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DESCRIPTION:Evening Commemorating the Attica Rebellion - film showing A NATION OF LAW? 
 from Eyes on the Prize, an award-winning documentary series\n\nThis 
 September marks the 45th anniversary of the most powerful and significant 
 prison uprising in U.S. history - the Attica Rebellion. Over half of 
 Attica's 2,200 inmates, mainly Black but also white and Puerto Rican 
 prisoners, seized control of large parts of the prison, taking 38 guards 
 hostage in protest of horrendous living conditions and the way people are 
 treated by this system.\n\nOn September 13th, 1971,  NY Governor 
 Rockefeller, backed by the Nixon administration, sent hundreds of police 
 and National Guard into the prison, machine guns blazing - they murdered 39 
 unarmed people. Attica was an important part of the Black Liberation 
 struggle and revolutionary upheaval of the 1960s.  It speaks powerfully to 
 us today - revealing a government that will murder dozens in cold blood to 
 restore its illegitimate order, and even more, showing the capacity of 
 those cast out and reviled by this society to rise up for liberation and 
 emancipation.\n \n"We are men. We are not beasts, and we do not intend to 
 be beaten and driven as such... What has happened here is but the sound 
 before the fury of those who are oppressed..." L.D. Barkley, one of the 
 leaders of the rebellion and one of those murdered 9-13-71. Read more from 
 the Revolution series  American Crime Case #81 - Massacre of Heroic Attica 
 Prisoners\n \nEyes on the Prize is an award-winning 14-hour television 
 series. Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, the series 
 covers all of the major events of the civil rights movement from 1954-1985. 
 The segment "A Nation of Law?" begins with the story of the FBI's 
 COINTELPRO  and its vicious 1969 murder of Fred Hampton, a 21 year old 
 leader of the Black Panther Party.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/11/18791072.php
SUMMARY:Evening Commemorating the Attica Rebellion - film showing A NATION OF LAW?
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 DURANT AVENUE, Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/11/18791072.php
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