Wed., May 14, 8:00 p.m. | Kino Muza 1
Meeting with the director of the film “Free Leonard Peltier”
after the screening of the film FREE LEONARD PELTIER, dir. David France, Jesse Short Bull
Leonard Peltier was a young mechanic when he joined AIM to advocate for his people and quickly found himself swept up in a war between activists and the US government. The film revisits the turbulent era of AIM, bringing alive the occupations, arrests, demands, and assassinations and culminating in the FBI’s descent onto the compound on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where Peltier was staying. After two FBI agents are killed in the ensuing shootout, Peltier is arrested, tried, convicted of their murder and sentenced to two life terms in prison in one of the most notorious and discredited legal judgments in modern America.
Hosts:
Marek Nowocień – founder of the Polish Leonard Peltier Support Group and Polish ambassador of the campaign for his release. Translator of indigenous literature and promoter of knowledge about indigenous peoples. Editor of the magazine “Wyspa Żółwia.” Co-organiser of the Polish Sacred Run 1990, co-founder of the Polish Run for the Earth and chairman of the Run's Programme Council.
Krzysztof Mączkowski – cultural anthropologist, cultural and environmental educator, promoter of knowledge about indigenous issues, director of the Run for the Earth and the Made in Native America project, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Wyspa Żółwia.”
