[Peace-discuss] please move to peace-discuss ... Art Theater, which failed First Amendment test, closes its doors

[Stuart Levy]

As this is a discussion, please let's move it to peace-discuss.

I'll miss the Art, too.   They've brought a lot of great films to this
town which we would never have seen, or many of us even have heard of,
without their work. 

And we, sometimes lots of us, got to experience those films together.  
It doesn't happen that way if you watch things via internet stream in
atomized isolation. 

And they've put on excellent panels associated with some of those films.


Concerning Violence, based on Frantz Fanon's writings ...

Bisbee '17, a re-enactment of a miners' strike in Bisbee, AZ, during
WWI.   The IWW miners, organizing across lines of race and national
origin, were forced at gunpoint onto a train and dumped hundreds of
miles away in the desert.    The performance was staged by present-day
Bisbee residents.  The century-old class divisions are still raw.

The Drunk, a lovely film involving the fictional grandson of Eugene V.
Debs, which along the way shows us bits of the history of socialism in
the US.

I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary centered on James Baldwin's brilliant
writing.

Woman At War, which follows a woman quietly outraged at environmental
exploitation of her native Finland and heads in unexpected directions ...

I can't count how many more.

Very sorry the Art is gone.   I'd love to know more about why, and
whether there might be a prospect for bringing back an Art Theater in
Champaign-Urbana.




On 10/27/19 7:46 PM, Dianna Visek via Peace wrote:
> What did they have against Austin?  I will miss the place, First
> Amendment or not.
>
> Dianna
>
> On Sunday, October 27, 2019, 6:46:16 PM CDT, Niloofar Shambayati via
> Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>
> Since they fired Austin McCain, I knew it was doomed to fail. And,
> pulling down the iconic painting in the lobby too!
>
> Niloofar Shambayati 
>
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 1:40 AM Robert Naiman via Peace
> <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
>
>     They wouldn't let me rent the theater to show a movie, because I
>     was not "politically correct." Even though the website said that
>     anyone could rent the theater to show a movie. Even though I
>     brought them a check, for the amount of money that the website
>     said it cost to rent the theater to show a movie. 
>
>
>
>     On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 2:09 AM John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jbw292002 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>         I'm almost terrified to ask:  In what way were the
>         owners/operators of the Art Theater the "enemies of the First
>         Amendment"?
>
>
>
>         On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 1:04 AM Robert Naiman via Peace
>         <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>>
>         wrote:
>
>             https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10158766962282656
>
>             I am so, so glad, so grateful to myself, that I never
>             called for a boycott of the Art. Now, nobody can blame me
>             for this. These people did this to themselves. This is
>             what happens to a public-facing institution when it is
>             taken over by the enemies of the First Amendment. The
>             First Amendment. It's not just a good idea. It's the Law. 
>
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