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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
Date:
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Time:
11:15 AM
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12:45 PM
Event Type:
Other
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Location Details:
The Roda Theater (at Berkeley Repertory Theatre)
The 1960s’ and ’70s' most famous, rabble-rousing and radical defense attorney is put on the witness stand and cross-examined by two of his daughters in this riveting and complex portrait. For Sarah and Emily Kunstler, making this film is not an exercise in hagiography. It’s an effort to understand and find reconciliation with a man who defended not only civil rights activists, the Chicago 7 and the Catonsville Nine Catholic antiwar campaigners, but also accused rapists, cop killers, terrorists and assassins. “Justice, Justice shalt thou pursue,” says the Torah, but Kunstler’s daughters ask, “At a certain point, was he standing for anything worth fighting for?” Had celebrity gone to his head? Was he, as Alan Dershowitz says, “a hypocrite”? With amazing archival footage, intimate home movies and the participation of many leading ’60s activists, this film revives the conflicts and injustices that stoked a generation, with Kunstler always on the frontlines—helping to prevent a massacre of American Indian militants at Wounded Knee, but failing to prevent one at New York’s notorious Attica State Prison. The sisters show us a charming crusader always ready to serve his clients with a higher sense of justice. He’s the kind of lawyer any revolutionary would want not just for the defense but for the cause.
For more information:
http://fest.sfjff.org/film/detail?id=4681
Added to the calendar on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 6:37PM
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1) Better to be a cop-killer than a victim of a killer-cop!
2) Most people labelled "terrorists" by the U.S. Dept. of Injustice are actually or potentially armed opponents of the U.S. terror-state, or supporters of such opponents. Except for the few right-wing racist terrorists that actually get prosecuted by the United Snakes government, most accused "terrorists" should be vigorously defended.
3) As for accused assassins, it depends on whom, if anybody, they assassinated.
And why should anybody give a damn about what ZioNazi thug Alan Dershowitz said about William Kunstler, or even about Adolf Hitler, for that matter! (If there were a Jewish Hitler, Dershowitz would probably be his Attorney General.)
2) Most people labelled "terrorists" by the U.S. Dept. of Injustice are actually or potentially armed opponents of the U.S. terror-state, or supporters of such opponents. Except for the few right-wing racist terrorists that actually get prosecuted by the United Snakes government, most accused "terrorists" should be vigorously defended.
3) As for accused assassins, it depends on whom, if anybody, they assassinated.
And why should anybody give a damn about what ZioNazi thug Alan Dershowitz said about William Kunstler, or even about Adolf Hitler, for that matter! (If there were a Jewish Hitler, Dershowitz would probably be his Attorney General.)
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