It's Right to Rebel Against Injustice!
Sunday, April 29th, 2 PM
At Revolution Books / Libros Revolución, $10
5726 Hollywood Blvd. @ Wilton, L.A. 90028
A Panel Discussion With:
ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN, author of Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line. She has covered Black issues as a journalist for twenty years, including nine years as a staff writer for the LA Weekly, and two years as a weekly op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
MICHAEL SLATE, author of "Shockwaves" and "Aftershocks" - an unparalleled coverage of the 1992 L.A. rebellion. He is a regular contributor to Revolution newspaper, and the host of The Michael Slate Show on KPFK.
FRANK STOLTZE, an award-winning radio journalist who covered the L.A. rebellion from the streets, former news director at KPFK, and currently news reporter at KPCC.
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Twenty years ago, on April 29, 1992, the City of Los Angeles, the second largest city in the country, erupted in rebellion. The major news anchors in the country, sat tight-lipped and nervous while walls of fire raged on the screens behind them. People were shown dancing in the light of those flames, venting their anger, fighting the police whenever and wherever they encountered them.
At some point in the first ferocious hours of the uprising, the authorities decided to pull back many of their armed enforcers from the city'sneighborhoods, concentrating instead on protecting the key centers of power and wealth. As that first day rolled over into three days, the powers mobilized the largest domestic military occupation since the 1960s. Still, people moved with pride and their eyes shined with a mixture of rage and ferocious joy, a joy rooted in the idea that it's right to rebel against injustice! And the 1992 L.A. Rebellion became the largest urban rebellion in US history.
Sponsored by Revolution Books / Libros Revolución
Flyers available at the bookstore and soon on our blog [here].
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Now Available:
SHOCKWAVES: Report from the L.A. Rebellion
by Michael Slate, $10
This is a collection of unique and intimate interviews with participants of the L.A. Rebellion. Twenty years later, when we're told that the rebellion was tragic at best, and mindless mob violence at worst, Slate not only brings the stories of the rebels of L.A. to life, but captures the revolutionary sentiments and aspirations of the oppressed. His rich, graphical imagery gives context and depth to a picture of all those who stood up and said it's right to rebel against injustice, and dreamt of toppling the status quo. Originally printed in the Revolutionary Worker (now Revolution), this is now a 100+ page reader which includes the 13-part Shockwaves series, the 4-part Aftershocks, and the 4-part Appendix - The Fire This Time: Anatomy of the 1992 L.A. Rebellion.
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Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches From a Black Journalista by Erin Aubry Kaplan, paperback, $19.95.
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Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the LA Rebellion
It's Right to Rebel Against Injustice!
Dinner and an Evening of Spoken Word, Music
Sunday, April 29th, 7 pm, $15
FAIS DO DO, 5253 W. Adams Blvd. (west of La Brea)
Proceeds to BA Everywhere Campaign.
Buy tickets available online (top right-hand corner of this blog) or at the bookstore. Volunteers needed to help promote, sell tickets - and go all out to raise big money to get BA's works and vision everywhere! Special offers: Attend both the forum and the dinner/concert for $20. Buy 4 tickets and get 1 free.\\
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Celebrate May 1st 2012
BA Everywhere - Imagine
the Difference It Could Make
Join us Wed., April 25th, 7 pm,
at Revolution Books for a planning
meeting for four defiant days from
April 28th to May 1st!
