[Street] [Ideas] corrections re: Occupy Film Series about Prisoner Occupation at Walpole.
Gregory Murphy
gsjmurphy at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 11:38:13 EST 2012
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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