This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

Revolutionary History Film Week

Feb 8-Feb 11, 1999

Monday Feb 8, 7pm UMass Campus Center Room 903 Last Grave at Dimbaza. A stunning indictment of the South African apartheid system and Western involvement in South Africa. Depicts the unbelievable misery, oppression and indignity suffered by the Azanian (black South African) population. Focus is on the misery and epidemic starvation of the children. Post film presentations and discussion on apartheid and the current neo-colonial regime after the 55min film. 1974.

Tuesday Feb 9, 7pm. UMass Campus Center Room 903 Away With All Pests. A film on health care in China under the leadership of Mao TseTung. See how revolutionary China doubled life expectancy through the creation of a medical system that served the needs of the people instead of profit. 1969. 60min.

Wednesday Feb 10, 7pm. UMass Campus Center Room 903 La Operacion. About the u.$. sterilization campaign against the wimmin of the Puerto Rican nation. Contains interviews with wimmin forced to be sterilized as well as explanations as to how the size of the Puerto Rican population was manipulated to serve the economic interests of U.$. companies. 50 min. 1982.

Thursday, Feb 11, 7pm. UMass Campus Center Room 905 People's War. This account of a 1969 trip to North Vietnam shows a society committed to national liberation despite a constant state of Amerikan war. The film focuses on how individual villages and the nation fought against economic underdevelopment. 40min, 1970.

Sponsors for Revolutionary History Film Week (as of 1/1/99) Friends of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RSO), Student Activities Cultural Enrichment Fund (SACEF).

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