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<h1><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rule19.org/download-film/film-130117-patrice-lumumba.pdf"><img
alt=""
src="cid:part1.02000208.07030303@mynas.com"
width="540" align="right" border="2"
height="697" hspace="20"></a><font
face="Aharoni"><i><b>Patrice Lumumba</b></i></font></h1>
<big><b><i>"the most important assassination of the
20th century</i></b><b>"</b></big><br>
~ <font color="#666666">Ludo De Witte, the Belgian
author of the best book on this crime: <b><u>The
Assassination of Lumumba</u></b></font><br>
<u> </u><br>
<h1> </h1>
<p> Showing Thursday, January 17, in Cambridge [<a
href="http://rule19.org/download-film/film-130117-patrice-lumumba.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">please download
distribute & flyer</a>]</p>
<p>Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime
minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC), was assassinated 52 years ago, on 17
January, 1961. This heinous crime was a
culmination of 2 inter-related assassination plots
by American and Belgian governments, which used
Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution
squad to carry out the deed.</p>
<p> This docudrama tells the true story of Lumumba's
rise to power and brutal assassination. Using
newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born
and later Congo-raised writer and director <b>Raoul
Peck<font color="#ff0000">*</font></b> renders
an emotional and tautly woven account of this man
with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising
belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a
prosperous nation independent of its former
Belgium overlords. </p>
<p> Lumumba is led to slaughter by commercial and
political interests in Belgium, the US, and the
international community -- where political
entities, captains of commerce, and the military
dovetail in their quest for economic and political
hegemony.</p>
<blockquote class=" cite" id="Cite_0">
<p><font color="#ff0000">[<b>*</b><b>Raoul Peck</b>
is an award-winning Haitian filmmaker, of both
documentary and feature films, and a political
activist. Briefly, in the 1990s, he was
Haiti's Minister of Culture]</font></p>
</blockquote>
<p>"<i>I had lunched with Larry Devlin<b><font
color="#ff0000">*</font></b>, my former
patron and the famous eminence grise of the
Congo program of the early sixties. After two
long tours in the Congo, where he had shuffled
new governments like cards, finally settling on
Mobutu as president, Devlin had been put in
charge of the agency's paramilitary program in
Laos.</i>" ~John Stockwell, CIA agent<br>
</p>
<blockquote class=" cite" id="Cite_0">
<p><b><font color="#ff0000">[*</font></b><font
color="#ff0000"><b>Larry Devli</b>n, stationed
for many years in Africa, was CIA Station
Chief in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
[DRC] when Lumumba was assassinated.]</font><br>
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>"<i>Alternatives for dealing with 'the problem'
were considered, among them poison (a supply was
sent to the CIA station chief in Leopoldville),
a high-powered rifle, and free-lance hit men.
But it proved hard to get close enough to
Lumumba to use these, so, instead, the CIA
supported anti-Lumumba elements within the
factionalized Congo government.</i>" ~ Eric
Hochschild, author King Leopold's Ghost<u><br>
</u></p>
<p><br>
See excerpt: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGdf7wX-E7g">Lumuba
independence
day
speech</a><br>
</p>
<p> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGdf7wX-E7g"><img
alt=""
src="cid:part5.01010102.07030909@mynas.com"
width="350" border="2" height="214"></a><br>
</p>
<p><br>
<b>When/where</b><br>
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm<br>
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and
Windsor,<br>
entrance on Windsor<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rule19.org/videos">rule19.org/videos</a><br>
<br>
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring
your friends!<br>
<b>free film, free refreshments, & free door
prizes.</b><b><br>
</b><b> [donations are encouraged]</b><br>
<br>
"<i>You can't legislate good will - that comes
through education</i>." ~ Malcolm X<br>
<br>
<b>UPandOUT film series</b> - see <a
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- for billionaire bailouts, for ever more
ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss of liberty and
civil rights...<br>
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<p><br>
<b>Dedicated to the memory and spirit of Patrice
Emery Lumumba</b><br>
(2 July 1925 -- 17 January 1961)<br>
<br>
<i>The soldiers stole you and two others<br>
into the back of a truck<br>
in the middle of the night<br>
put you in a bag tied up your beaten bloody body
with rope<br>
sweating as they drove you into the middle of
the country<br>
Katanga Province, Africa<br>
in a far off field<br>
where there were no lights<br>
where you could not see anything<br>
they assassinated you and two ministers Okito
and Mpolo<br>
<br>
they attacked to kill you<br>
they ripped apart your body<br>
scattering it bone by bone across the fields<br>
so that the blood mixed with the earth<br>
they hid you and they hid their murder of you<br>
they thought that by doing this your spirit
would break<br>
they thought that by doing this your memory
would be broken<br>
<br>
but a week before the killing you had written to
your wife,<br>
“I prefer to die with my head unbowed, my faith
unshakable,<br>
and with profound trust in the destiny of my
country.”<br>
<br>
Patrice Lumumba – born in the village of Onalua
in Kasai province,<br>
the Congo<br>
you called for an independent country in those
stuffy halls<br>
where people taunted you with their viciousness<br>
you were not afraid to speak the truth<br>
because you knew that a village, a country,
perhaps even<br>
the world would remember your words<br>
<br>
the night knows your secrets<br>
the way you envisioned a united Africa<br>
Lumumba<br>
something about your spirit moves me<br>
across these many years<br>
in a land far away<br>
something about your very presence on this earth
moves<br>
me to tears<br>
just as your mother stood outside her small
house<br>
as the sky was changing to dusk<br>
stood crying into hands which could not stop the
tears<br>
from falling, dripping onto the earth<br>
so that a river of tears fell at her feet<br>
<br>
Lumumba<br>
Lumumba<br>
your name should become a chant for all free
thinking people<br>
you who longed for corruption-free politics<br>
who took pride in every step you walked<br>
for a free independent Congo you said<br>
and those words became a sacred chant for your
people<br>
<br>
they wanted your name to be forgotten<br>
they wanted your warrior feeling to be cast out<br>
they wanted to stamp on your vision<br>
but it is not forgotten Lumumba<br>
Lumumba<br>
your mother weeping into her cupped hands<br>
the tears filling her face her neck her body<br>
Lumumba<br>
your name is not erased from our history books<br>
but brought back to life<br>
and lived…<br>
</i><br>
Copyright 2011 ~ Dorothy Johnson-Laird<br>
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