The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 - free film at the Cowley Club
Cowley Film Club | 01.06.2012 07:46 | Anti-racism | History | Social Struggles
The third film of the Radical History Film Nights will be screening at the Cowley Club in Brighton on Wednesday, June 6th at 7:30pm. The film is free for all, and is made from recently discovered rare interviews with leading figures of the Black Panther Party.
Contrary to much of our popular received wisdom, the BPP were not simply a gang of violent anti-whites. Rather the BPP were a radical anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist force who had to be brutally repressed by the American state. Their Ten Point Plan (
http://www.blackpanther.org/TenPoint.htm) included demands for:
* an end to imperialist wars
* decent housing for all
* full employment
* free health care
* community control of resources
The BPP came together over the issue of police brutality, but were also strengthened in numbers by the ongoing war in Vietnam and the failures of the non-violent civil rights movement.
So come along and see this excellent Swedish documentary that chronicles the rise and fall of the BPP.
Visit http://www.cowleyclub.org.uk/?Library:Radical_History_Film_Nights for further details on this and other free films which will be screened at 12 London Road Brighton.
http://www.blackpanther.org/TenPoint.htm) included demands for: * an end to imperialist wars
* decent housing for all
* full employment
* free health care
* community control of resources
The BPP came together over the issue of police brutality, but were also strengthened in numbers by the ongoing war in Vietnam and the failures of the non-violent civil rights movement.
So come along and see this excellent Swedish documentary that chronicles the rise and fall of the BPP.
Visit
http://www.cowleyclub.org.uk/?Library:Radical_History_Film_Nights for further details on this and other free films which will be screened at 12 London Road Brighton.
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