Labor history bike tour Sat./ La Commune July 14-15

[Chris Carlsson]

Hi Friends,
I'll be conducting one of my periodical bike tours, this one on Labor
History, this Saturday from 12-4 p.m. Meet at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission at
9th, bring water and snacks, and off we'll go... a sliding scale $15-50
donation is requested to benefit CounterPULSE and Shaping San Francisco but
you can negotiate that with me if it seems too much...

ALSO, Don't miss our Bastille Day weekend extravaganza. We are screening all
6 hours of Peter Watkins' amazing film about the Paris Commune, "La Commune
(Paris, 1871)"... this is a film like none other you've ever seen and I
can't recommend it highly enough. We are showing it at CounterPULSE on Sat.
night July 14 and Sun. night July 15, 3 hours each night, from 8-11 p.m.
I'll be making fresh crepes! And if you bring French champagne we'll have
quite the Bastille Day party! ($5-10 sliding scale, but no one turned
away)...

Here's the write-up on La Commune:

Inside a giant warehouse in a working-class Parisian suburb, Peter Watkins
assembles a cast of over 200 non-professional actors (though their amateur
status is undetectable). Basing their work upon thorough historical
research, they will attempt to re-create the events of March, 1871--the rise
and fall of the Paris Commune.

La Commune (Paris, 1871) explores that famous, brief, romantic, and tragic
period when poor and working-class Parisians rose up against the "bourgeois"
French national government, which fled the capital and re-established itself
in Versailles. As this complex historical drama unfolds, it is also
"covered" by two television news crews--one from "National TV Versailles,"
which broadcasts the official version of events, the other from "Commune
TV," giving voice to the rebellious Communards.

Mixing past and present, revolutionary in form as well as content, Watkins'
audacious masterpiece forces us to confront notions of a safe or objecive
reading of the past, and also to reflect, inevitably upon the present. No
one who meets the challenge of La Commune (Paris, 1871) will be unchanged by
the experience.

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