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The Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity (Toronto) extends a warm invitation to you to join us at the Afrikan Liberation Month Film Series.
The Afrikan Liberation Month Film Series will feature film screenings followed by intergenerational panel discussions and dialogue with various activists and community members. On February 10th we will screen:
Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
("navigates the tempest of the Abu-Jamal trial by reviewing the known facts of the case. It demonstrates that the major violations in the Abu-Jamal case - judicial bias, prosecutorial misconduct, racial discrimination in jury selection, police corruption and tampering with evidence to obtain a conviction - are not special to this case")
Panel Discussion: Educating, Organizing and Mobilizing to Challenge the Prison-industrial Complex in Turtle Island/Canada
Panelists:
- Nathan Okonta, "A grassroots approach to prison justice work", doctoral student, York University, community worker and member, Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity
- Ainsley Cripps, "The imprisonment of Indigenous peoples", John Howard Society
- Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, "Afrikans in Canada's prison-industrial complex (arming ourselves with knowledge for action)", researcher on race and the prison-industrial complex and doctoral candidate (University of Toronto)
We will focus on issues that deal with the material realities of the community and open a space for dialogue and commitment to year-long and ongoing organizing, mobilizing and education around the subjects raised in the films and the panel discussions. We will use this gathering to reach out to Toronto's Pan Afrikan community with the goal of advancing a more progressive political agenda for the material and socio-economic emancipation of all Afrikan peoples.
We look forward to seeing you at the Afrikan Liberation Month Film Series!
Free public event - donation will be accepted
Event is wheelchair accessible
Sponsored by the Pan-African Solidarity Network (University of Toronto)
Co-Sponsored by CUPE Local 3907
For further information, please contact the Pan-African Solidarity Network (U of T) at network4panafrikansolidarity@gmail.com.
