Music about migration and NOII-related issues
Local Artists
Amai Kuda (r3collective.org/)
Boonaa
d’bi young
Humble the Poet
Kamau
LAL
Mr. Bones
Rafeef Ziadeh
Ruben Esguerra
SPIN (apps.bebo.com/my-band/artist/spinlatino)
Sun
Unknown Mizery (peeptherevolution.com/unknown-mizery/)
Out-of-Town Artists
Abdelziz
- ’Atini al-visa u al-passport (give me the visa and passport)
Anti-flag
- No border, no nation; Tearing down the borders
Asian Dub Foundation
- Fortress Europe
- Activists & Selectors
Cimbing Poe-tree (Alixa and Naima)
David Rovics (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=111310)
- No one is illegal, Strike a blow against the empire, but also more on social justice
Keny Arkana
- among others, “La Rage” which has an awesome video, and “Faut qu’on s’en sorte”
- Eh Flic (Hey cop!), Le front de la haine (The hatred front…ie: the right wing Front National in France); Nettoyage au Karcher ….and lots of others
K’Naan (/local artist)
- Shot the Sheriff
Le tigre
- Bang Bang! (on racial profiling and deaths of african american in NYC)
MINISTERE AFFAIRES POPULAIRES (MAP)
- Faudra faire avec (You’ll have to deal with it.. ie: my mestizoface); La chasse est ouverte (It’s hunting season…ie: against migrants), Mazal na thouar (we’re still revolutionaries), Choufou masar (letter to an algerian migrant in France)
- for a videoclip for non-status, see: vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=v...
Nomadic Massive
Propaghandi
- “Fuck the Border”
- “Oka everywhere”
Psycho Squatt
- now defunct, had only 5 awesome songs: “Dossier Sécurité”, “Joli Mois de Mai”
Sans Pression feat Samian
- “Premières Nations”
Samian
- need to find the title (Cree hip hop from Kebec)
Sikh Knowledge
Tiken Jah Fakoly
- Ouvrez-les frontieres (open the borders); Ou veux tu
que j’aille? (Where dou you want me to go) and others
War Party
- Feelin’ Reserved (The Reign)
Webster
- Quebec History X