Samuel R. Delany Presented by the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop and EMP|SFM

Six Summer Evenings of Science Fiction 2007 Reading Series - Samuel R. Delany Presented by the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop and EMPSFM

Tuesday, July 24

Samuel R. Delany is arguably the most daring, wide-ranging, word-drunk, idea-besotted writer of science fiction and fantasy that the United States has ever produced. In his 45-year professional career, he has extensively explored issues of language, gender, race, sexuality, power and otherness. Author of Dhalgren, Babel-17, and numerous novels, stories, and critical and philosophical works including his new novel Dark Reflections, he never fails to deliver a dynamic evening. Delany has won numerous national and international awards including the Hugo and Nebula, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2002. Delany is Clarion West's 2007 Susan C. Petrey Fellow.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

7:30 PM

Free admission.

Seating is general admission and is limited.

JBL Theater

325 5th Ave N

Nooses and a legal lynching in Jena, Louisiana

I cannot believe (and can believe) this is (still) going on in the world:

"Injustice in Jena as Nooses Hang From the �White Tree,'"
truthout, July 3, 2007
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070307B.shtml
"Racial demons rear heads," Chicago Tribune, May 20, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/yvh7t5
"'Jena Six' defendant convicted," Town Talk, June 29, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/ysxtgg
NPR: Searching for Justice in Jena 6 Case (streaming audio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11756302
Democracy Now! - The case of the Jena Six ...
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/10/1413220
Too Sense: Free The Jena Six Now
http://halfricanrevolution.blogspot.com/2007/07/free-jena-six-now.html
While Seated: Jena Six
http://www.whileseated.org/photo/003244.shtml
Nooses, attacks and jail for black students in Jena Louisiana
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/28/144445/384
Justice In Jena, by Jordan Flaherty
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=12783§ionID=30
The Perpetrator becomes the Prosecutor (and other related entries)
http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/blog/
'Stealth racism' stalks deep South
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/6685441.stm

Cat Cam

Cat with camera... embedded reporting? first-person pouncing? kitty reality tv?

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2007/07/mr-lee-cat-cam.html