Oct. 21-23: Celebrate the 45th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party

The main schedule for all events for the month, especially Oct.21-23, is posted at the bottom as a graphic. Immediately below are more details about the events on Oct.22 at the Black Reperatory Theater, 3201 Adeline St. (near Ashby BART).

More information at http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com

Political Prisoners Workshop

October 22, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Black Repertory Theater
3201 Adeline St. (nr. Ashby BART)

Host: Kiilu Nyasha

Panelists:
Richard Brown, Ida McCray, Dominique Stevenson, Gail Shaw, Claude Marks, and Bato Talamantez

A special message from Sundiata Acoli, among others, will be read.

MAIN OCT. 22 EVENT BEGINNING AT 10AM

--The Vault Cafe across the street from the Black Repertory Theater will be a good place to eat breakfast. it is open from 7am.

--Margo Rose-Brunson /Esutosin Omowale Osunkoya (Charles Brunson) (Sacramento Panthers) will open up the 45th yr celebration on October 22, with drumming and will do the libations at 10am.

--Bobby Seale, Co-Founder will speak at 11am.

--Aaron Dixon and Tarika Lewis will MC the Celebration. Aaron is from the Seattle Chapter of the BPP and Tarika was one of the first Sisters to Join the BPP in 1967.

--Barbara Cox, wife of Donald Cox, will attend the celebration from Philly. Also from Philly will be Yvonne King. Yvonne worked out of the Illinois Chapter office in Chicago under Fred Hampton and Bob Rush.

--Congresswoman Barbara Lee has agreed to attend.

--Steve McCutchen will do a roll call on Fallen comrades.

--Dr. Small, and Elbert "Big Man" will both talk about the Legacy of the BPP.

--We will have a DJ kicking Old School and recent hits, a live band called "Shuduma" Afro-Cuban music they're hot. We're going to have some spoken work, Sisters singing.

--We plan on having a good time, we will have food also.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE BY IT'S ABOUT TIME BPP:

The It's About Time Committee is committed to preserving and promoting the legacy of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and its programs of community survival pending social change. We will commemorate the historic legacies of the BPP as well as the many sacrifices and constructive contributions that all of us made while serving the people body and soul. Voter Registeration

We have the responsibility to place our own experiences into historical context; otherwise the legacy of the Black Panther Party will be ignored, dismissed and distorted by today's commentators and tomorrow's historians.

We will maintain a network of Black Panther Party alumni and supporters for the purpose of providing educational information to community groups or the public at large regarding issues of social justice. This will include publishing a newsletter and maintaining a speakers' bureau. We also organize local community events and support other community organizations who promote social justice issues. We provide mentoring for urban youth groups to encourage positive community activity and voluntarism.

We commemorate the sacrifices of those who fell in body and spirit to the prevailing internal and external forces of those times. We must continue to bring attention to the plight of the many political prisoners and exiles who were victims of the government repression which contributed to the Party's demise.

We need to reclaim our history and dispel the many myths about the Party.

IT'S ABOUT TIME!

--Angola 3 News is an official project of the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3. Along with providing the latest news about a trip of Black Panther political prisoners known as the Angola 3, we are also creating our own media projects, which spotlight the issues central to the story of the Angola 3, like racism, repression, prisons, human rights, solitary confinement as torture, and more. Our articles and videos have been published by Alternet, Truthout, Counterpunch, Monthly Review, Z Magazine, Indymedia, and many others.