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May 19th @ 11am
“Thriving Survivors of the PIC”
(Prison Industrial Complex)
with Lee Underwood, Calvin Arey & Don Wright
Lee Underwood, Calvin Arey, and Don Wright, CCB’s members and admired friends, tell about how they each survived the hell of prison, and now thrive as compassionate contributors to humanity in these troubled times.
Music by Terry Kitchen
May 26th @ 11am
“Thriving Survivors of the PIC”
with Lee Underwood, Calvin Arey & Don Wright
Kétu Oladuwa began the discovery of his Afrikan identity on Massachusetts death row when he was 21 years old. Convicted of a murder he did not commit; in prison the poetry and music of the Black Arts Movement liberated his sense of self. Released from captivity in 1971, he has worked as a journalist, educator, community arts activist, and poet. Now nearly 80 years old, his work as a poet, youth worker, and community Elder continues through his publishing at RootFolkz Poetz Press, public readings, mentoring young poets, teaching Afrikan drumming, counseling young activists in community engagement, and as the secretary of Fort Wayne’s People of Afrikan Decent Elders Council. In 1999 he co-founded a traditional Afrikan drum and dance ensemble for young people that studied Mandé culture and music during a two-month emersion in West Afrika. Since 2007 through a series of poetry, and jazz projects his work in Fort Wayne thrived before the onset of the Covid pandemic. With his daughter, RasAmen, he co-founded Death Row Shadows, to spotlight mass incarceration.
Music by Dean Stevens and Michael Patterson
For listings of regional peace and justice events, see the Act-MA list, the AFSC Weekly Calendar, Boston Indymedia, United for Justice and Peace, and Massachusetts Jobs with Justice’s Resources; Centro Presente (Somerville), the Democracy Center (Cambridge), Encuentro 5 (Boston), Lucy Parsons Center (Jamaica Plain) and Spontaneous Celebrations (Jamaica Plain) also publish a ‘calendar of events’ hosted at their respective community spaces. The Community Church of Boston has also compiled a Homeless and Low Income Resource Guide 2020 for those in need.
Gun Violence in America Can and Must be Challenged! by Virginia Pratt
Articles by Rev. William Alberts on CounterPunch
Quotes from Victor Wallis, Red-Green Revolution… by Victor Wallis
After the Mid-Term Elections by Mark Solomon
Global Inequalities, Local Remedies by Rev. Dr. Norm Faramelli
What Would Gandhi Do? by David Lewit
Remembering Hiroshima with Consideration for its Current and Future Implications by Virginia Pratt
A Eulogy for Hank Faunce by Edward Beuchert
Agelessness, Ageism, And Aging by Mary Lynn Cramer
The Limits of Liberal Rhetoric: Profits vs. Jobs by Mary Lynn Cramer
It’s Time to Recall the Sub-prime Loans by Virginia Pratt
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All Programs are held on the second floor in the Lothrop Auditorium.
Small elevator, wheelchair accessible.
CCB is located near the Orange line-Back Bay or
the Green line-Copley T Stops.
On Street Parking and at Back Bay Parking Garage, 199 Clarendon Street.
Discount Vouchers available for parking in the garage.
Community Church of Boston is located at
565 Boylston Street, 2nd fl., Boston, MA 02116
web: www.communitychurchofboston.org;
email: info@communitychurchofboston.org; tel: 617-266-6710