Angela Davis coming to Macalester on 2/13

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Directions to Macalester               Lealtad Suzuki Center                   • Angela Davis Biography       • Professor Duchess Harris Biography                        DON'T MISS         Angela Davis           A Socially Conscious Conversation             with the Legendary Activist           5 p.m., February 13           Alexander G. Hill Ballroom           View a poster for the event»         This event is free; however,           tickets will be required           and available for pick up           at the Campus Center           Information Desk beginning           on February 6 for students and February 8 for the general public.             ANGELA DAVIS     Through her activism and her scholarship over      the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply      involved in our nation’s quest for social justice.  She is the author of eight books and has lectured  throughout the world.  She has spent the last fifteen  years at the University of California Santa Cruz where she is Professor of History of Consciousness,  an interdisciplinary Ph.D program, and Professor of  Feminist Studies.  In recent years, a persistent theme  of her work has been the range of social problems  associated with incarceration and the generalized  criminalization of those communities that are most  affected by poverty and racial discrimination.  She draws upon her own experiences in the early  seventies as a person who spent eighteen months  in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s  “Ten Most Wanted List.” Her most recent books are  Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete?  She is now completing a new book, Prisons and  American History.   Angela Davis is a member of the executive     board of the Women of Color Resource Center, a San      Francisco Bay Area organization that emphasizes      popular education of and about women who live      in conditions of poverty. She also works with Justice      Now, which provides legal assistance to women in      prison and engages in advocacy for the abolition      of imprisonment as the dominant strategy for      addressing social problems. Internationally, she is      affiliated with Sisters Inside, a similar organization     based in Queensland, Australia.   Sponsored by the Lealtad-Suzuki Center, Program Board, The President’s Office, American Studies, MCSG, Center for Religious & Spiritual Life, and Academic Programs.     Contact     Karla Benson Rutten or Tinbete Ermyas ‘08, SPEAK Organizers

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Hey awesome thanks for posting this. I picked up my ticket. Are you going?