Rise Up Radio is looking for a new theme song — a soundtrack for youth culture and resistance. We've launched a contest where you submit the songs, and you choose the winner! The music can be original, a remix or mashup and whatever genre.

Over the next month, we'll be accepting song submissions by email to
speakup@riseupradio.org and snail-mail: Rise Up Radio c/o WBAI-NY, 120 Wall St. 10th fl, New York, NY 10005. If you're emailing us, attach an mp3 file or include a link if it's online already. Snail-mailers should send us a CD or mini-disc — but please, keep your master and send us a copy you don't need back.

In March, we'll narrow it down to our top 3 picks and y'all can vote your fave by phone or via our website. The winner's song will be played over the next year with credit of course and props to your website, myspace page, etc.

Let the games begin... and send your questions, comments to
speakup@riseupradio.org

Listen to the contest PSA:

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On this edition of Rise Up Radio, singer/songwriter/pianist Aubrey Hart joins us for our 1st Local Celebrity Listening Party. Aubrey performs his song "Old Love" live and we hear tracks from his album "Post No Bills." See him Jan. 23 at Arlene's Grocery on the Lower East Side. Also this show: a discussion of youth news, and excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King's 1967 "Beyond Vietnam" speech.

If you're a local celebrity, email tastykeish@gmail.com, goliathsstone5@gmail.com and say where you'll be performing and leave any web info!

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On this edition of Rise Up Radio:

• youth news, including: the NYPD cop who murdered unarmed teenager Timothy Stansbury in 2004 gets off with a mere 30-day suspension; Lt. Ehren Watada is facing 6 years in prison for refusing to deploy to Iraq (hear why in this video); the Pentagon looks abroad to recruit soldiers, as Pres. Bush cooks up a plan for the first significant increase in ground forces since the end of the Cold War.
  
• organizers Michaela Davis and Jessica Rivera from the Ya-Ya Network speak about their counter-recruitment efforts and other Ya-Ya programs;
  
• music and messages from Immortal Technique and Mumia Abu Jamal, Wyclef Jean and more.

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