White Dog Cafe - Storytelling - Telling Stories to Defeat the Death Penality

While researching and writing about the death penalty, author/activist Pam McAllister discovered a world of stories - not only the powerful personal stories of crime victims’ families or of people waiting on death row, but mind-bending, heart & eye-opening stories from popular media (film, fiction, tv...); stories that inspire people to continue the struggle to Stop the Death Penalty. Pam will share these stories and offer ways to use them to change the world. Pam’s most recent book, Death Defying: Dismantling the Execution Machinery in 21st Century U.S.A., has been described as a lively, life-embracing handbook for death penalty abolitionists. Her groundbreaking anthology, Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence, was followed by two books of stories about women’s nonviolent social action.

Storytelling night provides the opportunity to hear the life stories of a variety of peoples and gives voice to underrepresented groups such as ex-offenders, senior citizens, gays, youth, immigrants and homeless people. They also provide a forum to exchange perspectives at a personal level on experiences such as war, civil rights marches, parenting issues, and illness.

For reservations for à la carte dinner 6pm, and/or Storytelling at 7:30, call 215-386-9224. (Preferential seating given to those dining; remaining seats available to those with reservation for storytelling only.) Singles welcome at group tables.