Undercurrents

Check the coffee houses! Check your mailbox! The Spring 2008 issue of the Hartford Undercurrent is out!

Here is a sampling of articles in this issue: cultural contrasts, celibacy, growing up gay, thoughts behind a documentary, semantics, internet and identity, and more! The cover art is by Sam McKinniss.

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Greg Butterfield sent a message to the members of Workers World Party.

--------------------Subject: Killer cops acquitted -- Justice for Sean Bell protest TONIGHT

New York Times Breaking News 9:14 a.m.3 Detectives in Bell Shooting Found Not Guilty of All Charges

NYPD has gotten away with murder AGAIN!

JUSTICE FOR SEAN BELL AND ALL VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE!!COME OUT APRIL 25th THE DAY OF THE VERDICT!!

In Nov. 2006, Sean Bell was murdered by the NYPD in a hail of 50 bullets. His friends - Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman - were seriously injured. 3 of the officers involved now await the verdict of their trial. The judge has stated that he will announce the verdict on FRIDAY, APRIL 25th. PEOPLES JUSTICE for Community Control and Police Accountability is calling for a rally and community speak-out in front of the Queens DA's office ON THIS DAY*.

COME OUT: APRIL 25th at 5:30 pm 

@ the Queens DA's Office 

125-01 Queens Blvd. (between Hoover Ave & 82nd Ave.) 

E or F train to Union Turnpike 

The NYPD's murder of Bell and attempted murders of Benefield and Guzman are NOT isolated or random events. They represent the continued targeting of communities of color by the police and the lack of accountability for police misconduct and abuse.

Endorsers (list in formation): 

Audre Lorde Project Black Radical Congress-NY CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities Center for Constitutional Rights Congress for Korean Reunification Critical Resistance Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) DJ Chela Domestic Workers United (DWU) FIERCE Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC) Hasan Salaam Hip Hop Caucus Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project International Action Center Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) Justice Committee Lynne Stewart Organization Make The Road By Walking Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Mano a ManoMay 1st Coalition National Hip Hop Political Convention New Abolitionists Nodutdol for Korean Community Development October 22nd Coalition Parents Against Police Brutality Rebel Diaz Revolting in Pink (R.I.P)Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities (RIPPD) Sylvia Rivera Law Project Sylvia Rivera Law Project VAMOS Unidos War Resisters League Where We Live Radio Program/WBAI-FM NY--------------------

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I’m guessing the acronym was chosen because it rhymes with vag.

The Feminism, Autonomy, Diversity, and Gender Expression Fest is this Saturday, starting at 11:30 am, at the Charter Oak Cultural Center (21 Charter Oak Ave). All proceeds from the $10 admission fee goes toward My Sisters Place and Interval House. If you like to roll in late, admission is reduced to $6, or to $5 if you also bring a canned good donation.

They promise that this will be a “female positive day of music, workshops, and art.” There will be a clothing swap, arts & crafts bazaar, self-defense workshop, street harassment and response workshop, and music by Eula, Seeds, Panda and Child, Brazen Hussy (love the name!), Offsides, and The Vagitarians. Food Not Bombs will be preparing dinner.

They encourage males to attend too; there will be a workshop on “feminism for boys.”

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