Here in Los Angeles, "Black August Resistance" comprises a month of activities for the collective mind, body and spirit in honor of the sacrifices of Our Ancestors, their Fighting Spirit of Resistance, and those who continue to resist while behind prison walls. This calender will be updated as necessary. Inbox proposed events for inclusion on calendar or email to blackaugust.la@gmail.com.

BLACK AUGUST LOS ANGELES 2015

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

August 1st Saturday

@ 5:30 am – Sunrise Ceremony Honoring Our Ancestors Sacrifice and Martyrdom

The Inkwell, Bay Street and Oceanfront Walk, Santa Monica, CA 90401

August 1st Saturday

@ 7 pm Opening Black August Program: The Importance of Honoring Resistance

AFIBA Center, 5730 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90043

August 2nd, Sunday

@ 4 pm "Afrikan Spiritual Warfare"

AFIBA Center, 5730 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90043

August 6th, Thursday

@ 7 pm at Vibrations

"Sisters Speak" open mic

Poetry/Spoken Word and "Reasonings"

2435 W. Manchester Blvd.

Inglewood, CA 90305

For more information call 562 595-1192 or email pambeli@aol.com; Vendors welcomed: contact oyaceo@hotmail.com for more info

August 7th Friday

@ 7 pm –Film “Let the Fire Burn” & Honoring Youth in Rebellion and the Manchild Jonathan Jackson. Film screening with Q and A with Ramona Africa

[Location to be announced]

“Let the Fire Burn” is a documentary on the massacre of MOVE children and adults and destruction of a block of homes by a military assault including aerial bombing by the Philadelphia Police Department. This is the 30th anniversary of the bombing and MOVE members remain in captivity to this day. Former political prisoner Ramona Africa will be present.

August 8th Saturday

Pan African Women's Day with guest Ramona Africa

KRST Unity Center of Afrakan Spirituality, 7825 Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90047

Hosted by the All-African Women's Revolutionary Union (AAWRU)

(time TBA)

August 9th Sunday

@ 9 am – Annual Black August Program Honoring Fallen Comrades at the Marvin Jackson /Ronald & Roland Freeman Breakfast Black Panther Breakfast

Simply Wholesome , 4508 Slauson Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90043

The Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the Black Panther Party and Black August Los Angeles present the annual program honoring those Panthers who made the ultimate sacrifice for the people by giving up their lives and freedom! MOVE activist and former political prisoner Ramona Africa is expected to attend.

August 15-16

Marcus Garvey Parade and Celebration

Noon until dark

Leimert Park, Crenshaw Blvd. @ Vernon Ave.

Sponsored by the Universal Negro Improvement Association

August 21st Friday

@ 7 pm – Unleashing the Dragons: Black August Los Angeles Program in Honor Comrade George Jackson

AFIBA Center, 5730 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90043

This program will provide a glimpse into the Los Angeles roots of the Che-Lumumba Club and the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee and some of the unknown workers of that committee. It will also look at the phenomenon of "transforming the criminal mentality into a revolutionary mentality," as evidenced by "The Field Marshall" of the Black Panther Party, Comrade George L. Jackson, and how that phenomenon looks today.

Speakers: Ayuko Babu and Jayda Raspberry. Ayuko Babu is a veteran community activist of 40 years, a legal and policy expert, and the founder and Executive Director of the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) and will share his knowledge and recollections of these movements in Los Angeles. Jayda Raspberry organizes with Dignity and Power Now, fighting for the dignity and power of incarcerated people, their families, and communities, and an end to the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). Incarcerated at the age of 18, she left prison "inspired to bring awareness to the "ugly truth behind those walls."

August 22nd Saturday

@ 11:30 am – Black August Los Angeles 3rd Annual Martyrs Tour

@Afiba Center, 5730 S. Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles 90043

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