In Celebration of MECA’s 25th Anniversary…and In Commemoration of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day
Wednesday, April 17, 7pm
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way, at Dana
(near downtown Berkeley BART)
Introduced by Palestinian journalist from Deheishe Refugee Camp,
Ziad Abbas, who will speak about Palestinian children prisoners
Get your tickets NOW, this event could sell out!
$15, $10 low income:
OR order directly from MECA no service charge!):
Susan@mecaforpeace.org
Mail a check for however many tickets you would like to: Attn: Sue, MECA, 1101 8th Street, Berkeley CA 94710, along with a SASE and your phone number — or come into our offices to buy tickets directly from Sue, 9am-noon weekdays.
You can also email her for info at Susan@mecaforpeace.org
Tickets also available (no service charge!) at these bookstores:
(East Bay) Books, Inc./Berkeley, Marcus Books, Pegasus/Solano, Pegasus/Shattuck, Walden Pond, Moe’s, Diesel; (SF) Modern Times.
Please note that bookstores only sell $15 tickets.
Angela Davis is a longtime prison-rights/racial justice activist, author, professor. She co-founded Critical Resistance, taught the History of Consciousness, directed Feminist Studies, ran for Vice-President twice, and wrote many excellent books — including Women, Race and Class, and Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire.
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Now she is celebrating the release of her new book, The Meaning of Freedom And Other Difficult Dialogues. Angela will sign books after the event!
In 2011, she traveled to Palestine, on a women of color delegation, who later issued a call for divestment: In 2012 she particpated in the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in New York City.
Herbert Marcuse taught me that it was possible to be an academic, an activist, a scholar, and a revolutionary. –Angela Davis
Davis’s arguments for justice are formidable…The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied. –New York Times
This event benefits MECA’s work with Palestinian children.
Cosponsored by: KPFA, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies/SF State University, Critical Resistance/Oakland, Arab Film Festival, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Al-Awda, Justice Now, US Palestinian Community Network, Palestinian Youth Movement, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Freedom Archives, All of Us or None, Jewish Voice for Peace, Bay Area Women in Black, San Francisco Women in Black, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism