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  Ashanti Alston: From the Panthers to the Zapatistas : Indybay
Ashanti Alston: From the Panthers to the Zapatistas : Indybay
Ashanti Alston: From the Panthers to the Zapatistas
Ashanti Alston, Black Panther and long-time activist in Black liberation movements, will report on recent developments in the struggle for self determination and community autonomy currently underway in both the African American and Latino communities.
www.indybay.org /newsitems/2006/02/04/18001121.php   (372 words)

  
 Ashanti Alston - OpenWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Alston is the former northeast coordinator for Critical Resistance, a current member of Estación Libre, and is on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies.
Alston rejects traditional anarchist dogma and says "Every time I hear someone talk about my people as if we are just some "working class" or "proletariat" I wantto get as far away from that person or group as possible, anarchist, Marxist, whatever" (Beyond Nationalism, but Not Without It (http://www.anarco-nyc.net/anarchistpanther/writing4.html)).
While Alston supported a nationalist position in the first issue of his publication, it was a far milder version of the position Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin has taken and Alston cannot be seen as totally supporting nationalism or trying to purge anarchism of "non fl people".
www.infoshop.org /wiki/index.php/Ashanti_Alston   (367 words)

  
 [Infoshop News] This Thusday: Former Black Panther Ashanti Alston at KU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 10:04:31 -0500 From: Kansas Mutual Aid Ashanti Alston, former member of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and the Black Liberation Army will be speaking at the University of Kansas on Thursday May 5th (Cinco de Mayo).
Ashanti served 12 years as a political prisoner for his roles in both organizations and has since helped to found Estacion Libre, a support group for the Zapatista Rebellion made up of people of color.
Ashanti also is currently involved with Critical Resistance, a prison activist group, is currently a board member for the Institute for Anarchist Studies, and teaches several classes at the Institute for Social Ecology.
flag.blackened.net /pipermail/infoshop-news/2005-May/004520.html   (421 words)

  
 Former Black Panther happy to be alive - Assata Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - ...
Alston recently returned from a six-month visit to Chiapas, Mexico, the Zapatista-controlled region, and his talk revolved around his own life and the lessons to be learned from the indigenous communities of Chiapas.
Alston quickly learned that while "the gun was a tool, and we did receive weapons training," the organizing, the hard work to serve the fl community with lunch programs and clothing programs and the political education that new recruits received were more important aspects of their training.
Alston stressed to the roughly 70 people in attendance that, despite his history as a soldier with the Liberation Army for 12 years and as a prisoner for 14 years after his part in a bank robbery to fund the army, he is still "just a regular guy."
www.assatashakur.org /forum/showthread.php?t=5101   (1357 words)

  
 Ashanti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ashanti, Adansi, Akyem, Assin, and Denkyira peoples of Ghana, like the Baule of Ivory Coast, are subgroups of the West African Akan nation said to have migrated from the vicinity of the north-western Niger River after the fall of the Ghana Empire in the 1200s.
Synonymous with the Ashanti is the legend of the 'Golden Stool' (sika 'dwa), the legend actually tells of the birth of the Ashanti kingdom itself.
Of particular note was Ashanti's Foreign Office based in Kumasi; despite its small size, the Ashanti Foreign Office allowed the state to pursue complex arrangements with foreign powers, and the Office itself contained separate departments for handling relations with the British, French, Dutch, and Arabs individually.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashanti   (2205 words)

  
 portland imc - 2006.05.28 - BLACK ANARCHISM by Ashanti Alston
Notes: Ashanti Alston is a former member of the Black Panther Party and former prisoner-of-war (Black Liberation Army).
The Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM) is a multi-racial student and youth organization dedicated to defending public education and resisting the still-growing culture of incarceration.
ashanti deffers most fl struggle and movements to the eurocentric one which he fails to see is just as old, if not older, than what he claims is old ideologies of fl struggle.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2006/05/340107.shtml   (804 words)

  
 Black History Month speakers want change - The Brown and White
Ashanti Alston, a former Black Panther, discussed the need for grassroots revolutions in fl communities in a speech on anarchism last Thursday.
Alston said Harlem used to be a wealthy, white suburb of New York City, but was turned over to the fl community when some fl businessmen took the initiative to create a fl community.
Alston said there have been enough parades, enough “awareness walks.” He said he has decided the best way to reach people is to infiltrate their communities.
www.bw.lehigh.edu /story.asp?ID=19510   (1023 words)

  
 Ashanti Alston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Even though the party no longer exists, Alston sometimes refers to himself as a Black Panther, and sometimes as "the @narchist Panther", a term he coined in his popular @narchist Panther Zine series.
Alston rejects traditional anarchist dogma and says "Every time I hear someone talk about my people as if we are just some "working class" or "proletariat" I want to get as far away from that person or group as possible, anarchist, Marxist, whatever" (Beyond Nationalism, but Not Without It).
Recently, Alston has adopted a supportive position towards the animal rights movement and has developed a friendship with animal rights political prisoner Andy Stepanian of the SHAC 7.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashanti_Alston   (435 words)

