Guess who is coming to my University on Monday

[RHIZOMES]

http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/news-events-and-notices/news/template/news_item.jsp?cid=197597

And he is going to be living in Auckland for 2 months, we're gonna try get an interview with him for our paper.

Hell yeah motherfucker.

[Sarah Palin]

*****in man. Put the interview up on this site fo sho.

[More Fire for the People]

We had George HW Bush :(

[RHIZOMES]

We had George HW Bush :(

Back in 2007 we had Angela Davis.

[RHIZOMES]

Thread about attending a speech by a high-ranking former Black Panther - 3 posts
Nuclear apocalypse is cool! - 34 posts

[Jimmie Higgins]

http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/news-events-and-notices/news/template/news_item.jsp?cid=197597

And he is going to be living in Auckland for 2 months, we're gonna try get an interview with him for our paper.

Hell yeah motherfucker.

Emory Douglas? Oh, him. Here in Oakland we are literally stumbling over his posters which float through the city streets like tumbleweed in a Western. Every time you get on the bus you end up stilling next to some high ranking ex-Panther... so tedious.:laugh:

Of course I'm joking, that's awesome. I wish there were radical Panther posters everywhere you looked - we need more people like Douglas!

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Thread about attending a speech by a high-ranking former Black Panther - 3 posts
Nuclear apocalypse is cool! - 34 posts

Damn straight.

[RHIZOMES]

Emory Douglas? Oh, him. Here in Oakland we are literally stumbling over his posters which float through the city streets like tumbleweed in a Western. Every time you get on the bus you end up stilling next to some high ranking ex-Panther... so tedious.:laugh:

Of course I'm joking, that's awesome. I wish there were radical Panther posters everywhere you looked - we need more people like Douglas!

There have been Emory Douglas posters all over the bus stops in my University's area to promote the event :D

[Magdalen]

Emory Douglas? Oh, him. Here in Oakland we are literally stumbling over his posters which float through the city streets like tumbleweed in a Western. Every time you get on the bus you end up stilling next to some high ranking ex-Panther... so tedious.:laugh:

Of course I'm joking, that's awesome. I wish there were radical Panther posters everywhere you looked - we need more people like Douglas!

Are you familiar with Michael Delacour at all?

[Jimmie Higgins]

Are you familiar with Michael Delacour at all?Doesn't sound familiar - was he in the black panthers?

[Magdalen]

Doesn't sound familiar - was he in the black panthers?

Here he is. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/03/19/MNG06ONMIH1.DTL&o=4) Does he look familiar? He wasn't a member, but I think he was a driver for them at some point. He was quite a well-known figure the anti-war movement in your part of the US in the 60s I believe. I think he lives in Berkeley.

I mention him because he's a friend of a friend of my family, and was over staying here around Christmas last year.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Here he is. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/03/19/MNG06ONMIH1.DTL&o=4) Does he look familiar? He wasn't a member, but I think he was a driver for them at some point. He was quite a well-known figure the anti-war movement in your part of the US in the 60s I believe. I think he lives in Berkeley.

I mention him because he's a friend of a friend of my family, and was over staying here around Christmas last year.

Nope, I don't think I know him, but nice picture. I'm always happy when people who were active in the 60s actively take part in movements today - it brings perspective to things today. Well I don't have to tell anyone here that since most of us are studying radical movements of the past to learn lessons already.

[Magdalen]

Nope, I don't think I know him, but nice picture. I'm always happy when people who were active in the 60s actively take part in movements today - it brings perspective to things today. Well I don't have to tell anyone here that since most of us are studying radical movements of the past to learn lessons already.

Aye, he's involved with the Liberation Radio too I think.

[scarletghoul]

Im so jealous. Emory Douglas is fucking awesome, the greatest american artist

[Jimmie Higgins]

Aye, he's involved with the Liberation Radio too I think.Ahh, Liberation Radio - yes I do know that.

Berkeley is such a middle-class shaddow of it's former self* that I often dismiss the entire town and have to remind myself that there still are some reminanets of radicalism (like Liberation Radio and People's Park) and the place is still a becon for young people in the US searching for something other than what capitalism has to offer.

