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Angela Davis speaks at annual MLK Convocation
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Date:
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Time:
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
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Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
307 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
307 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Angela Davis, activist, professor emerita, to headline annual MLK Convocation
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Speaker: Angela Davis
"Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine."
Date: 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 28th 2015
Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The event is free and open to the public.
The 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz.
Through her activism and scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, and the author of nine books, including her most recent book of essays called The Meaning of Freedom.
In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.”
She is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in Queensland, Australia that works in solidarity with women in prison.
Having helped to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex,” she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.
Also featuring a performance by
Singer and songwriter, AlexisRose
More information at:
http://news.ucsc.edu/2015/01/2015-mlk-convocation-preview.html
http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/mlk/
Please join us
Speaker: Angela Davis
"Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine."
Date: 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 28th 2015
Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The event is free and open to the public.
The 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz.
Through her activism and scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, and the author of nine books, including her most recent book of essays called The Meaning of Freedom.
In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.”
She is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in Queensland, Australia that works in solidarity with women in prison.
Having helped to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex,” she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.
Also featuring a performance by
Singer and songwriter, AlexisRose
More information at:
http://news.ucsc.edu/2015/01/2015-mlk-convocation-preview.html
http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/mlk/
Added to the calendar on Sun, Jan 18, 2015 10:15AM
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Will Angela Davis or any of the other speakers address poverty, harassment of the homeless, and racial and class profiling in Santa Cruz and encourage the several thousand who regularly attend such events to actually take specific action? Will the audience do more than nod approvingly to acknowledge a "national holiday" which has denatured and twisted the radical and currently relevant aspects of King's work opposing militarism, imperialism, and institutional racism ? I don't remember any such messages being given from the podiums of past convocations, far less actions being initiated.
In fact, past middle-class organizers have tried in the past to bar activists from fliering there
Nor has Angela Davis ever issued a statement to my knowledge opposing the Sleeping Ban and the other life-snuffing ordinances and practices of the city just down the hill from where she is "Professor Emerita".
Self-proclaimed liberals or progressives either steeped in false nostalgia or focusing on distant areas when their real power and privilege like former Mayor Mike Rotkin and current Mayor Don Lane have been a significant force for reaction and a part of the problem.
Local organizations like the NAACP and SCCCCR have been unwilling to name local names and pursue local cases of racial discrimination--or none that I've seen.
It would be encouraging if those giving lip-service to "Black Lives Matter" actually demanded specific changes in our local SCPD. See "Race and Class Bias in the SCPD: What's the Real Story?" at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2014/12/03/grand_jury_protest_updated.pdf and "Make Cops Accountable" at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2014/12/13/flyer__for__12-17.pdf
In fact, past middle-class organizers have tried in the past to bar activists from fliering there
Nor has Angela Davis ever issued a statement to my knowledge opposing the Sleeping Ban and the other life-snuffing ordinances and practices of the city just down the hill from where she is "Professor Emerita".
Self-proclaimed liberals or progressives either steeped in false nostalgia or focusing on distant areas when their real power and privilege like former Mayor Mike Rotkin and current Mayor Don Lane have been a significant force for reaction and a part of the problem.
Local organizations like the NAACP and SCCCCR have been unwilling to name local names and pursue local cases of racial discrimination--or none that I've seen.
It would be encouraging if those giving lip-service to "Black Lives Matter" actually demanded specific changes in our local SCPD. See "Race and Class Bias in the SCPD: What's the Real Story?" at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2014/12/03/grand_jury_protest_updated.pdf and "Make Cops Accountable" at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2014/12/13/flyer__for__12-17.pdf
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