Friday, February 19, 2010

Ashanti A. Omowali at UTPA

Ashanti Alston Omowali is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party. He was also a member of the Black Liberation Army, and spent more than a decade in prison after government forces captured him (and the official court system convicted him) of armed robbery.

Ashanti is a former northeast coordinator for Critical Resistance, currently co-chair of the National Jericho Movement (to free U.S. political prisoners), a member of pro-Zapatista people-of-color U.S.-based EstaciĆ³n Libre, and is on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies.


Ashanti will be making his premiere at the University of Texas Pan American where he will give an in depth discussion on Race, Cross-Border Struggles and Anarchism.

Sunday, 21 February
5pm
HSHW 1.406 on the UTPA campus

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