Fa$ci$t Watch presents...
All Power to the People:
The Black Panther Party and Beyond
(1996)
Sunday, August 20
7pm
FREE!
1919 Hemphill
1919 Hemphill St.
Fort Worth, TX 76110
http://1919hemphill.org
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about the film:
http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/AllPower.htm
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in
America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for
the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists
transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale
and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major
element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the
black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which
followed.
The party struck fear in the hearts of the
'establishment' which viewed it as a terrorist group. Interviews with
former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and
FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a 'secret
domestic war' of assassination, imprisonment and torture as the weapons
of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for
while it praises their early courage and moral idealism. It exposes
their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, and narcissism.
Broadcast in 19 countries abroad and winner of 9 awards, the film is an
important look at the turmoils of the 60's and its leading players.
'Best film that I've ever seen on the 60's movement.' - Cornel West Harvard University
'The 60's as reported by a gifted, radical journalist of color.' - L.A. Times
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info you can use:
** Check the calendar for next week's awesome film:
http://1919hemphill.org/calendar.html
** We have A/C, but dress appropriately.
** 1919 screenings are fun, and we talk about the movie and it's
political implications afterwards
** We have lotsa comfy seating (couches, recliners, upholstered
rocking chairs, etc.)
** PARKING: if the lot is full, you can either park next door at
Aurora's Salon, across the street at the Laundrymat, or down the block at the Church (you won't be towed anywhere - except at Eddie's Chicken =).
** CONTACT: Ramsey - evolve@1919hemphill.org
Official Website: http://1919hemphill.org