MONDAY 22nd
Paths to Liberation: Political Prisoners, Incarceration, and Struggle
A conversation with Robert Hillary King, Denis O’Hearn and Andrej Grubacic
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7PM
This evening brings Robert Hillary King, whose autobiography ‘From The Bottom Of The Heap: The Autobiography Of Black Panther Robert Hillary King’ has just been released, in conversation with Andrej Grubacic, co-author, with Staughton Lynd, of ‘Wobblies & Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History’ (PM Press), also newly released. The discussion will be facilitated by Denis O'Hearn, author of "Nothing but an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation."
Robert Hillary King is one of the Angola 3, who served over 31 years in Louisiana’s ‘slave plantation’ at Angola, 29 of them in solitary confinement. He, together with his Angola 3 comrades, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, organized within the prison the first (and only) Black Panther chapter behind the walls. The state reacted (unsurprisingly) accordingly.
Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist dissident from the Balkans. A champion of an anarchist approach to writing history, Grubacic is one of the more prominent theorists of "new anarchism," and one of the leading anti-authoritarian voices in the global justice movement. A fellow traveler and co-conspirator of Peoples' Global Action and other Zapatista influenced direct action movements, Grubacic's primary political investment is in Balkan struggles. He is an editor of ZBalkans, member of Yugoslav group Freedom Fight, and a co-founder of Global Balkans network of anti-capitalists in diaspora. His writings and interests range from anarchist or 'participatory' education to the anarchist world-systems analysis, and from the hidden history of American democracy to the history of decentralized communities and mutual aid in the Balkans. He is a lecturer at the ZMedia Institute, term professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco, and the editor of the forthcoming PM publication " The Staughton Lynd Reader."
This event is part of the Modern Times ‘Press Of The Month’ featuring PM Press.