A Dialogue of Visionaries -

Saturday, November 11th., 2023

10am PT/ 11am MT/ 12pm CT/1 pm ET

CULTURE and R/Evolution

A Dialogue of Visionaries

In the face of the gathering threat of fascism, of environmental catastrophe, of war, and poverty amid plenty, cultural workers everywhere are not only responding to these conditions but envisioning a better way of being.

By creating and sharing our cultural expressions, we’re inspiring a future world of cooperative and sustainable ways of life on this Earth; where together we envision and help create, a world that fulfills our individual and communal hearts’ desires.

The Cultural Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, in the spirit of this vision rising everywhere, invites you to a dialogue of cultural workers, with speakers, poets, musicians, artists, and others, via Zoom.

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Program Outline

Opening remarks by Jerome Scott — labor organizer in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s-70s, and a community organizer, popular educator, and author in the South since the 1970s, was a founding member and former director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide in Atlanta, GA. He is working on a book tracing the history of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, forthcoming from U. Georgia Press.

Cultural responses by: Francis Combes, poet and leader of Poets for the Planet (France)

Scott Bird — poet, musician, and visual artist, San Francisco

El Habib Louai — Moroccan poet, translator, musician, and assistant professor of English Literature at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco.

Samantha Herrera — filmmaker, graphic artist, and educator, Chicago

Open discussion among all participants: With the ever-changing landscape of the world in which we live, in your opinion, what is the needed focus for cultural workers in building that vision for a better world?

Curated performance and art presentation

Open sharing – performance or further comments

Response to the program from the endorsing organizations

Round Robin: What are our takeaways? How did today’s program affect what we will be doing over the next year?

Websites
The League Website: https://lrna.org/
Rally – Newspaper: https://rally-theleague.org/