SF8 Fundraiser with Emory Douglas and SF Print Collective

REVOLUTIONARY ART:
New work from the SF Print Collective with presentation and book
signing with artist Emory Douglas

Six of the SF-8, Richard Brown; Richard O'Neal; Francisco Torres;
Hank Jones; Ray Boudreaux; and Harold Taylor will join us! Hear
directly from the men about what you can do to support their fight
and the ongoing struggle to win justice for the two SF 8 that remain
incarcerated--Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim

ONE DAY ONLY - Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Exhibit 4 - 7 pm, Emory Douglas @ 5 pm
Located at the Center for Political Education, 522 Valencia Street at 16th St.

An exhibition of posters from the San Francisco Print Collective's
Silkscreen Postermaking workshop.

We will feature a talk, slideshow and Q&A with former minister of
culture for the Black Panther Party Emory Douglas, signing his new
book, Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas. This
event will also raise funds to Free the San Francisco-8, eight former
Black Panthers and community leaders arrested in January on 36-year
old charges, based on confessions extracted by torture.
http://www.freethesf8.org/

As a primer for public artists, SFPC's Silkscreen Postermaking
workshop teaches students how to use the mass media for activist
organizing with a focus on guerrilla art, graphic design, and legal
defense. Participating artists include: Fiona Glas, Allison Lum,
Davis DeBard, Arla Ertz, Ellen Frances, Ly Mai Hoang, Serena Huang,
Stacy Kono, Harris Kornstein, John Lewis, Fernando Marti, Gabe
Martinez, Jennifer Miller, Nicole Rivera, Suzanne Shaffer, Melanie
Ann Tom, Amy Vanderwarker, Debra Walker, and David Shih-chun Wu.

$5-$100, sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Sangria, beer and non-alcoholic drinks and snacks!

Sponsored by the Center for Political Education and the SF Print
Collective. This space is not wheelchair accessible.

For more information, contact sfprintcollective [at] gmail.com or
center [at] politicaleducation.org
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The SFPC is a printmaking collective that uses graphic art to support
social justice organizing. We make public art to challenge the mass
media and broadcast progressive politics directly to the
streets. For more info. or to get involved in the next silkscreen
postermaking class, contact sfpcprintclass [at] gmail.com or
http://www.sfprintcollective.com


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The Center for Political Education: Dedicated to building strong
movements and the left through education, analysis, theory, dialogue
and activism

522 Valencia
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 431-1918
center [at] politicaleducation.org
http://www.politicaleducation.org

This is a worthy event. But if you're someone who will have trouble getting up two full flights of stairs, find another way to support the SF 8!

The meeting space at 522 Valencia is used for lots of good events, probably because groups get it cheap and the money for it (if it's not free) goes to good people. But it's certainly better, if it all possible, to hold events in an accessible space.

BTW, there's a good, relatively relaxed Mexican restaurant almost directly under the meeting place. It's called Mariachi and it's owned by a muy amable Chilango named Homero. (For those who don't know, a Chilango/a is a person from Mexico City.)