Tacoma SDS

Mumia Abu-Jamal, an innocent man on death row and the world's best-known political prisoner, now faces an immediate new threat to his life from the US Supreme Court. The Court ruled last year on Mumia's appeal, by summarily refusing to even consider a reversal of his unjust 1982 murder conviction in a blatantly racist court. And last week, the Supreme Court discussed a cross-appeal by the State of Pennsylvania to reinstate Mumia's death
sentence, which had been put on hold by a federal court in 2001. A ruling could be announced as early as Tuesday this week.

Pacific University and Students for a Democratic Society will be hosting renowned activist, anarchist, author, and orator Ashanti Alston. The former Black Panther and one-time political prisoner will address his past work as well as his current work on the Jericho Movement—a call for amnesty and freedom for political prisoners—and Estación Libre, an activist group working in solidarity with the Zapatistas (EZLN).

The event is free and open to the public.

Stop Use of Testimony Obtained By Torture From Being Used Against Black Americans

Eight former members and supporters of the Black Panther Party, now known as the San Francisco 8, have been targeted in a vindictive prosecution in San Francisco for their political activities of over 35 years ago. The court ruled that murder charges against former Black Panthers was based on confessions extracted by torture.

They will showing a short 28 minute film called "Legacy of Torture" about the use of torture against Black Americans and speaking after the film.

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Tacoma SDS presents Radical Film Night each Friday at 7:30 PM at 808 N. Union (across from the University of Puget Sound).

Showing October 12, Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)

This fast-paced documentary captures the decade's major events -- the birth of the Free Speech Movement, civil rights marches, anti-Vietnam War protests, the women's movement, and the rise of the Black Panthers -- with their full immediacy and passion. Dramatic archival footage and music is interwoven with present-day interviews with the people who gave the 60s its radical reputation.