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DESCRIPTION:[EVENT POSTPONED]\n\nHow We Get Free features three leading 
 activist-scholars who will come together in conversation about Black 
 Feminism past and present. The speakers, each coming from a unique radical 
 tradition, will combine their own research and experience with the history 
 of past movements to explore questions around race, gender, class, and 
 ultimately, liberation. What is the role of elections? Of 
 #BlackLivesMatter? Of Trump? How should we be organizing today for our 
 collective liberation?\n\nOur speakers are Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Alicia 
 Garza and Zoe Samudzi. How We Get Free takes place Saturday, December 1 at 
 7pm at First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St, Oakland, 
 CA 94612. The event is sponsored by the Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair 
 (being held Sunday, Dec. 2 from 10-6 at CCSF, 1125 Valencia Street, San 
 Francisco, CA) and the International Socialist Organization. A donation of 
 $5 - $10 is requested and any proceeds will go toward the Zinn Book Fair 
 and ISO.\n\nIn the last several years, Black feminism has reemerged as the 
 analytical framework for the activists response to the oppression of trans 
 women of color, the fight for reproductive rights, and of course, the 
 movement against police abuse and violence. The most visible organizations 
 and activists connected to the Black Lives Matter movement speak openly 
 about how Black feminism shapes their politics and strategies 
 today.\n—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\n\nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an 
 assistant Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University. 
 She is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, an 
 examination of the history and politics of Black America and the 
 development of the social movement Black Lives Matter in response to police 
 violence in the United States. Taylor’s book, How We Get Free: Black 
 Feminism and the Combahee River Collective explores the history of the 
 Combahee River Collective, a trailblazing 1960s-70s group of radical black 
 feminists through interviews with the groups founders. Her research 
 examines race, housing, and public policy.\n\nAlicia Garza is a co-founder 
 of the Black Lives Matter movement and the special projects director for 
 the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) which strives to get better 
 pay and working conditions for nannies and housekeepers. She also serves on 
 the board of directors for the School of Liberation and Unity (SOUL) in 
 Oakland. This school works to help underprivileged youth and people with 
 low-income develop skills so they can improve their communities. Garza is 
 also on the board of directors of Black Organizing for Leadership and 
 Dignity (BOLD), another Oakland organization which helps black activists 
 further develop their organizing skills. Garza is one of the activists 
 interview in Taylor’s How We Get Free.\n\nZoe Samudzi is a co-author of 
 As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation and doctoral 
 student in medical sociology at the University of California, San 
 Francisco. Her research focuses on the scientific logics that produce race 
 and gender, particularly focusing on transgender health and the ways 
 Blackness is constructed. Her writing has been featured in The New Inquiry, 
 Warscapes, Truthout, ROAR Magazine, Teen Vogue, Black Girl Dangerous, and 
 Bitch Media, among others.\n\nAlso featuring poetry readings by fiction 
 writer and poet Idrissa Simmonds.\n\nIf Black women were free, it would 
 mean that everyone else would have to be free.\n—Combahee River 
 Collective Statement\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/13/18819119.php
SUMMARY:POSTPONED: How We Get Free: A Conversation on Black Feminism, Politics, and Liberation
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\n2501 Harrison St\nOakland, CA 94612
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/13/18819119.php
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