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Marvin X schedule

June 6

Marvin X will be at the Joyce Gordon Gallery for the Emory Douglas exhibit. Emory is the Black Panther Party Minister of Culture. Emory came into the BPP via Marvin X's Black House, co-founded by Eldridge Cleaver, BPP Minister of Information. He too was introduced to the BPP by Marvin X.

June 14

Marvin X returns to the Hinton Center to participate in the Juneteenth Festival, Hinton Center, Fresno CA. Marvin X has joined the Fresno Chapter of the NAACP. His parents were members. "All I used to hear as a small child was my parents talking about the NAACP--they used to say N double A CP!" Didn't Kwame Toure say, "Join something!"

June 15

Marvin X will read, sign books and exhibit his archives and the archives of Drs. Nathan and Julia Hare at the Juneteenth Festival, Berkeley CA

June 20

Eastside Arts Center, 23rd and International, presents a tribute to Ancestor Amiri Baraka. Marvin X will participate in honor of his 47 year friendship with Amiri and the Baraka family.

June 28

 Young couple with their copy of X's controversial pamphlet Mythology of Pussy and Dick

Young lady from the ATL met her boyfriend at X's Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, Oakland

Marvin X reads and discusses his controversial book (expanded from the 18 page pamphlet to 400 pages, to be published soon) The Mythology of Pussy and Dick, a biblo-therapeutic rites of passage for males and females--also for same gender loving persons. If you read it, you will never be the same!

This afternoon with the ever provocative Marvin X takes place at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin Streets, 

downtown Oakland, 3pm. Admission $20.00,  includes copy of original pamphlet and DVD of performance. 

Seating is limited. Call 510-200-4164 for information and reservation. Adult language but recommended for all ages and genders. A sixteen year old female said she wished she had read the pamphlet when she was eight! It could have helped O.J. Simpson, General Petreas, Secret Service agents, President Clinton, Mike Tyson, the sexually assaulters in the US military, Boko Haram, the young man who killed seven people because he couldn't find a girlfriend, et al. Those religious puritans and politically correct so called radicals who object to my objectification of males and females have surely heard not to judge a book by the cover! According to Paradise Jah Love, "The young people fight over this little pamphlet as if it were black gold." 

 Marvin X addressing a class at the University of Houston on his controversial pamphlet. In Oakland, adults told Marvin they observed young people sitting on the street reading his pamphlet intently.

In 2009, Marvin X lectured for a week at Howard University on MOPD. What do you think is the chief topic of concern where the women outnumber the men 14 to 1?

 Marvin X and San Francisco's Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has had his share of problems with MOPD

Marvin X's students at his Academy of da Corner, Aries and Toya, performed in the DVD version of MOPD.

Marvin X reads and discusses his controversial book (expanded from the 18 page pamphlet to 400 pages, to be published soon) The Mythology of Pussy and Dick, a biblo-therapeutic rites of passage for males and females. Donation $20.00. Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin Streets,
downtown Oakland, 3pm. Admission includes copy of original pamphlet and DVD of performance.
Seating is limited. Call 510-200-4164 for information and reservation. Adult language but recommended for all ages and genders. A sixteen year old female said she wished she had read the pamphlet when she was eight! It could have helped O.J. Simpson, General Petreas, Secret Service agents, President Clinton, Mike Tyson, the sexually assaulters in the US military, Boko Haram, the young man who killed seven people because he couldn't find a girlfriend, et al. Those religious puritans and politically correct so called radicals who object to my objectification of males and females have surely heard not to judge a book by the cover! According to Paradise Jah Love, "The young people fight over this little pamphlet as if it were black gold."

July 1

Marvin X will attend the inauguration of Ras Baraka as Mayor of Newark, NJ. His trip is sponsored by the Oakland Post Newspaper Group.

July 12

Marvin X will read and sign books at the Life Enrichment Bookstore 5023 Rainer Ave. S,
       Seattle WA.

August

Marvin X invited to attend the Marcus Garvey conference in New York City

CAMPAIGN to Bring Mumia Abu Jamal Home

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The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home

(released, May 31, 2014 by The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home)

Legal Update

 In 2011, the international movement to free Mumia scored a major victory. After having stopped Mumia’s execution in the 1990s, it assembled the legal team and mounted the political pressure that forced the courts to declare Mumia’s death sentence unconstitutional. Mumia was transferred to general population in early 2012.He is now serving a life sentence. The appellate process in his case has been exhausted.

 In order to bring Mumia home, we need to popularize the fact of Mumia’s innocence and create a political crisis in the streets over the injustice of his continued incarceration. Our movement continues to link the fight for Mumia’s freedom with the fight to free all political prisoners and end mass incarceration.

 Political Climate: The Recent Attacks on Mumia

 For 32-years, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and allied politicians have sustained an uninterrupted demonization and political conspiracy against Mumia that has influenced the judicial process and kept the facts of Mumia’s innocence from surfacing.

