Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 7:00pm - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 9:00pm
Location(s)
Big E’s Coffeehouse
2805 N Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL
United States

Special Pre-Release screening and discussion with the directors!
Apocalyptic: Notes on Anarchism, Race, and Sexuality
Directed by: Cindy Li, Jackie Wang, and Kotu Bajaj
Runtime: around 1hr 30 mins

Apocalyptic is a documentary about the anti-authoritarian, anarchist, and autonomist people of color movement. The film investigates how anarchism’s critique of hierarchy, authority, power, and domination can be used to understand multiple systems of oppression. In addition, it also explores strategies for undermining relationships of domination that are based on white supremacy, homophobia, racism, capitalist exploitation, and so forth. The film consists of interviews with apocistas from the east coast and presents a variety of perspectives informed by queer struggles, black liberation struggles and the Black Panther movement, indigenous and anti-colonial struggles, farmworker struggles, feminist struggles, the Puerto Rican Liberation movement, immigrant struggles, mixed-race struggles, transgender struggles, and more. The film explores questions such as:

* Is anarchism a useful philosophy to incorporate into people of color organizing?
* Does radical politics alienate communities of color?
* How does the interplay of race, gender, and sexuality affect the experiences of organizers?
* Is the anarchist movement a white, middle class, male movement?
* What are the benefits and limitations of organizing around the term people of color?

Brought to you by Sarasota Indymedia, and WSLR. Please bring donations for these organizations and the All Power to the Imagination! conference.

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