All Power to the People

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I missed recording the first 15 minutes or so. The first 33 minutes (that I recorded on VHS) are mainly about how the Black Panther movement came to be, with some classic sound-bites by Martin Luther King etc.
The second 33 minutes are about the suppression of the movement by the US authorities.
The third 33 minutes are the most chilling account of how the so-called FREE United States are in reality deeply (mind-) controlled by the powers of a minority. They use drugs to suppress political revolution in one or two generations of young black US-americans. Quite successfully. They US-black youth don't vote, they don't get involved in running their affairs, they incarcerated at incredibly high levels... and presumably brainwashed in jail (with christian stuff!)

You need the TOOLVOX player from the Audio Tools page. TOOLVOX is a very very highly compressed audio format, you get just under 2 hours of soundtrack for downloading 11 minutes of TOOLVOX.... absolutely THE BEST compressed audio format.

The following pictures are to give you an idea of who is saying what in the film. They are in chronoligical order, but sorry I haven't found or devised a system for a synchronised slide-show yet.
You (black people of US-America) have to get the film on video anyway, and show it to all your friends. It was a lesson for me. Not that not already suspected it (I read uncensored news for thinking people) but this film is a more or less complete description of the evil and rassist system that the USA really is, still.

YOU LOVE AMERICA??? Maybe you get a bad feeling from reading this, because you were brainwashed and CONDITIONED to feel repulsion when contemplating this. You will argue that there are half-truths and propaganda mixed with truthful reports of occasional misdemeneanors in this film. Sorry. My feeling is that this was so wide-spread that this film, if anything, is understating the true extent of the rassism and conspiracies that was going on. The rassism has been reduced somewhat, but the mind-control is working better than ever. My proof: Why are you US-americans to vehemently rejecting the words that I am writing here. Can it be that I touched the taboo? Raised the unthinkable? Put the needle in the lobotomised part of your brain?

If you, just now thought: the bastard you are affected by mind-control (for the want of a better word).
If you just were bemused, you are alright.

HAVE AN OPEN MIND AND DO NOT BE A NATIONALIST. We had enough of nationalists, Hitler, Hussein, Stalin, Slobo to name a few. As an example of your guilt in this (like the germans guilty for Hitler) just remember how the US-corporate-military government went into Somalia. What an important war that was for the US-american people (The long CNN docu on that tells what really happened!). Or just read the Z Magazine. (Available at Borders). For an US-american citizen that is the best information on real-politics that you are likely to get. And brush up on your Chomsky

All Power to the People

Credits:

Producer: Lee Lew-Lee
116 minutes
Director: Lee Lew-Lee
Co-Producers: Kristin Bell
Nico Panigutti
Camera:  Lee Lew-Lee
Interviewer:  Lee Lew-Lee
Editor: Ruby Yang
German Subtitles: Lars E. Seiler of Film und Video Untertitelung Gerhard Lehmann
Music Director: Kraig Pullen Kilby
Music:  Kraig Pullen Kilby, Blast Murray, Albert LLloyd Olson, Mark Nine, Colin Chin

Additional Editing: Karen Segal, Martha Pike
Field Assistants: Aran Eisenstat, Dee Hamiguichi, Danny Lopez, Philip Loving, Miguel Sanchez, Kaz Tanaka
On-Line Editor: M. T. Badertscher
On-Line Assistant: Kathleen Forrest
Electronic Graphics: Darlene C. Humphries
Re-recording Mixer: Mitch Dorf
Audio Second Engineer: Stephen Dickson
Colourist: PJ Marsiglia
Colourist Assistant: Marty Lamadrid
Advisors: Philip Agee, Kathleen Cleaver, George Edwards, Yuri Kochiyama, Gordon Parks, Mel Stuart, Wes Swearingen, Jim Vander Wall, Haskell Wexler
Film Licensor: Ruthie Sakheim
Archival Research: Lee Lew-Lee, Isotta Poggi, Valerie Yaros
Document Research: Lee Lew-Lee, Jim vander Wall, Patrick Formy, John Judge, Paul Lee, Andy Boehm, Zak A. Kondo, Yuri Kochiyama
Post Production Assistants: Anna-Barbara Tietz, Derrick Williams, Alan Benson
Executive Assistant: Carmen Vega
Trainee: Ashley Hughes
Special Thanks: Grace Li-en Lew, Anne Even/ZDF, Mel Stuart, Carole Dean, Thorin Grey Allen, Haskell Wexler, Gordon Parks, George Spiro Dibie, Enos McIsaac (Duke City West), Paul McNulty (Channel Zero), Alden Kimbrough Archives, Roger Steffens Archives, Barbara Trent (Empowerment Project), David Kasper (Empowerment Project), The Kaplans (John Murray - Lauren Singer - Roger Guenvere Smith), Emory Douglas, Rev. Canon Harold R. Landon, Mark Kondo, IFFCON, Film Arts Foundation, Association of Independent Video and Film Makers, International Documentary Association, IATSE 600 (Cineatographers), National Association of Black Journalists, Philip Agee, Wes Swearingen, Ronald Freeman, Roland Freeman, Mumia Abu Jamal, Bobby Seale, Kim Holder, William Turner, Leonard Peltier, Johnnie Cochran, Thoas McCreary, Somaza Moore, Michael McCarty, Frank Wilkenson, Alex Constantine, Michael Zinzun, Donale Freed, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Nobuku Miyamoto, Myra Ming, Jim McCluskey, Ramsey Clark, Safiya Alston Bukha
Footage Credits: ABC News Videosource, Chuck Banner, Antonello Branca, Budget Film, Wayne Goldwyn (Time Lapse), Mike Gray, Mark Kitchell, J. Fred MacDonald & Associates, Gordon Parks, Barry Parker, Mel Stuart, Third World Newsreel, The Empowerment Project, UCLA Film and Television Archives, Agnes Varda (Cine Tamaris), Danny Schechter (Global Vision)
Post Production Facilities: Santa Monica Video, Pacific Ocean Post
Motion Control Camera: Phred Tinampay (Kappa Video)
Electronic News Group, a journalistic entity, and ZDF do not assume any responsibility nor liability for the content of this film. We do not endorse nor condemn the opinions, viewpoints, conclusion or philosophies expressed, which are the participants'.
Copyright 1996 Electronic News Group
Screened on ARTE 1999 (the French-German PublicTV channel)

