T.R.U.E. SKOOL MILWAUKEE

Who We are … TRUE Skool, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organizaton. Mission Statement … TRUE Skool’s mission is to use cultural arts to educate and empower youth from different backgrounds and cultures to become leaders for positive social change in their communities. … We do this by infusing the core values of Hip Hop Culture; conflict resolution, creativity, self-expression, non-violence, and community activism into our programs and services.  Our Beliefs … We believe it is important to provide positive role models and new leaders who understand the realities facing youth today.  … We understand that the traditional programs and curriculum created generations ago are no longer effective for youth coming from our present society. We work together with individuals, organizations, schools, businesses and anyone interested to create the change that is so necessary for youth to become successful. … Using tools and resources youth relate to will help us better achieve effective results.  … Hip Hop is more than music, it goes beyond dance and sounds, it is about culture, history and skills. It was born of the same societal ills we see youth facing today; lack of jobs and economic opportunities, violence in our neighborhoods, schools, and at home, broken families, gangs, under-funded schools and lack of community resources.  … Hip Hop is a tool and a culture in itself that allows for positive change in one’s life and promotes the true meaning of “community”. Few social movements have been as effective as uniting cultures as Hip Hop has been for over 30 years. … -TRUE Skool, Inc.   NO STRESS … GOD BLESS … sincerely, DJ ROCK DEE ROCKDEE@radiomilwaukee.org

… GREEN JOBS – GROWING WISCONSIN’S ECONOMY …

2008 Wisconsin Renewable Energy Summit

Green Jobs – Growing Wisconsin’s Economy

renewableenergysummit.org

 

Conference Details

The fifth annual Wisconsin Renewable Energy Summit will be held in Milwaukee, WI on March 12-14, 2008 at the Midwest Airlines Center. The Summit, titled Green Jobs – Growing Wisconsin’s Economy, will focus on the role that renewable energy, such as wind power, solar energy, geothermal, green buildings and bio-energy technologies, will play in supporting Wisconsin’s economic well being. Growth of renewable energy businesses will create new “green collar” jobs in Wisconsin. Those jobs include: manufacturers, installers, consultants, engineers, and associated professions. Renewable energy in Wisconsin has the potential to produce 35,000 jobs in the next 10 years.

 

Topics to be covered:

• Jobs Growth Potential and Economic Development from Renewable Energy Growth
• New Developments in Renewable Energy
• The Potential Role for Business & Industry in Renewable Energy
• Wind Power – utility-scale, community-scale wind projects, and small wind
• Solar Electric – solar electric projects for non-profits and businesses
• Solar Water Heating – educational session and case studies of businesses
• Green Buildings – case studies, LEED overview, geothermal, and sustainable design
• Renewable Energy Education – including K-12, College and Universities, and the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) consumer and installer education
• Transportation – electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, ethanol and bio-fuels
• Bio-Energy – bio-refineries and agriculture digester projects
• Drivers of the energy transition; markets & climate

Registration DetailsFees and detailed registration information is available at renewableenergysummit.org. 

 

! GREEN THE GHETTO !

J GREEN THE GHETTO!

 Some folks don’t need mandates or laws- tax incentives and grants work just as good- morals and ethics on the roof don’t hurt either!

 

Lisa Schaal

Solar Site Assessor

Commercial/Residential PV

414-364-5422

lschaal@sbcglobal.net

USA vs IMPORT ?

I HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH MY BROTHER RALPH THIS MORNING … HE IS A CAR FOOL, and THE IN & OUT’S HE KNOWS … THE ? IS … USA vs IMPORT CARS/TRUCKS & with it being 2008 … is there really anything import any more? American Auto Workers are making a living making import cars/trucks here in our country. When I worked 4 FORD back in the day, it was a mix of American & import parts to make a new car? What do u own? What do u recommend? I am seeking a new car within my house, and having the conversation with my brother Ralph … American vs Import. ? is … What is your thoughts, a car with everything that we ALL want … My wife & daughter safe in a car, that I confident in with having the BEST BANG 4 my BUCK! Share with me your thoughts …! THANK U ! … No Stress … GOD BLESS … DJ ROCK DEE … rockdee@radiomilwaukee.org p.s. ? HOW MANY LUXURY CARS DO AMERICAN AUTO MAKERS OFFER vs. NON-AMERICAN AUTO MAKERS ?! SOAK YOUR BRAIN ON THAT ! 

Wait A Minute…

Check out this video for the Estelle single “Wait A Minute” that we’ve got here at the station. Enjoy the UK flavour…

Guru Amrit

SOMETHING 4 YOUR BRAIN 2 SOAK ON?

