Nancy Kato

Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists include Boots Riley of the Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club, Clarence Thomas formerly of ILWU, and Nancy Kato of the Freedom Socialist Party. This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Platypus Affiliated Society, Politics Department, College 9, CAO/Provost, and the Student Union Assembly. Description The recent, widely publicized killings of unarmed black men – most notably Michael Brown and Eric Garner – and the resulting movement with its slogan “Black Lives Matter”, puts back on the agenda of a beleaguered American Left an old, yet seemingly perennial question, one that evokes a long history of struggle, longing, and disappointment; with a black president in the White House having survived or co-opted the Occupy Movement, the return of the Black Question to the forefront of the Left’s concerns seems to justify the suspicion that America is fundamentally, perhaps irredeemably, racist. [Read More]