Marshall Law event with Ashanti Alston in Providence!
Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
Libertalia Autonomous Space
280 Broadway
Providence, RI, 02903
Join us for an evening with Ashanti Alston, former Black Panther and member of the National Jericho Movement, for a reading and discussion on Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, the autobiography of Marshall “Eddie Conway,” former member of the Baltimore Black Panther, and political prisoner for over 40 years.
From his childhood in inner-city Baltimore to his political awakening in the military, from the rise of the Black Panther Party to the sham trial, the realities of prison life, escape attempts, labor organizing on the inside, and beyond, Eddie’s autobiography is a reminder that we all share the responsibility of resistance, no matter where we are.
It also brings to light important details about the FBI’s infiltration of the Black Panther Party. As Eddie makes clear, the FBI had already placed agents deep inside the Panthers’ leadership well before Stokeley Carmichael’s group in Canada was infiltrated, long before the brutal murder of Fred Hampton. It’s all here … and much, much more.
Marshall “Eddie” Conway is the former Minister of Defense of the Baltimore Black Panther Party. In 1969, he uncovered evidence of the FBI’s infiltration of the Panthers as a part of the COINTELPro initiative, and found himself locked away, just one year later, convicted of a murder he did not commit. Currently in his fortieth year of incarceration in a State of Maryland correctional facility, he has played a leading role in a variety of prisoner support initiatives, including the formation of the Maryland chapter of the United Prisoner’s Labor Union, and the ACLU’s Prison Committee to Correct Prison Conditions.
Ashanti Alston is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, member of the National Jericho Movement to win amnesty for political prisoners, and former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.