[Street] [Ideas] corrections re: Occupy Film Series about Prisoner Occupation at Walpole.

Alexander Suarez suarezalexander at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 13 18:16:59 EST 2012


what do people think about the new movie coming out this spring which portrays occupy negatively? parts are shown in boston. boston was one of the most important camps. lets hope by the time it comes out we got more camps, more momentum, and we can counter it with some postivity. they like to attack a wounded horse but a horse that is strong they will not. "journalists" have come in as a trojan horse to try to destroy us, but we must maintain our movement.
                  

--- On Mon, 2/13/12, Gregory Murphy <gsjmurphy at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Gregory Murphy <gsjmurphy at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Street] [Ideas] corrections re: Occupy Film Series about Prisoner Occupation at Walpole.
To: "Joseph Ramsey" <jgramsey at gmail.com>
Cc: occupy-boston-socialist-discussion at googlegroups.com, "street" <street at lists.occupyboston.org>, "Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series" <howard-zinn-memorial-lecture-series at googlegroups.com>, "outreach outreach" <occupybostonoutreach at lists.mayfirst.org>, ideas at lists.occupyboston.org, building-rev-in-boston at googlegroups.com, students-occupy-boston at googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, February 13, 2012, 11:38 AM

Joe - what's confusing is the blurb, below, about "3000 Years and Life," states it's the "inaugural film in our new Occupy Film series" when in fact it's the second in the series . . . please you send me a blurb about "Left on Pearl," I can add to the calendar listing . . .



Greg




On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Joseph Ramsey <jgramsey at gmail.com> wrote:

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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