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

[C. G. Estabrook]

We'll feature this on AWARE on the Air, on Tuesday.  Updates welcome.


On 5/22/11 4:30 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
> [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
>
> --- Details of some events ---
>
> 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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