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Monday 14th October 2013 - Film Screening: C.O.P: Crimes of the Police UK PREMIERE
Tuesday 15th October 2013 - Film Screening: Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend
Wednesday 16th October 2013 - Film Screening: All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party
Wednesday
30th October 2013 -
Presentation: Guns, Gangs, Families and Communities
See below for more details.
These events will be held at the PCS Headquarters (CLAPHAM JUNCTION), 160 Falcon Road, Clapham Junction, London SW11 2LN, (3 minutes walk from Clapham Junction mainline station. Buses to the venue 35, 37, 39, 49, 77, 87, 156, 70, 219, 239, 295, 319, 337, 334, 345, C3, G1)
C.O.P: Crimes of the Police UK PREMIERE
Between 2010 and 2012, four unarmed Black males were killed by police in San Joaquin county in Northern California, within this same time period several unarmed Black males were also killed by police in the Northern California cities of Oakland and San Francisco.
The Crimes of Police documentary hinges on these cases and paints a vivid picture of the reality of Police Brutality in America.
This documentary is presented from the view of the victims and their families. The film delves deep into these cases while looking at police brutality and corruption from a historical standpoint. The film contains interviews with family members of victims as well as graphic images of some of the incidents as they happened and were being video recorded.
The film also consists of interviews with Attorney Adante Pointer From The Law Offices Of John Burris, who handles many of these cases, and also an interview with former Black Panther Party Chairperson Elaine Brown.
By the end of this film one is left to wonder how after all of these fatalities of unarmed men, only one officer in California history has been charged with murder for killing an unarmed suspect in the line of duty.
Doors open at 6.30pm. The screening will start at 7pm.
Admission is £5 per person. Email in...@blackhistorystudies.com to confirm your attendance.
Film Screening: Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend
Based on footage shot in the early seventies and lost for more than thirty years, NAACP Image Award winner Esther Anderson takes us on a journey to Jamaica and into 56 Hope Road, Kingston, to see and hear the young Bob Marley before he was famous.
The film shows us the Wailers' first rehearsal, when the idea of a Jamaican supergroup like the Beatles or the Stones was still just a dream. We sit in on the launch of their international career with "Get up Stand up", "I Shot the Sheriff", and the "Burnin'" and "Catch a Fire" albums that brought to the world Reggae music and Rasta consciousness together as one, starting a revolution that would change rock music and contemporary culture.
Followed by a Q&A with director Esther Anderson and co-director Gian Godoy. DVDs and T-shirts will be on sale on the night.
Doors open at 6.30pm. The screening will start at 7pm.
Admission is £5 per person.
Email in...@blackhistorystudies.com to confirm your attendance.
Film Screening: All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party
Working as a TV cameraman during the 1992 L.A. riots, Lee Lew-Lee became curious about the history of American race relations and the Black Panther Party (founded in Oakland in 1967). His research led to this fast-paced documentary, made with a transfer of video to 16mm. Archival footage is combined with interviews, from ex-CIA officer Philip Agee, journalist/filmmaker Gordon Parks, and former FBI Special Agent W. Swearingen to various Panthers and political radicals.
The film covers slavery, civil-rights activists, assassinations in the '60s, and it explores methods used by police, the FBI, and the CIA to divide and destroy the key figures in the Black Panthers. The film expands beyond the Panther history to more recent times, covering Reagan-Era events, privacy threats from new technologies and the failure of the War Against Drugs.
Doors open at 6.30pm. The screening will start at 7pm.
Admission is £5 per person. Children under 16 are FREE.
Email in...@blackhistorystudies.com to confirm your attendance.