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Profiles of Abolition: Abolition and the Radical Imagination
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR. PLEASE ARRIVE AT 5PM.
Parking will be busy, please plan to arrive early. Parking info here: http://criticalresistance.org/feb-20-abolition-and-the-radical-imagination-venue-parking-maps/
"Profiles of Abolition: Abolition and the Radical Imagination" featuring Angela Y. Davis, Fred Moten, and Melanie Cervantes // An event to benefit Critical Resistance and Los Angeles Poverty Department
Critical Resistance and Los Angeles Poverty Department invite you to join us for Profiles of Abolition: Abolition and the Radical Imagination. We are excited to host acclaimed poet Fred Moten and renowned printmaker Melanie Cervantes of Dignidad Rebelde in conversation with Angela Y. Davis.
Profiles of Abolition: Abolition and the Radical Imagination will encourage audience members to reinvigorate a critical understanding of prison industrial complex abolition and inspire us to take creative and practical steps to build this liberated future. Moten, Cervantes and Davis will be joined by performances by the Los Angeles Poverty Department to spark our radical imagination and lift up the spirit of liberation. All proceeds with benefit Critical Resistance and Los Angeles Poverty Department. This event will also mark a special celebration of the Los Angeles Poverty Department's 30-year anniversary.
Abolition and the Radical Imagination is the kick-off event for Profiles of Abolition, a national series hosted by Critical Resistance.
To make this inspiring event accessible to as many people in the Los Angeles community as possible and to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Poverty Department, we are asking for your support.
About the Speakers
DR. ANGELA Y. DAVIS is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis came to national attention after being removed from her teaching position at UCLA because of her activism and membership in the Communist Party, USA. In 1970 she was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List on false charges. During her sixteen-month incarceration, a massive international "Free Angela Davis" campaign was organized, leading to her acquittal in 1972. Today Prof. Davis remains an advocate of prison abolition and has developed a powerful critique of racism in the criminal justice system. She is the author of many books, including her most recent collection, The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media).
FRED MOTEN is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Hughson's Tavern, B. Jenkins, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (with Stefano Harney), The Feel Trio and The Little Edges. A new poetry collection, The Service Porch and a new collection of essays, consent not to be a single being are forthcoming. Moten lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California, Riverside.
A member of the Oakland-based arts collaboration, Dignidad Rebelde, MELANIE CERVANTES is a Xicana activist-artist whose work includes black and white illustrations, paintings, installations and paper stencils. She is best known, however, for her prolific political screen prints and posters which have been used by movements across the globe. Employing vibrant colors and hand-drawn illustrations, her work moves those viewed as marginal to the center featuring powerful youth, elders, women, and queer and indigenous peoples.
Event Proceeds Support:
CRITICAL RESISTANCE // www.criticalresistance.org
Critical Resistance is a national organization formed in 2001 with chapters across the country. CR seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex (PIC) by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. For the past ten years, CR- Los Angeles has been leading the charge to stop jail expansion in LA County and is currently focused on halting a proposed new women's jail in Lancaster.
Los Angeles Poverty Department // www.lapovertydept.org
Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD's works express the realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.'s Skid Row.
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LocationAgape International Spiritual Center (View)
5700 Buckingham Parkway
Culver City, CA 90230
United States
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