35th Anniversary & Reunion Conference of the Black Panther Party
From: "gail shaw" <itsabouttime3<@>juno.com>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001
The 35th Anniversary and Reunion Conference of the Black Panther
Party will be hosted by the It's About Time Committee. The Reunion will be
held at the University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut
Ave., NW, on October 11-14, 2001. The focus of the conference will
be on Cointelpro and Political Prisoners. Some of the speakers already
committed to attend are Bobby Seale, Kathleen Cleaver,geronimo ji
jaga,Safiya Bukhari, Kiilu Nyasha,Nzinga Conway, and Ameejill
Whitlock.
The conference will include panel discussions on political prisoners
and cointelpro. There will also be many workshops on issues of social
justice and organizing. There will be ongoing video showings and
photographic exhibits as well as historical memorabilia. We will
have reports on the UN Conference on Racism in South Africa and
information regarding the Cuban conference on political prisoners in
November.
The conference is open to all people concerned with issues of social
justice.
For registration forms and information, please contact It's About
Time, PO Box 221100, Sacramento, CA 95822,
e-mail: itsabouttime3@j..., phone 916-455-0908. Information will
also be posted on our website: <itsabouttimebpp.com>.
We would be happy to accept tax-deductible donations to help offset
the cost of the conference and to support our other programs, including
the It's About Time newsletter and Books Behind Bars, a program which
sends books and periodicals to prisoners. We are also collecting Black
Panther Party memorabilia, including newspapers, photos, buttons, posters and
other material.
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