The Welfare Poets

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"Uninformed is the worst way to be unarmed."-The Media, Welfare Poets

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-FBI Launches New Attacks
on Puerto Rican Movement

-Puerto Rican Independence
Movement Under Attack

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"Cruel and Unusual Punishment"
    is a compilation CD       
inspired by Hasan Shakur 
 (Derrick Frazier). 
This warrior struggled not only 
to save his own life, but
the lives of any and everyone
on death row in the US. 
He was unjustly executed 
 by the barbaric state of 
Texas on August 31, 2006.

Cruel and Unusual Punishment 
 was partially made possible by 
 a grant from the Funding 
 Exchange.

Visit our store on
Myspace at
 myspace.com/thewelfarepoets

Check out  Hasan’s Song 
 (new version) from the
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
 album

Song features Chosan, the
Ill Sonic Assasin,
Lah Tere (Rebel Diaz)
Jamki-bo (Welfare Poets)
and Rayzer (Welfare Poets)

"Song for Hasan" (6.5 MB)


 For more information on album, 
click here and/or go to: 
myspace.com/deathpenaltycd

THE WELFARE POETS:

The Welfare Poets are a collective of activists, educators, and artists together since 1990. Through teaching residencies and workshops, through activism around community struggles and through sharp-edged performances of music that incorporates Hip Hop, Bomba y Plena, Latin Jazz and other rhythms, the Welfare Poets bring information and inspiration to those facing oppression and those fighting for liberation.

You can also purchase Rhymes for Treason on our music store page.

Click here to download
The Welfare Poets
first music video"Sak Pase" (13.1 MB)

Click here to check out
footage of a performance for
President Hugo Chavez of
Venezuela on his historic visit
to the Bronx. (21.5 MB)

Download our Press Kit

Check out the Welfare Poets myspace page at:

myspace.com/thewelfarepoets

INFORMATION ABOUT THE PUERTO RICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS

“Learn about the Freedom Album, a music compilation being organized by the Welfare Poets and other Puerto Rican organizations to aid the Puerto Rican political prisoners.”

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Help Free our Puerto Rican Political Prisoners: Oscar López,
Haydee Beltrán, Carlos Alberto Torres, and
Anvelino González Claudio!

A VICTORY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY: AUGUST 20TH 2007 - Kenneth Foster sentence commuted at the last minute!

For Kenneth Foster - No More Death Row (by Mumia Abu-Jamal) To the state of Texas that sought to extinguish his life, his name is Kenneth Foster; to many of his friends and supporters, his name is Haramia KiNassor, an eloquent and outspoken activist. By whatever name that he may be known, he is now a past denizen of Texas Death Row, for, by a governor's order of commutation, he is on Death Row no more.

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The fight continues to save Tony Egbuna Ford as well as to bring Kenneth Foster and Randy Arroyo home

For more information view our Death Penalty Page.