[van-announce] FILM: Alcatraz is Not An Island: Wed Nov 20th

[emily_aspinwall]

In the Spirit of Resistance on the Anniversary of the Occupation of
Alcatraz, Joint Effort and the Blinding Light Cinema present the
documentary film:

			ALCATRAZ IS NOT AN ISLAND

Wed November 20th   8:30pm
Blinding Light Cinema
36 Powell St, Gastown, Vancouver
$5 (with $3 annual Blinding Light membership)

			directed by:  JAMES FORTIER, 2001  (60 minutes)
For thousands of Native Americans, the infamous Alcatraz is not an
island...it is an inspiration.  After generations of oppression,
assimilation, and near genocide, a small group of Native American
students and "Urban Indians" began the occupation of Alcatraz Island in
November of 1969.  They were eventually joined by thousands of Native
Americans, retaking "Indian land" for the first time since the 1880s.
"ALCATRAZ IS NOT AN ISLAND" is the story of how this historic event
altered U.S. Government Indian policy and programs, and how it forever
changed the way Native Americans viewed themselves, their culture and
their sovereign rights.

Out of Alcatraz came the "Red Power" movement of the 1970s, which has
been called the lost chapter of the Civil Rights era.  Thirty years
after the take over of Alcatraz, this documentary provides the first
in-depth look at the history, politics, personalities and cultural
reawakening behind this historic event, which sparked a new era of
Native American political empowerment, and a cultural renaissance.

This film is co-presented by Joint Effort, a women in prison support
group.  Joint Effort operates from an abolitionist perspective and
volunteer with the prisoners at Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women.
Joint Effort commemorates important dates in the people's history with our
ongoing film series.

Joint Effort
P.O. Box 78005
2606 Commercial Drive
Vancouver, B.C.		V5W 5W1

604.682.3269 ext 3019
j_effort at hotmail.com
www.vcn.bc.ca/august10/jointeffort.html