I was recently invited to speak at a conference at Rhode Island College on race, the media and election 2012, where legendary activist Angela Davis was the keynote speaker. I had a chance to talk to Dr Davis about the history of racial inclusion in social movements and how activism should be more global.
Dr Angela Davis was the keynote speaker at the 2012 Diversity is a Way of L.I.F.E conference at Rhode Island College April 13. In her keynote she speaks of how the Trayvon Martin case is just an example of the level of violence happening in America today.
I interviewed Yari Osorio, the vice-presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Osorio and I were panelists in a discussion about race, the media and election 2012 at Rhode Island College April 13. Osorio, a native of Colombia, is a longtime activist who helped to lead dozens of anti-war and anti-racist demonstrations in New York City and Washington, D.C. He was arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge along with 700 other people as part of an Occupy Wall Street demonstration last year. Osorio talks about the role of people of color in the Occupy Movement, third party politics and the upcoming election.
Acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck spoke to an audience at Emerson College March 15 following the viewing of his latest film “Moloch Tropical,” a political drama that many believe resembles the demise of Haiti’s first democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Most of the discussion was not only about Haitian politics, but also on how power and democracy works today.