 Welcome to Jazz for Justice, a tribute to our freedom fighters and a fundraiser for those behind the wall and those released. Peace and good evening and welcome to Jazz for Justice. Tonight we bring you music, culture and education in the name of freedom and justice. I am your host Valerie Haynes alongside my dear brother Jaheeta Hawker. This event is brought to you tonight by the Northeast Political Prison Coalition and New York City Jericho, two New York City-based organizations who work in support of and on behalf of U.S. health political prisoners. Our first artist for tonight is drummer and percussionist Mr. Warren Smith. He here straight out of Chicago, Illinois and is a force to be reckoned with. He's played alongside renowned artists such as Nina Simone and Miles Davis. Jazz for Justice presents Warren Smith. Here's to all the people unjustly incarcerated and for those of us who are looking like myself not to have been severely incarcerated for a long period of time. We know what it is and we are with you and we pray for you and we'll do everything we can to see the justice is finally observed for all of us. And it's considered to be the most popular his genre. Clay is also a professor at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Please welcome Clay Jenkins. Freedom ain't free. Please donate at northeastpoliticalcoalition.wordpress.com. An emcee poet and producer, Cheyenne G has made a permission to inspire and teach through her music. She's been named one of the Bay Area's most standout hip hop artists and continues to empower and educate through her music. Without further ado, Jazz for Justice welcomes Cheyenne G. I'm very happy and honored to be here. I am a family member of Jalil Montiquin. To think that Jalil has been a way for double the amount of my lifetime. It has given me more drive and more passion to be able to put in the work for my people and to learn more about not only him but people like him who have been targeted by the systematic oppression that we all face today. I'm glad that he is still here and that he's still alive and that he's still doing well. And then all we hope is that he can one day you know see the product of his work and his mentorship and his leadership. So today I would like to contribute a musical illustration and tribute to a real freedom fighter, a Black Panther, a strong spirit. So, free Jalil, free Amal. Jalil, this one's for you. Love you guys. This song is called Clockwork. Shout out to Will Bracey. Shout out to Ian Kelly. Don't let your work take over your life. Let's get it. Stackin' up the dip. I ain't bite your lip, but you gon' wish you fit when you watch the clock. Work out the mind. I'm just trying to work. Stackin' up the dip. I got a bigger move to serve. Please don't try me. Mama told me I'm selling myself short. If that ain't the toughest pill, I had to swallow. Didn't come out crawling at a school to let fools talk to you to move and holler, but I can't regret to take a feeling. Glad it's about to hit the ceiling. That'll be a waterfall. All you doing is whizzing, knowing about missing. Same when y'all started, same when y'all finished, I left before popping up with that a limit. You can't miss me with all of your thoughts and me feeding my drive. See it is tipping me, driving me wild, but you're on me, trippin' me, lost in my zone, you know what this is for me. Right now, I'm sufferin' some regrets. They call it the same. It's called collection. If I can't fit in with you what I do next. Don't mind me. You gon' wish you fit. Mindful. You ever get tired of feeling like trying to say goodbye to you? Believe me when I say I ain't never expect the effort. Tryin' to leverage between the fake gorilla and this world you surrounded by all these stillers. Certified to let you work for painkillers. I kinda not feel it, did it? Keep on it and hurt me wishin' in vain. To live life without that goes without sayin'. Keep me in the hypnotism, I still goin' sane. Mine is still here, but I'm kickin' Randova. Misled to think the cure is a Range Rover. Mine said it's Randova. Tryin' to catch Rover. And then it tipped over. This T-Fart was claimed over. Whoa! Fam, look at Timmy. Gotta bring my back. Oh, they told me ain't no lookin' back. So every line I spit, I bring it black. Cause they don't know the size of this trap. And now I'm talkin' bout a contraption trap. But we do not have a clear freedom map. But somehow they still wanna shut a trap. Somehow I still think I get all these taxes and takin' large toes. Cause how you supposed to hope you still elect at the only time I drop in the park? A vision that Jalil, when he gettin' home, he gonna ride out to something funky. In a, in a six-fold, somethin' like that. Just ridin' out to somethin' like this. This song is called Reality. Let's go. I'm ridin' mouths on these hubcaps. Well, I'm being forced inside of my cap. Sittin' up, hidin' in this warm bowl. But I'mma have folks quote me, no cap. Now, what does it mean to really scratch surfaces? I stay scratchin' till my nails chip. Nappin' dreams of furnace that work the risk. Mask it like, cause I think I found the hints. Words up for challenger. I was a little scavenger. They were huntin' for bread and been answers. And by the looks of things, I guess not much has changed. I picked on their mental likes. And now I'm just sayin' different type of program I was bred into. But sayin' that is almost like announcing every single move. I'm just here to help remind