  
 Rachel's Spot: This Week on Campus
Ashanti Alston is a former member of the Black Panther Party and served 14 years as political prisoner for his involvement with the Black Liberation Army.
Alston is now active with Critical Resistance, a national radical prison abolitionist organization.
Alston will speak on what it meant to be moved by the idea of new, radical possibilities - from Black Power to revolution.
blog.lib.umn.edu /raim0007/RaeSpot/027159.html   (165 words)

  
 publish.nyc.indymedia.org | Critical Reflections on the Black Panther Movement with Ashanti Alston
By Dan V. Ashanti Alston talks about life as a young Panther organizer and political prisoner to his current involvement with Critical Resistance, Estacion Libre and the Institute for Anarchist Studies.
Ashanti Alston was involved with The Black Panther Party, The Black Liberation Army (BLA) and was a former prisoner of war.
Ashanti currently works with Critical Resistance, an organization that opposes the Prison Industrial Complex, Estacion Libre, an organization that works to strengthen ties between people of color in the US with folks in the liberated Zapatista territories of Chiapas Mexico and Anarchist People of Color.
www.newyork.indymedia.org /en/2004/04/37480.shtml   (561 words)

  
 portland imc - 2004.06.01 - Black Anarchism: by Ashanti Alston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Alston, who was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, describes his encounter(s) with anarchism (which began while he was incarcerated for activities related to the Black Liberation Army).
He touches upon some of the limitations of older visions of anarchism, the contemporary relevance of anarchism to fl people, and some of the principles necessary to build a new revolutionary movement.
This is an edited transcript of a talk given by Alston on October 24th, 2003 at Hunter College in New York City.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/06/289826.shtml   (3042 words)

  
 Ex-Black Panthers soldier on for the cause   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Together, Estremera, Alston and Haskins have spent more than 35 years in prison for various crimes, including armed robbery, that they committed as members of the Black Liberation Army, the guerrilla wing of the Panthers.
In Alston's case, that included trying to spring members from New York City's formidable Tombs prison with an acetylene torch, only to run out of fuel with inches left to go before finishing the escape hole.
The Panthers, said Alston, appealed to those in the fl underclass who had felt left out of earlier civil rights movements, which had been led by the fl middle class and emphasized assimilation or nonviolent protest to achieve racial equality.
nasw.org /users/Katwong/mocoherald/blackpanthers.html   (876 words)

  
 A-Infos (en) Canada, "Anarchist Panther" Ashanti Alston in Montreal (May 16-18)
Ashanti, 49, is a New York-city based activist, organizer, writer and
Ashanti will be tabling with his zine, "Anarchist Panther".
Ashanti's workshop will be at 2pm, after the lunch break.
www.ainfos.ca /03/may/ainfos00175.html   (540 words)

  
 Next Left Notes
On September 26th, 2006, Creating Local Autonomy and Solidarity in Hartford (the CLASH collective, all SDS/MDS members) held a panel discussion to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party.
The event, held in Hartford’s African American North End included local former-Panthers as well as Ashanti Alston from New York City, also a former Prisoner of War of the Black Liberation Army, and is also know as the @narchist panther.
Ashanti Alston: Well one, even getting started in the Black Panther Party before we became members, one of the good things that the Panthers would do, they would have Panthers come out to your home town and talk with you and sort of walk you through what it meant to be a Panther.
antiauthoritarian.net /NLN/?p=116   (3789 words)

  
 Alston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alston is also a name, coming from Old_English and meaning from the old manor (or maybe Elf Stone).
There are a number of people with the surname Alston:
There are a number of people with the forename Alston:
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alston   (121 words)

  
 The Tartan Online : Letter to the Editor
The Ashanti Alston event happened in the post-Shabazz atmosphere not because of the input from university officials, but in spite of it.
The most surprising aspect of my closed-door meetings with university officials was a concern that Ashanti might discuss Israel, because they had circumstantial evidence that Ashanti supported the Palestinian right to self-determination.
I wish to make this clear: Just because Ashanti was able to speak does not mean that everyone, in practice, has freedom of speech on our campus.
thetartan.org /2006/11/13/forum/lte1   (363 words)

  
 [IMC-Audio] Ashanti Alston to speak at the NoBorder Encuentro in San Diego, CA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
There will be a Maquiladora/Border Tour, a benefit concert with the Bay Area's Entartete Kunst as well as Southern California hip hop artists, a Café Anarquista, a workshop about the history of the border, direct action training, an anti-minutemen training session, Indigenous panel, Zapatista update, and more.
From 5:30pm-6:30pm, Ashanti Alston, "anarchist fl panther", will speak on race, resistance, and cross-border movement building.
http://deletetheborder.org/?q=node/175 Ashanti Alston was the Northeast regional coordinator for Critical Resistance, is a former member of both the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, and was a political prisoner for over 12 years.
lists.indymedia.org /pipermail/imc-audio/2005-August/0825-eb.html   (292 words)

