Maeve
This week we’re showing Pat Murphy’s *Maeve *(1981) on Thursday, March 12th, at 7 PM.
Here is the link to RSVP. Doors will be at 6:50 and we’ll start the show at 7:10!
*Maeve *is a non-linear coming of age story that follows the titular Maeve on her travels between London and Belfast during the Troubles. She navigates the triple oppressions of British occupation, Catholicism, and patriarchy in the IRA. Pat Murphy, who studied under From Below-beloved film scholar Laura Mulvey, uses *Maeve *to meditate on the entwinement of memory and landscape, the techniques of transmitting revolutionary culture over time, the pressures of legacy, and the political-spiritual debates over tactics and meaning within the IRA eighty years into its formation.
Over the next few weeks we’ll be taking some time to spotlight the current trial happening in North Texas of the Prairieland defendants. In case you are unfamiliar, 19 people were arrested last July related to a noise demonstration outside a Texas ICE facility. Many of them are facing federal terrorism charges and have been locked in solitary confinement in dire conditions for months. Many people rightfully argue that this trial is a crucial pivot point for setting precedent regarding surveillance, the criminalization of dissent, and the brutal repression of resistance to state violence.
Stark will be giving a quick update with more details on the proceedings before the screening and will share ways to support the crew in Texas.
In the meantime you can donate here to help fund the committee cobbling together legal teams and support networks to help the defendants who continue to show extreme resilience in their refusal to cooperate with the state prosecution. You can follow along and read more background information on their website. As the support committee writes, “the defendants face a federal trial…against outrageous charges, abysmal jail conditions, a prejudiced judge and prosecution, all for the mere act of showing solidarity with immigrants.”
Death to imperialism, Stefan, Stark, and Charlie