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Black Panther Party Film Fest 6: Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
The Sixth Annual Black Panther Party Film Festival
(Friday, September 26th - Saturday, September 27th
and Friday, October 3rd - Saturday, Oct 4th)
Remembering our political prisoners over 800 years in captivity
Produced by the Black Panther Commemoration Committee, NY in conjunction with Maysles Cinema
Saturday, October 4th @ 7:00 pm
Voices of Three Political Prisoners: Nuh Washington-Last Statement
The Freedom Archives, 2000, 20 min.
Albert "Nuh" Washington... a freedom loving, freedom fighter, Nuh joined the ancestors in prison on April 28, 2000, from cancer. Nuh fought a courageous battle with this disease. He was determined that the effects of the disease on his system would not compromise his integrity, self-respect or humanity. His life and death leaves a rich legacy to be learned from and cherished. In 1969, he joined the Denver, Colorado Chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), working with the Free Breakfast Program. By 1971, Nuh was working out of the San Francisco Branch of the Party. Nuh (the Arabic form of Noah) was a committed member of the Black Panther Party and later, after the notorious FBI-engineered East coast-West Coast split, worked with the Black Liberation Army (BLA), in defending the lives and dignity of black folk. Back in the 1970s, Nuh was shot and captured with another Panther, Jalil Muntaqim, and was later charged and convicted of murder along with Jalil and Herman Bell. Evidence has since surfaced strongly suggesting the three men were unjustly convicted in this case. For over 28 years Nuh (was) held in California and New York gulags, and repeatedly punished for his political ideas. When Nuh was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he was devastated. He never envisioned dying behind the walls. He always believed he could win his freedom. While accepting the diagnosis, he still fought until the end, but he sought to put his house in order, so to speak. His final days were spent doing this to the best of his ability.
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Shola Lynch, 2013, 102 min.
A documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
CLOSING RECEPTION AND PARTY.
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LocationMaysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York City, NY 10027
United States
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