 Recently, the FOP mounted a campaign of persecution against Mumia in order to block President Barack Obama’s nomination of Debo Adegbile to head the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. The FOP cited Adegbile’s previous defense of Mumia as grounds for his disqualification and steamrolled over the right to counselby smearing Adegbile with the crime for which Mumia was wrongfully convicted in 1981.

 The FOP demonized Mumia with racially coded language like “thug” and “cop killer,” and lied about the facts of his case. In the end, seven Democratic senators from predominantly white states voted against Adegbile to avoid being associated with Mumia’s case in the upcoming elections.

 The ideological campaign of the FOP is proof of how the conservative right has used racist law-and-order policies and the criminalization of former Black Panthers like Mumia to energize a rightwing agenda against the gains of the civil rights movement (voting rights, fair housing, affirmative action and more).

 The FOP’s campaign of lies, racism and hysteria against Mumia and Adegbile was also a desperate attempt to bury the possibility of any future investigation of police conspiracy in Mumia’s case and of police abuse in Philadelphia and across the country. Unfortunately, through all this,Mumia’s lawyers at the Legal Defense Fund/NAACP failed to defend him vigorously, in the mediachallenging neither the factual lies nor the demonization of their client.

 Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Activities

 In light of these events, the Campaign encourages activists to participate in two major areas of work:

 1. Popularize the fact of Mumia’s innocence through a series of grassroots actions and the development of a media campaign.

 The FOP depicted the case as open and shut sweeping aside the record of violations and innocence. One third of the 35 officersinvolved in Mumia’s case were subsequently jailed for extortion and evidence tampering. Four witnesses identified a fourth person at the crime scene as the shooter, and though police and prosecutors themselves knew there was a fourth person, Mumia’s trial prosecutor suppressed this evidence at trial.

 Mumia was convicted in the absence of material evidence. In addition, the photos of Pedro Polakoff, the freelance journalist who took the first photographs of the crime scene, corroborate the eye witnesses’ testimony of the presence of a fourth person, show police tampering with evidence, and disprove the key points of the prosecution’s case.

 2. Challenge DA Seth Williams to reopen Mumia's case. His newly-created Conviction Review Unit is well-suited to review the weight of evidence supporting Mumia's innocence and to expose the dangerous political power of the FOP and its allies.

 The reopening of Mumia’s case is overdue. During the 1995 Philadelphia police corruption scandal, former Philadelphia DA Lynne Abraham told the Legal Intelligencer that she would discard “any cases where evidence surfaces that even one officer involved in an investigation lied in court or in written reports.” Documentation of police violations, lying and evidence tampering by not one, but several officers and prosecutors, exists in this case.

 To divert attention from this, the FOP mounted a campaign of lies. As “the world's largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers," it wields lobbying influence over Congress and the judiciary comparable to the NRA.

For more information or to join either of these projects email the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home at bringmumiahome@gmail.com or call 866-745-6963

PAINTER JAMES GAYLES BOOK ON ART AND LITERATURE

COMING SOON!!!
My first book "Reflections" will be out in July. It will be a collaboration between my artwork and 25 local, national and international poets and writers.

BLACK ART BY JAMES GAYLES

Maya Moves On to Higher Ground, dancing with Amiri Baraka, et al.

Dance Maya dance

You and AB cuttin' a rug

so smooth

in tune

flying high

in the Upper Room

Dance Maya dance

swing low sweet chariot

comin' fa da take me home

let her rise now

let her rise now

rise ta touch da sky

see Amina laughin

what a moment

don't take da J out ma joy devil

not in da eternity of things.

Dance Maya dance

poet to poet

something special

Dance Maya dance

no more caged bird

fly black bird fly.

