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Free Event – A CONTINUOUS STRUGGLE: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIFE OF MARTIN SOSTRE

  • Maysles 343 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY, 10027 United States (map)

IN CINEMA

Thursday, May 1st at 6:30PM
FRAME UP: THE IMPRISONMENT OF MARTIN SOSTRE
Co-presented AK Press

Joel Sucher, Produced by Pacific Street Films, 1974, 30 min.

Join us for the book launch of A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre, the first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism. The program will include a special screening of the short documentary which helped secure Sostre's clemency in 1975, FRAME UP! THE IMPRISONMENT OF MARTIN SOSTRE (1974) by Pacific Street Films, to be followed by a discussion with the book's author, Garrett Felber, organizer and writer Derecka Purnell, and Maysles' executive director Kazembe Balagun.

+ Post-Screening Discussion / Reception to be followed by a discussion with the book's author, Garrett Felber, organizer and writer Derecka Purnell, and Maysles' executive director Kazembe Balagun!

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC