Voices of Three Political Prisoners: David Gilbert Claude Marks and Lisa Rudman, 2002, 30 min David Gilbert is among the longest held anti-imperialist prisoners in the world. As a teenager David began working against the Vietnam War and for Black civil rights, and later became a leader of the Columbia University student strike and Students For A Democratic Society. He was an organizer at a time of great social upheaval. In 1969, 120 cities burned in Black uprisings, and in the same period 400 campuses organized student strikes against the Vietnam War. In the 1970s he joined the Weather Underground Organization and worked underground for more than a decade. He was arrested in 1981.. 800 Years Deggra Stratton, 24 min Eyes On the Rainbow: The Story Of Assata Shakur Gloria Ronaldo, 1997, 45 min Eyes on the Rainbow deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba, where she has lived for close to 15 years. This film also covers Afro-Cuban beliefs and culture, including the Yoruba Orisha Oya, goddess of the ancestors, of war, of the cemetery and of the rainbow. Panel discussion to follow.
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