NYC 9/9: Attica is all of us
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- Category: History
- Created on Thursday, 08 September 2011 10:32
- Written by Kazembe Balagun
Thanks to Kazembe Balagun for sharing this with us all.
Attica Brothers, represented by:
- Joseph Harris
- Calvin “Hutch” Hutchinson
- William Anthony Maynard
- Melvin Muhammad
- Che Nieves
- Carlos Roche
- Al Hajji Sharif
Amiri Baraka, Poet, Playwright, Activist
Dhoruba Al-Mujahid Bin-Wahad, Consultant, Institute For Development of Pan-African Policy, Ghana, W. Africa
Soffiyah Elijah, Executive Director, Correctional Association
Elizabeth Fink, Attica Brothers Legal Defense
Amy Goodman, Journalist, Author; Host and Executive Director, Democracy Now! Joseph “Jazz” Hayden, Campaign to End the New Jim Crow
Jamal Joseph, Former Black Panther; Chair, Columbia University’s School of the Arts Film division.
Cornel West, Professor, Princeton; Public Intellectual & Activist
Attica is All of Us Friday, September 9 2011 7-10pm (doors open at 6:30 PM) 490 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10027 (Enter at 91 Claremont Avenue)
Presented by Attica is All of Us and The Riverside Church Prison Ministry
In collaboration with the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow, The Culture Project,The Nation, Drug Policy Alliance, & The Brecht Forum.
Additional events will take place on September 10, 2011: Day Two of Attica is All of Us A Message from the Grassroots: Attica is Now
Special Guests: Herman & Iyaluua Ferguson Authors of “An Unlikely Warrior, Herman Ferguson: Evolution of a Black Nationalist Revolutionary”
For more information on Attica is Now, click here.
For a list of other events planned to honor the 40th anniversary, click here.
If you would like to learn more about our plans you can:
Make a tax-deductible donation to Attica is All of Us
For more information on the Attica Prison Rebellion, click here.
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Guest (dh)
PermalinkThe NY Times has a wonderful guest editorial on Attica by history prof Heather Ann Thompson:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/opinion/the-lingering-injustice-of-attica.html?src=me&ref=general0 Like
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