[Street] corrections re: Occupy Film Series about Prisoner Occupation at Walpole.
Joseph Ramsey
jgramsey at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 15:40:02 EST 2012
Hey again, everyone (sorry for the multiple emails!):
I need to correct some mis-information in that last email re: OccupyFilm.
1) The actual title of the film about the Walpole prisoner action is,
"3000 Years and Life."
2) "When the Prisoners Ran Walpole" is the name of the book about this
important local historical event.
3) Jamie Bisonette is not the director of the film, but the co-author of
the book! Moreover, she and her co-author will be joining us for hte
discussion after the film. Another great reason to come.
4) The date, time, and location info are all correct though! :)
5) This is not the first but in fact the second event in the OccupyFilm
series on "occupied peoples and people's occupations." The first is a
film called *Left on Pearl*, more about which soon!
Sorry for any confusion,
Joe Ramsey
on behalf of the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series.
www.zinnlectures.wordpress.com
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Joseph Ramsey <jgramsey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear fellow occupieres, activists, friends, colleagues, and comrades:
>
>
> On behalf of the *Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series*, I would like to
> invite you to the inaugural film in our new *Occupy Film* series, a
> series of films and discussions focused on Occupied Peoples and People's
> Occupations. Our series hopes to shed historical and social light on our
> current situation, by bringing people together to reflect on past and
> present people's struggles, in particular those struggles which are most
> often buried in the mainstream historical narrative.
>
> Our first film is a breath-taking documentary about a local, and
> historic, prison struggle:
>
> *WHEN THE PRISONERS RAN WALPOLE: a true story in the movement for prison
> abolition*
> *Directed by: Jamie Bisonette*
> **
> *Thursday, Feb 23rd, 7:30 pm*
> **
> *Community Church, Copley Square*
> **
> *565 Bolyston St. #2, Boston, MA*
>
> *The film screening is free and open to the public*, and will be followed
> by open discussion.
>
> *See the flier for the event here:*
> http://physics.bu.edu/~pankajm/Activism/walpole.pdf
>
> *About the film:*
>
> Two years after the massacre at Attica , prison guards at the
> Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Walpole
>
> walked out in response to progressive reforms at the facility. Here's what
> followed (in the words of Jamie
>
> Bissonnette, author of
> *When the Prisoners Ran Walpole*): "the prisoners stepped ably into the
> void—and
>
> all-out peace ensued. They shrank the murder rate from the highest in the
> country to zero. Even more
>
> signicantly, they worked hard to bury racial antagonism and longstanding
> feuds so even 'lifers' with no
>
> hope of going home could nd ways to live together, learn, and grow—to
> regain, nally, the humanity
>
> that the system intended to squash." Come see original footage of the
> occupation of Walpole, and learn
>
> about about a forgotten period of prison reform and activism for prison
> abolition.
>
>
>
> Please mark your calendars, and spread the word!
>
>
>
> Yours in the struggle,
>
> Joe Ramsey
>
>
>
> Sponsored by Howard Zinn Lecture Series @
> OCCUPY BOSTON
>
> zinnlectures.wordpress.com
>
>
>
> (The Zinn Series is a proje ct of the Free School University at Occupy
> Boston)
>
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