Boy, you gotta watch this film. Its a long film and every minute of it is a revelation. It was broadcast on ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, the second german goverment channel) on 6/7 July 1998 very late at night. Keywords: Black Panther Cointelpro Mumia Abu Jamal Dr. Mutulu Shakur Emory Douglas Kathleen Cleaver Leonard Peltier In respectful memory of those killed Louis Allen Welton Armstead Attallah Ayubbi Steve Bartholomew Fred Bennett Jeanette Bissonette Willie Brewster Alprentice Carter Planiyan Ali Anna Mae Aquash Kuwesi Balagoon Sylvester Bell Benjamin Brown Pedro Bissonette Jimmy Carr Cesar Cauce James Earl Chaney Mark Clark Addie Mae Collins Johnathan Daniels Byron BeSersa Roman Ducksworth, Jr. Medgar Evers Ahmed Evans William Christmas Nathaniel Clark Vernon Dahmer Jancity Eagle Deer Frank Diggs Willie Edwards, Jr. Mark Essex Ralph Featherstone Frank Fields Woddy Green Samueal E. Hammond Danny Hayashi Henry Hezekiah John Huggins George Jackson Jonathan Jackson Andrew Goodman Paul Guihard (Reporter, Paris Match) Fred Hampton Masai Hewitt Rory Hithe Bobby Button Jimmie Lee Jackson Popeye Jackson Wharlest Jackson Joe Killsright Jeffrey Kinoshita Buddy Lamont Herbert Lee Tommy Lewis Emmett Louis Denise McNair Robert F. Kennedy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Bruce Klunder George Lee Robert Lawrence Viola Gregg Liuzzo James McClain Deland H. Middleton Sidney Miller Oneal Moore Arthur Morris Sandra Fall Richard Oaks Mack Charles Parker Alex Rackley Charles Eddie Moore William Moore Twyman Myers Michael Nathan Evelyn Okubo Che Payne Walter Pope Sam Napier John Earl Reese Carole Robertson Johnny Robinson Julio Roldan Bill Sampson Michael Schwerner Henry Ezekial Smith Sandi Smith Rev. James Reeb Larry Robertson Walter Rodney, PhD Harold Russell John Savage Zayd Malik Shakur Lamar Smith Willian C. Sullivan (FBI) Sally Bowe Kimbosi Ruben Salazar (KMEX) Billy Kochiyama, Jr. Melvin X Huey P. Newton PhD John F. Kennendy Fay Slender Michael Taylor (KPFK) Michael X Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn (USA) Dr. Martin Sostre Brent Takeuchi Emmett Louis Till Virgil Lamar Ware Cynthia Wesley Ben Chester White Akemi Yoshihiro Mtayari Sundiata Clarence Triggs Jimmy Waller Robert Webb Anthony White Spurgeon Jake Winters Samuel Younge Malcom X (El Hajj Malik el Shabazzi) and one thousand others Producer/Director/Camera/Interviewer: Lee Lew-Lee Co-Producers Kristin Bell, Nico Panigutti Editor: Ruby Yang german subtitles: Untertitel: Lars E. Seiler Film und Video Untertitelung: Gerhard Lehmann Advisors: Phillip Agee Kathleen Cleaver George Edwards Yuri Kochiyama Gordon Parks Mel Stuart Wes Swearingen Jim Vander Wall Haskell Wexler Archival Research: Lee Lew-Lee Isotta Poggi Valerie Yaros Document Research: Lee Lew-Lee Jim Vander Wall Patrick Formy John Judge Paul Lee Andy Boehm Zak A. Kondo Yuri Kochiyama Special Thanks: ... IFFCON Film Arts Foundation Association of Independent Video and Film Makers International Documentary Association IATSE 600 (Cinematographers) National Association of Black Journalists Phillip Agee Ronald Freeman Roland Freeman Mumia Abu Jamal Bobby Seale Kim Holder William Turner Leonard Peltier Johnnie Cochran Thomas McCreary Somaya Moore Michael McCarty Frank Wilkenson Alex Constantine Michael Zinzun Donald Freed Dr. Mutulu Shakur Nobuko Miyamoto Myra Ming Jim McCluskey Ramsey Clark Safiya Alston Bukhari Victor Cumberbatch Flo Kennedy, ESQ Ron Kuby, ESQ Ron Wilkins Herman Ferguson Footage Credits: ABC News Videosource Chuck Banner Antonello Branca Budget Film Wayne Goldwyn (Time Lapse) Mike Gray Mark Kitchell J. Fred MacDonald & Associates Gordon Parks Barry Parker Mel Stuart Third World Newsreel The Empowerment Project UCLA Film and Television Archives Agnes Varda Cine Tamaris Danny Schlechter Global Vision
Electronic News Group, a journalistic entity, and ZDF do not assume any responsibility nor liability for the content of this film. We do not endorse nor condemn the opinions, viewpoints, conclusions or philosophies expressed, which are the participants'.

Copyright Electronic News Group 1996


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