Top Tweets for #FreedomFlicks

over 4 years ago

LIVE NOW: Tune in for an evening of music, film, and discussion centering resistance to the U.S. immigration regime. #FreedomFlicks #CruelbyDesign https://t.co/ZBXcf7Dkju

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over 5 years ago

@theCCR Eee always a delight to participate! 3 cheers for more #FreedomFlicks! :)

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over 5 years ago

“The challenge thrown to us at Gary… [is] to take up the role of harbingers of true justice.” #Nationtime ends with fists in the crowd—freeze-framed. Does the documentary freeze and frame the revolutionary spirit of the 1972 National Black Political Convention? #FreedomFlicks

Fareedonfilm's tweet photo. “The challenge thrown to us at Gary… [is] to take up the role of harbingers of true justice.”

#Nationtime ends with fists in the crowd—freeze-framed.

Does the documentary freeze and frame the revolutionary spirit of the 1972 National Black Political Convention?

#FreedomFlicks https://t.co/Md7ALbTL2f

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over 5 years ago

As #Nationtime progresses, the crowd of the 1972 National Black Political Convention noticeably thins. Does such imagery metaphorically highlight that change takes stamina? That movements must move forward even as the investment of a multitude waxes and wanes? #FreedomFlicks

Fareedonfilm's tweet photo. As #Nationtime progresses, the crowd of the 1972 National Black Political Convention noticeably thins.

Does such imagery metaphorically highlight that change takes stamina? That movements must move forward even as the investment of a multitude waxes and wanes?

#FreedomFlicks https://t.co/4TqZHFwFiD

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over 5 years ago

“You are the promise because you tell us what you need!” So speaker Amiri Baraka tells the 1972 National Black Political Convention. He then dismisses a dissenting delegate from Michigan. #Nationtime captures tensions between activist leadership & its followers. #FreedomFlicks

Fareedonfilm's tweet photo. “You are the promise because you tell us what you need!”

So speaker Amiri Baraka tells the 1972 National Black Political Convention. He then dismisses a dissenting delegate from Michigan.

#Nationtime captures tensions between activist leadership & its followers.

#FreedomFlicks https://t.co/x9zlvPrIc5

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over 5 years ago

#Nationtime features musicians at the 1972 National Black Political Convention against an Amiri Baraka poem: “We are strange in a way because we know who we are. Black beings passing through a tortured passage of flesh.” Behind the music’s beat lies pain. #FreedomFlicks

Fareedonfilm's tweet photo. #Nationtime features musicians at the 1972 National Black Political Convention against an Amiri Baraka poem:

“We are strange in a way because we know
who we are. Black beings passing through
a tortured passage of flesh.”

Behind the music’s beat lies pain.

#FreedomFlicks https://t.co/xCEsEPeTpu

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over 5 years ago

We see actor Harry Belafonte in a fur coat in #Nationtime against this Langston Hughes verse: “Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?” Is this a gesture to the pain of being seen as a benign representative of an oppressed community? #FreedomFlicks

Fareedonfilm's tweet photo. We see actor Harry Belafonte in a fur coat in #Nationtime against this Langston Hughes verse:

“Because my feet
Are gay with dancing
You do not know
I die?”

Is this a gesture to the pain of being seen as a benign representative of an oppressed community?

#FreedomFlicks https://t.co/cRQGFJsTK9

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over 5 years ago

“You understand, but maybe you don’t.“ An activist pushes attendees at the 1972 National Black Political Convention to consider their last names’ slave origins. Away from the spotlit podium, historical lines of oppression may be more muddled, more insidious. #FreedomFlicks

Fareedonfilm's tweet photo. “You understand, but maybe you don’t.“

An activist pushes attendees at the 1972 National Black Political Convention to consider their last names’ slave origins.

Away from the spotlit podium, historical lines of oppression may be more muddled, more insidious.

#FreedomFlicks https://t.co/Iq5CvUY5yS

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over 5 years ago

“From the ruins of race hate, there is a bomb!... we are a mighty nation!” Reverend Jesse James references martyrs past before speaking about forming a Black political party. #Nationtime gestures to an explosive utopia that could have been (could be?) possible. #FreedomFlicks

Fareedonfilm's tweet photo. “From the ruins of race hate, there is a bomb!... we are a mighty nation!”

