Forwarded with Compliments of Government of the USA in Exile (GUSAE): Free Americans Proclaiming Total Emancipation and Working Towards Democracy. NOTE: Thanks to Jeff Strahl for this. -- kl, pp

hey Jeff - I got this announcement from the Break the Chains listserve - have you seen this guy speak? I heard him here a few months ago and was blown away - definitely check him out if you get the chance. Hope you're well. As always, thank you for the great articles! peace, Emily

Splitting the Sky May, 2003, California Speaking Tour

From a background of orphanages and boarding schools, Splitting the Sky emerged as a principal leader of the Attica rebellion at the age of nineteen, and later became active with the American Indian Movement. With the publication of his long anticipated memoir, From Attica to Gustafsen Lake, Splitting the Sky reveals the definitive inside account of the Attica uprising and its horrendous aftermath, takes us behind the scene at Gustafsen Lake, Canada's own Wounded Knee, and provides us with invaluable insight into the late 20th-Century struggles for peace and justice and Native American self-determination. At his upcoming lectures in California, he will be discussing issues as diverse as: the real world implications of the Patriot Act and the intensifying war on "terrorism"; indigenous resistance to colonial oppression at home and abroad, environmental racism and corporate exploitation in Indian country; the Attica rebellion & its significance in North American revolt history, and more.

Splitting the Sky will be speaking on the following dates:

Sun. May 18, San Diego: W/ Bro Wali and Red Warrior. Contact Janice Jordan of the October 22 Coalition at 619-475-8227 or email jjordan@janicejordan.org for more info.

Mon. May 19: Free

Tues. May 20, Los Angeles: At 7pm at Flor y Canto, 3706 N. Figueroa Ave. Call Flor y Canto at (323)276-8350 for directions. Contact Matt Hart of the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross Federation at 310-608-4106/562-902-0094/email la_blackcross@yahoo.com for more info on the event.

Wed. May 21: Free

Thurs. May 22, Oakland: W/Linda Evans at 7pm at AK Press, on 674 A 23rd St. For directions contact akpress@akpress.org For info on the event, please contact ÏAragorn!Ó of the Revolutionary Anti-Authoritarians of Color at 510-593-6013/email race@riseup.net or Rachel of Critical Resistance at #510-444-0484/email rachel@criticalresistance.org

Fri. May 23, Berkeley: From 7pm to 9pm at the Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave., near Dwight Way. For more info, call 510/548-2220 x233 or email Beck Cowles at beck@ecologycenter.org

Sat. May 24, Arcata: At 6pm at the Redwood Peace & Justice Center- 1040 H St. (Arcata is a small town on a letter and number street grid. Get off the 101 at the Samoa exit, then take a right on G St., up to 11th street, left on 11th, then left on H St. and we're right in there). Call Sacha of Bar None at 707-668-4278 for more info.

For more information on this tour, contact the Break The Chains collective at: breakthechains02@yahoo.com /Cell# 250-371-0562.

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