[mgj-discuss] ((i)) Film Showing Thurs Dec 11 "This Black Soil"

[Alan Bushnell]

DC Indymedia and Critical Resistance present an evening of film and
discussion centered on prisons and the criminal injustice system.  

"This Black Soil: A Story of Struggle And Change"
Thursday Dec 11, 8pm
Cafe Mawonaj
624 T St NW

Plus activist shorts:
  
  "No Escape: Prison Rape"
  "CopWatch" by the Guerrilla News Network
  video from local videographers

Feature begins at 8pm, shorts at 7:30pm.  The event is free, though a
donation is suggested.  If you would like to get involved with local
criminal justice issues in Washington D.C., contact Critical Resistance
at crdc at criticalresistance.org.

"This Black Soil: A Story of Struggle And Change"

This inspiring and provocative film chronicles the successful struggle
of Bayview, Virginia, a small and severely impoverished rural
African-American community, to pursue a new vision of prosperity.
Catalyzed by defeating the state's plans to build a prison in their
backyard, and with leadership by women in the community, the residents
created the Bayview Citizens for Social Justice (BCSJ) non-profit
organization, secured $7 million, purchased the prison site land and
are building a new community from the ground up.

Against formidable odds -- which at times included state and county
governments, the funding process, and themselves -- the community
developed and now manages a complex and innovative development
project.  This is the story of people who help themselves and destroy
the myth that being poor means ignorance, apathy or surrender.

This Black Soil was produced by Teresa Konechne and her students at
Virginia Commonwealth University. Konechne is an interdisciplinary
artist, educator and activist. 

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DC Independent Media Center
http://dc.indymedia.org/