Occupy the Screen: Panel Discussion & Films | Mission Dist.

Submitted by the Event Organizer

The Roxie Theater will host a film series and panel discussion to help bring historic context to social and economic protest movements, beginning with the Civil Rights’ Movement, and extending to other movements that have reclaimed public spaces to protest injustice.

The film night will serve as a continuation of the discussion brought to the forefront by the Occupy Movement. Now that the encampments have been dispersed, what are communities around the Bay Area doing to challenge social and economic inequities?

A segment of Newreel’s documentary series of the Black Panther Party, What We Want, What We Believe will be featured with several short films, including AFT 2121: The Movie, Art Strikes Back, Yes Men’s Guide to High Level Pranking, and Occupy SF – Veterans Day: Amos Gregory. The screening will be followed with a panel discussion.

Panelists include:

• Kiilu Nyasha, San Francisco-based journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party.
• Amos Gregory, Veteran Artist (US Navy, Submarine Force), Founder, Veterans’ Alley, San Francisco.
• Reverend Paul Gaffney, Marin Interfaith Street Chaplaincy
• Ramneek Saini, Community Services Director for the San Francisco Labor Council

The People’s Federal Credit Union (based out of Oakland) will also have a table set up to provide information on how to transfer your money from a big bank to a credit union.

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