271 Grant St.

- 01/15/2009

PUSH Film Series Returns!

PUSH Film Series

 

 

"Frame-Up: The story of Martin Sostre"

 

Thursday, January 15th

 

5:30 PM

 

271 Grant Street

 

 

Free of Charge; Donations Welcome. Come Join us for films, pizza, popcorn, and discussions that change our neighborhood and the world.

 

 

"Frame-Up" talks about how: Martin Sostre was arrested on July 14, 1967, at his bookstore, for "narcotics, riot, arson, and assault" (charges later proven to be fabricated, part and parcel of a COINTELPRO program in full swing), and convicted and sentenced to serve forty-one years and thirty days, Sostre became a jail house lawyer and regularly acted as legal council to other inmates, including winning two landmark legal cases involving prisoner rights: Sostre v. Rockefeller and Sostre v. Otis. According to Sostre, these decisions constituted "a resounding defeat for the establishment who will now find it exceedingly difficult to torture with impunity the thousands of captive black (and white) political prisoners illegally held in their concentration camps."

 

 

 

Come check it out!