Screening of Attica with CBE's Dismantling Racism Team
Thursday May 12 at 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30 PM) in the CBE Ballroom
On September 9, 1971, inmates at New York’s Attica Correctional Facility seized the yard, took more than three dozen guards and civilian employees hostage, and demanded more humane treatment and better conditions. For five days, the world watched, as journalists and a team of negotiators converged at the scene. But when law enforcement was ordered to retake Attica, state police left 29 inmates and 10 hostages dead and inmates tortured. No charges were ever brought against authorities for these killings. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the Attica uprising, Emmy-winning director Stanley Nelson and producer and co-director Traci A. Curry examine this shocking incident in an extraordinary, in-depth documentary that stands as a wake-up call for the need for prison reform and the responsibilities of justice.
Join the CBE Dismantling Racism Team and other members of the CBE community to watch the film together and then discuss it in small groups.
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