Taken from recent performances of our spoken video piece Border Remixeado at the Bowery Poetry Club (NYC) and MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana. San Jose, Califas). Thanks to Nayla Altamirano, Ariana Perez, Gary Glazner, Fred Salas and Eliel Lucero.

RISE UP & DANCE
TODOS SOMOS ARIZONA

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SALVADOR DURAN

VERBO•BALA
presenting the spoken video piece “Border Remixeado“
& sonidero danceparty

SHAUN HARRIS
& full band

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Cypress Hill canceled their concert at the Rialto for Friday 5/21 in opposition to SB 1070. So it’s time to RISE UP & DANCE, showing the world that not all of Arizona agrees with that law and others of its type. Bilingual political theater, hip-hop, special speakers & a blowout danceparty. All of it a fundraiser for Derechos Humanos Arizona, an organization working everyday to protect the civil rights of those who need it most.

¡STOP THE RAIDS!
¡STOP 1070!
¡DEFEND ETHNIC STUDIES!
...¡BAILEMOS!

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viernes EL 21 DE MAYO DE 2010
8pm. All ages.
Suggested donation at the door:
$5 students / $7 community

The Rialto Theater
318 E Congress St
Tucson, Arizona

We were recently asked by our compañeras at Galeria de la Raza (a dope gallery in San Francisco’s Mission District) to design a billboard in response to SB1070, the bill recently signed into law by Arizona govenor Jan Brewer. Both as individuals and as a collective we denounce the law for as bad policy and as an attack on our communities. Most of us were born in Arizona, and we refuse to be silent as the state takes actions that harken back to the days of the indigenous genocide and the Bisbee Deportation of 1917.

Todos somos Arizona. ¡Qué vivan los Capitol 9!

“Looking Forward Into History” by Verbobala

This image depicts one of nine students arrested by police on April 20, 2010 after chaining themselves to the Arizona State Capitol building as an act of nonviolent protest against Senate Bill 1070, widely seen as a misguided and racist anti-immigrant measure. After being taken into custody, the protesters began to sing “We Shall Overcome,” an anthem of the African-American civil rights era.

Verbobala (verbo-bala “bullet verb”) is a multimedia performance collective based out of Mexico City and Tucson, Arizona. Using remix as creative process, the group bends diverse media and genres into performance art, installation and dance parties. Political and linguistic borders are meant to be crossed. www.verbobala.com

Still from video by Dennis Gilman.

Read an official summary of the law and the critique of the many myths in the media hype around SB1070, written by friend of Verbobala, excellent poet, and Arizona police officer Corbet Dean.

Here’s a short article written by Stephen Lemons at the Phoenix New Times on the billboard and the growing number of acts of civil disobedience to protest the law. The original video of the “Capitol Nine” being arrested at the State Capitol, shot by Dennis Gilman. WATCH THIS:

Jerome, AZ Sat. 5/1: Sonidero Verbobala & Sambátuque @ The Spirit Room. 8pm. $5. 21+.

Yuma, AZ Wed. 4/28: Verbobala Spoken Video presents “Border Remixeado” @ Arizona Western College.

Learning Services, Office of Diversity, & Campus Life proudly present Celebration of Academic Achievement
Writing Matters: Writers with Purpose, Writers with Voice

12:30p.m. – 1:30p.m.
Schoening Conference Center
3C Building on AWC Main Campus

Presentation is FREE!
Open to the Public