This Week on Campus
ALL POWER THROUGH
THE PEOPLE: A TALK WITH ASHANTI ALSTON A.K.A. ANARCHIST PANTHER
THURSDAY, SEPT. 15
4:00PM COFFMAN 209 (Black
Student Union), U of M
and
8:00PM Weyerhauser Chapel
on the Macalester College campus (St. Paul)
Ashanti Alston is a former member of the Black Panther Party and served 14 years as political prisoner for his involvement with the Black Liberation Army. Alston is now active with Critical Resistance, a national radical prison abolitionist organization. He authors the zine "Anarchist Panther" and works with Anarchist People of Color (APOC) and Estaci?n Libre, an organization that works to strengthen ties between people of color in the US and people of the liberated Zapatista territories of Chiapas, Mexico. Alston will speak on what it meant to be moved by the idea of new, radical possibilities - from Black Power to revolution. Alston says, "Though I never finished my senior year in high school I have always been a grassroots intellectual and always push students in the universities to be excited about the new ideas, the perspectives that CAN be open to them." He will also talk about current social movements and the possibility of liberation in (or from) contemporary America. Sponsored by: Anti-War Organizing League, Black Student Union, La Raza
For more information: twoldemichael@macalester.edu, umnresist@yahoo.com,
www.tc.umn.edu/~awol/