(NYC) Free Angela presented by the COMMUNIST PARTY

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I'm in CA, so I don't get to go, but there are 54 seats left and thought some east coast DUers might like to see this documentary. It came and went in the theaters really quickly and many missed it (I did, boo.)

https://www.facebook.com/events/461007467327097/466800770081100/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

Buy tickets on this page: http://www.tugg.com/events/4331

"We’re hosting a special one-time only screening of FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS. The screening is through Tugg.com and we need to get 81 total people together for the screening to happen! The deadline is June 20. Credit cards won’t be charged until we meet the RSVP minimum!

Let’s work together to bring this important documentary about icon Angela Davis to our community!

Free Angela is a gripping historic account of the events that catapulted a young University of California at Los Angeles philosophy professor into a controversial political icon in the turbulent late 1960’s. Nearly forty years later, and for the first time, Angela Davis speaks frankly about the actions that branded her as a terrorist and simultaneously spurred a worldwide political movement for her freedom.

It’s an edge-of-your seat thriller told for the first time by Angela and others who lived through the events firsthand. The interviews recount the politics that led her to challenge authority and spur a worldwide movement for her freedom that cemented Angela Davis, and her signature Afro hairstyle, as an iconic symbol of this still relevant political and social movement — the right to challenge the system.

Free Angela is a must see documentary! The film delivers by empowering and inspiring diverse international audiences with its message of hope and redemption. You know her name. Now, you will finally know her story."

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I was in the courtroom during her trial in Marin County.

that was a fun introduction into the politics of the legal system.

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2. Whoa!

I'd love to hear more about your memories of that if you have time.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. This was back in 71, my memories are a bit hazy. I was all of 25, being there was by chance.

Was staying in Novato, with friends, so it was easy to pop into the courtroom.
I had a friend who was working at a radion station in Wash. state and he had asked for reports from the trial,
before I left for Ca.
So I phoned in the reports, since he had given me a press card that the court cops surprisingly honored.
Actually surprised, today, how easy it was to get into the courtroom, in light of the rshooting there that had led to the trial in the first place.
I remember the tone and feeling of the court, mostly, there was a lot of tension and anger in the air.

But almost equally impressed that the building had been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
( Google Marin County Courthouse, if you like..cool building)
The trial was my first up close view of how radicalism had hit the country,it made a huge impression on me,
because I had been so politically active in Wash. state at the time.

There was SO much stuff goiing on in the early 70's, it was pretty heady even being in San Francisco back then.

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4. There's a good interview with the director here.

For those of us who might not be able to watch the movie for a while..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Q52emO0JYgI