloods, Godfather/Tripple OG Jimel Barnes (Crips), Dwane Bell, Twilight Bey, OG Blood 40 and OG Blood Pac, Pirus Bloods, Jim Brown (Amer-I-Can), Bruno (aka Big Man), The FTP Movement, OG Luis Rodriguez, King Skibee of the Latin Kings and Queen Nation, Ace of the Rollin' 20s Crips, Burner (Blood from The Bronx), OG Max Cartel (Crip), The Revolutionary Mumia Abu Jamal, Brother Commander from Chicago, O.G Victor “Gotti” Cherry (Blood), DX 21, Leonard Peltier, OG Pancho Villa, Crazy Horse, The Seven Crowns, The Black Pearls, Subway Outlaws, The Satan Souls, Harlem Turks(Harlem NY),The Lo-Lifes (Bklyn),The Dirty Dozen, The Spanish Kings, The Reapers, The Immortals, The Dukes (Bklyn),Together We-Chill (Bklyn),The Bronx Reapers (BX, NY),The Cypress Bachelors (Bklyn), The Assassinators (Bklyn),The Tomahawks (Bklyn),Ghetto Brothers, The Dirty Ones (Bklyn), Devil's Rebel's (Bklyn),Sex Boys (Bklyn), MS13, The Crazy Homicides (Bklyn), The Majestics (Bklyn), Rock The House (Bklyn),Chingaling, Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, OG Chino of The Assassins, Shaka Zulu, O.G Chino (Godfather of La Familia), O.G Monster Cody, Gustavo Colon, Godfather/Tripple OG Raymond Washington (Founder of the Crips), Tripple OG Mike Concepcion, Lord Cashus D (Mighty Zulu Nation), Chuck D, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Apache Geronimo, Chief "Sitting Bull" (Tatanka Yotanka), OG Easy E., Luis Felipe, A.K.A. King Blood, Godfather of the Almighty Latin King Queen Nation in NYS, OG Godfather Jeff Fort, Don “Playmate” Gordon, Eugene “Bull” Hairston (founder of the Black Peace Stone Rangers), Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Del Hendrixson (Bajito Onda), Crazy Horse, OG Larry Hoover of the Gangster Disciples, Jay the Butcher, Cha Cha Jimenez (founder, the Young Lords), The Jungle, Black Peace Stone Rangers, LA, OG Big Kiko (Crips), OG Suge Knight, General Robert Lee, Jolly Stompers, Leibo, OG Willie Lloyd (Vice Lords), M1 (Dead Prez), Bonz Malone, Comandante Marcos, OG Oow-Wee (Bloods), The Revolutionary Fidel Castro, Abiodun Oyewole & The Last Poets, Q-Bone, King Pep (founder, the Vice Lords), The Nomads, Pistol Pete, Big Phil, Geronimo Pratt, Red (from Hoover), The Revolutionary Pancho Villa, King El David, Redstorm (GD), RBG, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), David Sanchez (founder/President, Brown Berets), Papa Santos founder of the The Latin Kings, Conservative Vice Lords, Bobby Seale, Marcus Garvey, The I.R.A., Sanyika Shakur aka Monster Kody, Big Ship, O.G Cle “Bone” Sloan (Athens Park Blood), Monte Smith, OG George Squeeze, Stic.man (Dead Prez), Assata Shakur, Nat Turner, Sureno 13s, Piri Thomas, O.G King Tone, Kublai Toure of Amer-I-Can, Illinois, The Kray Brothers, The Red Brigades, Rubbin Ray Watson, OG Malik Yusef (BPN), The Popes, Almighty Gaylords, Amer-I-Can, Anarchist Collective, Aryan Brotherhood, The Assassins, Athens Park Bloods, The Bishops, Black Gangster Disciples, Black Guerilla Family, Black Panther Party, Black P Stone Nation,The Black Spades (BX), Black Wall Street, Blood Alleys, The Bloods, Bloodstone Villains, Bone Thugs & Harmony, The Booya Tribe, Bounty Hunter Bloods, The Brims, The Brown Berets, Denmark Vesey, John Brown, The Businessmen, The Ching-A-Lings, Cirkle City Piru Gang, The Crips, Death Before Dishonor Movement, December 12th Movement, 18th Street Gang, Eastside Crips, La Familia, Five-Nine Brims, Five Percent Nation of Gods & Earths, The Ball Busters, Folk Nation, Four