[van-announce] Leonard Peltier Film Night: Thurs June 26 @ blinding light

[nastee]

Joint Effort and the Blinding Light Cinema Present:

LEONARD PELTIER FILM NIGHT

	Incident at Oglala
		and
	America's Mandela

June 26th 2003  8:00 pm
Blinding Light Cinema & Cafe 36 Powell Street
Admission $5 with a $3 membership

includes:

Coast Salish Welcome - Kelly White
A Song for Leonard Peltier - the Miller/Eastman Band
Speaker - Tom Kozar Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Canada (Coalition)

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On June 26 1975, a shoot out between the FBI and the American Indian
Movement (AIM) on the Pine Ridge Reservation left two agents and one
Indian man dead.  The ensuing police hunt would span two countries and
lead to the arrest and conviction of Leonard Peltier.  Through the
course of the next 26 years evidence would come to light showing that
Leonard was fraudulently extradited from Canada and subsequently
convicted for a crime he did not commit. The struggle to win justice and
freedom for Leonard Peltier continues around the world.


Incident at Oglala    US doc 1992    96 minutes
      Produced: Robert Redford
      Directed: Michael Apted


 Narrated by Robert Redford "Incident at Oglala" examines the incidents
leading up to the shootout at the Pine Ridge Reservation, and the
subsequent trials that resulted in the conviction of AIM activist
Leonard Peltier.  This documentary features interviews with Leonard,
prosecution and defense lawyers, as well as with Myrtle Poor Bear whose
testimony was key to Leonard's extradition from Vancouver in 1976.

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America's Mandela    US Doc 15 minutes
      Robert Free and David Valasque

 This short documentary explores history from the 1890 massacre at
Wounded Knee by the U.S. Calvary, to the 1973 American Indian Movement
occupation of Wounded Knee.

Coast Salish Welcome - Kelly White

A Song for Leonard Peltier - the Miller/Eastman Band

Speaker - Tom Kozar Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Canada (Coalition)

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Joint Effort is a women in prison support group who operate from an
abolitionist perspective and volunteer with prisoners at the Burnaby
Correctional Centre for Women.  In conjunction with the Blinding Light
Cinema we present films important to the struggle for justice and
liberation.
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/august10/jointeffort.html