FRIDAY 19th
1968: A Discussion On The Lessons and Vibrant Legacy Of The Year That Shook The World
Julia Morgan Center For The Arts (Map)
2640 College Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
510 845 8542
www.juliamorgan.org
7PM
$10 (no-one turned away)
A fundraiser for KPFA, The Global Commons Foundation, and PM Press.
Panelists include:
- Robert Hillary King – former Black Panther and Angola 3 political prisoner. Author of the new autobiography: ‘From The Bottom Of The Heap: The Autobiography Of Black Panther Robert Hillary King’
- Immanuel Wallerstein – distinguished sociologist, world-systems analyst, activist, and author of numerous works.
- Staughton Lynd – legendary historian, lawyer, and prisoner rights activist. The author and editor of over a dozen books, his latest publications on PM Press are ‘Wobblies & Zapatistas: Conversations On Anarchism, Marxism And Radical History’ (with Andrej Grubacic) and a new, revised, updated edition of his seminal ‘Labor Law For The Rank And Filer’ (with IWW organizer Daniel Gross).
- Andrej Grubacic – Balkans anarchist and activist. Grubacic is the author, most recently of ‘Wobblies & Zapatistas’ (with Staughton Lynd) and is the editor of the forthcoming ‘Staughton Lynd Reader’. He edits Z Magazine’s Balkan edition.
- Paco Ignacio Taibo II – Mexican writer and ‘68er, equally loved for his detective novels, and non-fiction work on the likes of Pancho Villa, Che, and the Mexican student uprisings of ’68. Future fiction and non-fiction in translation will be forthcoming in 2009 from PM Press.
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz – Historian, feminist, activist, and author of numerous works of memoir, and Indigenous history.
The Panel discussion will be moderated by Ramsey Kanaan, PM Press.