you, guard your pieces. Everyone counts. I learned the hard way. That's why I'm speakin'. It's that you can be mistaken. Can't nobody else face me. This little light of mine has been too late up to not leave the path of greatness. That's my statement with show issue. Everyone got what they been through. Snapbacks on the hide-and-blow. Somethin' new, but I feel the soul. About time I can come to vote. Terminator invading the globe. When I speak it's hard, I ain't a foe. Don't care now, you will tomorrow. Back to bell, shout for show. Think you do right now or know you don't. New decade, can't recognize hope. Brand new bank, I mean the words, though. Ask me if I'm grindin' by the load. One of muscle girls, the more you chose, the more you get these flows. Now I river right up at your door. Special D, don't forget the nose. To underestimate the leap of a toe. Three and one is slow, never cease lonely. Watch your step, whoa. Now watch your step, watch your step, whoa. Now watch your step, watch out all momma saw a cap. No commises, trap on you. Rats and I ain't no cat. Question these jerks and they need to add a bin. Now let's hop it with a cherry on a scoop. Didn't even need to know how to do, cause nobody used to let me. Mine cruiser, but today it's on desk. Throw this signature, only sounding you take as a shake. The day they date for no top of sugar rush. You mouth too full and I think you need to flush. Ain't nothing wrong, you're about to swirke now. I walk past the crests and the rows and the crests. See I can't stop. Now white head of the cladding. Performing this next song, I want to recite a short piece that I wrote with Jaleel in mind. I heard a song as a child when I was at my grandparents house that reminded me of all the ills and oppression that our people had to go through since the beginning. And I need us to get that out. You know I was about 19 years old. So I'm speaking to you unmasked. I finally got in the grip on making sure these words last. And I can't find a better moment than right now. Then to tell them I'm not proud about the skip patches of grass. And this is why half of us owes our intelligence to luck. I know somebody said we're the generation of the most dumb. So young but similar to the older ones because complacency is within us and the spirit system. So come inside my heart and tell me why I'm so young. But knew about strange fruit before the lady with the cane and hunger for wisdom. You let the shame begin. It existed before the crow hung before our eyes. So the ice has melted more under our feet than ever before. But somehow it was used up to heal the same sword. So I saw those with no wings and see for those who gave up their eyesight for the ghetto full of dreams. This is for you Julio. It's a song you want and you got it. Let's go once upon a run. Look to the car that's this believe us. Not in that world again unless I'm safe from misperceive us. Can't find my way out if I stuck with leaving to be us. Like oh so like oh no when she got to preach about her foes. Don't worry bout it I just dilute them into my clothes. Young Osmosis Jones under her own control never again to be exposed. Now if I said I'm out this world couldn't connect with anybody if I'm trying to be heard. But both senses and visions blurred. Not a homie girl she said this oxygen has indeniable worth. Over being understood tired of being overlooked. Now should I give them a minute look down upon like there was never once upon a time. Matter of fact once upon a rhyme could change it all in two times. Off with their head up and looking below. Not even in the same life you'll see paper thin domes. A comfort where you can't easily just ease down a road. Too many peaks with dreams that never never snuff a slope. And it's never something new. Never seen so many colors in a world so blue. And you don't hear that phrase for nothing if you do then it's cool. I'm giving you a warm welcome to the craziest view. But I can suddenly get swallowed but can barely get chewed. And I'm the pocket of the poison that you see on the news. I risked the other way around this normal two kick feels. It's that bloodshot done in all ways of list. That you's hard to never get reflection if there's nobody to match you. The start of negative energy went from being full of themselves to the drop of colonoscopy. Not that check up feeling messed up because I upset the set up. Knock on my blockade and that's what you wake up. Way to way I'm with little power you thought you had no fess up. Cause I ain't never fed up when it comes to this love. And I know I'm not the only one. What's up? What's up? Once again my name is Cheyenne G. Thank you all so much for watching. I would like to take the time to thank the crew and the band. We got Clay on the set. We got Sheldon on the drums. We got Jackson on the keys. We got Wiley on the bass. To our camera crew we got First Soul. We got Jackie Spejo. Our production manager brother B. And we got DJ on the mixing board. You can find me at CheyenneGMusic.com. Thank you so much for your time. Free Jaleel. Free them all. Till the end. And now bringing to the stage Jihad Abdul-Mumit of the National Jericho Movement which was founded by one of our most beloved and revered former political presidents Jaleel Muntiqin. Jericho Movement has been working to free all political presidents for over 20 years. Won't you please show some bold black love to my brother Jihad Abdul-Mumit. Asalaamu Alaikum. My name is Jihad Abdul-Mumit. I