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This site is dedicated to the loving memory of Mimi & Louie Del Valle, Taína’s parents.

May their musical hearts live in her children, and their children, and their children, and their children...

TAINA ASILI ON MYSPACE.COM

Check out Taína’s music, blogs, friends and more at www.myspace.com/tainapoet

ALL NEW MUSIC “MAMA GUERILLA CD SAMPLER”

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MORE INFO ABOUT TAINA’S 2005 TRANSFORMATION AWARD

LISTEN TO TAINA’S PERFORMANCE LIVE on WXPN 88.5 FM at the Kelly Writer’s House: Listen to a recording, celebrating Taína’s work, as well as the work of other amazing women who have received grants from the Leeway Foundation.

Check out The Quotable Rebel: Political Quotation For Dangerous Times and find a quote by Taína Asili and many amazing revolutionary voices!

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Many, many thanks to my Web Programer and Super Hero Adrien Lowe and my faithful computer genius Matt Miller.

Art:

www.broadcastlive.org and www.myspace.com/broadcastlive Broadcast Live is an outstanding rock/hip hop/spoken word band from Albany, NY.

www.myspace.com/ayanad Ayana Del Valle is a powerful sultry songstress of the NYC. Also Taína’s sister.

www.ricanstruction.net Ricanstruction: the website for NYC based revolutionary punk/hip hop/reggae rebel band. Taina sings with them are their newest album Love and Revolution.

www.welfarepoets.com The Welfare Poets is radical Afro-Puerto Rican hip hop from NYC.

www.nattyrebel.com Natty Rebel are rasta screen-printing warriorz

www.yasminhernandez.com Yasmin Hernandez is a fierce puertorriqueña revolutionary painter and instillation artist.

www.monicamcintyre.com Monica McIntyre is an ultra talented cellist, vocalist, and lyricist from Philadelphia.

www.climbingpoetree.com Climbing Poetree is an oustanding spoken word duo brought together by Brooklyn’s own Alixa & Naima.

www.leeway.org The Leeway Foundation gives grants and awards to women and trans artists who do art and change work in the Philadelphia area.

www.ursula-rucker.com Ursula Rucker is a deep spoken word recording artist, and one of Taína’s artistic inspirations.

www.floweringmountain.com/martin/index.html Martín Prechtel is an awesome artist, writer, musician, storyteller, teacher, and healer. His book Secrets of the Talking Jaguar is one of Taína’s favorites.

Organizing:

 www.freemumia.com International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal: the official website for organizing for Mumia. FREE MUMIA!

www.onamove.com JOHN AFRICA’s MOVE organization. This is the official website for MOVE and Friends of MOVE. FREE THE MOVE 9!!!

www.uctp.org The United Confederation of Taíno People (UCTP): a website honoring Caribbean Indigenous Peoples of the past, present and future.

www.buildresources.org BUILD is an online resource website for youth who want alternatives to the military and the public school systems, particularly in Philadelphia.

www.homeysf.com HOMEY is an organization in San Francisco, CA dedicated to transforming the lives of high-risk youth and inspiring them to not only choose a path of education, self-sufficiency and non-violence, but also strive towards physical, mental and  emotional heath.

www.phillystudentunion.org The Philadelphia Student Union: Fighting for the rights of students and fighting against the unjust school   system.  Taína is the Director of Organizing for this group.

www.incite-national.org Incite: Women of Color Against Violence is a national organization with chapters in many cities across the US.

www.venceremosbrigade.org the Venceremos (We Shall Overcome) Brigade shows solidarity with Cuba by working side by side with Cuban workers and challenging U.S. policies towards Cuba, including the economic blockade and our government’s ban on travel to the island.

www.aimovement.org American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council. Remember Wounded Knee 1890 and 1973!

awol.objector.org AWOL Magazine is an amazing anti-military hip hop magazine.

www.assatashakur.org This is the official website to fight for the US to keep their hands off of political prisoner Assata Shakur. HANDS OFF ASSATA!

prolibertadweb.tripod.com ProLibertad: works to free the remaining Puerto Rican Political Prisoner! FREE PUERTO RICO!

www.booksthroughbars.org Books Through Bars sends quality reading material to prisoners and encourage creative dialogue on the criminal justice system, thereby educating those living inside and outside of prison walls.

www.ezln.org Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional. This is the official website for the Zapatista freedom fighters of Chiapas, Mexico.

www.freepeltier.org The official website to in support of political prisoner and warrior Leonard Peltier

www.indymedia.org This is an alternative and independent news website compiled from all over the world.