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VIDEO PREMIERE: Are You With Me?

VIDEO PREMIERE: Are You With Me?
Tue, 4/17/2012
This article originally appeared on thefilmdetective.org

Brought to you by the same filmmakers behind "Nobody Can predict the Moment of Revolution," "Are You With Me?" explores the legacy of the 1969 takeover of City College, led by students of color who would eventually win open admissions. The film is dedicated to freedom fighter Louis Reyes Rivera, who passed away March 3, 2012.

Rivera spoke to Students United for a Free CUNY at the AME Church in Harlem on October 27. His powerful words are juxtaposed with speeches by student speeches at Union Square as part of the Occupy Wall Street Day of Action on November 17, 2011.

"At a stature smaller than five feet, Rivera literally embodied with his loud, steady, luminous flow of prose-poetry that we, history’s little folks, could galvanize and transform any space we occupied." - Conor Tomás Reed

"Louis Reyes Rivera, known as “the janitor of history,” is the type of person who we often allow to fall through the cracks of recorded “official” history, but whose memory is passed on through the African oral tradition." - Hank Williams

"Documentation is a behavior I learned from him. Archive is a survival instinct he tried to teach us all." - Rich Villar

 

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