Wanda’s Picks for March 2013
by Wanda Sabir ‘Mumia’ comes to Oakland Back when Mumia was a member of the Black Panther Party, he traveled west to work with the Oakland chapter – an important time in his evolution as a radical...
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by Wanda Sabir I am recovering from a huge blow – my computer was taken along with other personal irreplaceable items in Carpinteria, a bedroom suburb outside Santa Barbara. We stopped by Loon Point to...
View ArticleBerkeley-based filmmaker Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi releases new film about Cuban...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi is one of the most prolific filmmakers in the Bay Area when it comes to working with working class people in different nations, most...
View ArticleSchwartz means black
by Wanda Sabir It is one thing when there is racial ambiguity based on systemic commodification of one’s people; it’s another when the questions stem from an omission or purposeful lie, which is the...
View ArticleOakland International Film Festival is accepting submissions still
by The People’s Minister of Information JR To all of the filmmakers in the community, the Oakland International Film Festival is accepting submissions until Jan. 30, so if you have something that you...
View ArticleThe ‘First Friday’ doc premieres this week at the New Parkway
by The People’s Minister of Information JR I have known filmmaker N’Jeri Eaton for about five years, ever since she was a student at UC Berkeley’s Journalism School and she asked to interview me about...
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