Platypus NYC Black Politics And State Violence
A panel hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society, in conjunction with the SVA Black Student Union, on 11 March 2015, at the School of Visual Arts, New York.
Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Benjamin Blumberg (Platypus Affiliated Society)
Eljeer Hawkins (Socialist Alternative/CWI)
Dread Scott (Artist)
Moderated by Allison Hewitt Ward (Platypus).
Introduced by Tiffany Freeman (SVA Black Student Union).
Description The widely publicized killings of black men by police and the resulting movement with its slogan “Black Lives Matter” puts back on the agenda of a beleaguered American Left a seemingly perennial question, one that evokes a long history of struggle, longing, and disappointment.
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