PS, Dennis loved Marx, and here's his reinvention of Marx in Soho
(Howard Zinn) for South African audiences:
DENNIS BRUTUS ONLINE ARCHIVE
*Dennis Brutus as Marx in Marx in Soho*
Part 1 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQQ-sr4M1bg>
Part 2 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RaK_3MtpLk>
Part 3 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aseIao3LJFw>
In the tradition of Howard Zinn's Marx in Soho, Dennis Brutus presents
Marx in the light of the contradictions in post-Apartheid South Africa.
This performance will act as a corrective to South Africa's Prime
Minister's Thabo Mbeki's talk at the United Nations General Assembly.
Dennis Brutus was an activist against the apartheid government of South
Africa in the 1960s. He worked to get South Africa suspended from the
Olympics; this eventually led to the country's expulsion from the games
in 1970. He joined the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department organisation
(Anti-CAD), a group that organized against the Coloured Affairs
Department which was an attempt by the government to institutionalise
divisions between blacks and coloureds. He was arrested in 1963 and
jailed for 18 months on Robben Island.
In exile, he was professor of Africana studies at Northwestern and
Pittsburgh, and an internationally-renowned speaker on social justice
issues. He is also probably the most read and cited poet from Africa,
and author of Poetry and Protest (Haymarket Books, 2006) and many other
works of poetry. In 2005 he joined the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Centre for Civil Society as an honorary professor.
On 11/28/2024 4:09 PM, Patrick Bond wrote:
*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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