We are closed for the rest of the summer but will re-open on Saturday, September 11th with the dynamic exhibit of paintings by Robert Shetterly, AMERICANS WHO TELL THE TRUTH. Join us at 6pm to meet the artist and hear him speak about his work and stay for the opening reception beginning at 7pm. Artist and activist Sue Coe will also be on hand and will give a gallery talk of her own on Sunday, September 12th! This promises to be an amazing season opener!

All of our films and special events will resume in September as well, so we hope to see you then! Sign up for our E-Newsletter to get weekly notices of special programming. Until then – ENJOY!

Late last year, 21 year-old Chuniece Patterson was picked up on a bench warrant and taken to the Justice Center in Syracuse. Less than 48 hours later she died after being consistently denied medical treatment. The state’s corrections department plans to discipline the jail nurse and deputy involved.

The problem is that Patterson’s death is not an isolated incident. As an increasing number of workers and poor people are being arrested and locked up for petty crimes, instances of assault, abuse, torture, and murder at the hands of the police and prison guards are increasing. Join us to build a movement to demand justice for Chuniece Patterson and all victims of the racist prison-industrial complex.

Plus:
George Jackson. Aug. 21, 2009, marks the 38th anniversary of the rebellion at San Quentin prison that ended in the assassination of Comrade George Jackson. Three guards and two inmates also died in the course of the rebellion—which came to be known as Black August—inside the Adjustment Center at the prison near San Francisco. Join us as we honor the legacy of his Black Panther and prison revolutionary.

For more information, contact the Party for Socialism and Liberation
315-491-6987 — Syracuse@pslweb.org — PSLweb.org

A new film from the filmmaker who brought you Nigger, Thea St. Omer

Rough Cut screening of the film: NorMal

35 minutes in length

Free to the Public

NorMal, is a weaving together of interviews from those who speak of autism, cerebral palsy, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, impotence, infertility, ADD, Mental Illness, etc. The film suggests that there is more to be known about people with ‘disabilities’ than what we, the general public, might gleam at first glance.  Participants “speak” for themselves, (whether or not audibly) to dispel commonly held assumptions of disability –of what it means to have a disability, and of who is disabled.

photo copyright Bill Hackwell

Israel’s murderous assault on the Freedom Flotilla has made it clear that the status quo in the Middle East in unsustainable. There is increasing resistance within Palestine and around the world to the Apartheid state of Israel. In the US, hundreds of thousands of people have been organizing to defeat SB 1070—the Arizona law legalizing racial profiling– and all other racist and anti-immigrant legislation.

This event will provide presentations and discussions on:

• The failed imperialist policy to create a “new Middle East” through war, threats of war, and occupation.
• The Freedom Flotilla massacre: a turning point in the Middle East?
• Living in occupied Palestine: an eye-witness report
• An injury to one is an injury to all: defending immigrants rights.

Join the struggle to end all forms of Apartheid!

Sponsored by the ANSWER Coalition. Email: syracuse@answercoalition.org