LAPD/Los Angeles Poverty Department presents
AGENTS & ASSETS
Wednesday, May 25, 7:30 p.m.
The Democracy Forum @ The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
111 North Central Avenue
(corner of First St. & Central Ave., across the Plaza from the Japanese American National Museum)
Los Angeles 90012
Tickets: $8 General Admission; $5 Seniors and Students
For tickets call: 213.625.0414
LAPD and The National Center welcome NCC participants. For media tickets only, contact MartinWolfe: Susan Martin, martinsusan@cybermesa.com 505.685.4664 or Karen Wolfe, karen@thewolfepack.us 310.823.4204.
For more than twenty years, LAPD has used the arts to focus on the social forces that shape the experiences of people living in poverty. Their powerful performance of Agents & Assets dramatizes a 1998 Congressional Hearing about allegations of CIA involvement in drug trafficking to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. The issues addressed by Agents & Assets foreshadow current events and rests at the very core of our notions of democracy, civil liberties, and the separation of powers.
The performance is followed by a public discussion, Journalism, Propaganda & the War on Drugs with Alfred McCoy, historian, University of Wisconsin-Madison; author of The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade and Robert Parry, editor IF magazine; reporter who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for AP and Newsweek; author of Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.
For more information about LAPD/Los Angeles Poverty Department and other Agent & Assets performances, visit lapovertydept.org
