The
ProLibertad Freedom Campaign is asking folks to support these two events
in NYC dedicated to the Cuban 5 and our brother Sekou Odinga!
FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH/FILM FESTIVAL!
Friday Sept. 30th, 2011 at 7pm-10pm
Casa de Las Americas 182 E. 111th St. (Btwn. Lexington and Third Ave.)
Take the 6 train to E. 110th St.
Suggested donation: $5 (No one will be turned away)
¡Salud!:
A
timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us
all, ¡Salud!looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country
with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From
the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud!hits the road with some of
the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and
explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba
-- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their
stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the
competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex
realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birth
right.
A feature documentary, ¡Salud! is directed by Academy
Award nominee Connie Field and co-produced by Gail Reed. The film spans
three continents to look at the philosophy and health professionals
placing Cuba on the map in the worldwide movement to make health care a
global birthright. Today, Cubans are among the world’s healthiest
people, despite the island’s poverty. Cuba’s volunteer corps now posts
28,000 health professionals in 68 countries; and Cuban medical schools
will graduate an unprecedented 100,000 new doctors from developing
countries over the next decade.
A Benefit for POW Sekou Odinga
Support One of Cointelpro's Victims!
Film, Discussion, Culture
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive, Room 9T
(120th and Claremont, Manhattan)
6 to 10 pm
Host: dequi kioni sadiki
Panelists: Pam Hanna, andrew of NYCABCF
Other Panelists and Cultural Performances
to be Announced!
COINTELPRO
began in 1956 and continued through the 1960s and into the 1970s,
focusing particularly on the Puerto Rican Independence, Black
Liberation, Chicano Liberation and American Indian Movements. COINTELPRO
racked up a number of assassinations, false imprisonments and ruined
lives. No government official was ever punished for actions taken under
the program’s auspices.
The film by
Freedom Archives details this history through the artful use of still
photos and moving images of the period covered. Films of police attacks
and protests; still photos of revolutionary leaders and police murders
graphically remind the viewer of Washington’s willingness to do whatever
it takes to maintain its control. Organizers who began their political
activity during the time of Cointelpro discuss the effect the program
had on them and the organizations and individuals they worked with.
Indeed, several of the interviewees were themselves targets and spent
years in prison (some under false accusations, as in the case of
Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt) or on the run.
Former Black
Panther member Kathleen Cleaver states toward the end of the film that
COINTELPRO represented the efforts of a political police force making
the decision as to what is allowed politically and what is not. Anything
outside the parameters set by this force was fair game. Nothing that
was done by government officials or private groups and individuals
acting on the government’s behalf was perceived as wrong or illegal. As
Attorney Bob Boyle makes clear in his final statement in the film,
COINTELPRO is alive and well. The only difference now is that most of
what was illegal for the government to do during COINTELPRO’s official
existence is now legal. The PATRIOT Act and other laws associated with
the creation of the Department of Homeland Security have insured this.
COINTELPRO 101
is a well made and appealing primer on the history of the US police
state. Produced, written and directed by individuals who have themselves
been the target of tactics documented in the film, it has an
authenticity and immediacy that pulls the viewer in. Although too short
to cover the history in as full detail as some may desire, the film’s
intelligence and conscientious presentation of the historical narrative
makes it a film that the student, the citizen and the activist can all
appreciate.
Dinner will be Served for $5!
The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
718-601-4751
Sponsored by: Sekou Odinga Defense Committee,
Riverside Church Prison Ministry
For more information:
•
www.jerichony.org •
nycjericho@gmail.com • 718-512-5008
