Embassy Live Archives - RESPECT. | The Photo Journal of Hip-Hop Culture https://respect-mag.com/tag/embassy-live/ The Photo Journal of Hip-Hop Culture Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:40:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://i0.wp.com/respect-mag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-logologo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Embassy Live Archives - RESPECT. | The Photo Journal of Hip-Hop Culture https://respect-mag.com/tag/embassy-live/ 32 32 56491895 New Video: Matre – “Listen (With Embassy Live) https://respect-mag.com/2015/08/new-video-matre-listen-with-embassy-live/ https://respect-mag.com/2015/08/new-video-matre-listen-with-embassy-live/#respond Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:00:27 +0000 http://respect-mag.com/?p=107880 Los Angeles rapper Matre just released his new video for “Listen”. If you’re wondering, “Listen” was written by Matre as a response to news about his city’s Unified School District police receiving military weapons from the Department of Defense, via […]

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Los Angeles rapper Matre just released his new video for “Listen”. If you’re wondering, “Listen” was written by Matre as a response to news about his city’s Unified School District police receiving military weapons from the Department of Defense, via a program called, “1033”. Together with the Embassy Live collective and in solidarity with local youth and organizers, the song is a demand to listen to youth, rather than police them. Watch the video below:

Momentum from the song and message inspired a group of filmmakers, artists and activists to join forces and make this video. Funded by the support of more then two hundred Kickstarter backers, the video’s shoot brought together a number of LA’s leading social justice & youth justice organizations, and community members from around the city, gathering together to help send this message.

In collaboration with the #StudentsNotSuspects campaign & the ACLU of Southern California, the video is being released as a tool to call attention to rampant profiling of youth in communities of color, and as a call to action, demanding that we listen to young people, honor both their gifts and wounds, and make a cultural shift towards restorative and transformative justice, and away from profiling and criminalization.

Direct actions and continuous programming around these issues are being organized by a number of organizations and will be posted on the website.

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