{"id":2099,"date":"1985-04-20T10:38:49","date_gmt":"1985-04-20T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2013-04-15T11:55:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T17:55:31","slug":"larry-pinkney-speaks-at-zimbabwe-independence-day-event-at-coffman-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/larry-pinkney-speaks-at-zimbabwe-independence-day-event-at-coffman-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Pinkney Speaks at Zimbabwe Independence Day event at Coffman Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pinkney was the Keynote Speaker at the Zimbabwe Independence Day event at Coffman Union, University of Minnesota, on April 20, 1985. He spoke about the history of the independence struggles in Africa with an emphasis on Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Poster contents (image below):<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe<br \/>\nIndependence Day<\/p>\n<p>Saturday April 20, 1985<\/p>\n<p>2:00-4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Coffman Union, Room 351-352<br \/>\n(University of Minnesota)<\/p>\n<p>An Afternoon of:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: -13px; padding-left: 30px;\">Songs<br \/>\nPoems<br \/>\nSpeaker&#8230; Larry Pinkney<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: -13px; padding-left: 108px;\">Former Black Panther Director<br \/>\nSouth California<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 108px;\">Zimbabwe Embassy Official<\/p>\n<p>Party at Night: 9 p.m.<br \/>\nCommonwealth Terrace Comm. Center<br \/>\n1250 Fifield Ave. (St. Paul Campus)<\/p>\n<p>Free Admission<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors: ASA, POSA, ZEO and friends<\/p>\n<p>Approved For Posting<br \/>\nUntil<br \/>\nApril 21 1985<br \/>\nStudent Center Info Desk<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2098\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1985_4_20_Zimbabwe_Independence_Day_Speaker_Larry_Pinkney.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2098\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2098\" title=\"1985_4_20_Zimbabwe_Independence_Day_Speaker_Larry_Pinkney\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1985_4_20_Zimbabwe_Independence_Day_Speaker_Larry_Pinkney.jpeg\" alt=\"Zimbabwe Independence Day Poster\" width=\"604\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1985_4_20_Zimbabwe_Independence_Day_Speaker_Larry_Pinkney.jpeg 604w, https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1985_4_20_Zimbabwe_Independence_Day_Speaker_Larry_Pinkney-230x300.jpeg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zimbabwe Independence Day Poster<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<em>is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil\/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil\/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania\/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0887392865\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=blackcommenta-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0887392865\" target=\"_blank\">Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker<\/a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.struggle-and-win.net\/13201\/43480.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to read excerpts from the book.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pinkney was the Keynote Speaker at the Zimbabwe Independence Day event at Coffman Union, University of Minnesota, on April 20, 1985. He spoke about the history of the independence struggles in Africa with an emphasis on Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Poster contents (image below):<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe<br \/> Independence Day<\/p>\n<p>Saturday April 20, 1985<\/p>\n<p>2:00-4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Coffman Union, Room [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}