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Selma James speaks on anti-capitalism behind bars Sunday April 1, 7-9pm 518 Valencia Street, San Francisco (BART 16th Street Station) - wheelchair accessible
How can people outside prison support the struggle of those inside? From Troy Davis to Mumia Abu-Jamal and Bradley Manning, from the Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers to the Georgia Prison Strike and the Formerly Incarcerated Persons (FIPs), anti-capitalist leadership has come from inside the Prisonhouse of nations, and from the families campaigning outside.
Keynote speaker: Selma James edited Mumia Abu-Jamal s Jailhouse Lawyers and wrote the Introduction to the UK edition. On tour with her new book Sex Race and Class - The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011 published by PM Press.
Other panelists: • Nell Myhand: Women of
Color in the Global Women's Strike on the campaign to save her own house
from foreclosure, fighting charges from a house occupation with Occupy
Oakland, the growing resistance to Oakland police's brutal violence
targeting occupiers and people of color. • Nedra Ruiz: A movement
criminal attorney defending prisoners, particularly people with life
sentences up against parole boards and opposing three strikes. Her law
firm sponsors an annual art show of prisoners works. • Rachel West: US
Prostitutes Collective, opposing the criminalization of survival, fines,
stay away orders, nuisance codes, sexual offender registration &
Sit/Lies laws which make young people, sex workers, homeless people and
others vulnerable to violence. Organizing to stop serial murders. Selma James is as critical in her thinking and as feisty today as she was when she worked with her late husband CLR James. Always fascinating and a must to hear! - Claude Marks of Freedom Archives Sponsored by: Freedom Archives, the Global Women's Strike, Women of Color@Global Women s Strike, Legal Action for Women
For more information contact: 415-626-4114 or email: sf@globalwomenstrike.net
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