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New Directions in LGBT Organizing in Puerto Rico; & Moses Harper on Trauma Survivors
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Moving Beyond Single-Issue Politics
Tune to Out-FM Tuesday 11/3/2015 at 7pm for a special segment broadcast from Chicago, Illinois by John Riley and Bob Lederer. In an interview with Human Rights lawyer Osvaldo Burgos Perez, he describes recent developments in the LGBT rights movement in Puerto Rico. Perez helps lead CABE, a coalition of human rights organizations, that work on LGBT issues and other human rights issues such as the continued incarceration of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera. Jan Susler, attorney for Oscar Lopez Rivera joins the discussion and explaims how popular support for his release is widespread in Puerto Rico and increasing in the United States. Rivera was fighting for independence for the Colony of Puerto Rico and has been incarcerated for 35 years for seditious conspiracy.
Jan Susler, longtime lawyer with the People's Law Office in Chicago, is the attorney for Oscar Lopez Rivera and discusses the expanding campaign to demand his release from federal prison.* Out-FM can be heard at 99.5FM in NY City or streaming at http://wbai.org
Surviving Trauma
Out-FM producer Naomi Brussel interviews Black lesbian Moses Harper talking about life experiences and her work with youth and adults who have been tramatized. Harper is also a Michael Jackson tribute artist.
*Special thanks to Ricardo Jimenez, Roberto Sanabria and a transgendered friend for assistance.
New Jersey 7
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Saturday November 15, 2014
Screening & discussion 5 pm-7:30pm
Closing party to follow
Join director blair dorosh-walther and Terrain Dandridge, Patreese Johnson, and Renata Hill of the New Jersey 4 for a screening of Out in the Night.
Out in the Night is a documentary that tells the story of a group of young friends, African American lesbians from Newark, who were out one night in 2006, in the gay friendly West Village in New York City, when they were violently and sexually threatened by a man on the street. They defended themselves and were charged and convicted in the courts, and smeared by the media as a ‘Gang of Killer Lesbians’. Come hear how the NJ 4’s courage and resistance challenges the misogyny, racism, and homophobia of society and the (in)justice system, and sheds light on who is granted the right to self-defense.
Closing party for the exhibition Self-Determination Inside/Out to follow!
Below you can hear Out-FM's coverage of the case with Lawyer Susan Tipograph a week before sentencing in 2007 (in first segment).
June 4, 2007 Out-FM Host: Pedro Angel Serrano
o Lesbian Self Defense or Assault - Interview with Susan Tipograph (co-hosts Donna Redd and John Riley)
o Pedro Commentary
o Silvia Rivera history (Brad Taylor)