Peace Maya dance

--Marvin X

5/28/14

Oaktown Cali

Pianist Alfie Politt at the Henry Box Brown Festival, Philadelphia

"The voice of the intelligence...is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all, it is silenced by ignorance." --Dr. Karl Menninger "Birthing" by Stanley Squirewell The Henry Box Brown Festival, Phase Six Black Male Jazz and Classical Music Virtuosos, Ages 17 to 71: A Multigenerational "Knight" of Live Music in Celebration of Our Brother Of the Year E. Mitchell Swann May 31, 7:15 P.M. Please reserve your space today You are invited to join The Brothers' Network for an evening of fine jazz music and our annual honor for our Brother of the Year, E. Mitchell Swann, on the Avenue of the Arts on May 31. Our Henry Box Brown Festival program at the Philadelphia Theatre Company is an "out of the box" jazz concert featuring the stylings of Alfred "Alfie" Politt.   Pianist, composer, producer, arranger, and educator Alfred “Alfie” Politt penned his first song, “15th Street,” in 1958.  Over his career, Politt has written more than 500 songs. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1943, Politt started playing piano at the age of three. He is a versatile musician that performs jazz, Latin, R & B and other music genres. His music, composition, style and performance are influenced by John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Joe Loco, Bud Powell, McCoy Tyner, Sun Ra, Jimmy Smith, Elvin Jones, Cecil Taylor, Barry Harris, Bobby Timmons, Herbie Hancock, Jimmie Merritt, Mtume, Kashif, Leon Sylvers, Alfredo, Leon Huff, Stevie Wonder and Prince. During his music career, Alfie has performed with a long list of jazz greats. They include Slide Hampton, Carlos Garnett, Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, Gregory Herbert, Earl and Carl Grubbs, Sunny Murray, Bootsie Barnes, J.J. Johnson, Odean Pope, Rufus Harley, Sonny Fortune, Byard Lancaster, Archie Shepp, Lex Humphries, Edgar Bateman, Rashid Ali, Ron Everett, John Gilmore, Khan Jamal, Lee Morgan, Rashan Roland Kirk, Norman Connors, Johnny Hartman, Bobbie Humphries, Bill Barron, John Blake, Bob Pollitt, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Jimmy Garrison, Donald Byrd, Reggie Lucas, Bobby Durham and others. Politt has also worked with many of the R & B greats that made "The Sound of Philadelphia" famous, such as Barbara Mason, Billy Paul, The Blue Notes, Sister Sledge, The Tymes, The Majors, Stephanie Mills, and Lloyd Price’s Big Band. He was the keyboard player on Teddy Pendergrass’ platinum-selling album “Teddy Coast to Coast Live” as well as his album “This One’s for You.” In 1980, Alfie organized the R & B band OUCH, and he formed Alfie Pollitt and his All-Star Musical Friends in 1985. As an educator, Alfie teaches music and has conducted songwriting workshops in New Jersey and correctional facilities in Pennsylvania, including the Philadelphia House of Correction and Holmesburg and Graterford Prisons. In addition, both of his bands performed concerts at the correctional facilities. Alfie’s lifetime goal has been to maintain his positive message in music universally, in his own words, “by the Divine permission and help of the Almighty Creator.” The Brothers' Network is proud to partner with the Philadelphia Jazz Project to present Alfie Politt as part of the Henry Box Brown Festival.       Our evening of jazz will also feature Atamosi (French horn, above left) and Atamanu(viola, above right) Hagins, rising seniors at Julia Reynolds Masterman School who sit second and first chairs respectively in the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra. The Brothers' Network is pleased to present this intergenerational interplay of music and conversation juxtaposing classical music with classic jazz.   The Henry Box Brown Festival introduces more diverse audiences to the performing arts by creating a multidisciplinary festival that features black male choreographers, filmmakers, actors, writers and composers. The festival is inspired by the life of Henry “Box” Brown, an enslaved African who shipped himself to Philadelphia in a wooden box to gain his freedom in 1849. The wooden box serves as an artistic metaphor to explore the pedagogy of oppression and to examine the notions of liberation through symposia, dialogue and artistic interpretation. The Henry Box Brown Festival is funded by a Knight Arts Challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Brothers' Network will also present our Brother of the Year Award in a post-concert ceremony. The musical selections are a tribute to E. Mitchell Swann (pictured above) and his love for music from the classics to jazz. Our Brother of the Year, E. Mitchell Swann - that's "E" as in "erudite": highly educated, knowledgeable, and worldly - has traveled around the globe: Spain, Switzerland, Brazil and beyond, taking with him the love of music he too acquired growing up in West Philadelphia. That love formed the foundation of a lifetime commitment to the arts that has nourished his soul on his journey through the engineering profession. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, 480 South Broad Street (at Lombard), on the Avenue of the Arts in Philadelphia. Please reserve your space for this extraordinary evening of classical and jazz music and the celebration of outstanding brilliance using this link The Miami Foundation serves as the fiscal agent of The Brothers' Network.

Marvin X speaks on KPOO 89.5FM (kpoo.com), tonight, 10pm (pst) Terry Collins Show

Marvin X speaks tonight on KPOO radio at 10pm. kpoo.com. Accompanied by his star student Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Marvin will discuss The World According to Marvin X at 70 (May 29, 1944). Marvin and Dr. Nzinga will read from their original writings.

Dr. Nzinga was a student of X's when he taught theatre at Laney College, 1981. She directed and performed in his play In the Name of Love, 1991, and his docudrama One Day in the Life, 1996-2002 (Recovery Theatre), the longest running Black play in the Bay. Ishmael Reed said, "One Day in the Life is the most powerful drama I've seen."

Dr. Nzinga has established her own theatre in West Oakland and is producing the entire cycle of plays by August Wilson with her Lower Bottom Playaz.

 Terry Collins of KPOO will interview Marvin and Ayodele