*The Dennis Brutus Legacy @ 100: Poetry and Protest*
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86235255122
From his radicalisationin 1940s Eastern Cape township, sports and
educational politics, to serving in prison alongside Nelson Mandela on
Robben Island in the early 1960s, to leading many anti-apartheid
sports/cultural boycotts and business divestment campaigns through the
early 1990s, to criticisingSouth Africa’s transition-era economic
compromises, to allying with progressive social movements (including
Jubilee SA debt cancellation) until his 2009 death, Brutus made a huge
impact locally. Probably no one better linked the issues and was
committed to every SA struggle for social justice.
His international activist profile was just as high, from the late 1990s
when he helped organiseanti-WTO protests in Seattle, to advocating
climate justice, Palestine solidarity, World Bank closure through a bond
boycott and scores of other sites of struggle.
Throughout, Brutus laced his political commitment with searing poetry, a
sense of humourand a generosity of spirit that will forever live large.
Speakers include Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai, Lucy Graham and Trevor
Ngwane (UJ); Beverly Bell (US activist); Des D’Sa and Bandile Mdlalose
(Durban activists); Dale Mckinley(ILRIG); Matt Meyer (Int’l Peace
Research Assn); Aisha Karim and Lee Sustar(editors of Poetry&Protest);
Stephen Kohn(1980slawyer); Vincent Moloi (I am a Rebel filmmaker); Njuki
Githethwa(Nairobi poet/publisher); Boaventura Monjane(Mozambican
activist); and Ben Cashdan (Brutus co-author)
DATE: Thursday 28 Nov. 5-8PM South Africa time (4PM CET, 10AM EST)
ONLINE ACCESS: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86235255122
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