Ashanti Alston on Race, Resistance, Cross-Border Struggles and Anarchism

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Anarchist & former political prisoner Ashanti Alston will be speaking in Houston February 19, 7:30pm at the S.H.A.P.E. Community Center. The focus on the talk will be on Race, Resistance, Cross-Border Struggles and Anarchism.

Ashanti Alston Omowali is a former member of the Black Panther Party and ex-political prisoner. Formerly an Institute for Anarchist Studies board member, he publishes the zine Anarchist Panther and has been a guest lecturer at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont, speaking on the Panthers and the history of Black nationalist movements.

He has spent time in Chiapas, Mexico, studying the autonomous structure of Zapatista communities, and resides in New York, where he is the national co-chair of the Jericho Amnesty Movement (to release U.S. political prisoners), an active member of Estacion Libre, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, and Critical Resistance.

Ashanti is an activist, speaker, writer, and also a former member of the Black Liberation Army. He spent more than a decade in prison after government forces captured him and a court convicted him of armed robbery.

His writings and interviews can be found on www.anarchistpanther.net

This event is sponsored by the Institute for Anarchist Studies, Houston Anti-Racist Action, Students for a Democratic Society-UH, Critical Resistance Houston and Sedition Collective.