BLACK ROSE LECTURE SERIES WINTER/SPRING 1982
Feb. 19: Workers '90: a documentary film made by Solidarity
March 5: Angry cries from Abroad: The West European Peace Movement - Frank Brodhead and Mark Levine
April 2: Feminism and Representation: The case of Pornography - Kate Ellis
April 23: The Social Thought of Wilhelm Reich - Myron Sharaf
May 7: Sexist Culture and Violence Against Women - Emerge and the Mass. Coalition of Battered Women's Service Groups
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, hosted a major retrospective show of the French painter, Camille Pissarro, this past summer. Pissaro, not only an important and influential artist, was also a deeply convinced anarchist, well known enough for his beliefs that he did not dare to return to France for fear of imprisonment during the period of the assassination of the French President Sadi-Carnot by the anarchist Caserio. BR hopes to print an interview with one of the major biographers of Pissarro, Ralph Shikes, in an upcoming issue exploring the nature of his anarchism.
We are happy to note that a new issue of Open Road will be out soon. It will have a major article about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of our brother Carl Harp in Walla Walla Prison. Readers who want to find out more about the flagrant and outrageous activities of the authorities in this matter can write to United Family and Friends of Prisoners, PO box 22094, Seattle, WA 98112 or Black Dragon, CP 2, Succ. La Cite. Montreal, Quebec, Can., H2W 2M9.
In February WMBR (88.1 FM, Cambridge, MA.) began to broadcast previous Black Rose lectures. The program is called "The Black Rose Hour" and is aired for one hour on Fridays at 8:00 P.M.
Black Rose Books in Montreal have just published Radical Priorities, a collection of short writings of Noam Chomsky edited by Carlos Otero. The essays chosen serve as a basic introduction to Chomsky's longer works, reprising in brief form most of the themes found in these lengthier works. Unfortunately, the editor of the book has chosen to preface Chomsky's work with an Introduction which is nothing short of deplorable. In this Introduction we are assured that Chomsky is the greatest thinker of our age and that although he has never developed in any real sense his attachment to anarchist thought we ought to be anarchists because the great man is himself an anarchist. Nonetheless, the book is a good one, though those who have read Chomsky's longer works will find it much less valuable than those who haven't. One hopes that one day Black Rose Books or whoever will be given the chance to publish something by Chomsky in which he actually does develop his anarchism and not merely reprise general libertarian themes as wonderful ideas.