please forward: "Can't Jail the Spirit: Art by Political Prisoner Tom Manning"

 

***Please forward widely***

Jericho Boston Presents

as part of their International Week of Solidarity with Political

Prisoners:

Can't Jail the Spirit : 

Art by Political Prisoner Tom Manning

Can't Jail the Spirit exhibits Manning's paintings of political

prisoners, freedom fighters, the earth and people struggling against

oppression. For his actions, Tom Manning became a political prisoner and

has taught himself to paint inside the prison walls.

Can't Jail the Spirit was first displayed at the University of Southern

Maine in Portland, Maine. A week after it went up, it was censored

after intense pressure by state troopers and the police to shut it down.

Tom's paintings transcend concrete and razor wire, and show that they

still can't jail the spirit!

WHERE: Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge MA 

(follow Garden St. from Harvard Square, turn left on Berkeley St. just

past the Sheraton Commander Hotel; 

the Episcopal Divinity School is at the end of the block)

OPENING RECEPTION: Tuesday, December 5, 2006

6:00-9:00pm

with:

-Fred Hampton Jr. (former Political prisoner and son of Fred

Hampton/Deputy Chairman Black Panther Party, Illinois chapter, murdered

by the Police in 1969)

--J. Soffiyah Elijah (attorney for several political prisoners held by

the U.S., including Marilyn Buck and Sundiata Acoli)

--Luis Rosa (FALN Prisoner of war/Puerto Rican Independentista)

--MOVE Organization

--Tim Swallow (Opening ceremony)

--Voices of Liberation (Revolutionary youth)

--Kazi Toure (Former Political Prisoner)

--Ed Rodman (Episcopal Divinity School)

--PRESENTE! (Music for the revolution)

For a calendar of related events visit www.jerichoboston.org

Sponsors include: Haymarket People's Fund, Episcopal Divinity School,

American Friends Service Committee, The New England Committee to Defend Palestine, Councilor Chuck Turner, Councilor Felix Arroyo, Voices of Liberation, Boston Community Church, SHARC, Social Justice Education Project, The Jericho Movement, and others

www.cantjailthespirit.org

www.jerichoboston.org

"Can't Jail the Spirit: Art by Political Prisoner Tom Manning" is on tour across the country.  It is opening in Boston and then is continuing to New York and other locations across the country.  We are looking for host organizations to bring the ehxibit to their community.  For more info: www.cantjailthespirit.org, info@cantjailthespirit.org, or contact the Portland Victory Gardens Project at 207-761-1504. 

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