text: Panther Power and 2Pac | Dignidad Rebelde
  by Melanie Cervantes | Nov 12, 2009 | Events, Prints | 0 comments
  My last year in college at UC Berkeley I lived with five roommates in a three bedroom apartment. Just about every day and every night I could be sure to come home to hear bass thumping, music vibrating the whole house:
  Two of my roommates– Victor and Augustin absolutely love Tupac. They were and are fierce community organizers. Working in communities like the Fruitvale in Oakland and in Jamaica Plains they reach out to young people and help the young people be vibrant and amazing leaders in those communities. Tupac, his ideas, his poetry and his music are an inspiration and continue to be used as tools in this organizing. My roommates helped me realize why young people connect so deeply to Tupac and the stories he tells through his art.