“We’re still together writing poetry. We’re still not trying to impress anybody, and too, you have new generations of poetry. You have the Welfare Poets and Mariposa Fernandez. There’s people that come up to us and say, ‘You invented us.’ So, where’s the movement now? It’s where it began. It’s flourishing, and that’s futuristic.“
--The late, great Pedro Pietri

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Ray and Angel with the great Puerto Rican revolutionary Don Rafael Cancel Miranda, before heading to Caracas, Venezuela

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SPECIAL EVENTS & APPEARANCES

  • The 30th Anniversary of the Attica Uprising, MLK Center, NYC (1997)
  • Protest against 100 years of US colonialism in Puerto Rico at the U.N (July 25th 1998)

  • Critical Resistance Conference, University of California at Berkley (September 1998)

  • 130th Anniversary of El Grito De Lares – San Francisco, California (September 1998)  

  • Project Blues Album Release, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (June 2000)

  • 1st performance in Puerto Rico at the Nuyorican Café (May 2001)

  • Viequethon – opposing the Navy’s continued occupation of Vieques, Puerto Rico (May 2001)

  • Rally against war in Iraq at the U.N with way over 250,000 protesters (Feb 15th 2003)

  • The 40th Anniversary of Malcolm X’s death at the Abyssinian Church, NY (February 2005)

  • Rhymes for Treason Album Release Part, Remy Lounge NYC (May 12th 2005)

  • Malcolm X Jazz Festival, Oakland, California (May 2005)

  • The World Youth and Student Festival, Caracas, Venezuela (August 2005)

  • The Point Center in the Bronx hosted President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, (November 2005)

  • Socialism Conference 2006: NYC at Columbia University (June 2006)

  • International African Arts festival (July 2006)

  • 60th Birthday Celebration for Pam Africa of the Move Organization (November 18th  2006)

  • Cruel and Unusual Punishment Album Release Event, Remy Lounge NYC (Feb. 1st, 2007)

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