SUNDAY: Angela Davis, Martin Espada Speak! Get Your Tickets Now

[Jess Heaney]

Hey there,

We're only four days away from the DREAMING WILDLY, FIGHTING TO WIN!!   Considering coming? You should!  

Ever heard Martin Espada read?  That's right, this is your chance!

Ever seen Angela Davis and Melanie Cervantes talk about what the abolition of policing, prisons, courts, and surveillance means for artists, writers and organizer?  Want to see new special-edition prints by Emory Douglas and Dignidad Rebelde?  Ever been inside the Scottish Rite Temple?  That's right, this is your chance! 

Email me for a discount $18 ticket or purchase tickets online here.  For $20, you're in! For $40 you buy a ticket for yourself in the front section and a community member ticket, for $80 you're in the front section and have a pass to a post-event reception and book signing with Martín Espada and Angela Davis.  We're recommending purchasing tickets ahead of time, or coming when the doors open at 6:30 if you want to wait in line.

Have other plans but still want to support?  Can you give a ticket for a community member?  We have tickets set aside for youth or formerly imprisoned people; your gift can offset their tickets.  

This is Critical Resistance Oakland's big fundraiser for the year.  Consider giving what you can to support PIC abolition and coming out to celebrate with us at this exciting event.  Thanks so much and hope to see you there!

xo

Jess

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Subject: Angela Davis, Martin Espada Speak! Get Your Tickets Now!
From: crnat...@criticalresistance.org
To: jessh...@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:51:11 +0000

Get your tickets before they sell out! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! ANGELA Y. DAVIS AND MARTÍN ESPADA IN CONVERSATION DREAMING WILDLY, FIGHTING TO WIN a benefit for CRITICAL RESISTANCE THIS WEEKEND! SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2013 7PM SCOTTISH RITE CENTER 1547 LAKESIDE DR. OAKLAND, CA 94612 ALSO FEATURING: MELANIE CERVANTES of DIGNIDAD REBELDE, LINDA EVANS of ALL OF US OR NONE, and performances by RICO PABÓN and VUKANI MAWETHU CHOIR   Friends! DREAMING WILDLY, FIGHTING TO WIN is only days away!  We are proud to host this unique event with Angela Y. Davis and acclaimed poet and organizer Martín Espada. We are also are excited to have our friend Melanie Cervantes lead them in conversation, and to include lively performances from the Bay Area's own Rico Pabón and freedom choir Vukani Mawethu.  We hope you and yours will join us for this thought provoking and inspiring night.  And we thank you for your continued support of CR's work!  See you Sunday! TICKET BREAKDOWN: All proceeds benefit Critical Resistance's work. Tickets will be available the evening of the event, but as we hope to sell out, we encourage you to buy in advance.* $20--General Admission $40--Community Supporter (Price includes one general admission ticket in preferred seating areas and a donation to the Community Ticket Fund. The fund will offset ticket costs for youth and formerly imprisoned people.) $80--Event + Reception (Price includes one general admission ticket in preferred seating areas, and entrance to a post-event reception and book signing with Martín Espada and Angela Davis) *You can also buy tickets directly from the CR office in downtown Oakland.  Discounts are available for groups and organization who'd like to purchase a block of ten or more tickets.  Please contact Critical Resistance for more information: 510 444 0484. WATCH THE VIDEO FOR MORE INFORMATION!     Critical Resistance invites you to join us for Dreaming Wildly, Fighting to Win. This event will feature a rare West Coast appearance by acclaimed poet Martín Espada in conversation with Angela Y. Davis and will be moderated by Melanie Cervantes of Dignidad Rebelde. Dreaming Wildly, Fighting to Win will encourage audience members to envision a world free of the prison industrial complex and inspire us to take steps toward making those visions real.  Espada and Davis will be joined by other culture workers and movement leaders to lift up the spirit of liberation and self-determination.  All proceeds will benefit Critical Resistance. Angela Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis came to national attention after being removed from her teaching position at UCLA because of her activism and membership in the Communist Party, USA. In 1970 she was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List on false charges. During her sixteen-month incarceration, a massive international "Free Angela Davis" campaign was organized, leading to her acquittal in 1972. Today Prof. Davis remains an advocate of prison abolition and has developed a powerful critique of racism in the criminal justice system. She is the author of many books, including her most recent collection, The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media). Called "the Latino poet of his generation," Martín Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published more than fifteen books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. He has received other recognition such as the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Robert Creeley Award, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.  His work has been widely translated; collections of poems have been published in Spain, Puerto Rico and Chile. His book of essays, Zapata's Disciple (South End Press, 1998), has been banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona. A graduate of Northeastern University Law School and a former tenant lawyer, Espada is currently a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. A member of the Oakland-based arts collaboration, Dignidad Rebelde, Melanie Cervantes is a Xicana activist-artist whose work includes black and white illustrations, paintings, installations and paper stencils. She is best known, however, for her prolific political screen prints and posters which have been used by movements across the globe.  Employing vibrant colors and hand-drawn illustrations, her work moves those viewed as marginal to the center -- featuring powerful youth, elders, women, and queer and indigenous peoples. For more information about Dreaming Wildly, Fighting to Win or to learn about block ticket rates and community tickets, please contact Rachel Herzing of Critical Resistance (510.444.0484) www.facebook.com/critical.resistance or fight2win-at-criticalresistance.org  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2013 Critical Resistance, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have provided your contact info to Critical Resistance. www.criticalresistance.org Our mailing address is: Critical Resistance 1904 Franklin St. 504 Oakland, CA 94612 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences