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5/14/07
Critically-acclaimed group, B-Side Players are known for addressed
political matters affecting the Latin community in the United States
and the world in their music. The band’s latest message to politicians,
community leaders and police in light of the May 1 violent clash between
police and pro-immigrant rights demonstrators has taken a new artistic
form: a video. The band has taken their support for immigrant
rights by creating a powerful video featuring footage of various clashes
between protestors and police for their song, “Nuestras Demandas.” The
song/video also outlines B-Side’s demands for new immigrant legislation
and overall respect for human rights by law enforcement.
Leader Karlos Paez included footage of clashes as visual reminders
that violence between demonstrators and police has been a part of the
American experience Also, he wanted to show how the Constitutional
right for people to assemble peacefully to express their grievances
has been consistently been violated by the powers that be. He
explains, “Violence is ignorance in action. We are supposed to
be able to assemble freely. We are supposed to have rights. But depending
on who you are or where you are from men with guns will usually determine
your fate. Our police forces are an extension of our government, appointed
to keep the peace and uphold the law. How do we expect them to act
when the example that they set is to run over towns with tanks and
bombs? This has become the American way and unfortunately has made
us the most hated nation in the world. We have a bloody history and
our present state of affairs is no better.” http://www.rapnews.net/0-202-262600-00.html
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