Wednesday, October 19, 2022 7PM - 9PM
Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95820
The Principled Unity Tour 2022 brings together two dynamic working-class author-activists to explore these questions in conversation with each other and local audiences. This event is part of a West-Coast tour that includes Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.
Members of the public are invited to welcome the publication of two new books with readings and discussion with the authors!
BOOKS:
My Search for Answers, Truth, and Meaning by Kwame Shakur
Revolutionary Hillbilly by Hy Thurman
BIOS:
Hy Thurman is a co-founder of the Young Patriots Organization. Based in Chicago the Young Patriots mobilized poor whites against racism and poverty. Together with the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and the Puerto Rican Young Lords, they organized the First Rainbow Coalition. Hy remains active today with the Northern Alabama School for Organizers. His book Revolutionary Hillbilly: Notes From the Struggle at the Edge of the Rainbow was published in 2021.
Kwame Shakur is the Minister of Culture for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party. His book My Search for Answers, Truth and Meaning has been compared to the work of George Jackson. Formerly incarcerated for bank robbery, Shakur speaks to his own politicization and “breaking the criminal mentality.
🌹 Join us in celebrating the publication of their new books and participate in a discussion about how to build a mass movement in the United States for revolutionary change! 🌹
