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DESCRIPTION:Angela Davis, activist, professor emerita, to headline annual MLK 
 Convocation\n\nPlease join us\n\nSpeaker: Angela Davis\n"Racism, 
 Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine."\n\nDate: 7 p.m., 
 Wednesday, January 28th 2015\n\nLocation: Santa Cruz Civic 
 Auditorium\n\nThe event is free and open to the public.\n\nThe 2015 Martin 
 Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Angela Davis, 
 Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz. \n\nThrough her activism 
 and scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply 
 involved in our nation’s quest for social justice.  Her work as an 
 educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere 
 – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of 
 struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality. She is Distinguished 
 Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC 
 Santa Cruz, and the author of nine books, including her most recent book of 
 essays called The Meaning of Freedom.\n\nIn recent years a persistent theme 
 of her work has been the range of social problems associated with 
 incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that 
 are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination.  She draws upon her 
 own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen 
 months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most 
 Wanted List.”\n\nShe is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a 
 national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial 
 complex.  Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an 
 abolitionist organization based in Queensland, Australia that works in 
 solidarity with women in prison.\n\nHaving helped to popularize the notion 
 of a “prison industrial complex,” she now urges her audiences to think 
 seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to 
 help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.\n\nAlso featuring a 
 performance by\nSinger and songwriter, AlexisRose\n\nMore information 
 at:\nhttp://news.ucsc.edu/2015/01/2015-mlk-convocation-preview.html\nhttp://specialevents.ucsc.edu/mlk/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/18/18767119.php
SUMMARY:Angela Davis speaks at annual MLK Convocation
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium\n307 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/18/18767119.php
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