Black August Resistance Films

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via Sis. Mami Wata
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Black August Resistance 2008

"Resistance Films" Every Saturday in August at The AFIBA Center
(Afrikan Firefighters in Benevolent Association)
5730 S. Crenshaw Blvd. near Slauson

7:00 pm sharp!


The point is not whether you have seen the films before; the point is to watch them with other Black folks, and share thoughts, analyses and maybe even some laughs, in a collective setting. A small price to pay during the month we salute those who are unable to do so with us ...

August 9th:
UTU (120 minutes)
"In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge)."


August 16th:
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (53 minutes)
"The story of a forgotten civil rights figure who dared to advocate armed resistance to the violence of the Jim Crow South."


August 23rd:
Adam Abdul Hakeem: One Who Survived (40 minutes)
"Nineteen-year-old Adam Abdul Hakeem (Larry Davis) was the first person in American judicial history to be found innocent by reason of self defense in a police shooting case."

AND/OR
(TO BE DETERMINED)

Bandit Queen (119 minutes)
"Based on the true story of legendary female warrior Phoolan Devi,a modern-day Robin Hood, a heroine to the lower castes of India, a "goddess" to the people who love her."

OR

Flame (85 minutes)
"Flame is the story of two close friends whose involvement in the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe lead to very different outcomes."


August 30th:
Gordon's War (90 minutes)
"A Vietnam veteran returns home to find drug dealers and addicts now rule his old neighborhood, and that even his own wife has fallen victim to drugs. Together with three of his buddies from Vietnam, he fights back."