The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL) and Maoist
Internationalist Movement (MIM) are planning lectures on the Jubilee
2000 movement to end world debt with honorary co-president of Jubilee
2000 Africa campaign and international activist, Dennis Brutus, for
this coming fall.
You can get involved by getting in touch with MIM at
mim@mim.org, by printing and distributing a MIM poster about
imperialist domination through debt, and by organizing events as part of
MIM's Break the Imperialist Deathgrip of Debt! campaign.
Jubilee 2000
Dennis Brutus is an exiled South African poet and activist who served
18 months imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela (1964-65). In an
attempted escape attempt from the Apartheid police, Brutus was shot in
the back by South Africa's secret police. Such scars keep Brutus
struggling against oppression.
Active in the fight to end apartheid in South Africa, he was the prime
organizer behind South Africa's exclusion from the 1972 Olympics.
Brutus was exiled after his prison sentence in South Africa and has
spent many years teaching and organizing in the United States. He is
currently a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and continues his
anti-imperialist activism.
The Jubilee 2000 movement is one of Brutus' current projects. He was
named honorary co-president of the Jubilee 2000 Afrika Campaign where
the movement is strongest. As a speaker, Brutus is eloquent, humorous
and right on the mark. Attendance at an event with Dennis Brutus
produces laughter, political awareness and an admiration for an
activist who has maintained the struggle for so many years.
Brutus published the following poem, in Airs and Tributes:
March 21, 1987
As the seasons turn
http://www.jubilee2000uk.org
and Summer droops to Autumn
the dyings continue
and resistance grows:
there are still those
willing to give their lives:
Sharpeville, Langa
you are sacred names:
in the center of our brains
the flame of desire for freedom
fiercely burns