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12/15/2005
Maestro/Deejay Ra Encourage 'Tookie' Reading.
Wes 'Maestro' Williams (who played Tony Bogard in the "Redemption"
film) and Raoul 'Deejay Ra' Juneja were shown on the Canada's CityTV News
and CTV Newsnet the night of December 13th to speak about their support
of Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, and why
Tookie's books should be taught in Canadian schools and libraries.
A live 'Save Tookie Canada' radio vigil was also held with guest Deejay
Ra on Toronto campus radio station CHRY 105.5 FM in the hours leading
up to the execution, playing a variety of speech clips and 'Rap
Redemption' Tookie mixtape tribute songs including "Letter To Stanley" by
Muslim-Canadian rapper Imaan Faith, a single co-written and co-produced by
Deejay Ra.
In 2003 Barbara Becnel also arranged for actor Maestro, a rapper known
in the 90's as the founder of Canadian hip-hop, to speak personally to
Stanley 'Tookie' Williams when the "Redemption" movie starring Jamie
Foxx as Tookie and Lynn Whitfield as Barbara was being filmed in Toronto.
Maestro currently stars in a Canadian sitcom "Metropia" and has been
seen in many US films shot in Toronto such as "Conviction" with Omar Epps
(a movie in which Deejay Ra also made a cameo).
On the 2004 "Redemption" producer's commentary Ms. Becnel admits to
getting emotional whenever she sees Maestro's performance as Tony Bogard,
Tookie's former Crips lieutenant turned peace ambassador, since Tony
was killed shortly after negotiating the truce between Crips and Bloods
(known as "Hands Across Watts") thirteen years ago in 1992.
Tony Bogard's 1992 peace protocol work with Stanley 'Tookie' Williams
led to the gang homicide rate dropping from the 800 level to half that
rate in a few short years, specifically in South Central from 466 in
1992 to 223 by 1998. The LA Times reported that "police and residents of
Watts confirm that gang-on-gang slayings over emotional issues of turf
boundaries or gang clothing have virtually disappeared."
"It felt like angels were on the set while we filmed Tookie's movie in
Toronto," explains Maestro in his CTV interview. "It was a beautiful
thing to be involved, and I told Tookie I was proud to make my
contribution to his legacy - he's saved thousands and thousands of lives."
To view Deejay Ra and Maestro speaking about Tookie visit:
http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20051212-009/page.asp
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051208/tookie_clemency_051208/20051209/
_____________________________________
94.9 CHRW
519-661-3601
chrwradio.com
film) and Raoul 'Deejay Ra' Juneja were shown on the Canada's CityTV News
and CTV Newsnet the night of December 13th to speak about their support
of Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, and why
Tookie's books should be taught in Canadian schools and libraries.
A live 'Save Tookie Canada' radio vigil was also held with guest Deejay
Ra on Toronto campus radio station CHRY 105.5 FM in the hours leading
up to the execution, playing a variety of speech clips and 'Rap
Redemption' Tookie mixtape tribute songs including "Letter To Stanley" by
Muslim-Canadian rapper Imaan Faith, a single co-written and co-produced by
Deejay Ra.
In 2003 Barbara Becnel also arranged for actor Maestro, a rapper known
in the 90's as the founder of Canadian hip-hop, to speak personally to
Stanley 'Tookie' Williams when the "Redemption" movie starring Jamie
Foxx as Tookie and Lynn Whitfield as Barbara was being filmed in Toronto.
Maestro currently stars in a Canadian sitcom "Metropia" and has been
seen in many US films shot in Toronto such as "Conviction" with Omar Epps
(a movie in which Deejay Ra also made a cameo).
On the 2004 "Redemption" producer's commentary Ms. Becnel admits to
getting emotional whenever she sees Maestro's performance as Tony Bogard,
Tookie's former Crips lieutenant turned peace ambassador, since Tony
was killed shortly after negotiating the truce between Crips and Bloods
(known as "Hands Across Watts") thirteen years ago in 1992.
Tony Bogard's 1992 peace protocol work with Stanley 'Tookie' Williams
led to the gang homicide rate dropping from the 800 level to half that
rate in a few short years, specifically in South Central from 466 in
1992 to 223 by 1998. The LA Times reported that "police and residents of
Watts confirm that gang-on-gang slayings over emotional issues of turf
boundaries or gang clothing have virtually disappeared."
"It felt like angels were on the set while we filmed Tookie's movie in
Toronto," explains Maestro in his CTV interview. "It was a beautiful
thing to be involved, and I told Tookie I was proud to make my
contribution to his legacy - he's saved thousands and thousands of lives."
To view Deejay Ra and Maestro speaking about Tookie visit:
http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20051212-009/page.asp
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051208/tookie_clemency_051208/20051209/
_____________________________________
94.9 CHRW
519-661-3601
chrwradio.com
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