(Weds 4th / 7pm / £3/2 but nobody refused entry for a lack of funds)
Inspirational films from the London activist video collective and guests, and the chance to make your own news and screen it on the night.Programme subject to change on the night depending on what's happening, but you'll get films from Reel News 17 (out on Feb 2nd) - hopefully showing a growing resistance to the global recession! - PLUS:
THE LEGACY OF THE BLACK PANTHERS (20:49)
Spawned by the civil rights movement of the 60s, the Black Panther Party have been constantly misrepresented. Here ex-members speak for themselves about this great revolutionary party, particularly their groundbreaking community activism, and why they are still so relevant today. Features ex-central committee member David Hilliard, minister for culture and revolutionary artist Emory Douglas, head of the Black Panther alumni Billy X Jennings and founder member of the White Panther Party John Sinclair.
Includes discussion with THE TREATMENT ROOMS, a political artists collective who are doing incredible work with ex-members of the Black Panthers still held as political prisoners in solitary confinement in the U.S. after over 30 years, and with other prisoners on death row.
ARGENTINA IN REVOLT (33:08)
We last saw a banking system collapse in Argentina in 2001. The resultant uprising brought down 4 governments in 10 days and saw millions of ordinary people take to the streets with the cry of "QUE SE VAYAN TODOS" - GET RID OF THEM ALL! Includes discussion: could it happen here?
Plus rebel poetry from Grassy Noel, and music to finish off the night from local djs.
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