Reverend Jesse James references martyrs past before speaking about forming a Black political party.

#Nationtime gestures to an explosive utopia that could have been (could be?) possible.

#FreedomFlicks https://t.co/9qELKfb8d6

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over 5 years ago

“When will we get paid for the work that we have already done?” As Jesse Jackson asks for reparations in #Nationtime, the camera cuts to the crowd. A fist juts up into the air. From a righteously angry multitude, a revolutionary spirit springs. #FreedomFlicks

Fareedonfilm's tweet photo. “When will we get paid for the work that we have already done?”

As Jesse Jackson asks for reparations in #Nationtime, the camera cuts to the crowd. A fist juts up into the air.

From a righteously angry multitude, a revolutionary spirit springs.

#FreedomFlicks https://t.co/LUzNBnH4nW

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over 5 years ago

When the Reverend Jesse Jackson takes the stage of the 1972 National Black Political Convention, he speaks of #Nationtime. The camera catches him at a low angle, surrounded by microphones. The media amplifies struggling fighters, making them larger-than-life. #freedomflicks

Fareedonfilm's tweet photo. When the Reverend Jesse Jackson takes the stage of the 1972 National Black Political Convention, he speaks of #Nationtime.

The camera catches him at a low angle, surrounded by microphones.

The media amplifies struggling fighters, making them larger-than-life.

#freedomflicks https://t.co/kIBvU2OhZj

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over 5 years ago

Sidney Poitier’s voice narrates over #Nationtime, speaking about the unity of Black America. His echoey voice suggests the ways in which the Black struggle may need to be heralded by an ethereal star, by a Black Masculinity sanctioned by Hollywood. #FreedomFlicks

Fareedonfilm's tweet photo. Sidney Poitier’s voice narrates over #Nationtime, speaking about the unity of Black America.

His echoey voice suggests the ways in which the Black struggle may need to be heralded by an ethereal star, by a Black Masculinity sanctioned by Hollywood.

#FreedomFlicks https://t.co/tB34NKFJLM

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over 5 years ago

Tonight: Join us for a virtual watch party at 6:00 PM EST and join our staff live-tweeting the film on Twitter using the hashtag #FreedomFlicks: RSVP to receive a link the same day so you can register to watch the film: https://t.co/koXa13tSRq

theCCR's tweet photo. Tonight: Join us for a virtual watch party at 6:00 PM EST and join our staff live-tweeting the film on Twitter using the hashtag #FreedomFlicks: RSVP to receive a link the same day so you can register to watch the film: https://t.co/koXa13tSRq https://t.co/w4ixShS2Dv

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over 5 years ago

Friday, Feb 19: join us for a virtual watch party at 6:00 PM EST and join our staff live-tweeting the film on Twitter using the hashtag #FreedomFlicks: RSVP to receive a link the same day so you can register to watch the film: https://t.co/koXa13tSRq

theCCR's tweet photo. Friday, Feb 19: join us for a virtual watch party at 6:00 PM EST and join our staff live-tweeting the film on Twitter using the hashtag #FreedomFlicks: RSVP to receive a link the same day so you can register to watch the film: https://t.co/koXa13tSRq https://t.co/ME4Nlstx7f

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over 6 years ago

Interested in learning more? Check out these foundational texts: 1) A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown 2) Angela Davis: An Autobiography 3) The Huey P. Newton Reader 4) Blood in My Eye by George Jackson 5) Freedom Dreams by Robin D.G. Kelley #FreedomFlicks

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over 6 years ago

‘We have to write and document our #history.’ #ErykahBadu calls for Black subjects to be their own scribes as we see images captured by white Swedish journalists. #TheBlackPowerMixtape thus ends with a reminder that we be aware of the limits of its own eye. #FreedomFlicks

Fareedonfilm's tweet photo. ‘We have to write and document our #history.’

#ErykahBadu calls for Black subjects to be their own scribes as we see images captured by white Swedish journalists.

#TheBlackPowerMixtape thus ends with a reminder that we be aware of the limits of its own eye.

#FreedomFlicks https://t.co/vVBziwTamO

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Obs @the1andobi

over 6 years ago

“This is a lifetime job.” Referencing the fight for black liberation. #FreedomFlicks

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