29.4.2023 - EVENT: Revolutionary 1st of May special of the Anti-Colonial Film Night series
29. April 2023, 19:30, Mehringhof Versammlungsraum
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
Followed by a community discussion with the afrofeminist revolutionary Mwasi Collectif and Migrantifa Berlin / Including special recorded message from the directors, Arlen Harris and Daniyal Vajda-Harris
By Jewish Bund, FACQ Berlin & AL.Berlin
Dr. Walter Rodney, a Guyanese historian and revolutionary, is the subject of this doc-umentary. Filmed in Guyana, Barbados, Jamaica, Tanzania, the US, and the UK, it features revelatory interviews and explores the life of a guerilla intellectual - according to his own wording - whose political thought and action remain as relevant as ever to contemporary anti-colonial, internationalist class struggle. 41 years after his assassination in 1980 by the authoritarian Forbes Burnham government in Guyana with the support of the CIA and MI5, the Guyanese government has finally admitted the state's involvement in his assassination.
Followed by a community discussion with the afrofeminist revolutionary Mwasi Collectif and Migrantifa Berlin
Including special recorded message from the directors, Arlen Harris and Daniyal Vajda-Harris
Please RSVP at studio@alberlin.com
The film will be shown in the English language, with the possibility of arranging whisper translation for the discussion part upon request. Please include this and/or any other specific accessibility needs in your RSVP emails.