Voice of Liberation: Jalil Abdul Mutagim
/Saturday, September 27th, 4:00pm
Voice of Liberation: Jalil Abdul Mutaqim
Eve Goldberg and Claude Marks, 2002, 20 min.
Jalil Abdul Muntaqim (formerly Anthony Bottom) was 19 years old when he was arrested. He is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, and is one of the longest held political prisoners in the world. This documentary is a unique opportunity to hear Jalil's story. While in San Quentin prison in California in 1976, Jalil launched the National Prisoners Campaign to Petition the United Nations to recognize the existence of political prisoners in the United States and in 1997 Jalil initiated the Jericho Movement. Over 6,000 supporters gathered in the Jericho '98 march in Washington DC and the Bay Area to demand amnesty for US political prisoners on the basis of international law. The Jericho Amnesty Movement aims to gain the recognition by the U.S. government and the United Nations that political prisoners exist in this country and that on the basis of international law, they should be granted amnesty because of the political nature of their cases.
Manufacturing Guilt
Stephen Vittoria, 2013, 40 min.
Manufacturing Guilt, the short film from Stephen Vittoria, producer and director of Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary, takes on the colossus of Abu-Jamal's contentious case, distilling a mountain of evidence and years of oft-repeated falsehoods to the most fundamental elements of police and prosecutorial misconduct that illustrate a clear and conscious effort to frame Mumia Abu-Jamal for the murder of patrolman Daniel Faulkner. Based on the actual record of investigations and court filings from 1995 to 2003—evidence denied by the courts and ignored in the press--Manufacturing Guilt cuts through the years of absurdities and overt racism to produce a clear picture of how Abu-Jamal's guilt was manufactured and his innocence suppressed beginning only moments after he and Faulkner were found shot in the early morning hours of December 9th, 1981. This historic and courageous film is the perfect companion to Long Distance Revolutionary —a film that is unequivocal in its force regarding Abu-Jamal's innocence..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUBlyRdAGTM
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama
C.A. Griffith & H.L.T. Quan, 2009, 97 min.
Mountains That Take Wing features conversations that span 13 years between two formidable women whose lives and political work remain at the epicenter of the most important civil rights struggles in the US. Through the intimacy and depth of conversations, we learn about Davis, an internationally renowned scholar-activist and 88-year-old Kochiyama, a revered grassroots community activist and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee's shared experiences as political prisoners and their profound passion for justice. On subjects ranging from the vital but largely erased role of women in social movements of the 20th century, community empowerment, to the prison industrial complex, war and the cultural arts, Davis' and Kochiyama's comments offer critical lessons for understanding our nation's most important social movements and tremendous hope for its youth and the future.
Q&A with Q&A Rachel Wolkenstein, legal consultant, and Keith Cook, Mumia Abu-Jamal's Brother and moderated by BPP Member Shabaom.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJik3l2vb1g&list=PLHWcXOdPg3tJ9GSMtZ6iBaUnyMI3_En-S&index=5
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7:00pm
But You Can’t Kill a Revolution
17 min.
A TV network investigation team visits a small Louisiana town to film racial profiling and the police killing of an unarmed grandfather on his porch. There they find out that the town is also home to the grave of Black Panther Party Leader, Fred Hampton, and the dynamic Illinois State Chapter Chairman. Hampton was killed in an illegal Chicago police raid in 1969. Activists around the world remember "Chairman Fred", but so does the Klu Klux Klan. "You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution! You can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution!!!“ - Fred Hampton
Manufacturing Guilt
Stephen Vittoria, 2013, 40 min.
Manufacturing Guilt, the short film from Stephen Vittoria, producer and director of Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary, takes on the colossus of Abu-Jamal's contentious case, distilling a mountain of evidence and years of oft-repeated falsehoods to the most fundamental elements of police and prosecutorial misconduct that illustrate a clear and conscious effort to frame Mumia Abu-Jamal for the murder of patrolman Daniel Faulkner. Based on the actual record of investigations and court filings from 1995 to 2003—evidence denied by the courts and ignored in the press--Manufacturing Guilt cuts through the years of absurdities and overt racism to produce a clear picture of how Abu-Jamal's guilt was manufactured and his innocence suppressed beginning only moments after he and Faulkner were found shot in the early morning hours of December 9th, 1981. This historic and courageous film is the perfect companion to Long Distance Revolutionary —a film that is unequivocal in its force regarding Abu-Jamal's innocence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUBlyRdAGTM
Let the Fire Burn
Jason Osder, 2013, 95 Min.
A history of the conflict of the City of Philadelphia and the Black Liberation organization, MOVE, that led to the disastrously violent final confrontation in 1985. In the astonishingly gripping Let the Fire Burn, director Jason Osder has crafted that rarest of cinematic objects: a found-footage film that unfurls with the tension of a great thriller. On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and controversial radical urban group MOVE came to a deadly climax. By order of local authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a MOVE-occupied rowhouse. TV cameras captured the conflagration that quickly escalated—and resulted in the tragic deaths of eleven people (including five children) and the destruction of 61 homes. It was only later discovered that authorities decided to “...let the fire burn.” Using only archival news coverage and interviews, first-time filmmaker Osder has brought to life one of the most tumultuous and largely forgotten clashes between government and citizens in modern American history.
Q&A with Ramona Africa, activist and Move bombing survivor and Keith Cook, Mumia Abu-Jamal's brother and moderated by BPP Member Shabaom.
Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoEGEHoMdLI&index=3&list=PLHWcXOdPg3tJ9GSMtZ6iBaUnyMI3_En-S
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