The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee Presents Three Films May 4th 7pm Community Church of New York

By Helene Busby

Film Screening The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee Presents Three Films:

The Struggle Continues - by Emily and Sarah Kunstler Point of Attack - a film by Kathleen Foster Poetics Meets Politics - by Paul Chan

Venue Address: Community Church of New York (35th and Park Aves) 40 East 35th Street - New York, NY 10016 Nearest MTA Stop: 33rd Street 6 Train

Date and Time: May 4th 2006, 7pm

Event Price: Free, Donations needed and accepted

Telephone/Website: Lynne Stewart Defense Committee 212-625-9696 http://www.lynnestewart.org

The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee Presents Three Films:

The Struggle Continues 18 minutes A short produced by Emily and Sarah Kunstler - interviews with Lynne Stewart, her family, attorneys and former clients. Used as an organizing DVD at speaking engagements talking about Lynne's case.

Point of Attack - a film by Kathleen Foster 45 minutes Point of Attack is a critically acclaimed, timely documentary that chronicles the post-9/11 racial profiling, large scale round-ups, detentions and mass deportations of Arab, Muslim and South Asian men as part of the government's "War on Terrorism." Point of Attack highlights the collective efforts of immigration lawyers, students and community activists to provide legal and financial help to the imprisoned men and their families while mobilizing resistance to the growing attack on civil liberties.

Poetics Meets Politics 17 minutes "Paul Chan's portrait [is] of Lynne F, Stewart, the New York lawyer convicted last year, now disbarred, Ms. Stewart faces a 30-year jail sentence. The film, which Mr. Chan calls a work-in-progress, simply shows Ms Stewart talking; in a sense it is a self-portrait. She talks about her trial, about her career as an activist lawyer and about a personal politics that sounds instinctual rather than ideological. She also read poetry ...while she reads, Mr. Chan turns the screen into a field of changing colors, so that we concentrate on the music of the words, the activism of the soul that poetry is, the power outlet that art can be. It's a simple device, and like any effective political action, right or wrong, brilliant because it works." --Holland-Cotter, New York times,

Join Lynne Stewart and the filmmakers while they introduce their works. Celebrate the organizing potential of cinematography. The film Point of Attack will be followed by a discussion period. A reception follows the last film.

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