Corner Hustlers, Four-Tre Avalons, Four-Tre Hoovers, Gangster Disciples, The Gladiators, Grape Street Watts Crips, Harlem Diplomats Dipset, Harrison Gents, The Kaos Crew, The K.A.R. (Kill All Rats) Movement, Latin Counts, The Fordham Baldies (BX, N.Y.),Latin Disciples, OG Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, The Ghost Shadows, The Latin King and Queen Nation, Green Lighters, The Malcolm X Grass Roots Movement, The Mau Mau of Kenya, The Yamaguchi-gumi, The Mexican Mafia, Mickey Cobras, The Mighty Zulu Nation, OG Lorenzo "Fat Cat" Nichols, The MOVE Organization, Nation of Islam, Netas, Nortenos 14, NWA, October 22nd Coalition, Park Hill Bloods (Denver), The Yakuza Gang, People Nation, Rabble Rousers, La Raza, Rollin’ 30’s, OG Pappy Mason, Vietamese Boyz, WAH Ching (Dub C), Tiny Raskal Gang, Armen-Rah from Chi-Town, Asian Boyz of L.A., Shotgun Crips, Shower Posse (Jamaica, W.I.), Six-Deuce Brims, The Flying Dragons, Six-Four Brims, The White Fence Gang,Pam Afrika, Spangler Posse (Jamaica, W.I.), The Casanova Crew (BX, N.Y), The Assassinators (Bk, NY),The Stop Snitching Movement, Forbidden Ones, MC, La "Coka" Nostra,The Taco Poets, OG Gator Wallace Bradley (Gangster Disciples), Twilight Zone Crips, Unknown Vice Lords, Vice Lords, Watts Poets, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., The Welfare Poets, OG Lance and Todd Feurtado of the "Seven Crowns Gang",Westside Crips, Dynasty Rockers, Decepticons, The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Sex Money Murder (Bloods)BK,The Yardies, H Rap Brown, The Young Lords, The Zapatistas, The Nine Crew(BX, K-So Green, N.Y.),The Zoot Suits, King of Kings Rory Guerra (Founder of the Latin Kings), Homicide Outlaws, Brooklyn Wild Boyz, Mortal Skulls, MC, Southside Renegades, NY, Almighty Saints 45th, Chicano Style MC,Latin Riderz MC, The Javelins (BX), DDP(Dominicans Don't Play),3POINT KROWN KIN9Z FROM SAN ANTO. TX, The Almighty Saintz,La Primera, Purple City Crips and certainly all of the contributors.
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God Almighty!Sitting Bull, Winnie Mandela, Arundhati Roy, Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Ho Chi Minh, Sojourner Truth, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Emma Goldman, William Blum, Jomo Kenyatta, Allen Ginsberg, Rita Mae Brown, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Alice Walker, Tariq Ali, Albert Memmi, Barbara Smith, Crazy Horse, Ramsey Clark, Simon Boli var, Angelina Grimke Weld, Eduardo Galeano, Edward Said, Sunera Thobani, Aime Cesaire, Zapatista National Liberation Army, Mark Twain, Marcus Garvey, Vandana Shiva, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie, Tecumseh, Toussaint L'Ouverture, June Jordan, Eugene Debs, Huey Newton, Bell Hooks, Hannah Arendt, James Connolly, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ward Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Bobby Sands, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Leonard Peltier, Stan Goff, Assata Shakur, Maya Angelou, Kuwasi Balagoon, Toni Cade Bambara, Martin Luther King, Jr, H. "Rap" Brown, Russell Means, James Baldwin, David Walker, Immortal Technique Maria W. Stewart, John Trudell, Augusto Cesar Sandino, Rita "Bo" Brown, Susan B. Anthony, Tomás Borge Martínez, Thomas Paine, Sergio Méndez Arceo, Utah Phillips, José María Morelos, Grace Lee Boggs, Oscar Romero, Ralph Chaplin, William Jelani Cobb, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Rosa Parks, Chief Atai, Miguel