Georgetown Prof Michael Eric Dyson to speak at Conservative Fresno State 3/14 7pm

[annm4peace]

this should be interesting... Fresno State is in the Ultra Conservative Central Valley.
The previous Mayor of Fresno, Alan Autry would have anti gay pray rallies inside City Hall:
the city council would send emails to each other during meeting that said such things as:
"I wish we had a dirty bomb for these liberals at the meeting" and "wait till Chief Dyer gets here he'll put a "cap" in them".
It was Fresno County Sheriff Dept that spied on Peace Fresno for 6 months that was in Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 911. and the people of color have always been targeted and suppressed.
Just read the abuses by Fresno PD and Fresno Co. Sheriff Dept.

Fresno Government is a Tea bagger, Neo-con Dream... Good ol boys (even the women) still run the city and the county.

And what you see they do to the homeless is beyond disgusting. I often post it in DU hoping someone will be able to help. Start at the bottom: http://www.fresnoalliance.com/home/homelessness.htm








I'm really hoping Dr. Dyson takes a ride to see the homeless camps and the Westside of Fresno before he leaves town.
And I also hope his speech helps those in the Valley who are already fighting for Justice and civil rights.



Georgetown University's Professor Michael Eric Dyson at CSUF in the Satellite
Student Union. The event is free and open to the public! Cultural critic Dyson
assesses issues’ impact on blacks.

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, a Georgetown University sociologist, author and cultural critic of contemporary issues’ impact on the African-American community, will speak at California State University, Fresno, as a guest of its Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholars Committee.

Dyson has written 16 books, including the acclaimed “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death and How It Changed America,” “Holler if You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right?” and “I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr.”

His topics have ranged from biographies of performers Tupac Shakur and Marvin Gaye to examinations of issues of gender, class and generation within the African-American community in the post Civil Rights Era.







Dr. Michael Eric Dyson- an American Book Award recipient and two-time NAACP Image Award winner- is one of the nation’s most influential and renowned public intellectuals. He has been named one of the 150 most powerful African Americans by Ebony Magazine.
“an excellent sociological primer on institutionalized racism in America.” -Washington Post

This event is FREE and open to the public.

[annm4peace]

1. if any DU'ers attends this event

Please report back,
would like to know if they get a big crowd and if he mentions the injustice in Fresno