rebelworker
9th February 2005, 01:59
Former Black Panther to tour Quebec
NEFAC(Northeastern Federation Of Anarchist Communists, www.nefac.net)
is organising a Quebec tour with former Black Panther and BLA political
prisoner Ashanti Alston
He gives an excellent first hand history of the growth and destruction of the Panther Party in New York and Nationaly. In a somewhat contemporary period he sheds light on questions of Organisation, leadership, race and gender politics and brings them up to date in a modern revolutionary context.
Counter-Powers: The experience of the Black Panther Party (BPP)
Topics covered:
-The Black Panthers: history
-Racism and class struggle in the USA
-Nationalism, feminism and black power
Montreal
Feb 9th at 7PM
Immigrant Worker's Center,
6420 Victoria Ave, Suite 9
(Plamondon subway station)
Sherbrooke
Feb 10th at 7PM
187 Laurier st (room Alponse-Desjardins)
Quebec-City
Feb 11th at 7PM
Pub l'Echouerie, 290 Saint-Joseph St.
Chicoutimi
Feb 12th at 2PM
Universite du Québec à Chicoutimi (room P1-7000)
Saint-Georges
Feb 13th at 7PM
Basement of the church (Amitie Room)
corner of the 123th st and Lacroix blvd
Joliette
Feb 14th at 7PM
Cafe-Bar l'Azile, 55 St-Charles-Borromee st
Montreal
Feb 15th at 7PM
Cafe La Petite Gaule, 2525 Centre st
(Charlevoix subway station)
=====================
Ashanti Alston
Ashanti Alston is a former member of the Black Panther Party and former
political prisoner (Black Liberation Army) for over 14 years. Ashanti
Alston was recently the Northeast regional coordinator for Critical
Resistance, a national radical prison abolitionist organization and now is
a member of Estacion Libre, an organization that works to strenghthen ties
between people of colour in the US with folks in the liberated Zapatista
territories of Chiapas (Mexico) ; and of Anarchist People of Color (APOC).
He sits on the Board of the Institute of Anarchist Studies and has been an
invited guest teacher at the Institute of Social Ecology in Plainfield,
Vermont. Mr. Alston also authors the zine Anarchist Panther.
NEFAC(Northeastern Federation Of Anarchist Communists, www.nefac.net)
is organising a Quebec tour with former Black Panther and BLA political
prisoner Ashanti Alston
He gives an excellent first hand history of the growth and destruction of the Panther Party in New York and Nationaly. In a somewhat contemporary period he sheds light on questions of Organisation, leadership, race and gender politics and brings them up to date in a modern revolutionary context.
Counter-Powers: The experience of the Black Panther Party (BPP)
Topics covered:
-The Black Panthers: history
-Racism and class struggle in the USA
-Nationalism, feminism and black power
Montreal
Feb 9th at 7PM
Immigrant Worker's Center,
6420 Victoria Ave, Suite 9
(Plamondon subway station)
Sherbrooke
Feb 10th at 7PM
187 Laurier st (room Alponse-Desjardins)
Quebec-City
Feb 11th at 7PM
Pub l'Echouerie, 290 Saint-Joseph St.
Chicoutimi
Feb 12th at 2PM
Universite du Québec à Chicoutimi (room P1-7000)
Saint-Georges
Feb 13th at 7PM
Basement of the church (Amitie Room)
corner of the 123th st and Lacroix blvd
Joliette
Feb 14th at 7PM
Cafe-Bar l'Azile, 55 St-Charles-Borromee st
Montreal
Feb 15th at 7PM
Cafe La Petite Gaule, 2525 Centre st
(Charlevoix subway station)
=====================
Ashanti Alston
Ashanti Alston is a former member of the Black Panther Party and former
political prisoner (Black Liberation Army) for over 14 years. Ashanti
Alston was recently the Northeast regional coordinator for Critical
Resistance, a national radical prison abolitionist organization and now is
a member of Estacion Libre, an organization that works to strenghthen ties
between people of colour in the US with folks in the liberated Zapatista
territories of Chiapas (Mexico) ; and of Anarchist People of Color (APOC).
He sits on the Board of the Institute of Anarchist Studies and has been an
invited guest teacher at the Institute of Social Ecology in Plainfield,
Vermont. Mr. Alston also authors the zine Anarchist Panther.