Monday I received the following post from Barbara Peck for our
community mail list:
I just got out of a meeting with 100 organizers in downtown and we've
got a huge action coming up next Saturday, October 1st. In solidarity
with the building movement against corporate greed and actions taking
place in NY and other cities across the country, we are going to be
occupying Los Angeles (at L.A. City Hall). We'll be doing an
encampment of the lawn and hits on the financial district.
Saturday at 10:00am -October 1
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180549985355693
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Location
LA City Hall
200 North Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA
Please let me know asap if can participate in this.
Also, please help get people out for this and hold our government accountable -
Onward and upward.
OCCUPY LA
John Johnson
Change-Links Progressive Newspaper
change-links@change-links.org
http://change-links.org
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Where Making History Is a Struggle
From: John A Imani
WHAT: Fall exhibit at William Grant Still Arts Center
WHEN: October 8 – November 19, 2011
TIMES: Monday - Saturday 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WHERE: William Grant Still Arts Center
2520 West View Street (One blk. E. of La Brea) Los Angeles, CA. 90016
Media Contact: Ami Motevalli, Director of William Grant Still Arts Center
323.734.1165, <ami.motevalli@lacity.org>
The William Grant Still Arts Center
Presents
Colonialism: The Collective Unconcious
Curated by Lili Bernard
Cost: Free
LOS ANGELES, CA. - Opening on Columbus Day weekend, this dynamic group show of fifteen emerging, established and legendary Los Angeles-based artists, explores the impact of colonialism from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Americas. Each artist focuses on the subtle and overt influence of Colonialism on the collective psyche and the ways in which colonialism manifests itself today.
The exhibit includes Asco co-founder Harry Gamboa Jr.’s avant garde video "Fire Ants for Nothing," where a man (text and performance by Ruben Guevara) tries without success to affirm that he is not an ant, before extinguishing himself. 3D glasses are available to view half Native American/half Africa n-American artist Steven J. Brook’s sarcastic cartoonish commentary on the conqueror’s coiffeur via his Conkaline’s Glam-O-Rama, while Chicana artist Barbara Carrasco offers her comic strip interpretation of colonialism via "Undiscover 500 Years (Columbus 1492-1992)." New Orleans native Mark Broyard takes us back to Katrina in his assemblage series which he composed of objects found in the wake of the hurricane, while John Outterbridge ink drawings of the Watts Towers evoke memory of when the City of Los Angeles attempted to demolish the vernacular assemblage architecture built by Italian immigrant Simon Rodia.
Tel Aviv-born Dorit Cypis uncovers a "self-knowledge that better recognizes otherness within" through a very personal conceptualization of colonialism in her native Palestine. Zimbabwe native Raksha Parekh uses sugar and cotton to conceptualize the historical impact of those trade industries upon her native Africa and her East Indian ancestors, while Cuban native Lili Bernard flips Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People painting to tell the story of a Cuban slave revolt lead by the African slave woman, Carlota, of the Triumvirato sugar plantation. The exhibition also includes works by Lavialle Campbell, Raul Balthazar, Stephanie Mercado, Willie Middlebrook, Xilomen Rios and Zeal Harris.
Colonialism: The Collective Unconscious exhibition features several events; including opening reception on October 8, featuring a liveperformance by renown and award winning actor and performance artist Roger Guenveur Smith’s piece, "Christopher Columbus, 1992". We will also have music by Marcus L. Miller’s Freedom Jazz Movement featuring Leon Mobley on percussion and Kamasi Washington on Saxophone. The panel discussion on October 22 will give us an opportunity to have direct dialogue with the artists and curator
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