From: Mara Schoner [mailto:mara@neighbor2neighbor.net]
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Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 2:10 PM
Subject: November 6, 2011 Angela Davis and Rev James Lawson in a Historic Conversation
http://politicalgraphics.org/home.html
http://politicalgraphics.org/pdf/2011%20CSPG%20INVITE.pdf
Contacts: Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Carol A. Wells, Executive Director
Mary Sutton, Program Director
cspg@politicalgraphics.org 323.653.4662
www.politicalgraphic.org
3:00 pm: Reception 4:30 pm: Program
WHAT: Celebrating the Art of Resistance: CSPG's 2011 pARTy AuCTION!
Honoring Angela Davis, Reverend James & Dorothy Lawson, and Doug Minkler
Sponsors' Reception, Red-Hot Auction, Music by Marcus L. Miller w/ The Freedom Jazz Movement Awards Program, and Historic Conversation with Angela Davis and Rev. James Lawson.
Sonali Kolhatkar host of KPFK's Uprising, will emcee
WHERE:
WHO: Center for the Study of Political Graphics, CSPG
with Community Partner, Critical Resistance
CSPG is an educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and circulates posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for peace and social justice. Through our diverse programs, CSPG is reclaiming the power of art to educate and inspire people to action.
With more that 80,000 domestic and international posters in its collection, CSPG maintains the largest archive of post World War II political posters in the
Angela Davis
Historian of the Lions Award
Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.
–African Proverb.
Angela Davis is an activist, educator, scholar, writer and a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex.
Reverend James& Dorothy Lawson
Culture of Liberation Award
Culture contains the seed of opposition becoming the flower of liberation.
–Amílcar Cabral
Rev. Jim Lawson introduced the principles of Gandhian nonviolence to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many future leaders of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Both Jim and Dorothy Lawson were founding members of the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). They have lived a spirituality of liberation for over five decades, sharing their work, their outrage over injustice and cruelty, and their ability to engage the world with hope.
Doug Minkler
Art is a Hammer Award
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
–Vladimir Mayakovsky
Doug Minkler is an
work has been collected, respected, sued
and booed.
CSPG's 2011 Community Partner:
Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. Through grassroots campaigns, political education, and coalition building, we are building a world where our basic necessities for food, shelter, beauty and freedom are met. www.criticalresistance.org
Images Shown Above left – right: Save Our Sister, Rupert García, Peace Press, Offset, 1972
Los Angeles, CA; Art is Not a Mirror, Doug Minkler, Inkworks, Offset, 2007 Berkeley, CA; Derived from photo by Ernest Withers, striking sanitation workers in Memphis, 1968
Mary Sutton, Program Director
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
323.653.4662
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