The Jericho Amnesty Movement to free all political prisoners will be holding a Black August commemoration on Saturday, August 27 from 6-9:00 PM at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, 6120 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles (between Slauson and Gage).
The event will feature conscious entertainment and spoken word, and a presentation by Comrade LaaLaa of the Black Riders Liberation Party, who is the National Youth Coordinator for the Jericho Amnesty Movement, on the recent founding conference in Washington DC, called by Jericho, of a National Confederation to Free Political Prisoners and the Unjustly Incarcerated. The conference was held this past weekend and brought together many groups and organizations that have been involved in efforts to free political prisoners and defense/support committees around particular cases, to create a structure of accountability and concerted action. The Black August event is free, but a nutritious meal will be available for a donation, and people will have the opportunity to write to the political prisoners. A collection will also be taken to support the ongoing work of the Jericho Amnesty Movement Los Angeles chapter, which is developing a Family Transport to Prisoners program for this area, in the spirit of the survival programs of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense applied to 21st century conditions of oppression and mass incarceration. Black August is a month of fasting, study, physical training and collective development dedicated to martyrs of the struggle and high points of the resistance in the Black freedom struggle, particularly behind the walls. There will also be a report on the prison chapters that are being built which were involved in the recent, and possibly continuing, hunger strike against isolation torture. There will also be a report from the state-wide mobilization this week to Sacramento on behalf of the prisoners' demands. ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
