FIYAWATA/GREEN FESTIVAL

What could I say - WE DID IT. OBAMA. Got a Blackman in office, But WHAT DOES THAT MEAN???

After meditating and visualizing on that question for 10 minutes hit me up on my blog and leave a comment at http://destinednationmedia.blogspot.com.

Why do I begining this blast this way? Well one answer: perspective. What does Obama mean to you? To me: possibility, REALITY- America couldn't really be realistic without electing Obama after 8 years of BUSH---shit and finally change. Funny right. Well Obama represents change, what change do you PLAN to manifest? Sorry folks, I don't mean to talk to myself outloud again, but can you relate? Anyway FIYAWATA, Grind for The Green and in this case my wife Zakiya Harris are all about change. I highlight Zakiya, because she has successfully directed this year's SF Green Festival and one of her main contributions to it was bringing Hip-Hop to the forefront of its Green Mission (see the flyer for the Friday evening's event "Word To The Mother (Earth) which should've been called Hip-Hop's Gonna work it out). And with Obama in office what could I say Brothers Gonna Work It Out!!!! Are or we really? Maybe if we really listen to sisters for a change. What do you think? Tell me at http://destinednationmedia.blogspot.com.

But speaking about Hip-Hop: FIYAWATA is hosting that event on November 14th from 6:30pm-8:30pm and we're rocking on the following day, November 15th at Green Festival again at 3pm. What's up with FIYAWATA, well other than having our name mentioned 3 times already in this blog, we're finally going to drop our second project this year - Jouney Into Sound 2, originally a mixtape, now a suite before the holidays and we got a barrage of jams coming your way after that. Find out more at our latest write up at http://adambernard.blogspot.com/2008/11/screamed-at-by-ska-girl.html Just to note here at Destined Nation Media we keep promotion shameless. With that one last plug TOWNTRONIKS. That's all I'm saying.

If you're really real about change though visit MoveOn.org and Repoweramerica.org. Another place to learn about a change that can save the planet is Van Jones' book Green Collar Economy, check it out.

Thanks for listening, reading and putting Hope in The White House. Now we just have to paint it Black or multicolor.
Love,

Ambessa The Articulate

VOTE HIP HOP NOW!!!!

HIP-HOP

33 years old and it's founders are quickly approaching 50. Made from streets littered with junkies, drugs, crime, lost hopes, poverty and style. Fitting the profile of many black males today. Somewhat drug related, somewhat deviant, somewhat prison prone.
Not supposed to be successful, productive, law abiding, thriving, assimilated, upwardly mobile. Well... guess what?

HIP-HOP

From selling crack to smoking it. From outcast to celebrity. From bum to king. From Trials and Tribulation to Triumph. From ghetto to Hollywood, Rome. From poor black kid's music to Globalization's music. From ashy to classy. It's mantra punks dissed me but in my face they kiss my ass. What's your credo now Hip-Hop, clothes, bankrolls and hoes or CHANGE? You made it Kid, you've arrived. And now as you deliver your keynote to the cosmos what will your message be. Pop the bubbly, Party and Bullshit, Take the Bitch to the Telli. Or are you going to announce that you will now raise your kids, make right by your baby mamas, leave the drugs alone, leave the THUG alone. Will you now see a chiropractor to straighten out the crooks in your back to walk upright or will it be more party and bullshit and party and bullshit? The chance is now. The fork is in the road, what will you feed yourself now.

Make the change in the polls, make the change in the streets, make the change in your homes, make the change in you ...deep.

Let's all go vote, not tomorrow but today, right where you are now. Before the Revolution comes, The Evolution must come.

Vote HIP HOP NOW