Coalition for Peace Action co-sponsors
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Pot Luck dinner and a free movie on Friday Night…
Director Anthony Giacchino's
The Camden 28
An award-winning documentary about
28 antiwar activists charged with attempting
to break in and vandalize a Camden, N.J., draft board office and other crimes.
The film looks at resistance to war from the perspective of those who were willing to put their lives on the line to protest it, and features a "reunion" discussion with some of the original defendants and others involved with the story.
Friday, Feb 15th
6:00 pm (Pot luck) and film (7:00 pm)
Unitarian Universalist Church
401 North Kings Highway, Cherry Hill, NJ
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Who were these dangerous radicals that America’s premier law enforcement agency so proudly took down? They included four Catholic priests, a Lutheran minister and 23 members of the “Catholic Left.”
Set against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent times in recent American history, this movie is a real "must see" -- a story as compelling and relevant today as it was 36 years ago.
Early Sunday morning, August 22, 1971, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell announced that 20 antiwar activists had been arrested the previous night attempting to break in and vandalize a Camden, N.J., draft board office. Five days later, eight more plotters were indicted. Charged with conspiracy to remove and destroy files from draft, FBI and Army Intelligence offices, destruction of government property and interfering with the Selective Service system, members of the “Camden 28” faced up to 47 years in federal prison.
“The unspoken parallels between Iraq and Vietnam and the antiwar movements then and now are illustrated by ‘The Camden 28,’ a poignant documentary recalling the all-but-forgotten trial of 28 Vietnam War opponents, mostly members of the Catholic Left . . .” — Stephen Holden, The New York Times
And the parallels between the City of Camden, then and now, are profound.
Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Committee and the Coalition for Peace Action, the events are free and open to the public.
For more information: call 856-482-2054 or email brownmayola@comcast.net