GOOD DAY … IF OBAMA BECAME PRESIDENT … ? WOULD HILLARY B VICE-PRESIDENT ? … IF  HILLARY BECAME PRESIDENT … ? WOULD OBAMA B VICE-PRESIDENT ? … ? WOULD THE COUNTRY DEMAND IT … ? WOULD THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY DEMAND IT 2 REGAIN STRENGTH IN WASHINGTON ? … -OR- NO MATTER WHO BECAME PRESIDENT … JOHN EDWARDS “WOULD B” VICE-PRESIDENT … NO STRESS … GOD BLESS … sincerely – DJ ROCK DEE …

   ROCKDEE@radiomilwaukee.org 

 

WRITING IS LIKE PROSTITUTION

First you do it for the love of it, Then you do it for a few friends, And finally you do it for money.    … Moliere            

 

LATINATION.tv

GOOD MORNING MONDAY (FEB. 18-2008) – THIS past weekend while catching up on things, I sit in front of the TV 4 a sec & what happens to come on … “LATINATION” … This show came on MY24 on Sunday … I was amazed & excitied about the topics they covered on this show. LATINATION has a FULL web site …

2 B part of the Latin Culture here check this web site out .. .

 

 

     

 

Flies The Sparro…

…Sam Sparro that is, one of the new artists currently in the rotation with his sublime “Black & Gold.” Only time will bear out whether he’ll be a major talent, though if his ep is any indication, we’ll be hearing more from him from some time. Originally from Australia, he moved to the States with his folks when he was nine. His parents, who are also musicians, got him started early on, playing in a church choir and listening to soul music.

Now however designs his own artwork, makes daft behind-the-scenes videos for YouTube and DJs warehouse parties, has a musical past: his great-grandfather was a professor of music and his Maltese grandfather is a professional trumpet player who performed with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. His grandmother continues to sing and dance (and that’s just when she’s cooking), while his father, Chris Falson, apparently sounds like Bob Dylan on a gospel tip. Sam can make like he’s in church at the drop of a Eucharist, but he also grew up on Italian house, proto-trance and British soul: Soul II Soul, Kraftwerk, Sade and Neneh Cherry, as well as Euro-dance hits like Ride on Time, were his bread and butter, or rather communion wafer and wine. A chance encounter with a woman called Chaka Khan, a friend of the milkman’s cousin’s daughter’s schoolteacher’s plumber’s friend, kickstarted the young Sparro’s career.
But first came an all-important job working as a waiter in a coffee bar, which is where he wrote Black & Gold, capturing a moment of existential crisis. “I was feeling totally lost,” he remembers. “I was making cappuccinos when I felt I should be onstage singing. That track came from looking up to the stars and seeing myself as a tiny speck in this infinite solar-system.” Life improved dramatically when he discovered LA’s dance underground scene and he performed at a speakeasy style night in the loft of – of all people – David Jay from Bauhaus. Before long, he’d recorded an EP for an indie label and the world’s multinational conglomerates – some of them record companies – came a-calling. Mark Ronson even emailed to say how much he loved Black & Gold. But Sparro remains unmoved. “I’m just a guy who likes to sing and wear fun clothes,” he says, going tra-la-la in a polka-dot jumpsuit. The buzz: “Damn, that white boy can sing.” – Chaka Khan. –from THE GUARDIAN

Here I also have a video, the video for “Black & Gold” is already in the opinion section so here is another, for another of his tunes, “Cottonmouth.” Enjoy.

Peace

Guru Amrit

Wish I Was Somewhere…

…warmer of course, Morocco I think. Mainly because it’s the warmest place that I have ever been, and because I have actually been there. In my memories, I can see the potholed streets and helter-skelter traffic on cities like Tanger (rhymes with danger), Meknes and Fez. I can feel how awash in sensation, raw, real and imminent everything was as well as being new to my eyes. And while I would live into a good number of stories of those days and nights in North Africa, what memory stirs me here is that amid all the new and amazing and unfamiliar and strangely comfortable; in the gangle of my experiences I remember one experience as distinctly as any other– buying music.

O ne of the truisms of culture is that where there are people there also is music and the places I bought music in Morocco were of one main variety, the street vendor. They’d be everywhere, with the smaller ones setting up tables by thoroughfares and others, slightly larger on the souks or old markets. In any case, I bought a lot of music, cassettes mainly, of music new to me then, called gnawa. Imean I love it now, but I’ll never know why I chose it then… a random recommendation I suppose… and the same that led me to one of Morocco’s most famous groups, Nass El-Ghiwan.

Their music is amazing and they are referred to as The Rolling Stones of Africa, as Martin Scorsese once put it. Not only that, but they are living legends who merge the rich repertoire of traditional music of Morocco with modern subjects. But when I heard it for the first time I was entranced. This is real trance music, sort of musical centrifuge that should you surrender to the dance of it you are also opening up to a form of bliss, deep rhythmic and sort of unpretentiously spiritual that is in no way cheap, but rather full of great soul. I say The Stones got nothing on these cats… and I have a video to share with you to show…

and another even… this one is with another Moroccan legend Jil Jilala… notice the banjo which, by the way is an African instrument

uno mas…

enjoy

Guru Amrit