Events

Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle

A Reading and signing by Laurie B. Green

Laurie Green explores the notion of African American 'freedom' in postwar Memphis. She demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing 'plantation mentality' based on race, gender, and power that permeated southern culture long before--and even after--the groundbreaking legislation of the mid-1960s. She points to the Memphis sanitation workers strike, with its slogan "I AM a Man!," as a clarion example of how the movement fought for a black freedom that consisted of not only constitutional rights but also social and human rights.

Laurie B. Green is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

The cinematic masterpiece, by director Sergei M. Eisenstein's, fictionally
recounts events that ultimately led to the Bolshevik Revolution. Fed up with
the ship's officers' brutalities and with maggot-infested rations, the crew
of the battleship Prince Potemkin revolts. The rebellion ignites an uprising
by the citizens of Odessa, resulting in czarist troops' infamous, systematic
slaughter of insurgents and bystanders.

Legacy of Torture: The War Against the Black Liberation Movement A documentary and discussion about the SF-8

A documentary film showing and discussion featuring Black Panther Party/Angola 3 member Robert King

2007-8 Spanish Language Film Series

Quien Mato la Llamita Blanca? (Bolivia, 2006 112 min, Spanish with English subtitles)

This film is a brilliant examination of race and identity in Bolivia viewed through a hysterical lens of an indigenous superhero criminal road trip film.

Fantastic!

For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 is the historical narrative of the African American fight for job equality and organized labor’s (often inadequate) response to their demands. Zieger, an award-winning historian of labor in the US, examines the employment struggles of African Americans from the abolition of slavery to the present and argues that the availability of jobs was the cornerstone on which the concept of freedom hinged.

Robert H. Zieger is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Florida and the author of several books, including American Workers, American Unions; The CIO, 1935–1955; and John L. Lewis: Labor Leader.

Remember, remember the 5th of November...

Meeting to discuss Earth User's Guide to Permaculture and pick up the next book Creating a Life Together

Free acoustic show featuring Nic Walker, Ryan from the Shire, My Name Is Swan, and more.