*In the yippie book "Do It!" (oops, I think I called it "Dig-it" in another thread) Jerry Rubin describes that a middle class student having to walk down Telegraph Ave (the main student area of Berkeley) is like having to walk through a revolution and having all your assumptions about capitalism challenged. Well now it's like walking through a revolution sponsored by Pepsi, The Gap, and every major credit card company. Students can now buy all sorts of radical grear that is to radicalism what hot-topic is to CRASS or The Clash.

[Pawn Power]

I met Emory before. He is really nice and there is a really good book that recently came out (2 years ago?) with all of his art work in high resolution.

[Jimmie Higgins]

I met Emory before. He is really nice and there is a really good book that recently came out (2 years ago?) with all of his art work in high resolution.Nice avatar by the way!

[Angry Young Man]

Students can now buy all sorts of radical grear that is to radicalism what hot-topic is to CRASS or The Clash.
By that token then, when I am responsible for the most important thing to happen to music since Kurt Cobain did some interior decoration with a 12 bore shotgun, I'll refuse to have merch sold on hot topic. In fact, I'll start up a new website to sell the stuff on and call it Trot topic! Take that, iron goliath of capitalism!

[Pawn Power]

Nice avatar by the way!

yay, someone got it.

[RHIZOMES]

!!OMG!!

Me and a comrade were outside the lecture theatre giving flyers for the Murder of Fred Hampton film screening (http://www.revleft.com/vb/workers-party-campus-t115743/index.html) we are holding. Then who do I see but Emory Douglas standing in front of me waiting around just by himself. I decide to approach him, I don't remember precisely it was something about how great it was to meet a far left 1960's icon and how we were holding a screening... I gave him a leaflet while saying he has probably already seen it already and he said he's seen it many times (But in a sort of "man what a great movie :)" than a "no fuck off" sort of way) and that he's going back in December to see it again for the anniversary of Hampton's death with fellow Black Panthers. Then I asked him if he would consider being interviewed for the far-left magazine the Workers Party publishes and he said to ask the Fine Arts Department since they deal with that stuff, which disheartened me since it's like asking a revolutionary to do an interview versus asking a yuppie to do an interview. But then, he fucking PLUGGED THE FILM SCREENING during the lecture with 500+ people. :cool:

I was so starstruck omg

[gorillafuck]

!!OMG!!

Me and a comrade were outside the lecture theatre giving flyers for the Murder of Fred Hampton film screening (http://www.revleft.com/vb/workers-party-campus-t115743/index.html) we are holding. Then who do I see but Emory Douglas standing in front of me waiting around just by himself. I decide to approach him, I don't remember precisely it was something about how great it was to meet a far left 1960's icon and how we were holding a screening... I gave him a leaflet while saying he has probably already seen it already and he said he's seen it many times (But in a sort of "man what a great movie :)" than a "no fuck off" sort of way) and that he's going back in December to see it again for the anniversary of Hampton's death with fellow Black Panthers. Then I asked him if he would consider being interviewed for the far-left magazine the Workers Party publishes and he said to ask the Fine Arts Department since they deal with that stuff, which disheartened me since it's like asking a revolutionary to do an interview versus asking a yuppie to do an interview. But then, he fucking PLUGGED THE FILM SCREENING during the lecture with 500+ people. :cool:

I was so starstruck omg

That's wicked cool.

[KC]

We had Bobby Seale. Nice guy, gave a good speech; then tried selling us his Bobby-Q.

[Pawn Power]

We had Bobby Seale. Nice guy, gave a good speech; then tried selling us his Bobby-Q.

gotta make a living.

Okay, more bpp people. a few months ago I got to see robert hillary king speak of the angola 3. He was interesting and didn't try to sell us anything except his book but seriously he was unjustly in prision for over 30 years.

[Magdalen]

My mum once met Stokely Carmichael at a 'Friends of People's Korea' conference in London in the 80s. She'd been speaking to him for about 15 minutes before she realised who he was. :lol:

[the last donut of the night]

http://jakepatrick.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/hell-yeah-motherfucker.jpg