EAST HARLEM TONIGHT! Malcolm X Commemoration Day Event: Africa, Fidel Castro, Assata Shakur, The Cuban 5

7:00PM TONIGHT: Malcolm X Commemoration Day Event "When Africa Called Cuba Answered" Dedicated To Assata Shakur & The Cuban 5

 

When Africa called...

Friday, February 21, 20214 Casa de las Americas 7:00 PM182 East 111th Street (between Lexington and 3rd Avenue) Take the 6 Train to east 110th Street) Suggested Donation: $5-10  (no one will be turned away for a lack of funds)

Join us for this special  Black History Month /  Malcolm X Commemoration Day event dedicated to the Cuban 5 and Assata Shakur!   African American Activists have played a key role in supporting the Cuban Revolution!  Cuba's solidarity with Africa and support of communities of African descent throughout the world has always been overlooked and ignored.  Join us for a night of discussion as we explore this rich political history.

Panelists: Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenant's Council Sadiki "Bro Shep" Ojore Olugbala, Universal Zulu Nation and Guillermo Morales-Assata Shakur Community & Student Center Dr. Bill Sales, Professor of Africana Studies at Seton Hall University and a member of IFCO's Board of Directors A representative of the Venceremos Brigade

Movie Presentation: 

The Eye of the Rainbow 

Assata Shakur and Oya  

Eyes of the Rainbow deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba, where she lived for close In it we visit with Assata in Havana and she tells us about her history and her life in Cuba.  

This film is also about Assata's AfroCuban context, including the Yoruba Orisha Oya, goddess of the ancestors, of war, of the cemetery, and of the rainbow.   

Film by Imagenes del Caribe 

Gloria Rolando, Director

Havana, Cuba 

Video, color, 47 min, 1997

 

The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5
Email:  freethecuban5@gmail.com
Website:  www.freethecuban5.org
Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/NYC-Free-the-Cuban-5
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/freethecuban5
Telephone: 718-601-4751

-- 
SIGN THE JERICHO COINTELPRO PETITION!

Free All Political Prisoners!
 www.jerichony.org