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A group of Philly anti-war activists turned burglars broke into an FBI office and made off with documents. They exposed the bureau’s notorious COINTELPRO and never got caught!
1971 follows up with them decades later and goes into how they planned the action and how their break-in changed the way we understand surveillance today.
Witness what is possible when a dedicated group of people decide to take on the feds, against a backdrop of Philly’s radical and progressive movements and cultures during the 60s and 70s.
(80 mins)
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A screening in its entirety of a 3 part series imagined and narrated by anarchist Author Peter Gelderloos (How Nonviolence Protects the State, The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below) and brought to life by anarchist video media collective subMedia.
Part 1 of It’s Revolution or Death explores the lies that corporate green energy companies are feeding us and speculates on just how bad things will get if we continue on the current course.
Part 2 examines movements around the world by interviewing participants resisting giant ecologically destructive projects in Wet’suwet’en Territory in so-called Canada, The ZAD in Notre-Dame-de-Londres in France*, and farmland in the north of territories controlled by the state of Brazil that have been reoccupied by the Landless Worker’s movement and turned into massive organic farming projects providing both food and housing.
Part 3 brings it all home by bringing 3 simple suggestions to newer anarchists or just anarchists who don’t already live near one of these big ecological movements. Urgent Suggestion #1: A complete and Total Rejection of All the Institutions Responsible for This Disaster. Urgent Suggestion #2: Pick a Project of Transformative Survival and Urgent Suggestion #3: Connect your project to a revolutionary web of solidarity.
This series was designed to be screened in communities and start or continue the difficult conversations we’ll all have to have about making our communities more resilient in the face of worsening climate catastrophe. Run time is about 80 min.
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A film screening, presentation and discussion about Chris Marker’s film The Sixth Side of the Pentagon.
Chris Marker’s film The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (25 min) documents a massive anti-war demonstration in October 1967. During the demonstration, anarchists fought the military and briefly broke into the pentagon. The presentation will explain how anarchists prepared and planned together for this action.
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“This documentary takes a look at hacking in the place where technology and activists meet. Where the need to circumvent state surveillance and surveillance capitalism is grave. Where people see an unfair system in society and find a way to hack it. This is the true hacker habitat.
In direct opposition to banks, corporations and entrepreneurs who appropriated the words ‘hack/hackathon’, the film aims to fill these expressions with the subversive and anarchist tradition they originally contained. Delivered in chapter form, this film shows hacker projects and system hacking from Japan, Cuba, occupied Western Sahara, Belgium and Sweden. These chapters are intertwined with thought provoking interviews where hackers talk about the ethics behind what they do. Furthermore, the film mirrors these ideas in a discussion with the political theorist Emma Goldman’s writings. Filmed under the 2010s it provides an unique insight into a global political hacker movement.”
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During open hours August 20th, we will screen the 1985 documentary “Broken Rainbow.” This movie explains some of the historical context that allows coal and uranium mining on native land in the southwest.
We will also be discussion updates on the new uranium boom as the Trump administration and big tech, pucsh to develop domestic sources of uranium for energy and “defense.”
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For Black August we’re screening Eyes of the Rainbow and giving out copies of the new edition of Freeing Assata during open hours. O.R.C.A. is open from 5pm to 9:30pm for open hours and we’ll start the film at 7:15pm.
Eyes of the Rainbow is a documentary that features an interview with Black revolutionary Assata Shakur in Cuba following her escape from prison. Assata discusses her experiences as a prisoner, her life in Cuba, and being part of the African diaspora.
Freeing Assata is a zine that tells the story of Assata Shakur’s liberation from prison by members of the Black Liberation Army. A new second edition includes a second account and is available online as a PDF here.
Date: 2025/08/13 17:00 – 21:30
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We Are Not Afraid of Ruins is a film by Greek filmmaker Yannis Youlountas recently translated into English that follows the squatters’ movement from 2019-2024 in the anarchist stronghold of Exarcheia in Athens as they support refugees, resist incursions by organized fascists and the state, and try to live their day to day lives in free from domination and exploitation.
Run time ~90 minutes, in Greek with English subtitles.
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Come watch two surreal compilations of media footage from revolts that
have occurred inside and outside of two jails in St. Louis, Missouri
since 2017. Front and center, they show the agency of prisoners inside
as well as the subversive potential of unmediated communication with
their supporters outside.
WE’RE TOO HOT follows a demonstration in 2017 at the city’s former
holdover facility: the Workhouse. It was sparked by a heatwave that sent
temperatures inside the A/C-less jail into the 110s. In 2021, the
Workhouse was closed after a long campaign against it, but this has left
the equally notorious second jail, the Justice Center, to pick up the
slack. 6 mins
Breaking the Fourth Wall (or A Justice Center Recruitment Video) is a
slog that seeks to keep up with the comical and particularly appalling
management of the Justice Center, which has seen a scandalous amount of
“disturbances,” riots, hostage takings and full-on uprisings over the
since 2020. As well as, 18 prisoner deaths in that time. 26 minutes
[2025/07/29 18:30]
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In October 2019, protests against a transit fare hike in Santiago erupted into a nation-wide insurrection against the Chilean state. For six months, the streets were transformed into vibrant laboratories of self-organization, creativity and resistance, before ultimately being cleared by the promise of a new constitution and the spread of a global pandemic.
In the opening installment of Interrebellium, subMedia traces the history of the Estallido Social through the first-hand experiences of its participants, as they share battle-tested street tactics, and hard-won lessons about the lengths that the state will go to repress and recuperate challenges to its rule.
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6:30 PM
April 3
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The Gentleman Bank Robber delves into the life of bo brown, an ex-political prisoner, a white working class butch, and a former member of the George Jackson Brigade. Journey through recollections of bank robberies and life underground, alongside the day to day life of an unrepentant former guerrilla. Queer, witty, and serious all at once.
We’ll have copies of Queer Fire, a zine of writings and interviews with bo brown and other George Jackson Brigade members, available to $0-$99 sliding scale to raise money for the space.
46 mins
Directed by Julie Perini
English with subtitles
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For more info and copies/free pdfs after event, visit reekingthicketspress.noblogs.org
