This Week:
ICE Arrests Immigrant Journalist Manuel Duran Ortega; Sunsara Taylor on the Kavanaugh; HAITI at the Theatricum Botanicum
 James Tager, the Deputy Director of Free Expression Research and Policy at PEN America. We'll be talking about the political persecution of Memphis Journalist Manuel Duran Ortega (Left), an immigrant from El Salvador, who was arrested by Memphis police while covering an anti-ICE protest, and then turned over to ICE, which is now threatening him with deportation.
PEN America, founded in 1922, "stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide."
Sunsara Taylor: Kavanaugh, the Constitution, Resistance, and the Need for a REAL Revolution
Sunday, August 26, people across the US will take to the streets to protest Donald  Trump’s nomination of the Christian Fascist Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, which would give the court a fascist majority. We'll talk with Sunsara Taylor, writer for Revcom.us/Revolution newspaper, and co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org, about why it is critical that people turn out and protest, not to bring people back into the system, but as part of waking up others to go forward in greater struggle in the streets, outside the normal channels. We'll talk about the actual nature of the US Constitution and the leap toward fascism that Kavanaugh represents -- and why we need an actual revolution and a radically new society.
HAITI, an Important Play is Re-Staged at the Theatricum Botanicum
 Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum presents the first-ever revival of the historical drama about the Haitian revolution, Haiti by William DuBois, first performed on the stage at New York's Lafayette Theatre in Harlem in 1938. The play depicts the events of the first victorious slave rebellion in history, the 1802 uprising led by Toussaint L'Ouverture.
We'll speak with actors Earnestine Phillips, Rodrick Jean-Charles and Tiffany Coty. |
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