Incident at Oglala is a thought-provoking documentary examining the trials of three Native Americans after the 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in which two FBI agents died. After two members of AIM (American Indian Movement) were acquitted on grounds of self-defense, the third, Leonard Peltier, was tried separately and convicted of double homicide.  Peltier's lawyers claim that the FBI saw AIM as a conspiracy against the government and, after losing the first case, manufactured evidence gainst Peltier. This film will raise your ire at the lawlessness of the FBI and the questionable justice meted out in...

PUNK IS POLITICS MOVIE NITE PRESENTS:  ENCORE SHOWING OF "THE DUPES" (Al-makhdu'un, 1972) Tewfik Saleh‘s film THE DUPES (“Al-makhdu’un”, 1972) follows the story of three Palestinian men, Abu Qais (Mohamed Kheir-Halouani), Assad (Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala), and Marwan (Saleh Kholoki) who for various reasons attempt to escape their precarious lives to find prosperity in Kuwait. The film opens with a quote; “A man with no country, will have no grave in the Earth, I forbid you to leave”.  Though the three men are aware that the journey through the desert is long and dangerous, they decide to put their lives in...

PUNK IS POLITICIS MOVIE NITE #25: BURN! (1969) Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Burn! (originally titled: Queimada) is a tragedy of historical and personal inevitability. Once again, Pontecorvo makes his loyalties (barely) known, but stands back to let the wheel turn. With an odd calm, he presents one atrocity after another. Some are physical, some moral, some emotional. Each, however horrible, is presented as the inevitable collision of entrenched culture and the new paradigm arriving, either via the barrel of a gun or thanks to someone’s pernicious self-interest (or, you know, both). Yet Pontecorvo remains a teacher, not a preacher. Burn!...

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