In Commemoration Of The Attica Prison Rebellion & Massacre The Zulu Nation presents a Free Screen of "Attica" the film

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In Commemoration Of The 44th Anniversary Of The 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion & Massacre... The Universal Zulu Nation Presents A "FREE" Community Film Screening Of:   Eloquence keeps turning up in the midst of jargon and there is nothing so eloquent as the last line of the film, spoken on the soundtrack by an ex-inmate who would shake the public out of its historic disinterest in penal reform. 'Wake up,' he says, 'because nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.'"   In light of current events and reports of torture and other ill-treatment of detainees by US authorities in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, and at other secret locations, Attica has particularly significant relevance today.           Wednesday, September 2, 2015  6:00pm - 7:30pm* The National Black Theater 20 Fifth Avenue, Harlem, New York 100  (Bet. 125th & 126th Streets - Doors Open At 5:30pm - Take 2,3,4,5,6 Trains To 125th)   *Note: The Film Screening Will Be Immediately Followed By A Q&A Discussion With 1971 Attica Prison Survivors & An Attica Archives Exhibition Will Be On Display. Also, All Guests Are Then More Than Welcome To Stay and Participate In Our Zulu Nation Community & Universal Meeting From 7:30pm - 9:00pm.   ATTICA Film Factology:   Shortly following the August 21, 1971 assassination of prison activist and Black Panther Party Field Marshal George L. Jackson at San Quentin Prison; Social unrest in the United States hit a boiling point on September 9, 1971, when inmates at Attica State Prison — after months of protesting inhumane living conditions — revolted, seizing part of the prison and taking 39 hostages. The uprising resulted in the death of 43 people after state troopers were called in during the middle of peaceful negotiations, to retake the prison by force. Three years later, Cinda Firestone released this monumental investigation of the rebellion and its aftermath, piecing together documentary footage of the occupation and ensuing assault with video from the McKay Commission hearings that criticized Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller’s handling of the incident and firsthand interviews with prisoners discharged after the event.  Unavailable for 33 years, Attica (Cinda Firestone, US, 1974) still is a sobering and revealing look into the heart of American justice, weighing the costs of institutional dishonesty and abuses of power against the price some will pay to retain human dignity.     Event Is Produced By The Universal Zulu Nation Department of Community Affairs  --  https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=38dzh6PZ2mH41S-jqYWnS30TSiVf01M67iV2nwU_Bv_E4QU1pqAf_RAmf0m&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8de62a88b92df045c56447d40d60b23a7c Free All Political Prisoners! [e-mail] • www.jerichony.org

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