CIA DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN COCAINE TRAFFICKING
PERFORMANCE & SYMPOSIA ABOUT FALLOUT FROM THE WAR ON DRUGS
The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) and Urban Community Visionaries present "AGENTS & ASSETS" at The First Unitarian-Universalist Church of Detroit, 4605 Cass Avenue, corner of Forest.
"Agents & Assets", first performed in Los Angeles in January
2001, is re-mounted in Detroit with a combined cast of Los Angeles and
Detroit residents, from communities that have been severely impacted by
drugs and drug policy.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Post performance discussions will be moderated by Gwen Winston and Nkenge Zola
Thursday, October 17 Post performance discussion with:
Deborah Peterson Small, Drug Policy Alliance; Attorney Jeff Edison; Felix Sirls, recovery professional.
Friday, October 18 Post performance discussion with:
Jo Ann Watson, Michigan Drug Reform; Maureen Taylor, Welfare Rights, Ed Gardin, staff counselor Sobriety House.
Saturday, October 19 (benefit for Mariners’ Inn drug recovery program)
Post performance discussion with:
Alfred McCoy, drug war historian, U. of Wisconsin. Dawood Muhammad, Nation of Islam and Amanda Brazel, Students of Sane Drug Policy.
Sunday, October 20 Post performance discussion: "the rhetoric of War" with:
Peter Sellars, renowned theater director, Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University, author of The Curse of Cain: the Violent Legacy of Monotheism, Chris Parks, Director NRO and specialist on arts in drug recovery.
Partially funded by The Nathan Cummings Foundation, NEA Theater and The Animating Democracy Initiative of Americans for the Arts with funding from the Ford Foundation. Animating Democracy is an arts and civic dialog project.
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