am the chairperson of the National Jericho Movement. And I am here to support Jazz for Justice. And I'm representing my group Jihad Abdul-Mumit and the Jericho Trail Blazers. So I'm not going to do my debut song here. That will come next year. But I do want to explain to you the importance of supporting all political prisoners. You can go to the Jericho website, www, the Jericho movement and see who our freedom fighters are. Some of them, many of them have been incarcerated for going on 50 years now. So how can you support a political prisoner? You can support a political prisoner individually by writing them going to our website and seeing where they are located and sending them commissary money. Support letters. You can get your friends to do letter writing campaigns and parties for them. So communication with anybody incarcerated is a wonderful and beautiful thing. As an organization, if you have a Facebook page, if you have a website page, anything that's an internet presence or social media presence, you can just mention them on your website. Just mention them. Give a link to all organizations including Jericho that support our political prisoners and you can see who they are. Just a mere mentioning of them and somebody looking at your website for whatever your beautiful program is and they can see on the side there, oh, political prisoners. Support political prisoners. You can see who they are. And voila, you're doing a fantastic thing because you'll be presenting them to the rest of the world through your social media base. So like I said, Jehead and the Jericho Trail Blazers will be doing our debut song next year. So stay in tune for that. Thank you very much. Aslamu alaikum. Next up, we present Miss Caroline Davis. Born in Singapore, she currently resides in Brooklyn, New York and is both a talented musician as well as an educator. Caroline plays a saxophone. The flute is a composer and was recently awarded the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship for her work. Please welcome Miss Caroline Davis. This next artist has made waves with her soulful voice. Danielle Ponder, a native of Rochester, New York has sold out numerous shows in her hometown and has completed three, yes, three European tours. Danielle uses her voice and music to call for freedom and justice. Won't you please show some bold black love for my sister, Danielle Ponder. Did the crime paint more than time and time again? And the laws for the darker man victim comes too slow. Taifa is founder, principal, and CEO of the Taifa Group, LLC, a social enterprise firm whose mission is to advance social justice. Nkichi is a civil rights attorney who has focused on many social justice issues throughout her career, including sentencing, drug policy, policing, prisons, voting, reentry, clemency, racial justice, women, youth, political prisoners, reparations and human rights, and recently released her latest book titled Black Power, Black Lawyer, My Audacious Quest for Justice. Won't you please show some bold black love to Nkichi Taifa. Hello, this is Nkichi Taifa, and I just want to say voter fraud, the audacity. We as Black Vote, we know a hell of a whole lot about voter fraud. We know that Fannie Lou Hamer was beaten to within an inch of her life just for trying to register to vote. We know that Mega Hevers was gunned down in his own driveway just for registering to vote, and they call that vote. We know about counting up jelly beans in the jar. And we know about all of those vicious tactics that they use to suppress our vote. And we talk about someone's innocent mistake. That's some jiggy bookie. I want to share with you a piece I wrote in 1977. And again, in 1977, these things were still happening and folk were still in prison. And it's called Cointel. Cointel's got blacks in hell. They open up our mail, tap our phones and kick our phones and railroad us to jail. Angela Davis, Reverend Benchavis, Geronimo and Sopta too. Bruxell McGee all wanted to be free from you. Know who. FBI went so low. They invented Cointel Pro to stop the rising fire of a black messiah who would unify and electrify the masses to revolutionize. Co is for pro-concounter, which means use against. Intel is for intelligence. Pro is for program. They thought it was a perfect solution. Counterintelligence program to crush the revolution. Cointel, no doubt, in the Mississippi shootout, the RNA 11 still sitting in jail, tried by Pig, Griffin Bell, and Imari over Dolly's in the Beast's belly. Result of Cointel. Women 10-10 still sitting in the pen, as with brother George, instigations and allegations and testimonies forged. Narsada Shakuris chuckled to the bench. The BLA, they tried to lynch that fateful day with all their might on the new Jersey Turnpike. The Black Liberation Army was a target of Cointel. A brother was murdered that day and Narsada and Akoli sitting in jail and it ain't no riddle about Joanne Little, same as Sister Desi Woods, both attacked by apes, attempted to rape new African womanhood. But when they stopped the beast from with the crackers on gun, clearly self-defense. They sitting in jail, giving hell and told to pen it 10. Prisoners of war are going to make this country war. They have a lot to say. We in the state of siege, the oppressor will not succeed. We will when I say. Fred Hampton and Mark Clark will never depart from our hearts while Cointel's got blacks in jail. This is hell. While Cointel's got blacks in jail. This is hell. And