[Peace] Upcoming events that I know about beginning May 22nd / planning / solidarity with democratic movements / Black Power Revolt of the 1960s

[Karen Medina]

[Upcoming events that I know about beginning May 22nd, 2011 -karen medina]

Monday, May 23, 6pm working meeting to plan for those going to
Socialism 2011 in Chicago in July 2011. [July 1-4   Chicago
  Socialism 2011: Revolution in the Air: Revolutionary Politics,
Entertainment & Debate]

Thursday, May 26, 7pm meeting of Solidarity with Democratic Movements.
Location: To Be Announced.

Wednesday, June 1, 6pm video: The Black Power Revolt of the 1960s: A
Video Presentation. Location: Graduate School of Library and
Information Science, 501 E. Daniel, Champaign, IL

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Wednesday, June 1, 6pm video: The Black Power Revolt of the 1960s: A
Video Presentation. Location: Graduate School of Library and
Information Science, 501 E. Daniel, Champaign, IL

For a generation of activists in the Black Power movement from the
mid-1960's into the 70's, Black liberation seemed not just a
theoretical possibility, but an immediate reality, achievable through
the organization of Black people fighting on every front for their
emancipation. Black Power became the rallying cry in uprisings across
the country, as movement activists learned that legal rights meant
nothing without the political power to enforce them.
Join the International Socialist Organization (ISO) with a video
presentation from last year's Socialism conference by Socialist Worker
columnist and activist Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, to discuss this
essential history and its lessons for anti-racist activists today.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a Ph.D candidate in the department of
African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her research is
on race, class and American housing policies in the 1970s. She wrote
an award-winning paper based on her initial research on Blacks and
housing discrimination called, "The Race Tax: Black Chicago’s Fight
for Homeownership." She is active in local housing struggles in
Chicago and is an organizer with the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign.
Taylor has had several articles published on racism in the United
States for publications like CounterPunch, The Black Commentator,
Black Agenda Report, Gaper’s Block, New Politics and the International
Socialist Review among others. She is on the editorial board of the
International Socialist Review.

This public screening is of a talk that was more than 100 to take
place at last year's Socialism conference, and is an example of the
kinds of talks you can expect at the Socialism 2011 conference in
Chicago July 1-4.
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Socialism 2011: Revolution in the Air
Chicago, July 1-4
Revolutionary Politics, Entertainment & Debate