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with its honest and grim view of our
society’s cruel reality.

hip-hope have constructed a new, exemplary alliance of solidarity and collaboration; it is sustained by shared values and commitments. On this unpreventable road to connecting with society, organizations like the Citizens’
Committee for Racial Integration, the
Nuevo País Project, and Citizens’ Observatory against Discrimination, as
well as various groups and soloists
within the movement, have collaborated
on several cultural campaigns and meetings, for example, the commemoration
of the World Day against Discrimination, which is celebrated every March
21st, or the promotion of collaboration
on the planning and execution of our
principal academic events.

There are no taboo subjects for the rappers, nor do they avoid directly and
transparently dealing with subjects of
interest to us all, with the problems that
afflict us all. Topics such as increasing
poverty and inequality, recurring injustice, official demagoguery, social marginalization and exclusion, racism, discrimination, corruption, lost and subverted values, machismo, prostitution, a
non-existent future and expectations for
personal realization and