[van-announce] WAR AT HOME -Speakers & Films- May 13/14th

[Anti-Poverty Committee]

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The War at Home:
Communities Attacked by the State
Fundraiser for Skwelkwek’welt Protection Center

Saturday May 13th @ 2pm
SFU Harbour Ctr
515 W. Hastings : Room 1800

Join the Anti-Poverty Committee in an afternoon of speakers and movies
that focus attention on the ongoing war against community resistance to
colonialism and imperialism. This event is taking place on the 21st
anniversary of the state bombing of the MOVE house in Philadelphia and all
proceeds will be donated to the Skwelkwek’welt Protection Center to
support the ongoing legal defense campaign.

Speakers on the panel:

Sara Falconer:
Organizer with the Anarchist Black Cross Federation and an independent
journalist from Montreal.

Jaggi Singh:
Writer and activist based in Montreal. Currently very active working in
immigrant and refugee rights organizations and doing anti-globalization
work.

Niki Manuel:
Mother of two, defender of Secwepmc territories, member of Native Youth
Movement.

Jill Chettiar:
Organizer in the Downtown Eastside with the Anti-poverty Committee and
doing support work for sex working women’s groups.

Film Screening:

MOVE (2003, USA, 53min, in English)
Dir. Benjamin Garry & Ryan McKenna

This documentary covers the full controversial history of the radical
movement, MOVE, in Philadelphia that was created by John Africa in the
1970's. The story is told through interviews with actual MOVE members
including Ramona Africa, the MOVE 9 prisoners, and MOVE supporters and
analyzed by its neighbors, Philadelphia journalists and other outside
opinions. Howard Zinn, author of "The People's History of the United
States" narrates this interesting and informative documentary.


Also don’t miss!


Anarchist Black Cross Film Festival
Sunday, May 14th
2-6pm (come and go as you please)
327 Carrall St.
(off Hastings, beside Pigeon Park, close to Army & Navy)


The Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) is a network of organizations who provide
legal defense for political prisoners and struggles to abolish the system
that creates the conditions of mass-imprisonment and the poverty, racism
and colonization that accompanies imprisonment. Founded by former Black
Panthers and political prisoners, the ABC is a bridge binding the
struggles of imprisoned revolutionaries to the movements of today.

Proceeds of this event will be donated to the legal defense of activists
who are currently being rounded up throughout the United States under
anti-terror legislation.

Film Screenings:

Assata Shakur: From Somewhere in Cuba (30 min.)
In this 1997 interview with sister Assata Shakur, conducted at the 14th
annual World Youth Festival in Cuba, Assata shares with us her views on
current affairs, specifically dealing with Political Prisoners and
Prisoners of War, as well as the "New Plantation" of the U.S/ prison
industrial complex that is enslaving millions!

Resistance Conspiracy (40 min.)
Interviews with anti-imperialist political prisoners in the U.S.:  Alan
Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura
Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples' liberation
movements here and around the world. Come visit behind prison walls to
speak with 6 people the US government has labeled 'terrorists." They
discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused
of, the conditions they and other political prisoners’ face.


"All Power to the People" (60 min.)
"All Power to the People" uses the history of the Black Panther Party as a
backdrop to examine political issues in the 1960s, including, racism,
violence, poverty, drugs, police brutality and their continued relevance
today.  The riveting documentary features rare film footage, exclusive
interviews with former Panthers, members of the FBI and CIA, political
prisoners and leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.

"All Power to the People" was produced and directed by former Black
Panther Party member Lee Lew-Lee.  Awards include, "The Critics Award"
from the Southern Film Festival Memphis Black Writer's Conference in 1999,
 "The Black Filmworks Award" from the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and
"The Best Director, Finalist," Gordon Parks Award from the IFP in 1998.

The Weather Underground – (93 min.)
In the 1960s and 1970s, the polarization of the political situation of the
USA was becoming acute with the Vietnam War abroad and civil rights at
home being but the most obvious issues. For the youth political movement,
the seemingly ineffectual methods of peaceful protest and resistance led
to the rise of an idealistic faction that want a more extreme approach
that the Establishment could not ignore.

This faction, called the Weather Underground, attempted to team up with
the Black Panthers to violently confront the US government that started
with street riots and escalating to bombing government targets. Thorough
archival footage and interviews of the veterans of both sides of this
conflict, this film covers the resistance movement's campaign of selective
violence through this period until changing times and disillusionment
brought it to an end while the FBI used unethical and illegal methods to
hasten it.



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