Hidalgo, Norman Solomon, Muhammad Ali, W.E.B. Du Bois, William Upski Wimsatt, Dick Gregory, Steve Biko, Sonia Sanchez, Frederick Douglass, Eldridge Cleaver, Paul Robeson, Vine Deloria, Chief Seattle, Harriet Tubman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bob Marley, Chief Joseph, Wole Soyinka, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Cherrà e Moraga, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Will Rogers, James W. Loewen, Luther Standing Bear, Ohiyesa, Winona LaDuke, Albert Einstein, Audre Lorde, Denis Hayes, Earth Liberation Front, Wangari Maathai, Friedrich Engels, Judi Bari, Robert Bullard, Manfred Max-Neef, Edward Abbey, Toni Morrison, Mary Daly, Julia Butterfly Hill, David Suzuki, Louise Michel, Peter Singer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Carl Oglesby, Bernadette Devlin, Subcomandante Marcos, Mother Jones, Welfare Poets, George Jackson, Etienne de la Boetie, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, Albert Camus, Howard Zinn, The Coup, Karl Marx, Patrice Lumumba, Joan Baez, Mao Tse-Tung, Daniel O'Connell, Daniel Berrigan, Emma Goldman, Adrienne Rich, A. Philip Randolph, Mordechai Vanunu, Public Enemy, Mario Savio, Mario Hardy Ramirez, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Cornel West, John Brown, Fred Hampton, Michael Franti, Franz Fanon, David Gilbert, Rod Coronado, Fidel Castro, Michael Albert, Ramona Africa, Ida B. Wells, Martin Niemoller, Paul Laraque, Cynthia McKinney, Pete Seeger, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ewuare Osayande, Guillermo Gomez-Peta, Jose Marti, Robin Morgan, Jean Jacques Dessalines, Amiri Baraka, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pedro Albizu Campos, Starhawk, Guy Fawkes, Wendell Phillips, Chinua Achebe, Yuri Kochiyama, John Africa, Helen Keller, Mikhail Bakunin, Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, Noam Chomsky, Fela Kuti, Gloria Steinem, Heinrich Heine, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Michael Berg, Marilyn Buck, Black Hawk, Salvador Allende, George Santayana, Patrice Lumumba, Aurora Levins Morales, Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis, Michael Parenti, Geronimo, Jello Biafra, Greg Palast, Langston Hughes, Chuck D, Pablo Picasso, Joe Hill, Martin Espada, Cherrie Moraga, Woody Guthrie, Thom Yorke, Mutulu Shakur, Nikki Giovanni, Jeff Chang, Gary Delgado, Susan Sontag, Peter Tosh, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sarah Grimko, Shirley Chisholm, Bernardine Dohrn, Susan Faludi, Virginia Woolf, Mariam Makeba, Paula Giddings, Rebecca Walker, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Aung San Suu Kyi, Camille Paglia, Simone de Beauvoir, Alicia Banks, Sylvia Ray Rivera, Gloria Anzaldia, Robin Tyler, Alexander Berkman, Mother Jones, Studs Terkel, H Rap Brown, August Spies, Barbara Ehrenrei, ch Shirin Ebadi, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Kathy Kelly, John Stockwell, Desmond Tutu, David P. Richardson, Eric Alterman, Magdaleno Rose-Avila, Gary Null, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, John Edgar Wideman, Michel Foucault, Last Poets, Lenny Bruce, Shaka Sankofa, Kevin Cooper, "Zamba" Boukman Dutty, Fannie Lou Hamer, Simone Weil, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ernesto Cardenal, Medgar Evers, Chico Mendes, Chris Hedges, Randolph Bourne, Elias Rashmawi, Woody Harrelson, Smedley Butler, Tim Wise, Camilo Mejia, The Mau Mau, John Oliver Killens, Oscar Brown Jr., Dr. Khalid Muhammad etc.