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End
the Nightmare -- Bring Back the Dream!
Reclaiming
thee MLK, Jr. Holiday
&
the True Spirit of Dr. King
on Monday January
19, 2004
3rd
Annual Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice and Peace
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Sonia Sanchez--renowned poet, author and
activist--and Scott Ritter--former United Nations Weapons
inspector, outspoken author and Bush administration critic--will
help headline the rostrum of speakers at this year's Third Annual
Martin Luther King, Jr. Justice and Peace National Workshop and
Rally sponsored by Black Voices for Peace (BVFP), the UDC Department of Criminal Justice and the University
of the District of Columbia (UDC).
The event's
activities will be held on the
National
Martin Luther King Birthday Holiday
Monday, January 19
from 9:30 am until 6:30 pm
at University of
the District of Columbia
Van Ness Street and Connecticut Ave.
NW in Washington, DC.
The two noted personalities will join BVFP co-chair and
founder Damu Smith, BVFP co-chair and Spirit of Truth
Center founder Rev. Dr. Carolyn Boyd, and Rev. Graylin
Hagler, a national BVFP spokesperson and senior pastor of
Plymouth Congregational Church in Washington, DC., who along
with other speakers will also address the hundreds of attendees
expected at the event.
Last year nearly 3000 persons were in attendance from the
District of Columbia and ten states.
The event will include workshops and a
national rally.
The Afternoon National Rally
Featuring
SONIA SANCHEZ & SCOTT RITTER
and including a Musical and Cultural
Tribute
featuring Youth and Elders
3:30 until 6:30 PM. in UDC's Main Auditorium
Introductory Session -- 9:30 until 10:15 am
Morning Workshop -- 10:30 am until 12:30 pm
Early Afternoon Workshop --1:15 until 3:15 pm.
Workshop leaders, trainers and speakers from around the
nation will be a part of this event.
There will also be VOTER REGISTRATION and an INFORMATION
MARKET PLACE featuring books and information on various issues.
LOW COST LUNCH AND DINNER WILL BE AVAILABLE.
ADMISSION IS FREE AND YOUTH AND CHILDREN
SHOULD ATTEND.
Among the performers paying tribute to Dr. King's legacy of
love, justice, peace and racial equality will be youth and elder
spoken word, gospel, spiritual, positive message and hip hop
artists. These include Image Band (formerly New Birth),
the McHenry Elementary School Step Team and Rainbow
Warriors Band and Show; from South Africa, Bokamosa;
and Shambhala.
The National Rally,
Workshops and Training's will focus on current issues facing
neighborhoods, the nation, and the global community and how to
apply King's organizing and philosophical legacy to address
them. These include the Bush administration's war in and
occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan U.S. policy in support of
Israel's occupation of Palestine the impact of U.S. foreign
policy on peace and stability in Africa the Caribbean and Latin
America challenging racism and defending against the assault on
civil liberties, civil rights and affirmative action organizing
for economic rights and essential human needs in the face of
massive cut backs in social spending and the steep rise in
military expenditures organizing for media accountability
empowering youth for leadership and organizing in the face of
violence and other challenges organizing for positive messages
and images in popular culture to advance love, unity, justice
and peace and organizing against police brutality and the prison
industrial complex
www.bvfp.org
Call the BVFP 24-Hour Hotline at
202-232-5690
for 90-second Prerecorded Updates
in Washington, DC Listen to WPFW 89.3 FM AND WOL 1450 AM
for Information about this event and other upcoming MLK
JR. Observances throughout the Nation
WPFW is also Broadcast at WWW.WPFW.ORG
(click on to "Listen to Broadcast")
End the Nightmare; Bring Back the Dream!
In celebration of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. and his dedication to peace and justice, we invite you to
join a vigil against war and violence.
Participate in continuous readings of Dr. King's
speech, "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the
Silence," in front of the Oakland, California Federal
Building from noon to sundown (5:14 p.m.) on Friday, January
16, 2004. Readers will include elected officials, community and
labor leaders, students and other interested folks.
Sponsored by the Peoples NonViolent Response Coalition (PNVRC),
this event is part of the nationwide United for Peace and Justice
actions around the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
Friday, January 16, 2004 from
noon to 5:14 p.m.
Oakland Federal Building, 1301 Clay Street, near the 12th
Street BART Station.
A flier (in PDF), and more information, are available at: http://www.pnvrc.net/Events/MLK3.html
For more information call Jackie Cabasso: (510) 839-5877
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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
stock
market. True wealth has more to do with
what's in your heart than what's in your
wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons
became one of America's shrewdest
entrepreneurs, achieving a level of
success that most investors only dream
about. No matter how much material gain
he accumulated, he never stopped lending
a hand to those less fortunate. In
Super Rich, Simmons uses his rare
blend of spiritual savvy and
street-smart wisdom to offer a new
definition of wealth-and share timeless
principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
financial storm. As Simmons says, "Happy
can make you money, but money can't make
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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