Kopkind Colony

It’s time again for Kopkind’s Harvest Late Brunch fundraiser!  Sunday, October 13, at 2 pm. Please come!

KOPKIND’S HARVEST LATE BRUNCH 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2 pm 

Tapas Feast with PAMELA BROWN

After Trayvon:

Revisiting MLK’s ‘Triple Evils’, Reimagining Freedom

In the 20th century, Martin Luther King Jr. defined the problem of America under the weight of the “triple evils” of racism, economic exploitation and war. In the 21st, the case of Trayvon Martin has created an existential crisis for black Americans and allies engaged in the struggle for racial justice. It underscores, again, that for many millions of people the “ism” felt as the greatest threat is not capitalism or militarism. Yet these effusions of persistent racism are enmeshed in a context: of growing inequality under neoliberal economic regimes and of wide-scale state-sponsored violence globally.  It is time for all people to revisit MLK’s “triple evils” in forming a strategy for resistance and a vision of the future — reimagining what freedom might look like and how it might be achieved.

Pamela Brown was deeply involved in Occupy Wall Street and has continued in its offshoot organizing and educational projects, at the convergence of race, class and debt. She is a columnist for Tidal Magazine and an organizer with the People’s Investigation of Wall Street. She was a founding member of Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee, and has been involved in campaigns and writing projects including the student debt pledge of refusal and the Debt Resistors Operations Manual. With a background in philosophy and media arts, Pam is currently a doctoral student in sociology at The New School.

Kopkind is a living memorial to the great radical journalist Andrew Kopkind.  Each summer since 1999 it has been bringing together journalists, activists and filmmakers for weeklong seminar/retreat sessions with the aim of thinking deeply, acting consciously, living expressively and extending the field for freedom, pleasure and imagination.

We hope to see you!  And feel free to share this invitation.