SF8 event in Austin,TX 10/18

LEGACY OF TORTURE: The War Against The Black Liberation Movement
Officially sanctioned torture in the US dates back at least to slavery. Lynchings, castrations, and mutilations were used to try to stop Black people’s struggle for freedom. It didn't work then ­and it won't work now.

"In 1973, 13 members and friends of the Black Panther Party were arrested in New Orleans in connection with the 1971 shooting death of a San Francisco policeman. At least three were TORTURED in jail and gave forced 'confessions'. Two years later a federal judge threw out the 'confessions' and all charges. In 2004, -- 30 years later -- a San Francisco grand jury reopened the investigation. Five Black Panther Party associates, including two who'd been tortured in New Orleans, were jailed for refusing to testify.
LEGACY OF TORTURE (28 min, 2006) is the story of these grand jury resisters. Harold Taylor and John Bowman (who died in 2006) chillingly describe Abu Ghraib-style torture at the hands of New Orleans cops and their lives between that horror and the grand jury “investigation.” Co-resisters Ray Boudreaux, Richard Brown, Hank Jones, and Harvard law professor Soffiyah Elijah talk about the Black Panther Party and the government's ongoing effort to destroy its legacy.
And another sinister chapter to this story is unfolding right now!
In January, 2007, eight Black activists, including four surviving grand jury resisters, were arrested on recycled charges from 1971. They are now the San Francisco 8. Find out why people are rallying to their support when you see LEGACY OF TORTURE."

"Legacy of Torture" tells how members & friends of the Black Panther Party were tortured by New Orleans police & "investigated" by a San Francisco Grand Jury 30 years later. Find out what's goin' on now.
Free: short film, speaker, talk, take action.
Thurs., Oct. 18
8 pm
Monkeywrench Books
110 E. North Loop
call 512-407-6925 for info