Date: June 3, 2013
Venue: the National Black Theater (Harlem)
Event review by Quincy Saul (Ecosocialist Horizons)
The event on June 3rd at the National Black Theater in Harlem, hosted by Scientific Soul Sessions, contained more than met the ear or eye. It was buttressed with next-level music; a soulful solo performance by the Iranian music activist Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi in the lobby prepared us for holding nothing back. We then flowed into the otherworldly wonder of the Scientific Soul Band, led by Ben Barson, premiering an original composition titled “Insurrealista.” The ensuing debate between veteran revolutionaries Fred Ho and Eric Mann (the Strategy Center) could only have been a beginning. But for those of us reading between the lines (and quite a few of the people in the audience certainly were) we can detect in this beginning what is and will be the debate of the century. It is not a debate about the problems but about the solutions.
