La Luta Continua: Human Rights and the Prison System

Dec 14 2008 - 4:00pm
Dec 14 2008 - 6:00pm

Elaine BrownThe Stuggle Continues - a talk by Author, Prison Activist, Educator and former Chairman of the Black Panther Party Elaine Brown.

Sunday December 14, 2008  Barrios Unidos of Santa Cruz, 1817 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

Book signing to follow event.

Light refreshments served.

CoSponsored by: Watsonville Brown Berets, Santa Cruz Chapter of the ACLU, SC United Nations Association, Committee to Free Chip Fitzgerald, SC Peace Coalition. For more information, visit:

www.brownberets.info

 event flyer

Elaine Brown is a wonderful lecturer, activist and historian. She has written two books, her own memoir, "A Taste of Power" and "The Condemnation of Little B." In "The Condemnation of Little B," she meticulously documents and analyzes the case of Michael "Little B" Lewis who was sentenced to life in prison at the age of 14. Elaine puts Little B's case in the context of the 'tough on crime" movement, city politics and politicians and the inherent racist conditions which existed in Atlanta, and indeed exist in every city in America. She continues to work for the freedom of Michael Lewis in addition to other prisoner campaigns. Her memoir has been optioned for an HBO special. - (ed note - thanks to the Brown Beret website for text here.)


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