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Defying the Tomb: Book launch / Panel discussion / Hip-hop party
January 27, 2011
Defying the Tomb
Book launch / panel discussion / hip-hop party
7pm - Speakers and discussion
9pm - After party with hip-hop show
Wasun performing tracks from his new album PRISON NOTEBOOKS w/ DJ'ing from Revolutionary Love
$5: panel, hip-hop show, party
$20: panel, hip-hop show, party PLUS book
On the life, work, art & thought of revolutionary prisoner Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson Minister of Defense, New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter.
PANEL
Dr. Chris Harris (a.k.a. Wasun) - Discussing the history of the Black Panther Party and communist politics in the black working class in U.S. and Canada.
Sara Falconer - Introducing Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson and the dire situation he's facing at Red Onion State Supermax Prison, Virginia.
Steve da Silva - Introducing Defying the Tomb, the thought of Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson and the ideology of the NABPP.
Bios
Kevin 'Rashid' Johson: From a gangster to prison house lawyer to revolutionary artist, theorist, and leader in the New Afrikan Black Panther Party - Prison Chapter (NABPP-PC) for the past five years Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson has been advocating for and rebuilding the United Panther Movement in the spirit of the original Black Panther Party, which was an internationalist, anti-imperialist, and communist organization. The NABPP sees its role as organizing the black proletarian masses and urban poor, alongside other oppressed nationalities and proletarians in Amerika. The Prison Chapter sees its role as creating the nucleus of the United Panther Movement, and turning Amerika's concentration camps into schools of liberation.
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Venue: Beit Zatoun
Location: 612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway) Toronto, ON
Website: http://www.beitzatoun.org
For information contact: info@beitzatoun.org
Phone: 647.726.9500
Categories: Human Rights, Law, Legal
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