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A Struggle For Human Rights --- 2013-11-29

Hip-Hop activists unite to present the case of Leonard Peltier, expressed through 13 new tracks all featured on DJ Free Leonard: A Struggle for Human Rights. The album will be available digitally on November 29, 2013 via Spit Digital. You can preview and purchase the album on I-Tunes. DJ Free Leonard: A Struggle for Human Rights is a collection of voices of the progressive hip-hop community who are calling attention to the unjust incarceration of Leonard Peltier, a man wrongfully convicted in 1977, who has served over 37 years in federal prison despite proof of his innocence — and proof that he was convicted on the basis of fabricated and suppressed evidence, and coerced testimony. Leonard Peltier should be released and the artists on this album are working to spread the message and disseminate information on Leonard Peltier’s case, one of the legal system’s biggest abuses of justice in U.S. history. DJ Free Leonard is an artist and activist, who is a first cousin of Leonard Peltier, and has been asked by Leonard to organize his musician supporters to raise awareness “by using Hip Hop as a tool for liberation”. The new album follows the highly successful Free Peltier: Hip Hop’s Contribution to the Freedom Campaign released November 25 2010, available on I Tunes. DJ Free Leonard is a Hip-Hop DJ whose sole purpose is to Free Leonard Peltier and All Political Prisoners. DJ Free Leonard: A Struggle for Human Rights commences with a spoken word introduction from Leonard Peltier on the meaning and heart of the American Indian Movement Warrior. Songs include: “War Paint” featuring a West Coast Underground elite collaboration, Rakaa of Dilated Peoples teams up with Bicasso & Luckyiam of the Living Legends along with Rebels to the Grain; “Free the Brothers and Sisters” by Earth Amplified, a track which speaks on the unjust imprisonment of Mumia Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier; and tracks by Dregs One, Akir, White Mic of Bored Stiff, I.Amani I ameni, Luck & Lana, Power Struggle, Truth Universal, Aztech, Arievolution, Tron7Seize, Buggin Malone, and Mama Wisdom. The project is supported by efforts of Chuck D of Public Enemy who helped to ensure a partnership with Spit Digital, a platform in which the music can reach the masses around the world.