This Black August, join a Black Alliance for Peace webinar, “Black August In Action: Local Organizing for Political Prisoners.”

This Black August, join a Black Alliance for Peace webinar, “Black August In Action: Local Organizing for Political Prisoners.”

This discussion will focus on the forms of local and grassroots organizing that complement the national and international campaigns to free political prisoners. In particular, it will shed light on the case of the Pendleton 2 (two political prisoners in Indiana) as well as contemporary activists and organizers, who have become political prisoners as a result of state repression in response to the 2014, 2016, and 2020 uprisings in the United States.

SPEAKERS

• Too Black, The Defense Committee to Free the Pendleton 2
• Tone the Organizer, BLM Boston
• Kamau Franklin, Community Movement Builders

AND MORE!

This also will be livestreamed on Facebook.

READINGS FOR PRIOR TO WEBINAR

1. “The Indiana Prisoner Rebellion of 1985, Part 1”
2. “The Indiana Prisoner Rebellion of 1985, Part 2”