04 - Speakers Bureau
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Who is Bob Brown?
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Request Bob to speak to your organization!
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It was 1967, and Bob Brown had just been appointed director of the Midwest Office of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Chicago. A time when the student and youth, civil and human rights, Black Power, national liberation, Pan-African, socialist and peace movements where at the barricades on the campus and in the streets, in every corner of Africa, the African Diaspora, and the World, and rocking them too their foundations.
Campuses and communities were open, unlike today, and students and youth of all colors and political persuasions were searching for and demanding to hear and meet organizers and leaders, history makers and newsmakers, directly.
The Friends of SNCC in Chicago invited Kwame Ture, then known as Stokely Carmichael, to speak at a community-based rally whose theme was “Back to Black” and to attend a “Big Black Dance” after the rally. More than 3,000 youth, and community activists packed the auditorium, Kwame rapped to Black Power shouts and standing applause, and then we partied, in the hundreds, until the sun rose the next morning.
For the past forty years, Bob, through SNCC, the Black Panther Party, Pan-African Roots, and the all-African People’s Revolutionary Party, has booked, and helped coordinate the booking, of hundreds of speakers at thousands of events, from small meetings and demonstrations, to the Million Man March.
Today, Pan-African Roots offers this wealth of experience and contacts to help you find the right speaker or right cultural worker for your event. It can help you develop a program geared to your audience and agenda. It can help you identify and reach out to progressive and revolutionary speakers and cultural, no matter where they live or work in the world, and help you negotiate their participation in your event. It goes beyond the scheduling of speakers and edutainers–it supplies ideas and names, and makes things happen.
It normally takes a minimum of six-to-twelve weeks to plan and organize a successful event, but when the will and way are there, Pan-African Roots has been known to work wonders, overnight. It has the will, and can help you find the way.
If you would like to schedule Bob Brown, or another speaker or cultural worker for your event, please complete our Speakers Request Form.
For more information, you can reach us via email at info@paroots.org, via phone at (202) 544-9355, or via fax at (202) 544-9359.
We look forward to working with you!
Related links:
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Who is Bob Brown?
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Presentations by Bob!
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Other Topics!
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Request Bob to speak to your organization!
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Help poor students & youth hear Bob speak!
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