[News] NY - Left Forum Panels 4/17-19

[Anti-Imperialist News]

PRISON AND PUERTO RICO PANELS AT LEFT FORUM 
CONFERENCE, PACE UNIVERSITY, NYC  APRIL 17-19
See <http://www.leftforum.org/>www.leftforum.org for complete information.

Let Freedom Ring: Strategies to Free Political 
Prisoners Today - Saturday 4/18 10-noon
    * Matt Meyer (Chair) - Editor, Let Freedom 
Ring and activist with War Resisters League
    * Elizam Escobar - Puerto Rican former political prisoner and artist
    * Ashanti Alston - former political prisoner, 
co-chair of National Jericho Amnesty Movement, 
member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
    * Ramona Africa - former MOVE prisoner and 
activist with the International Concerned Family 
and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
    * Laura Whitehorn - former political prisoner 
and Let Freedom Ring contributor

  The Puerto Rican Reality: The Duality of the 
anti-colonial struggle - Saturday, 4/18 12-2pm
    * Ana M. Lopez (Chair)- Humanities, Hostos Community College
    * Aleida Centeno Rodriguez, Esq. - Frente 
Patriotico de Arecibo, PR (environment and militarizaiton)
    * Julio A Rosado - Pro-Independence activist 
and leader of Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional-PR
    * Elizam Escobar - former political prisoner, 
artist, Visual Arts, University of Puerto Rico
    * Lytza Colon - Community Organizer in the 
South Bronx, member Community CLB
    * Liliana Laboy - Community leader and 
Spokesperson for Mesa de Solidaridad (Against Repression)
    * Norberto Clinton Fiallo - labor organizer, 
president of Latin American Caribbean Coordinator of Puerto Rico (CCLPR)

Resistance Struggles on the Inside: Political 
Organizing Behind Bars - Saturday 4/18 12-2pm
    * Meg Starr (Chair) - Resistance in Brooklyn
    * Robert Hillary King - former political 
prisoner confined to solitary for 30 years in Angola Correctional Facility
    * Victoria Law - Books Through Bars—NYC
    * Jamie Bissonette - Criminal Justice 
Program, American Friends Service Committee in New England

Women on the Margins: Incarceration and 
Resistance in the Current Era - Sunday 4/19 12-2 pm
    * Diana Block (Chair) - California Coalition for Women Prisoners
    * Pilar Maschi - Critical Resistance NYC & a formerly incarcerated woman
    * Joanne Macri - Immigrant Defense Project
    * Laura Whitehorn - former anti-imperialist 
political prisoner & editor, POZ
    * Susan Rosenberg - former anti-imperialist political prisoner
    * Victoria Law - Books Through Bars—NYC


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