American Revolutionary Media: Program of Special Events [Third World Newsreel, Rainbow Coalition]

New York: ARM, [1969]. Mimeograph. 8 1/2 x 11 in. Very good, with light discoloration near the top left corner. Item #10578

Flyer promoting American Revolutionary Media’s (ARM) program of special events for their month-long exhibition at Museum in New York.

The special events mostly consisted of screenings of films
and newsreels, a portion of which were sourced from Cuba,
Liberated Guinea, and North Vietnam, another portion from the
Third World Newsreel and Etats Generaux du Cinema, radical
filmmaking collectives founded in 1968 that turned the camera
back on revolutionary situations in the United States and France, respectively.

Other special events included poetry readings, free jazz concerts, a performance by the Rainbow Coalition, and and plays by companies such as Burning City Theater and Blue Dome Theater, on topics such as the People’s Park in Berkeley and the Conquest of Mexico. Most notably, the calendar also advertises a “political rap” from The Rainbow Coalition, just founded in the same year by Fred Hampton.

American Revolutionary Media (ARM) was a radical underground alternative journalism, guerrilla theater, and counter-culture film collective that operated mostly in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. One of the group’s leads George De Pue had a long-time enmity with John Sinclair, of the White Panther Party, a neighboring radical group that overlapped in interests with ARM.

Price: $250.00