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Get Your Own! | View SlideshowDO TO MANY REQUESTS FOR SAMPLES OF OUR WORK, WE ARE CURRENTLY EXCEPTING DONATIONS OF $100 IN EXCHANGE FOR A DVD! FOR A DONATION TO OUR CAUSE YOU WILL RECEIVE A 60 MINUTE DVD SHOWING THE CURRENT PROGRESS ON THE PROJECTS- "HISTORY OF THE HOOD" and "41ST & CENTRAL". THANK YOU!
Total running time: 60 minutes.SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- 8 men were arrested Tuesday Jan 23rd in the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer that authorities say was part of a militant black group's five-year campaign to kill law enforcement officers in California and New York.Police said seven of the eight are believed to be former members of the Black Liberation Army, a violent offshoot of the Black Panther Party.The August 29, 1971, shooting death of Sgt. John V. Young, 51, was one in a series of attacks by BLA members on law enforcement officials on both coasts, police said.The attacks, carried out between 1968 and 1973, also included the bombing of a police funeral in San Francisco and the slayings of two New York City police officers, as well as three armed bank robberies that helped fund their operations, police said.The arrests were just the latest attempt in recent years to hold antiwar radicals and black-power militants responsible for crimes committed a generation ago.The investigation of the Black Liberation Army killing spree was reopened in 1999 after "advances in forensic science led to the discovery of new evidence in one of the unsolved cases," the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.Morris Tabak, the department's deputy chief of investigations, would not elaborate on the evidence except to say: "It could be fibers. It could be DNA. It could be other biological evidence."Murder and conspiracy charges were filed against Ray Michael Boudreaux, 64, of Altadena; Richard Brown, 65, of San Francisco; Herman Bell, 59, and Anthony Bottom, 55, both behind bars in New York state; Henry Watson Jones, 71, of Altadena; Francisco Torres, 58, of New York City; and Harold Taylor, 58, of Panama City, Fla.Bell's lawyer, San Francisco attorney Stuart Hanlon, called the arrests a "prosecution based on vengeance and hate from the '60s.""There's a law enforcement attitude that they hate these people, the Panthers," Hanlon said. "Now they're going after old men."Richard O'Neal, 57, of San Francisco, was also arrested on conspiracy charges.A ninth suspect, Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth, 62, was still being sought. Police said he could be in France, Belize or Tanzania.It's unclear whether Bridgeforth and O'Neal were members of the Black Liberation Army.None of the suspects will face the death penalty, said Maggy Krell, deputy state attorney general. The death penalty law in effect at the time of the attack was declared unconstitutional in 1972.The slain officer was killed when Bell and Torres, armed with guns and dynamite, raided a neighborhood police station, firing a shotgun through a hole in the lobby's bulletproof window, as accomplices were posted outside as lookouts, according to police officials in New York. A civilian clerk was wounded. Torres is accused of trying to ignite the dynamite as the pair fled the station, but the explosives failed.The station was nearly empty that night as most officers responded to a diversionary bombing of a bank by other conspirators, according to the NYPD.After his arrest Tuesday in New York, Torres called the case "a frame-up."Three men, including Taylor, were charged in the attack in 1975. But the charges were thrown out by a San Francisco judge because of a ruling that evidence was obtained by torture after the suspects were arrested in New Orleans.Bell and Bottom are serving life sentences for the killings of two New York police officers.Brown, Boudreaux, Jones and Taylor were jailed in 2005 for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating Young's death.Three men, including Taylor, were charged in Young's attack in early 1975, but those charges were dismissed by a San Francisco judge because of an earlier ruling that evidence was obtained by torture.Another suspect in Young's slaying, John Bowman of Oklahoma, died in December, according to his lawyer, Ann Moorman of Ukiah.Three of the eight, Harold Taylor, Ray Boudreaux, and Hank Jones, were subjects of the Film Revolution 2027 documentary film "41st and Central: The Untold Story Of The Southern Ca Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense" and the above three plus John Bowman are subjects of "Legacy Of Torture" a film by Claud Marks of Freedom Archives. To keep up on the "SF 8's" case, including information on how to show support , and film screening join "[email protected]"...Film Revolution 2027 screened the documentary work in progress "41st & Central: The untold story of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense." at the 40th reunion of the Party in Oakland, California. L.A. Panthers Jeffrey Everett, Roland Freeman, Long John, and Beverly Freeman also represented the Southern California Chapter on this trip- along with the director's wife Lorean Everett and their two children Jeffrey and Gregory jr. A question and answer session between the viewers at Laney College and the filmaker and subjects followed the screening. Director Gregory Everett and Co-Producer Roland Freeman also made an appearance on radio station KPKA about the project. 20 hours of video was shot by Gregory Everett and cinematographer Micah Zarlow during this 7 day trip including 5 hours of interview footage . Interviewees included L.A. Panther Ronald Freeman, Oakland Panther and former girlfriend of L.A. Chapter founder Bunchy Carter- Tarika, and photographer Jeffrey Blankfort. Upon returning to Los Angeles interviews were conducted with former Panther and Central Commitee member, Secretary of Communications- Kathleen Cleaver and 41st & Central shoot out survivor, L.A. Panther Wayne Pharr. In her interview Kathleen speaks about her husband Eldridge Cleaver's relationship with Bunchy Carter, her observations of the L.A. Chapter, and how the expulsion of the leader of the Southern California chapter, Geronimo Pratt, by Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton, was one of the events which indirectly lead to the split of the entire party.
The Black Ryders of Los Angeles also showed up- providing security at the four day event, which included various workshops, film screenings, speeches, photo and art exhibits, a banquet, a picnic, outdoor concert, and a photograph of the surviving panthers and their families taken on the steps of the Alameda courthouse. Well-known documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne was there in full production of his documentary of the Black Panther Party. Besides the screening of "41st & Central", Film Revolution 2027 hosted a workshop about the Southern California Chapter, and made many alliances with filmmakers and organizations working for peace. Film Revolution 2027 is now committed to work with Ronald Freeman and the Prison Movement, Chairman Fred Hampton jr., The Black Ryders and others involved publicly and underground in the struggle for freedom for all oppressed people around the world. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Get Your Own! | View SlideshowFilm (film) n. the business of making films.Revolution (reve looshen) n. a complete or radical change.2027 the year my first born turns 25.Formed in 2002, Film Revolution 2027 is the documentary arm of Ultra Wave Media.Film Revolution's mission statement is to produce revolutionary documentary film projects geared towards sparking conversation about and bringing attention to topics normally ignored by mainstream documentary filmmakers. This quantum revolution of consciousness will cause community dialogue which will lead to the creation of much needed social change in America and abroad over the next 25 years. The current focus of Film Revolution's projects is to deal with subjects which explore the history of Black culture in Los Angeles.
