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THE MICHAEL SLATE SHOW
Friday, Sept. 9th, 10 - 11 AM, KPFK, 90.7 FM
This week on The Michael Slate Show:
Forty years ago, September 9, 1971,
1200 prisoners at Attica prison in
New York rose up in one of the most
significant prison rebellions in US
history. CARL DIX, founding member
of the Revolutionary Communist
Party, and JAMES BENJAMIN,
former prisoner and a participant
in the rebellion, will talk about the
importance of remembering, and
continuing to uphold, this rebellion.
For more on the Attica rebellion, see, "We are not beasts
and we do not intend to be beaten or driven as such," i
Excerpts from Bob Avakian Speaks Out:
The New Situation - The "War on
Terrorism," Carl Dix's interview with
Bob Avakian, Chairman of the
Revolutionary Communist Party,
published in 2002. Also, check out
Bob Avakian's talk, "The New Situation
and the Great Challenges," here.
Sunday, September 11,
the LA Theatre Center
(LATC) will present:
"THE GLOBAL STAGE:
The Theatre Movement
in a Post 9/11 World,"
a panel discussion with
international and
American artists, scholars, and celebrities, on the 10th anniversary
of the events that rocked the world. It will seek to examine the
possibilities and responsibilities of world artists in shaping a new
future for global collaboration.
Talking about this event will be JOSE LUIS VALENZUELA, Artistic
Director of LATC, and BIANCA BAGATOURIAN, an experimental
playwright who likes to stretch the boundaries of theater and
whose works revolve around human rights themes, including a
play on the Revolution in Iran and an upcoming play based on
the works of noted historian, Howard Zinn. She is the president
of the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance.
"THE GLOBAL STAGE," is at noon, Sunday, September 11, LATC
Theatre 2, 514 S. Spring St. Admission is free.
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Troy Davis has been given
an execution date of
September 21, despite the
fact that in the twenty years
he has spent on death row
in Georgia, the case against
him -- based on faulty
witness identifications --
has collapsed.
See the Troy Anthony Davis website for more information
and to take action to stop the execution.
Last week, September 2, on The Michael Slate Show,
filmmaker Jen Marlowe, and Laura Moye, Amnesty
International USA's Director of the Death Penalty Abolition
Campaign, talked about the case. Listen or download here.
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