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DESCRIPTION:THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN- SCREENING WEDNESDAY 14TH, 9PM, STATION 40\n\nlets 
 learn from the past and build towards the future!\n\n"The Potemkin uprising 
 was a 1905 mutiny of the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin against 
 their officers, which was part of the Russian Revolution of 1905. It later 
 came to be viewed as an initial step towards the Russian Revolution of 
 1917, and was the basis of the silent film Battleship Potemkin".\n\n"The 
 Battleship Potemkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei\nEisenstein 
 and produced by Mosfilm. It is a fictional narrative film meant\nto glorify 
 a real-life event that occurred in 1905, the Battleship\nPotemkin uprising, 
 when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive 
 officers during the Tsarist regime. Potemkin has been called one of the 
 most influential films of all time, and it was named the greatest film of 
 all time at the World's Fair".\n\n“To all civilized citizens and to the 
 working people! The crimes of the autocratic government have exhausted all 
 patience. The whole of Russia, burning with indignation, exclaims: Down 
 with the chains of bondage! The government wants to drown the country in 
 blood, forgetting that the troops consist of sons of the oppressed people. 
 The crew of the Potemkin has taken the first decisive step. We refuse to go 
 on acting as the people’s\nhangman. Our slogan is: freedom for the whole 
 Russian people or death! We demand an end to the war and the immediate 
 convocation of a constituent assembly on the basis of universal suffrage. 
 That is the aim for which we shall fight to the end: victory or death! All 
 free men, all workers will be on our side in the struggle for liberty and 
 peace. Down with the autocracy! Long live the constituent 
 assembly!”\n\nLenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, 
 Volume 41, pages 169.2-170.1.\n\nA reference to the mutiny on the 
 battleship Potemkin, which broke out on June 14 (27), 1905. The ship 
 entered Odessa, just then in the grip of a general strike, but no use was 
 made of the favorable conditions for joint action by the workers and 
 sailors. The Bolshevik organization in Odessa had been weakened by arrests, 
 and was not united. The Mensheviks were opposed to an armed uprising and 
 tried to restrain the workers and sailors\nfrom offensive operations. The 
 tsarist government sent the whole of its Black Sea Fleet to crush the 
 Potemkin mutiny, but the sailors refused to fire at the insurgent ship, and 
 their commanders were forced to withdraw the fleet. After sailing the seas 
 for eleven days, the Potemkin, short of food and coal, made for Rumania and 
 there surrendered to the Rumanian authorities. Most of its sailors remained 
 abroad. Those of them who returned were arrested and committed for 
 trial.\n\nThe Potemkin mutiny failed but the fact that the crew of a major 
 warship had gone over to the revolution was an important advance in the 
 struggle against the autocracy. Lenin said the uprising was an “attempt 
 to form the nucleus of a revolutionary 
 army”\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Potemkin_uprising\nhttp://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/00/4/potemkin.html\n--\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/14/18280698.php
SUMMARY:BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN 101 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!
LOCATION:Station 40 \n3030B 16th street near Mission street, across from bart 
 plaza\nbetween dollar store and market
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