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DESCRIPTION:Cross-border Resistance to State Terrorism\n\nJoin the Committee in 
 Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, the Prisoners of Conscience 
 Committee in screening "Hijos de la Guerra", a film that explores the 
 origins of Salvadoran gangs, dating back to the build-up to the 12-year 
 civil war which killed 75,000 people and left the horrendous war crimes 
 that were committed uninvestigated and unresolved. \n\nThe panelists will 
 explore connections between police violence and assassinations in Black and 
 Brown communities throughout the US and in left-leaning, poor communities 
 in El Salvador historically and now -- since the opening of the U.S. Police 
 Training Academy in El Salvador in 2005.\n\nfollowed by a panel discussion 
 with:\n\nRevolutionary journalist JR Minister of Information, P.O.C.C. 
 Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., and members of CISPES.\n\nThis is a fundraiser 
 for JR and Chairman Fred's travel and in-country costs for the delegation 
 to El Salvador later this month.\n\n\n2008 CISPES Fact-Finding Delegation 
 to\nEl Salvador\n\nJR Minister of Information and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. 
 of the P.O.C.C. are going on a CISPES fact-finding delegation to El 
 Salvador\n\nMeetings between these revolutionary forces -- the P.O.C.C. and 
 Salvadoran left – represent enormous possibilities for Black and Brown 
 solidarity across continents and an end to U.S.-sponsored war on indigenous 
 and poor people of the world.  This delegation will investigate renewed 
 death squad activity and attacks on the Salvadoran social movement after 
 the opening of a new regional U.S. police training academy and U.S. 
 government attempts to prevent a leftist victory for El Salvador in the 
 2009 elections. \n\nCISPES considers itself and its legacy in close 
 solidarity with Black Power and Chican@ movements past and present. 
 \n\nMany of the policing strategies that are becoming "transnationalized" 
 today are the ones that were originally designed and deployed to destroy 
 the power and popular base of the Black Panther Party in and the Chican@ 
 movement in the U.S. in the 60 and 70s.  The U.S. government's systematic 
 assault and criminalization of rebellious black and brown youth has paved 
 the way for the largest prison economy, as the P.O.C.C. would say, the 
 largest network of "concentration camps" in the world.\n\nAs Latin and 
 African people are forced to cross national borders to escape economic and 
 political isolation and police violence in their home countries, Black 
 folks in the US are being forced in unprecedented numbers to migrate off of 
 land owned by their parents and grandparents and into threat of 
 assassination by the police, prison, or new hostile territories within the 
 U.S.   \n\nWhat is CISPES?\n\nThe Committee in Solidarity with the People 
 of El Salvador is a U.S.-based activist organization that stood in 
 solidarity with the peasant uprising to overthrow the U.S.-supported 
 dictatorship of El Salvador throughout the 80s.  Today CISPES is fighting a 
 new era of U.S. occupation of El Salvador and the criminalization of 
 immigrants.\n\nWhat is the Prisoners of Conscience Committee?\n\n"We are 
 not a prison activist organization. We are a revolutionary organization."  
 - Fred Hampton, Jr.\n\nThe Prisoners of Conscience Committee was founded by 
 Fred Hampton, Jr. during the nine years he spent in jail in the 1990's. In 
 the words of Chairman Fred, Jr: "[The POCC] was literally birthed from 
 behind enemy lines, its birth canal was the concentration camps, its 
 umbilical cords are the prison chains." Now a national organization, the 
 P.O.C.C engages in revolutionary work throughout the country, both through 
 their own programs and through coalition building with other revolutionary 
 peoples and organizations.\n\nIn their own words they are "an organization 
 that consists of African Revolutionary Freedom Fighters whose agenda is to 
 liberate the minds and hearts of African and Colonized people." Though they 
 do not consider themselves a prison activist organization, the P.O.C.C. 
 uses what happens inside the concentration camps as a model to explain the 
 oppressive power structure on the outside.\n\nThank you for helping to make 
 this delegation possible.  If you can't make it to one of our events but 
 want to contribute, send a check to JR Minister of Information @  Bay View 
 Newspaper 4917 Third St. San Francisco, CA 94124 or you can give with a 
 credit card by calling the Bay View Newspaper office at 415-671-0789.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/16/18507757.php
SUMMARY:Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and P.O.C.C.& CISPES present:
LOCATION:Wednesday, June 18, 2008\n7-10pm @ Station 40\n3030B 16th St. (@ Mission 
 St.)\nSan Francisco, CA\n\n$5-20 suggested donation. \nno one turned away 
 for lack of funds.\n
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