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[Allison Hedge Coke]

Recommended –

*https://events.ucr.edu/event/BlackLiberation
<https://events.ucr.edu/event/BlackLiberation>*



*Monday, February 27, 12-2 pm*

*Interdisciplinary Building 1128 (UC Riverside Campus)*



*Black Liberation and Revolutionary Struggle NOW: A Roundtable Conversation
with Sekou Odinga*



Sekou Odinga is a globally recognized Black liberation activist, member of
Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro-American Unity, founding member of both
the New York City chapter and the International Section of the Black
Panther Party, and former US political prisoner who survived 33 years of
state captivity before his release in 2014.



Prosecuted as one of the “Panther 21” in New York City, Odinga is a
prominent historical figure, having been featured on *Democracy Now!* and
numerous documentaries, concerts, mass public events, and major news
outlets. A survivor of state torture and the FBI’s notorious
Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), Sekou Odinga is both celebrated
and admired by freedom and justice movements worldwide, exemplifying
persistence, courage, and principled adherence to freedom struggle under
the most repressive circumstances imaginable.



Join us for this highly anticipated conversation with Sekou Odinga on the
meaning, context, and possibilities of Black liberation and revolutionary
struggle over a long half-century (and beyond) of normalized antiblack
state violence, intensifying freedom movements, and emerging abolitionist
mobilizations.



Featured Roundtable Participants:

   - Vonya Quarles (Starting Over, All Of Us Or None)
   - Terrance Stewart (UCR graduate student, Underground Scholars, All Of
   Us Or None)
   - Amanda Soto (UCR undergraduate student, Underground Scholars)
   - Alejandra Olvera (UCR undergraduate student, Cops Off Campus)
   - Steph Jones (UCR/UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow)
   - (emcee/host) Dylan Rodríguez (UCR faculty, Cops Off Campus,
   Co-Director of Center for Ideas and Society)



*Co-Sponsored by UCR **Departments of English, History, and Black Study,
Blackness Unbound Faculty Commons, ASUCR, ASUCR External Affairs Office,
and the Decolonizing Humanism(?) initiative*







ingat/peace

dylan



(please send Center for Ideas and Society related emails here:
dylanrodriguez73.CIS at gmail.com)



Dylan Rodríguez

Professor, Dept. of Black Study and Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies
Co-Director, Center for Ideas and Society <https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/>
2020 Freedom Scholar <https://caseygrants.org/freedom-scholars/>

Past President, American Studies Association (2020-2021)
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Twitter: @dylanrodriguez <https://twitter.com/dylanrodriguez>

Instagram: @dylanrodriguez73 <https://www.instagram.com/dylanrodriguez73/>

“If one were forced for the sake of clarity to define [fascism] in a word
simple enough for all to understand, that word would be ‘reform.’”
-George Jackson



organizations i support:
http://www.socallib.org/
https://www.umedics.org/

www.criticalresistance.org
http://scholarsforsocialjustice.com/


*Allison Adelle Hedge Coke*
*2022-2023 Mellon Dean’s Professor*
*Center for Ideas & Society*
*Distinguished Professor*
*Creative Writing, School of Medicine,*

*& the proposed Dept. of Society, Environment, & Health Equity (SEHE) *
*2022-2023 Mellon Dean's Professor*
<https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fellowships/>

*Center for Ideas and Society
<https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fellowships/>*

*Weird Times, Be Kind*
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
<https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/allisonh>
Director, Writers Week 2021, 2022 <http://writersweek.ucr.edu>, Co-Director
in 2023
Along the Chaparral, Sandhill Crane Fest
author/editor of 18 books
Most recent release, National Book Award Finalist,  *Look at This Blue
<https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/shop/products/look-at-this-blue>*

She/her
Surname is Hedge Coke, no hyphen
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