Liberation, Imagination & the Black Panther Party
Date & Time:
05/13/2008 - 19:30
Kicker:
1968 REVISTED
Description:
Continuing our year-long events series on the 40th anniversary of 1968, we will look at the impact of the Black Panther Party, which inspired thousands to join their movement to transform "the system." Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party will offer a fresh and realistic recounting of the tumultuous history of what arguably became the most significant revolutionary organization in the US during the late 20th century.
Bios:
Ashanti Alston Omowali is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, and spent more than a decade in prison after government forces captured him and the official court system convicted him of armed robbery. Alston is the former northeast coordinator for Critical Resistance, a current co-chair of the National Jericho Movement (to free U.S. political prisoners), a member of pro-Zapatista people-of-color U.S.-based Estación Libre, and is on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies.
George Katsiaficas has been active in social movements since 1969 when he participated in the anti-Vietnam movement. A target of the FBI's COINTELPRO program (Counterintelligence), he was honored to be classified "Priority 1 ADEX" meaning in the event of a national emergency, people like him were to be immediately arrested. After living in Berlin for 1 1/2 years and learning first-hand about the autonomous movement there, he wrote about that movement (The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life). He is the author of several other books including the classic: The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968.
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