• Digo informs the Rise Up Radio Family about how children are being treated unequally at Oasis Children Services. Over crowded conditions for children in the “funded” program need our support! We encourage listeners to call up their local congressmen to put an end to misconduct against these New York City children. To contact Oasis Children directly go to www.oasischildren.com
• Kyam and Autumn Marie, organizers of Black August join us in the studio. Black August is an annual hip-hop event that raises consciousness with hip-hop and political education. It originated in the concentration camps of California to honor fallen and imprisoned Freedom Fighters. August is a great month to raise consciousness since it’s the same month that Nat Turner started a rebellion, the underground rail road was created, Marcus Garvey was born and many other notable black history events. This year EPMD, Bilal, KRS-One, Shadio Mansour, Smif N Wessun, and Immortal Technique will be performing at the Nokia Theatre on August 31^st.
  
• Black August is more than a hip-hiop concert. Kyam and Autumn Marie have been involved in cop watching. They have stood outside with their community watching police from a safe distance to insure that they don’t act up. They also inform youth on their rights when they are being approached by cops. Black August has also gone international and shared it’s political education with folks in Cuba
• For more information goto: www.blackaugust.com
  

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• Rise Up Radio delves into some of this weeks headlines, including: Waffle House customers call the secret service on a man threatening to kill Barack Obama; the US plans a withdrawal from Iraq by 2011; Young men being stalked and threatened with arrest by U.S. Army recruiters; Senator Charles Schumer vows to save the birthplace of hip hop - Kool Herc's building in the Bronx; clubs in the Bejing, China refuse to sell alcohol to Black patrons.
• Dr. Boyce Watkins, acclaimed author, Professor of Finance at Syracuse University, television and radio panelist, and "ULTIMATE BLACK MAN", joins Rise Up Radio for a conversation about the superficial nature of CNN's Black in America special and the Obama-mania that is sweeping America.
• Also, help us welcome newest addition to Rise Up Radio's panel of hosts: Divine! Download the show to hear how his first time went!
  

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• Our FIRST Live In- Studio with Architects and Demolition Men (ADM)! This Brooklyn band with more heart than a thousand lions running through the thickest of jungles is here on Rise Up Radio blessing you and I with their expert mesh of Rock, Hip Hop, Punk, sprinkled with a little bit of whatever you can think of! ADM collectively harnesses a power that will make a paraplegic walk right up to you and break dance. Listen to the show below for an out of body experience that will never leave your consciousness.
  
• Tony(lyricist), Che(lyricist), Jamal(trumpet), Justin(bass), Matt(drums), and Mike(guitar) chill with Rise Up Radio and gives us the scoop on their musical styles , their opinions on Jesse Jackson's recent slip -up on CNN, and why they weren't at Afro Punk.
  
• ADM stays and extra hour and performs LIVE at WBAI Studios for YOU!
  
• All of this, PLUS exclusive musical interludes by ADM lyricist Che, Immortal Technique, and Kojo. Click on their photo to see ADM's music video Consequences of War!
  

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• We commemorate the 4th of July by examining the 1852 speech, "The Meaning of July 4th to a Negro" by Frederick Douglass.
• With special guest commentary by spoken word Hip Hop theater activist, Ise Lyfe, Glorious Quan of the Universal Zulu Nation, and Faro Z of the Liberation Family. They talk with Rise Up Radio callers about the Frederick Douglass speech as it pertains to African- Americans today, how can we further ourselves as a people, and Hip Hop as a movement.
  
• Check out exclusive new music from all three "Artivists", including Bad Word Bounce by Ise Lyfe, RBG'd Up by Glorious Quan, and Sun Man by Faro Z!
  

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• News from 'round the globe with your hosts: TastyKeish, Kswift, and Coco:
• London teen gets turned in to police by his own dad for having a gun.
• Find out why Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, threatens to withhold oil from the European Union.
• Chinese is the new Black? In South Africa it is!
• Transgender youth in New York juvenile detention centers are allowed to use their preferred identity for housing and clothing.
• What rapper was arrested for being profane in public?
  
• Shout out to Solomon Jazz for the EXCLUSIVE new music!
  
• Download the show to hear all this, YOUR calls, and more on Rise Up Radio!
  

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• Hip Hop activists, Rodstarz and G1 of Rebel Diaz call in just hours after being released by police to give Rise Up Radio the exclusive on their arrest in The Bronx, treatment while incarcerated, and the support they received from the public during this time. Goto www.rebeldiaz.com for video of the shocking arrest!
• Local Celebrity: Essential MC coming straight out of Cali to chill with the Rise Up Radio Crew! This poet and emcee, brings his positive aura to the studio and talks about the paper chase, doing for your community, and how he stays...Essential. He is joined by, Malik co- curator of Avant Yard, an audio-visual explosion of talent featured at the MoCada Museum in Brooklyn.
  
• Our newest Rise Up member, Coco interviews Zachary Lennon-Simon, director of "Playing with the Other Tigers" and Jen Meagher, producer of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival: Youth Producing Change. This Film festival encourages film makers to explore human rights issues and celebrate human dignity and diversity from around the globe.

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• In this weeks news: South Africa bans AIDS vitamin trials; continued discussion on presumptive Democratic Nomination of Barack Obama; Obama VP selection committee member, Jim Johnson steps down due to his involvement in taking "sweetheart loans" from mortgage lenders.
  
• The women of Goddesses Rising are BACK! Makeda, Jaz, and Angelika talk about addressing sexuality with your child and becoming more aware about ones body through exercise. Also, Barack Obama's inner Goddess and other great articles on their blog, Goddesses Rising!
  
• Mya B, producer, writer, director of "Silence: In Search of Black Female Sexuality" gets in the mix! Rise Up Radio and Mya B. delve deeper into the discussion of Black female sexuality and discuss appearances Dr. Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. Hilda Hutcherson of Essence Magazine in the film.
  

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