there to protest against abusive treatment of law enforcement in the country after a video of an attack on two police officers surfaced on the internet just a heads up images that we're about to show you might be a bit disturbing. why. in the video a female officer and a male police captain were knocked to the ground and then repeatedly kicked and punched in their heads and bodies they were responding to an emergency call at a new year's eve celebration that had hundreds of people in attendance police ordered the party shut down due to overcrowding and disorderly conduct. police officers are attacked every day and there is a lack of response only the government can respond and enforce the law because it is not permissible that a police officer can be brutally attacked like we saw today and that once the aggressors are identified they are not in prison people who attack police officers should be in prison and that does it for me this i'll be back with headlines in

twenty nine minutes you're watching the international stay with us. please. greetings and salutations you cannot have a revolution without dancing and you cannot have dancing without music revolution will always and forever be intertwined with music because most often it's the musician the poet who channels the rhymes and heart beats of change that often starts as a soft melodic whisper creeping out from the underground and then crescendos into

a grand opera of cultural change and up people and that intertwined history is why the musician will always be an agent or instrument if you will of change their lyrics and melodies can shine a light on the injustices and bring attention to the under-represented and even helped bring down the giants themselves today let's find out what comes first the revolution or the music as watching the hawks strikes a chord if you want to know what gold would know if you see the three at the back rail that you basically need to analyze the dates again for the plot of the city so if you speak your mind let's go for the day like it or not i got to have a visit with lethal band the outbreak of it and it is still going on the business world a little but now you know it opened up there with open fields to start to question

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and now we're for being called flobots and democrats and we're alternative hip hop and we play music for the last ten years plus together and you know for us music is about engaging the crowd but it's also about kind of engaging people with the message so what brought you guys to get there. loving the x. men. loving g.i. joe lots of nerdy things were to nerdy boys who were placed in the highly gifted and talented program he was in the fifth grade i was in the fourth grade. and it's a memory that i remember very clearly i saw him down the hallway as now i was with my father and everybody told him my dad's army as i see that boy the blue hat he's going to be my friend and here we are how many years later the twenty is what years later we thought we're going to be making comic books professionally. but the world

that we crafted in comic books and becoming the worlds that we started crafting and exploring with our wraps and we fell in love with hip hop together and we both came from families that were pretty social justice activist oriented so and hip hop especially like when we were falling in love with it also was just very much telling the story of the people who were experiencing like people from the south bronx experiencing problems like poverty and using their art to experience power and so for us that lined up with our families values lined up with our values and then also brought in that creative aspect of being able to talk about the world and also imagine a world that is better than that and so for us that's always been like where we've been so you mix in some xmas. digable planets. hieroglyphics and. you know some side final asked and. you get flow as always and they might be giants but we'd be remiss that

i was going to. be reminds me of what they might be to in this competition accomplished a lot of other things. with the new album what do you want people to take away from it so i mean we've always tried to make music that helps people feel empowered and feel like they're part of a story that's just larger than whatever they're doing with this album we want people really just to hear their own voice. as part of a collective voice and to see that there's power in raising your voice. others and it's also that we want people to think more three dimensionally about what it means to get engaged because a lot of people are if you can listen to one song and just feel like i want to put my fist in the air i want to hold a sign but really stepping into the streets and being part of a social movement means you're going to go through a lot of different emotional experiences you're going to go through the feeling of triumph you're going to go through feelings of heartbreak feelings of failure and

so this album is really supposed to be a way to say to people like look if you're part of this these efforts to make the world a better place you're going to be on a journey and you're not alone whatever emotion you're feeling right now you're not alone that's part of the journey and don't leave but find ways to be compassionate for yourself compassion for people around you and to stay in the struggle so leslie what do you see going on in the in the political and social climate today what what do you see are the biggest the biggest most important issues is kind of fascinating we've been working on the album but we started almost three years ago. and we decided that we were just really going to write to our stories and our experience and just i went with johnny five a saying i. as activist we had experienced the roller coaster of like we're going to topple patriarchy tomorrow and the next day it doesn't happen and everybody

starts stabbing each other in the back and everybody starts blaming each other for all the different failures and that movement i was going to conquer the world yesterday now you have a group of enemies who used to be allies the next and we've seen that happen so many different times so we decided to as activists like why are people talking about the rest of the story. and so we were writing specifically to that we are writing to our heritage is our dynamic. and. we called it no enemies because we found that we were just so as a country even at that time and working on it so beleaguered with the us versus them and so then when the album was done. shortly thereafter trump was elected and we were releasing singles and now it was this were the things that happens with people like oh that song pray is about trump as well. not specifically that's specific. but it is the type of thing where you see that with

every new movement there's waves of people so occupy happens and waves of people step into the streets and then likewise matter happens and waves of people step into the streets and then you know climate change that people keep step new people keep entering and you know it's from selection suddenly you have tons of new people that say look old now is the time i need to get active and there's always dynamics that happen when a new group of people step into something and there's been people there many many years before but it's important to find ways not to make enemies of those people but to be inviting and to be welcoming and to to use it to kind of refresh and renew and strengthen the movement. so it's great to see the activists in the streets and home signs but what happens after the streets where you know where does the activism go you know after after the protest. yeah i mean i think there is there's a difference between sort of. generating power and then wielding that power and i think. for people who are brand new often there can be some conflict confusion and

dissonance and you think well if we start to engage in the political process then we must be selling out or we must be somehow if all you have is a stylistic sort of activism like wait we went from the streets and now we're you know sitting down across from someone who could actually make this policy a reality but we're inside we should be outside we must be traitors really selling out but really if you care about the transformation that you want to see happen you can't be focused on us then he can't be focused on well you know we're now sitting down across from a police officer we're sitting down across from you know an elected official or somebody who works for oil company that that can't if you if you say that that's off limits then you're not actually serious about implementing the change you want to see eventually enough people come to this place and there's active popular support for any cause you're going to have the opportunity to wield the power and make the change that you've so desperately been fighting for as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered and

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