[Street] Kicking off the Occupy Film Series with a film about Prisoner Occupation at Walpole. (Community Church of Boston, Copley Square, Thurs. Feb 23, 7:30 pm)

Joseph Ramsey jgramsey at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 12:18:33 EST 2012


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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