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Many thanks to Surya who connected WESPAC with Sam Anderson who will be coming to White Plains, NY, on Wednesday, February 23rd at 7pm to talk about the massive popular uprising within the Arab Nation from Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen, Jordan and beyond.

 


"A Black Perspective on the Arab Uprising"
Wednesday, February 23rd at 7pm
Greenburgh Town Hall

177 Hillside Avenue

Greenburgh, NY 10607

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We will pass the hat to offer an honorarium to Prof. Anderson:

Sam E. Anderson
is an activist-teacher-writer native of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy. He has recently taught at NYU’s Gallatin School. He was for five years the Education Director at Medgar Evers College’s Center for Law & Social Justice.


S. E. Anderson was one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party as well as an activist within the Student Nonviolent Committee (SNCC) and the Black Arts Movement of the Sixties. He became one of the first Black Studies directors in 1969 when he was hired to chair Sarah Lawrence College’s Black Studies program. He has been an activist since the 1960's within various organizations and struggles. S. E. Anderson was also a founding member of the Black Student Congress, African Heritage Studies Association, African Liberation Support Committee, The Black New York Action Committee, Black Liberation Press, The New York Algebra Project.

He will bring copies of his book "The Black Holocaust for Beginners" for both sale and signing.