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10/16/22 – film

Posted on 2022/10/22 - 2023/08/17 by ourhouseinfoshop

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
1993 ‧ documentary ‧ 1h 59m
https://archive.org/details/kanehsatake-270-years-of-resistance-1993

“In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness. Director Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 days behind Kanien’kéhaka lines filming the armed standoff between protestors, the Quebec police and the Canadian army.”

08/25/22 – film

Posted on 2022/09/12 by ourhouseinfoshop

Night of the Pencils
1986 ‧ film ‧ 1h 45m

a beautiful and tragic true story of the disappearance of revolutionary youth by the Argentinian military dictatorship. Come celebrate hope in the face of oblivion, friendship which survives long after our brief moments together, and remember what it means to give yourself and each other to a struggle that is both doomed and eternal.

04/23/22 – film

Posted on 2022/04/20 by ourhouseinfoshop

Blood is Dry
1960 ‧ drama film ‧ 1h 27m

“There is no greater failure than joining the ranks of those who held you down. To succeed under capitalism is to fail as a human being.”—something I read recently from Anarchist Review of Books issue #3 that I think relates to this film.

04/02/22 – film

Posted on 2022/04/20 - 2022/04/20 by ourhouseinfoshop

Dreams Are Colder Than Death
2014 ‧ impressionistic essay film ‧ 52m

Cine Móvil did a guest screening this week!

“Cine Móvil NYC is a loose collective of guerrilla film projectionist committed to reclaiming our public spaces, fostering radical, autonomous community & building a revolutionary culture in our hoods. Whether as education, entertainment or agitation, we believe film and culture are a battleground of revolutionary transformation.”
[Please check out their IG for future screenings! ]

03/26/22 – film

Posted on 2022/03/27 by ourhouseinfoshop

Born in Flames
1983 ‧ Fictional documentary ‧ 1h 30m

in a near-future New York, 10 years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” the promises of equality for all remain unfulfilled. this documentary style fiction film is about women across lines of race, class, and sexuality resisting systemic oppression and taking action to lead their own counterrevolution.

03/19/22 – film

Posted on 2022/03/27 by ourhouseinfoshop

ALL LIGHT EVERYWHERE
2021 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 49m

a documentary exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice, and the implications of the growing reliance of surveillance tech.

03/12/22 – screening and collective altar in honor of our departed elders

Posted on 2022/03/07 - 2022/03/07 by ourhouseinfoshop

Russell Shoatz: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
1997 ‧ Documentary ‧ 29m
https://youtu.be/4XF7_K1GoT8

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The Gentleman Bank Robber: The Story of Butch Lesbian Freedom Fighter rita bo brown
2017 ‧ Documentary ‧ 47m
https://vimeo.com/229406880

03/05/22 – films

Posted on 2022/03/06 - 2022/03/06 by ourhouseinfoshop

Ukraine’s Anarchist Militants Fighting neo-Nazism
2019 ‧ Documentary ‧ 23m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ZLpFIsMH8

on rev dia, an anarchist resistance to Ukraine’s powerful (and partly US funded) fascist movement.

Nestor Makhno Peasant from Ukraine
1996 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h
https://archive.org/details/nestormakhnopayasansdukraine

a documentary about Nestor Makhno the Ukrainian peasant turned anarchist revolutionary who helped command a revolutionary peasant army succeed in fighting various imperialist powers to carve out a large free territory in eastern Ukraine that lasted 3 years before it was ended by the betrayal of the Bolsheviks.

02/26/22 – film

Posted on 2022/02/21 by ourhouseinfoshop

1804: The Hidden History of Haiti
2017 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 50m
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/haiti1804

1804: The Hidden History of Haiti is a documentary film about the untold history of the Haitian Revolution. Produced by the creator of the best-selling Hidden Colors film series, 1804 goes in-depth about the four principal players who were instrumental in Haiti s independence: Makandal, Dutty Bookman, Toussaint Louvature, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines. This documentary gives a competing look into the strategies, the motivation and the mindset that led to Haiti being the only slave population who successfully overthrew their oppressors.

02/26/22 – readings

Posted on 2022/02/20 - 2022/02/20 by ourhouseinfoshop

Title: The Dragon and the Hydra, A Historical Study of Organizational Methods

Author: Russell Maroon Shoatz

Date: 2010
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/russell-maroon-shoats-the-dragon-and-the-hydra

Title: Culture and Customs of Haiti (Context chapter)
Author: J. Michael Dash

Date: 2001

J Michael Dash_Culture and customs of Haiti_Context_PDF