New Movie about American Anarchist History

international | arts and media | other press Saturday September 18, 2004 19:42 by redjade

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Lovarchy-Shalom has just released the motion picture about 20th Century pacifist anarchists. The title is A Peace Of The Anarchy. It is available for free to schools and universities. Please see the website for more info: http://movies.lovarchy.org/POA

The movie is a partial biography of the vegetarian, catholic, anarchist, pacifist, draft-refusing, tax-resisting one-man revolution Ammon A. Hennacy, who died in 1970. Through the course of the movie other radical activists for peace and freedom are discussed in this short, 58 minute picture which includes Starhawk, Brian Willson, Dorothy Day, Peace Pilgrim & David Solnit.

Marc Page, a Catholic Worker journalist from New Mexico edited this motion picture in Arizona, and shot most of the interviews with contemporary anarchists. The premier screening will be in Gallup, NM on Tuesday September 21st. The test-screening was held July 31st at the New York Catholic Worker (Mary House) during the second annual "Christianity and Anarchy Conference". The movie will also screen in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Long Haul Infoshop on Thursday September 23rd.

More info including detailed scheduled screenings and other exhibitions is on the website for
A Peace Of The Anarchy:
http://movies.lovarchy.org/POA

info found at
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/09/17/2133195