we know that Cointel for all never ended. It just morphed into newer areas and arenas of surveillance, such as black identity extremists, such as Operation Relentless Pursuit. And the list goes on and on. So as we conclude, my few words, we want to go on and continue with this awesome jazz with justice. This is Nikichi Taipa, the author of Black Power, Black Lawyer, My Odacious Quest for Justice. Our next artist, Mr. Bilal Suniali, was a featured soloist for the legendary Gil Scott Huron, Brian Jackson and the Midnight Band. He presently performs with his group, Song of Life Ensemble, is a lecturer and has been a community activist for many, many years. Please join us in welcoming Mr. Bilal Suniali. The first song that I did was called, A Prayer for Everybody in the World. It was written by Brian Jackson. Some of you may be familiar with the songwriting duo of Gil Scott Huron and Brian Jackson. I was a featured soloist. Brian Jackson taught me that song. The lyrics to the song is self-explanatory. I don't need to talk about what it says. If you heard it, if you didn't hear it, play it back. Listen again and pay attention. The second song that I played is a song that I wrote myself. It's called, Look for Me in the World With. Look for Me in the World With is a statement made by Marcus Garvey as he was leaving the United States when he was being deported back to England from the port, from the pier in New Orleans, Louisiana. The song, Look for Me in the World With was used, that same title was used as the title for biography of the New York Panther 21. One of the first cases and one of the strongest cases about political prisoners that again, I insist upon people studying. If you study that case, you will learn a lot. And the first case being, it's titled, You Can Go and Look Up the State of New York or the People Versus Lumumba Chacor. The second case that you should study that many of us were in was called The United States Versus Dr. Moutou Chacor. And that is the case, and that was the case, another case that you should study. Study the many things, many words, definitions. We could come up with a 100 word glossary of things that people need to know that they don't know. So please look up that case, read the book, study about Marcus Garvey, and if you need to, listen to that song again. I seek refuge in the law against misleading and being misled. I seek refuge in the law against betraying and being betrayed into ignorance by others. And I ask a lot of God in my heart and to guide my tongue as to the things I'm bound to say this evening. And I'm not going to say too much. The topic is jazz for justice. The first thing I like, I want to say is that, as I always talk about, we use the term jazz, but jazz is not part of our culture. Jazz is a friend, is a word that came into our culture. A jazz house was a whorehouse. So it's pimp culture. So we, so the next thing that I want to say, not to dwell on that too long, is that those words that I used in the beginning were the words of Eman Jameel Alamein, formerly known as H. Rap Brown. It's a brother who put his life on the line, defending people who would register to vote because they were killing people who were registering to vote at the time when he was organizing in the Black Belt South in rural Alabama in rural Mississippi. In Green County, Mississippi, in Lowndes County, Mississippi, they didn't just register people to vote, but they organized political organizations, political parties, and they ran candidates to vote in order to take over and take control of the area where we lived. It's called self-determination. The practice of voting is a part of the process of struggling for self-determination. The vote in itself does not make you free. You got to use it, and you have to use it intelligently. When you have platforms, and when you have platforms that the community agrees on, then they can decide who will vote, whoever fits that platform. Nobody comes and vote back in those days, in the early days of voter education and voter registration. It wasn't a matter of somebody vote and you vote for them if you like them. No, you decide what the program is, and if they decide that they can fit on that program, then you run them. The community has an organization which runs the people for office. The way they got it going now is backwards. The way they got it going now is betrayal. Just like I said, I seek refuge in the law against betrayal because many people are betraying those people who registered to vote and was educating people to vote and put those early stages of self-determination together. There's so much going on right now. Besides this program, every night, you can turn on it every day, all day long. You can turn on YouTube or somewhere on the Internet and there's something going on about political prisoners. I'd advise everybody to get busy, to get busy with it and stay on it. Study. Study. Train yourself to study and understand what this thing is all about. It's all about self-determination and liberation. It's not about voting. Voting is just a way to get to it. And political prisoners have put their lives on the line to advance this struggle and we have to take care and struggle on behalf of our political prisoners and their families. That's about all I want to say this evening and thank you very much for me being on it. I'm very honored to be part of this program. Jazz for Justice. He is a drummer and a composer. Rob Garcia continues to be a strong