Ashanti Alston: From the Panthers to the Zapatistas

From the Panthers to the Zapatistas
Featuring Ashanti Alston, former Black Panther
Saturday, Febrary 11th 7:00 - 9:00 pm
K.I.N.K.S. International, 629 15th St. (corner of 15th and G Sts.)
Admission is free, but donations will be requested to support the work of Estacion Libre, a people of color collective that takes people-of-color delegations to Chiapas to learn first-hand about the Zapatista movement.

Presented by the Zapatista Solidarity Coalition, in collaboration with It's About Time, a "Black Panther alumni organization."

For more info contact: The Zapatista Solidarity Coalition
916 443-3424 or zapa [at] zsc.org


Ashanti Alston, Black Panther and long-time activist in Black liberation movements, will report on recent developments in the struggle for self determination and community autonomy currently underway in both the African American and Latino communities. Drawing from his own history in the black liberation movement in the United States, Alston will examine the intersections and solidarity between these communities as well as investigate the critical role of popular education
strategies for the Black Panthers and more recently the Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. More recently, as a member of Estacion Libre, an autonomous organization of people of color in solidarity with the Zapatistas, Alston has been a prominent activist in the decentralized, networked global resistance to neoliberal structural adjustment as it manifests in the prison industrial and military industrial complex.

Ashanti Alston has spoken widely on the Panthers and the history of Black Nationalist movements After studying the autonomous struggle of Zapatista communities in Chiapas, he has linked his knowledge of Black nationalism and indigenous autonomy to his anti-racist work with such organizations as Critical Resistance, a national organization committed to ending the Prison Industrial complex. His academic interests include the Black Panther Party, History of the Black Nationalist Movements, Black Anarchism and the Zapatista Rebellion.