Hip Hop Concert Sept. 27 at UCSD to Protest Sex Trafficking
Stop the Traffick Jam, a Hip Hop concert to protest sex trafficking, will be presented from 7 p.m. to midnight Sept. 27 in the Price Center East Ballroom at the University of California, San Diego. Admission is $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Stop the Traffick Jam, a Hip Hop concert to protest sex trafficking, will be presented from 7 p.m. to midnight Sept. 27 in the Price Center East Ballroom at the University of California, San Diego. Admission is $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
The goal of the benefit concert is to raise awareness about the dangers of sex trafficking, pimping and prostitution through the use of hip hop. Co-sponsors of the concert are the UC San Diego Women’s Center and GABNet San Diego.
Proceeds will benefit the Purple Rose Campaign against the sex trafficking of Filipina women and children, an international project of GABRIELA Network ( GABNet ), a U.S.-Philippines women’s solidarity organization.
“Organizers of the concert hope to reach out to young audiences and bring awareness of the ways in which young women and children are lured, tricked, or coerced into a life of sexual exploitation,” says UCSD Women’s Center director Emelyn A. dela Pena. She reports that members of GABNet Los Angeles will lead a caravan from Los Angeles to San Diego with five stops serving as “teach-ins” on the issue of trafficking.
“Sex trafficking has achieved global attention as a human rights issue,” says dela Pena. “For many, Hip Hop has become a tool to critique the oppression of the marginalized.”
Headlining acts include, Mystic, Bambu, and OffWhyte of the Galapogos4, all from Los Angeles, and DJ Kuttin’ Kandi and The Heart from New York City. San Diego Hip Hop artists and spoken word poets also will perform. Hip Hop is a musical genre that emerged in the late 1970s from the urban African American community. The term rap is sometimes used synonymously with hip hop music.
Rapping, also referred to as MCing or emceeing, is a vocal style in which the performer speaks rhythmically and in rhyme, generally to a beat. One facet of Hip Hop, or rap, is as a tool for young people to reach their communities about social justice and taking action.
Concert admission also may be covered by the donation of a working, used cell phone. For further information on the concert contact the UCSD Women’s Center at ( 858 ) 822-0074.
Media Contact: Jan Jennings, 858-822-1684
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