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Black Panther 40th Anniversary: Newsreel "What We Want, What We Believe" Release, 10/16/06
"What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library" DVD Release Screening at AK Press in Oakland
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Black Panther Party Celebrating 40th Reunion in Oakland:
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/19/18312559.php
"What We Want, What We Believe" is a four-DVD collection chronicling the Panthers and their supporters. The DVDs — released to coincide with the Black Panther's 40th anniversary events — include three acclaimed Newsreel films, and a massive quantity of rare and exclusive materials culled from Roz Payne's extensive collection of FBI documents, correspondence, and interviews.
DVD set is available at http://www.akpress.org/2006/items/whatwewantwhatwebelieve
With equipment acquired from the US army, TV stations, and wealthier members, Newsreel shot numerous films on 16mm and some hi-8.
"No more pigs in our community. Off the pigs."
Screened for release event first was the film "Off the Pig", produced by SF Newsreel. On a personal note, it was kind of surreal to see original footage of the Panthers chanting "off the pig" on the same Alameda County Courthouse steps that surviving Panthers were chanting the same thing just the day before (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/15/18320514.php). It was on those steps that the Black Panther Party really took off as an organization, setting itself on a mission to assure the release of Huey Newton, who was being held at the time. This film includes an interview with BPP founder Huey from jail, BPP founder Bobby Seal reading the Panther's 10-Point Program, and several Emory Douglass drawings (a style that still pops up today in things like Oakland hiphop group The Coup's red-star logo featuring the woman with the baby and the gun).
The film "Repression", from the LA Newsreel group, was screened next. Then an interview with Donald Cox who remains in exile today. Donald discussed Huey being in jail leading to the formation of the Panthers, shootouts and publicity leading to a nationwide explosion of Panther membership. Then more organization as a group led to breakfast programs to combat malnutrition. Puerto Ricans and Appalacians later organized with the Panthers as their model, with all the groups sharing resources. The Brown Berets formed in LA as well. Roz noted that lawyers requested she cut some of the Donald Cox interview and some of the jailhouse interview with Huey Newton for the DVD release. What was cut is not exactly clear.
An interview with the Falk family, relecting on the Panthers, was screened next. They were a part of New York Newsreel, shared mutual aid with the Panthers, from sharing vehicles to deliver papers, housing and more.
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/19/18312559.php
"What We Want, What We Believe" is a four-DVD collection chronicling the Panthers and their supporters. The DVDs — released to coincide with the Black Panther's 40th anniversary events — include three acclaimed Newsreel films, and a massive quantity of rare and exclusive materials culled from Roz Payne's extensive collection of FBI documents, correspondence, and interviews.
DVD set is available at http://www.akpress.org/2006/items/whatwewantwhatwebelieve
With equipment acquired from the US army, TV stations, and wealthier members, Newsreel shot numerous films on 16mm and some hi-8.
"No more pigs in our community. Off the pigs."
Screened for release event first was the film "Off the Pig", produced by SF Newsreel. On a personal note, it was kind of surreal to see original footage of the Panthers chanting "off the pig" on the same Alameda County Courthouse steps that surviving Panthers were chanting the same thing just the day before (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/15/18320514.php). It was on those steps that the Black Panther Party really took off as an organization, setting itself on a mission to assure the release of Huey Newton, who was being held at the time. This film includes an interview with BPP founder Huey from jail, BPP founder Bobby Seal reading the Panther's 10-Point Program, and several Emory Douglass drawings (a style that still pops up today in things like Oakland hiphop group The Coup's red-star logo featuring the woman with the baby and the gun).
The film "Repression", from the LA Newsreel group, was screened next. Then an interview with Donald Cox who remains in exile today. Donald discussed Huey being in jail leading to the formation of the Panthers, shootouts and publicity leading to a nationwide explosion of Panther membership. Then more organization as a group led to breakfast programs to combat malnutrition. Puerto Ricans and Appalacians later organized with the Panthers as their model, with all the groups sharing resources. The Brown Berets formed in LA as well. Roz noted that lawyers requested she cut some of the Donald Cox interview and some of the jailhouse interview with Huey Newton for the DVD release. What was cut is not exactly clear.
An interview with the Falk family, relecting on the Panthers, was screened next. They were a part of New York Newsreel, shared mutual aid with the Panthers, from sharing vehicles to deliver papers, housing and more.
![panther40th-cappyp.jpg](/uploads/2006/11/12/panther40th-cappyp.jpg)
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