presence in New York and the international jazz scene as a sideman and a band leader. He has performed and recorded with band leaders such as Wynton Marsalis and Joseph Jarman and many more. Rob has released six acclaimed albums as a band leader and is founder and artistic director of Connection Works. Jazz for Justice presents Mr. Rob Garcia. Hey y'all, thanks for tuning in. This is Rob Garcia. I am a jazz musician, a drummer and composer from Brooklyn, New York. I am very happy to be taking part and supporting Jazz for Justice. I'm going to play a mostly improvised piece on the drum set. Hope you enjoy it. Here it goes. My name is Yassantawa Inzinga and I'm here to do the dirty work. That is, let's get to collecting more money. I know that you've heard several announcements about giving but I'm here to encourage you to give to our political prisoners. Remember that freedom ain't free. They've given their lives for our liberation and it's time for us to give for their liberation. We're asking you to make donations as small or as large as you can. Quite naturally, those of you who have a little bit more financial security, we're asking you to also give a little more. I was doing some research on just what it costs, just an average American not living in places like New York and Brooklyn, what it costs for them to live per month. And one of the lowest costs was $5,210 a month. Please remember that our political prisoners come out of prison with nothing. It's not like they're in there earning a living. Many of them, they don't have social security. They don't have pension but what they do have is us. So I am encouraging you now to reach in your pockets, to give as much as you can. A screen will come up with where you can give. And I'm asking you to please, please give. Remember, freedom ain't free. This next performer coming to the stage is Sarah Elizabeth Charles. Sarah has used jazz and rock to tell the stories of our people and to call for change and revolution. Back by her band Scope, Sarah has released three incredible albums and is also a vocalist with the group Ajoya. Won't you please help me welcome Sarah Elizabeth Charles. My name is Sarah Elizabeth Charles. I'm so grateful and honored to be here and to be a very small part of this Jazz for Justice event. I wanted to thank Rob Garcia for inviting me here today. And I'm not going to talk much. I'm going to sing more but I wanted to just say that this particular event and cause is very dear to me in my life. As a teaching artist I've been teaching in correctional environments for about six or seven years now. And this particular setting has taught me so much about myself. I've met some of the most humble creative amazing people that I've ever come across in my entire life and I do not say that lightly. And I'm just so grateful that as an artist I have an opportunity to speak to issues of injustice that exist in our society via my musical platform. So I'm just going to try my best. This is my humble offering today for this event. Thanks again for having me. I'm going to sing three songs for you. The first is called Freedom Day and it was written by Max Roche and Oscar Brown Jr. and sung and performed by the great Abby Lincoln. And then the other two songs that I'm going to perform are original compositions. The first is going to be called or is called Blind Emotion and the second is called One World. So I hope you enjoy this music. I'm going to try transcend the screen and put as much energy out there as humanly possible right now. And yeah, thanks. Thanks for listening in advance. Here we go. This first song is called Freedom Day. Whisper listen Whisper listen Whisper now we're free Room is flying Must be lying Can it really be? Don't believe it Can't conceive it But that's what they say Slaves no longer Slaves no longer This is Freedom Day Max and Che Says it's really true Whisper listen Whisper listen Whisper now we're free Room is flying Must be lying Can it really be? Can't conceive it Don't believe it But that's what they say Slaves no longer Slaves no longer This is Freedom Day I can't hear you and I can't see you but I can feel your energy and I can feel the energy of this event. Yeah, even though I'm by myself in this room very, very grateful to be able to perform for all of you. This next song is called Blind Emotion and it's an original composition and that I wrote about inherent bias the idea that bias is not is not something that we have to run away from because it's truth and a reality that we all face. And being able to just say that out loud and acknowledge it I truly believe is the first step to being able to overcome those biases that exist in all of us as a result of our experience as human beings. I do believe we can transcend those and I guess I'm just trying to do it via song. So this is Blind Emotion. This last song is called One World. I like to end sets with this with this particular song because it's really it's really about the idea, the fundamental idea that as human beings we're all a part of the same species and we all need the same things. We need air, we need food, we need water, we need love that has been proven. If we really think about it and take a moment and pause our similarities are actually so much more fruitful and so much more vast than we could ever imagine. There's so much more than our differences in reality. And I try to keep my focus there whenever I am coming across a situation in which I am not able to practice as