  
 Laughing Squid » Ashanti Alston: Light that Border-Crossed from the South
Laughing Squid » Ashanti Alston: Light that Border-Crossed from the South
Ashanti Alston: Light that Border-Crossed from the South
Ashanti Alston, Black Panther, ex-political prisoner, and long-time
laughingsquid.com /squidlist/calendar/12476/2006/2/6   (270 words)

  
 Interview with Ernesto Aguilar
Martin Sostre is one of the best-known people of color in contemporary history to articulate anarchist politics, as was Kuwasi Balagoon.
Today, Ashanti Alston and Lorenzo Komboa Ervin are two of the most visible anti-authoritarians of color, but this movement is decentralized and diverse.
Ashanti Alston once wrote, “white anarchists: deal with being the best anti-racist allies you can.
colours.mahost.org /articles/aguilar.html   (3202 words)

  
 Race and Ethnicity - White Anti-Racists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Former Black Panther Ashanti Alston plays this role for many white activists.
A fl political organizer raised in Plainview, N.J., Alston, 48, was imprisoned for 12 years in the 1970s and 1980s for his role in a bank robbery to support the Black Liberation Movement.
A soft-spoken man with a shaved head and a graying goatee, Alston said he was initially opposed to all-white anti-racist workshops because he thought racial bias could only be addressed in a multiracial setting.
www.jrn.columbia.edu /studentwork/race/2002/white-jean.shtml   (2275 words)

  
 Infoshop News - BLACK ANARCHISM: a talk with Ashanti Alston, Oct 24th, NYC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ashanti Alston is a former member of the Black Panther Party and former
ASHANTI ALSTON, ex-miembro de los Panteras Negras y prisionero de guerra
Regarding Sam\'s inquiry, Ashanti got busted when a cell of the BLA attempted a bank robbery in order to raise funds for the prison break of a jailed comrade.
www.infoshop.org /inews/article.php?story=03/10/13/8347728   (798 words)

  
 Welcome to WIN
Discussing the lessons of movements past, ageist stereotypes, political vision and strategy, the impact of the nonprofit structure, and effective models of multigenerational work, activists Joanne Sheehan, Hannah El-Silimy, Ashanti Alston, and Ije Ude explore the successes and stopping points in creating meaningful multigenerational movements.
But when it’s actually something that’s going to mean changing their lifestyle or not being as comfortable, all of a sudden it’s not as appealing and they’re not as willing to see it happen.
Ashanti Alston is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer and a former member of the Black Panther Party.
www.warresisters.org /win/Summer2006-generations.shtml   (6097 words)

  
 Igniting a Revolution - Contributors
Ashanti, 49, former member of the Black Panther Party, and a Black Liberation Army political prisoner for over 12 years, is a New York-city based activist, organizer, writer and storyteller.
Ashanti has been an anarchist for over a decade, and self-publishes an occasional zine called "Anarchist Panther".
According to the files, Michael Becker was born in Alton, Illinois in 1964.
www.peacebuilding.info /ignitingarevolution/contributors.html   (9593 words)

  
 publish.nyc.indymedia.org | Grassroots Animal Rights Conference starts tonight: Ashanti Alston speaks, Casey Neill ...
Ashanti is a former member of the Black Panther Party and former political prisoner [Black Liberation Army] for over 14 years.
He sits on the board of the Institute of Anarchist Studies and has been an invited guest teacher for the last two summers at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vermont.
Between the hormones and chemicals pumped into the animals before and after the slaughter process; that of which is consumed, it's no wonder why healthcare is so expensive in this country.
nyc.indymedia.org /en/2005/04/50422.html   (1363 words)

  
 The College Hill Independent - Journey to the Center of the Junta
In a presentation last year in New York City, Ashanti Alston, former Black Panther, spoke about his experiences visiting the EZLN: “it has not adopted a Vanguardist, Political Partyist, modern pre-packaged all-answered approach to revolution.” He had gone to Chiapas through Estación Libre, a US-based People of Color Collective.
I found what Alston said to be intriguing: the Zapatistas don’t have a leader who fights for them the way Ché or other party politicians have claimed to do, and the EZLN doesn’t try to steer the Revolution, the way a “vanguardist” movement does.
Estación Libre grew out of the 1997 Chican@-Zapatista Encuentro, where Chicana and Chicano delegates realized upon their arrival in Chiapas that international solidarity work was dominated by a strong presence of white European activists.
www.brown.edu /Students/INDY/cms/content/view/125/72   (1670 words)

  
 [News] Exciting GARC Updates! Ashanti Alston to present Thursday Keynote! Casey Neill Band to perform at opening-night ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Grassroots Animal Rights Conference, GARC, is very pleased to announce two major additions to our program: 1) Ashanti Alston will present the keynote Alston is a former member of the Black Panther Party and former political prisoner (Black Liberation Army) for over 14 years.
He sits on the Board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies., and has been an invited guest teacher for the last two summers at the Institute of Social Ecology in Plainfield, Vermont.
Alston’s keynote will be held on Thursday, March 31, 8:15 – 9 pm.
www.noah-online.org /pipermail/news_noah-online.org/2005-March/000174.html   (464 words)

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