Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Unbelievable (or not). Take a look at the rogue's gallery sponsoring this event (quoted from email):
as part of their International Week of Solidarity with Political Prisoners:
Can't Jail the Spirit : Art by Political Prisoner Tom Manning
Can't Jail the Spirit exhibits Manning's paintings of political prisoners, freedom fighters, the earth and people struggling against oppression. Forhis actions, Tom Manning became a political prisoner ad has taught himself to paint inside the prison walls.
Can't Jail the Spirit was first displayed at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. A week after it went up, it was censored after intense pressure by state troopers and the police to shut it down.
Tom's paintings transcend concrete and razor wire, and show that they still can't jail the spirit!
WHERE: Episcopal Divinity School--Harvard University
OPENING RECEPTION: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 6:00-9:00pm
with: [snip list of losers]
For a calendar of related events visit
www.jerichoboston.org
Sponsors include:The Jericho Movement, Haymarket People's Fund, American Friends Service Committee, The New England Committee to Defend Palestine, Councillor Chuck Turner, Councillor Felix Arroyo, Voices of Liberation, episcopal divinity school, and the community church of boston.
In case you had any doubt, Manning isn't a political prisoner, he's a convicted cop killer:
After his release in 1971, he married Carol and together they produced three children, Jeremy, Tamara, and Jonathan.
Together with his arrest for the bombings, Manning was also convicted for his role in killing New Jersey police officer Philip Lamonaco during a traffic stop on December 21 1981. The killings launched the largest manhunt in NJ police history[2], and ended with the arrests of Raymond Levasseur, Patricia Gross, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, and Barbara Curzi on November 4th 1984, and Manning and his wife Carol on April 24, 1985. All of them were associated with the United Freedom Front...
Harvard EDS take note:
I suppose they're afraid of being outdone by the UCC.
Correction (see comments): It appears the organizers, who name the location as "Episcopal Divinity School--Harvard University," don't know that EDS is not actually part of Harvard U (or they don't care and want to give the impression they have the support of Harvard), it's just in the same neighborhood. Post revised.
There seems to be some confusion here. Is this event at the Harvard Divinity School, or the nearby Episcopal Divinity School? Although the latter institution is located on Brattle Street in Cambridge, it has no affiliation whatsoever with Harvard.
Good question...
The release (also here)
says as above and gives the location as: "corner of Mooney St. and Berkeley St., Cambridge". Which one is that?
Serves me right for not researching a Jericho Boston release closer -- it wouldn't surprise me they'd want to make themselves look associated to Harvard when they weren't.
A newer email from the NECDP gets it right:
"WHERE: Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge MA
(follow Garden St. from Harvard Square, turn left on Berkeley St. after the Sheraton Commander Hotel;
the Episcopal Divinity School is at the end of the block)"