much empathy as I would like to practice or if I'm not practicing really being able to take my judgment of a situation out of the equation because in reality I am not the person to be judging other human beings in the first place. I'm actually not even the person to be judging myself. So this song is really just in tribute to the idea that we are really all one as human beings. We need the same things and we love in the same ways and if we keep our focuses on those similarities more than our differences I just I don't know I believe that I believe the world can be a better place and I know that sounds cliche but I also happen to believe it's true. So that's what this song is dedicated to that sort of naive very hopeful idea. This is one world. Release, we want this place. Thank you again so much for listening for being here as a part of this Jazz for Justice event. It's an honor for me to be here. My name is Sarah Elizabeth Charles. I'm sending all of you positive and healthy energy and thank you again for listening. Take care. Born in Buffalo, New York. This next artist is the protégé of the late and great musician Mr. Charles Mingus. Bassist Sabu Adiola has performed at venues all over the world alongside artists such as renowned pianist Ahmad Jamal, Big Joe Turner and many more. Please give it up for Mr. Sabu Adiola. Raymond Wimbush is a scholar, activist and author. His writings and research have helped us to understand the impact of racism and white supremacy on the global African community. He is currently the resource professor and director at the Institute of Urban Research at Morgan State University. Please welcome Dr. Raymond Wimbush. You know I'm always amused when I hear people from the government say in defense of the United States we don't have political prisoners in the United States. A political prisoner for example is somebody like Nelson Mandela. In fact the United States has always had political prisoners since the inception. Martin Luther King was a political prisoner for many arrests that he did because he was demonstrating against injustices of this country so the Cali House during the 1920s when she tried to give reparations for ex enslaved Africans in this country or in more modern times Angela Davis who was wrongly arrested. Jamil Alameen and of course probably the most famous political prisoner in this country Mume Abou Jamal. What the United States government does very cleverly is to get a person criminalized that they want to get rid of put them in jail and hope that they will die or their movement will be quelled. I'm asking everybody who's listening to this video to please learn more about political prisoners in this country and to give generously and to be connected to at least one so that you can help him or her escape the injustices of the United States. Thanks. Next up we have Ms. Camille Thurman. Camille is a vocalist, instrumentalist and composer who has made a dynamic contribution to the world of jazz. She has shared the stage with the likes of Winter Marcellus, Kayla Bell, Alicia Keys, Janelle Monay to name a few. Please join us in welcoming Camille Thurman. Thank you so much for joining us as for justice it's an honor to be performing for you and we hope that this music will uplift and inspire everybody watching and also move people to support this wonderful cause that's helping people find. This next tune we're going to be doing for you is actually it's a tune that was an oldie but a goodie that I rearranged and we're hoping that this might give you some some good energy. This is called the world is waiting for the sunrise. Again we want to say thank you to Jazz for justice for having us please if you find it upon your heart please support this cause it's helping and saving so many people's lives. Once again I'm Camille Thurman this is Daryl Green and Ron Belcher. We hope to see you soon we're going to close this set with a composition entitled My Shining Hour. In Goma Hill is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. Artivist, paradigm shifter who for over 45 years has used culture as a tool to raise socio-political and spiritual consciousness to work that encourages critical thought. Won't you please help me welcome our final performer for tonight in Goma Hill. Ain't free. Please donate at NorthEastPoliticalCoalition.wordpress.com I'd like to thank, give praise and acknowledge all of our musicians, performers and speaker who volunteered both their time and their talent for tonight's event. Of course we give praise to our organizing committee Natasha, YAH, Adeline and NYC Jericho, Nina, Rob, Bilal and Carolina to all of those who continue to do the work to support our freedom fighters. A very special shout out to Hella Back Podcast for having us and to community movement builders for endorsing tonight's event. Last but definitely not least, much love and appreciation to our political prisoners still held in confinement who have made and continue to make ultimate sacrifice. Continue to inspire. Our freedom fighters fought for us. The time is now for us to bring them home. Free Sundara Koli, Free Russell Mulrush Oates, Free Dr. Mutulu Shukua, Free E-Mam Jameil Alamee, Free Ruchel McGee, Free Romaine Chip Fitzgerald, Free Ed Poindexter, Free Ravindra Bowers, Free Kamau Siddiqui, Free Mumia Abu Jamal, Free David Gilbert, Free Amal. Thank you for attending Jazz for Justice. Never forget that freedom ain't free. It is our duty to liberate those who fought to liberate us.