Description

This album, featuring 1 Speed Bike (from godspeed you black emperor! & exhaust) and Norman Nawrocki (from Rhythm Activism & Da Zoque!), takes a passionate, inspirational speech from two OCAP anti-poverty activists (Sean Brandt & Sue Collis) and edits it into 11 spoken word pieces of radical beats & strings. The result: a powerful, 69 minute mix of music & ideas about how to step up local resistance to the effects of globalized misery.

The CD serves as a musical documentary, a beat-rich & melodic, anti-poverty primer for anyone who enjoys hearing important, critical ideas set to provocative, danceable, reflective music.

The words from the OCAP activists offer a fresh perspective on how to combat growing poverty in the face of abundance; about how to confront & challenge an insensitive, uncaring, police-dependent, State apparatus; and about how to work with others, in community organizations, using "direct action" approaches, uncompromisingly, to "fight to win".

The album comes with 20 page booklet about the history, aims & principles behind OCAP, and ideas & resources for how one can become involved locally in anti-poverty campaigns.