Open the Cages: A Night of Political Prisoner Support Saturday, June 11 7PM-2AM $8-10 donation. sliding scale-no one turned away for lack of funds All proceeds benefit the Jeffrey Luers Legal Fund and Jericho NYC. Contact: freefreenow@mutualaid.org DUMBA Art space, 57 Jay Street [between Front and Water Streets]. Down under the Manhattan bridge in Brooklyn. F train to York Street. Exit train, make right, go two blocks down Jay Street. DUMBA is on your right side. Download full-page and quarter-sheet flyers. Listen to the online webcast of this event live online! Just point your browsers to radio.indymedia.org and click on AUGUST SOUND COALITION around 7:30PM. Thanks to the awesome people at August Sound for making this happen! The NYC premiere of the film '22/8: the Jeffrey Luers Story' will start at 7ish. There will be food donated by Foodswings, veggie chili dawgs, info-tables of radical groups, pinatas, copious amounts of beverages, a DJ dance party [starting around 11PM] and some suprises! For more information, contact freefreenow@mutualaid.org Speakers: [8-9PM roughly] Ashanti Alston Ashanti is a former member of the Black Panther Party and former political prisoner [Black Liberation Army] for over 14 years. He was recently the Northeast regional coordinator for Critical Resistance, a national radical prison abolitionist organization, 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. 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. Ashanti also authors the zine Anarchist Panther. Listen to some of Ashanti's past talks here. Andy Stepanian Andy is a member of the Animal Defense League of NY. He has previously served time for his commitment to the animal rights movement. Currently, he is being prosecuted for actions against the vivisection industry, along with others known as the Shac 7. Also speaking will be other former Political Prisoners and representatives from the Jeffrey Luers Defense Network and Jericho NYC. Music: [9-11PM roughly] Cipher A political metal-core band from Long Island that merges radical politics with punk/hardcore. Cipher is committed to promoting revolutionary and radical tactics and ideals through their work. The band is featured in James Spooner's critically acclaimed Afropunk documentary and will release their first nationally distributed album, Children of God's Fire Tuesday, June 14th on Uprising records. Casey Neill Brooklyn, New York based songwriter and band leader in the American musical tradition. His music fuses modern roots rock with country, punk, and Celtic styles. Rude Mechanical Orchestra Last but not least is Brooklyn's own Rude Mechanical Orchestra!, a radical marching band formed to celebrate resistance at such events as the Women's March in D.C. a year ago and the RNC in NYC in August. We can be found here and in the streets. Back to June 2005