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Screening of: Investigation of a Flame: A Documentary Portrait of the Catonsville 9
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Thursday November 29
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7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
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Location Details:
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Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall
1924 Cedar (@Bonita), Berkeley http://www.bfuu.org
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Screening
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This beautiful, haunting and evocative film by Lynne Sachs is the powerful story of what happened on May 17, 1968 when three priests, a nurse, an artist and four others walked into a Catonsville, MD draft board office. They grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with home-made napalm.
This is an intimate look at this unlikely band-dubbed the Catonsville Nine-who broke the law in a poetic act of civil disobedience. The publicity and news coverage from their ensuing trial helped galvanize an American public that was becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Vietnam War. Lynn Sachs explores the Sixties protest with our own difficult times and how we can act to get access to the public imagination (e.g. the Occupy movement). She has combined volatile long-unseen archival footage with a series of informal interviews with Berrigans, Howard Zinn and others. The meditative result encourages viewers to ponder the contemporary relevance of civil disobedience and the implications of personal sacrifice for the greater good. Endorsed by the St. Joseph Father Bill O'Donnell Social Justice Committee and the Ecumenical Peace Institute
Sponsored by the BFUU Social Justice Ctee as part of our Conscientious Projector Series for the 99%
Suggested donation $5-$10. No one turned away.
Wheelchair accessible.
Ph: 510-275-4272
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Released prisoner of conscience, Susan Crane, will lead discussion after the screening with another (anonymous) former prisoner of conscience!
This even may not be on our website, but it IS a go! In the wheelchair accessible Hall at 1924 Cedar a block east of MLK Way, about half way between downtown and north berkeley BART stations. Wheelchair ramp is around the corner on Bonita Ave.
