Office by Alex Penny
Iresha Picot and Natasha Butler, created a grassroots collective in the name of our Revolutionary Warrior Mama, Assata Shakur.
In a 1978 article in the Black Scholar, Assata Shakur stated that for Black Women, it is of the greatest importance of organizing our own collectives because it is “imperative to our struggle that we build a strong black women’s movement… [to] talk about the experiences that shaped us; that we assess our strengths and weaknesses and define our own history….we need Black Woman’s medicines to give us strength to fight and the drive to win. Under the guidance of Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer and all of our foremothers, let us rebuild a sense of community. Let us rebuild the culture of giving and carry on the tradition of fierce determination to move on closer to freedom.”—Assata Shakur
We seek to carry out what Assata beckoned Sistas to do—building a collective addressing the needs, concerns, and creativity of Black Women. This will be done through multimedia-based projects, ground level outreach and local events.
Continue to check back as we develop and move forward in the spirit and work of Assata Shakur.
For more information, contact AssataDaughters@gmail.com
The Assata’s Daughters Project Presents: Consciousness-Raising Film Nights: “Love & Diane” During the 1980’s, a crack epidemic swept through the inner cities of the United States. As parents succumbed to addiction, a generation of children entered the foster care system. This is a story of a mother and her children, struggling to overcome addiction. Love & Diane is a frank and astonishingly intimate real-life drama of a mother an…d daughter desperate for love and forgiveness, but caught in a devastating cycle. During the 1980s, a crack cocaine epidemic ravaged and impoverished many inner city neighborhoods. As parents like Diane succumbed to addiction, a generation of children like Love entered the foster care system. Shot over ten years, the film centers on Love and Diane after the family is reunited and is struggling to reconnect. Now 18 and a mother herself, Love must reconcile her anger and confront the ways in which her mother’s past mistakes haunt her life. Diane, in turn, makes new choices for herself, seeking to break the treadmill of addiction and poverty. Admission is Free! 6pm 812 Gladfelter Hall, Temple University More information about the film http://www.pbs.org/pov/loveanddiane/# For more information, contact us at Assatadaughters@gmail.com
