Monday, November 08, 2010

THIS FRIDAY, November 12 @ 3 PM: "ANARCHIST PANTHER": A Conversation with Former Black Panther and Political Prisoner, Ashanti Alston

Please join the Workshop on Critical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity a program of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University
for our Keynote Speech

@narchist panther
a conversation with former Black Panther
and political prisoner

ASHANTI ALSTON

About lessons from the Black Panther Party and
Black and postmodern anarchism

ASHANTI ALSTON is a former member of the Black Panther Party and ex-political
prisoner. He publishes the Zine Anarchist Panther and has been a guest lecturer at
the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont, speaking on the Panthers and the
history of Black nationalist movements. He has spent time in Chiapas, Mexico,
studying the autonomous structure of Zapatista communities and working on his
memoirs. Ashanti resides in Rhode Island, where he is presently the national
co-chair of the Jericho Amnesty Movement, and an active member of Estacion Libre,
the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, and Critical Resistance.

FRIDAY, November 12
3:00 pm
420 Hamilton Hall
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Columbia University

*FOOD PROVIDED*

*ALL WELCOME!*

PLEASE RSVP to raceandethnicitygroup@gmail.com ASAP!

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The aim of the Workshop on Critical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity is to create an
interdisciplinary space for the critical consideration of race and ethnicity. By
bringing together a diverse community of scholars and activists, we seek to examine
racial and ethnic formation and engage race and ethnicity as categories of analysis
in order to address larger social, cultural, economic, and political questions
across geographical boundaries. The Workshop will serve as a space for scholars to
develop and share ideas, drawing upon the personal and academic experiences of the
Columbia University community.

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