May 6: Workshop on Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Paul Shannon

5/5/2018 12:30 PM

Please join us Sunday, May 6 in Newton for a presentation and workshop on the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

All are welcome! No RSVP is necessary, but please email info@nuclearban.us to let us know you will be attending.

Light refreshments and parking are available. This event is sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Mass Peace Action

An additional write up on NuclearBan US is attached

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The Souls of Poor Folk; Homeless Camps in Gray’s Harbor; Nat’l Day of Action May 14

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In Cambridge-Tonight at the CME: Part 2 of Cuba: An African Oddyssey

Tonight at the CME: Part 2 of Cuba: An African Oddyssey

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*An amazing film you don't want to miss!*

*Sunday, May 6 | 6:00 PM – Part 2*
*Cuba: An African Odyssey*
Richard Pendleton, CME Steering Committee
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From Che Guevara's military campaign to avenge Lumumba in the Congo up to
the fall of apartheid in South Africa, 300,000 Cubans fought alongside
African revolutionaries. Cuba: An African Odyssey is the previously untold
story of Cuba's support for African revolutions, one of the Cold War's most
vigorous contests over resources and ideology. It tells the real story
behind the so-called “cold” war and its clashes by proxy. An epic tale that
explains the current state of the world, about the Internationalists who
won all the battles but ended up losing the war. Watch the trailer
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAGWm_H1qjc>.
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On The 50th Anniversary Of The May Days In France--A Film Documentary Of Our 1960s Times- Chris Marker’s “A Grin Without A Cat”- A Review

Click on the headline to link to a YouTube film clip of an interview with an American pilot in Vietnam from Chris Marker's A Grin Without A Cat.

DVD Review

A Grin Without A Cat, directed by Chris Marker, Icarus Films, 1977

The old saying- a picture is worth a thousand words- is an apt, more than apt, expression in reviewing this hotchpotch of a film documentary. Why hotchpotch? Well, this two part (on one disc), multi-lingual (in choice of languages to listen in and in the languages spoken in the various segments), three hour documentary exposition originally produced in 1977, of many of the great events of the middle third of the 20th century comes rapid-fire at you in a montage effect. For those who merely want a flavor of those political times (roughly 1960 to 1980) there is enough here to act as a primer, and to whet your appetite for more research of the times. For the political aficionado familiar with the period one has to dig a little to get a sense of the basically social democratic world view that informs the viewpoint behind the production by the filmmaker, Chris Markers. Either way it is an interesting way to spent three hours, although for non-political “junkies” perhaps viewing one segment at a time is the better course.

Some of the highlights here are much footage from the anti-Vietnam war struggle as it began to take center stage in the mid-1960s, especially in Europe; plenty of footage of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara (including around his 1967 death in Bolivia) and the meaning of the Cuban revolution and rural guerrilla warfare (and as a by-product, urban guerrilla warfare) for world revolutionary strategy; the then historic May Days actions in Paris in 1968 by both students and workers (together and in opposition to each other depending on the stage of the struggle); the seminal anti-Stalinist events in Prague in 1968; Allende’s Popular Front Chile in the early 1970s; and, strewn throughout reflections of the 1960s events from about a decade later perspective by various participants and commentators. Very little material here on the anti-imperialist struggle in America, but the rest more than makes up for it. Kudos on this one.