Televising the Revolution: Film Screening for Attica to Abu Ghraib

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The Heads Up Collective Presents:

TELEVISING THE REVOLUTION: A Radical Film Series
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND 7PM

Featuring the Film . . .
“OUT, THE MAKING OF A REVOLUTIONARY”

A Benefit for

Attica to Abu Ghraib Conference
on Human Rights, Torture, and Resistance
email: info@attica2abughraib.com website: http://www.attica2abughraib.com phone: (510) 593-3956

Please join us every 4th Tuesday for radical films, discussions, and support local organizing while we're at it!
Each film will benefit a different organization, but donations are appreciated, not required.

EL RIO (3158 Mission @ Cesar Chavez, SF)
For more information, suggestions, or to help out, please contact radfilms@lycos.com
Wheelchair accessible, 21 and over, films are shown outdoors-bring your mittens!


Out, the Making of a Revolutionary:
Convicted of the 1983 US Capitol Bombing, and 'conspiring to influence, change, and protest policies and practices of the United States government through violent and illegal means", Laura Whitehorn, an out lesbian and one of six defendants in the Resistance Conspiracy Case, spent 14 years in prison. OUT is the story of her life and times - five tumultuous decades of struggle for freedom and justice. Planting a bomb in the US Capitol Building was the culmination of a lifetime of radical protest for Whitehorn, and 14 years in federal penitentiary have only solidified her stance as a committed American revolutionary.

Save these Dates!
Check out our revolutionary future features on the fourth Tuesdays at El Rio at 7pm:
March 22nd El Salvador
April 26th Haiti



From Attica to Abu Ghraib:

An Organizing Conference on Human Rights, Torture, and
Resistance

sponsored by the International Human Rights Initiative

Friday, April 22, 6 - 9 p.m.: Opening Event featuring
keynote speaker Cynthia McKinney.

St. Joseph the Worker Church 1640 Addison St.,
Berkeley, California

Saturday, April 23, 8:30 a.m. - 9 p.m: Working
Conference.

U.C. Berkeley, Dwinelle Hall

Torture, illegal detention and other human rights
abuses have always been weapons used by the United
States government to crush dissent and social justice
movements. Today, the criminalization of people of
color in the US, mass illegal detentions and
deportations of Arabs, Muslims and immigrants, torture
in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and in US prisons are
evidence of a terrifying escalation in US repression
both at home and abroad.

What can we do? Our strength lies in building on the
experiences of those who resist: here in the US, in
Latin America, Palestine, the Philippines, the
Caribbean, and in countless communities throughout the
world. The International Human Rights Initiative was
conceived by a strong diverse coalition, including US
political prisoners, to help unite the emerging global
resistance movement.