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![In Commemoration of Walter Rodney: 1942-1980](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CD 432Format: DVDProducers: Victor Jara Film CollectiveCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
In the Sky’s Wild Noise - a documentary film featuring a 1977 interview with Guyanese historian and political activist Dr. Walter Rodney. The interview was filmed by the Victor Jara Collective in Guyana. Rodney discusses the political, economic and social crises engulfing his country. Rodney speaks from the perspective of the Working People’s Alliance, an organization — now a political party — of which he was a founding member and pre-eminent spokesperson. Rodney articulates the WPA’s struggle to build a multi-racial unity of the working class to overcome the repressive heritage of colonialism and neo-colonialism. Rodney speaks of human rights and civil liberties, the economic situation and race politics.
In June of 1980 Walter Rodney was assassinated when a bomb exploded in his car, killing him instantly. The film contains rare footage of Walter Rodney’s funeral in Georgetown, as well as street demonstrations in July of 1979 when thousands of Guyanese celebrated the release of the “Arson Three” — Rodney, Rupert Roopnaraine and Omawale — who had been arrested and detained in connection with a fire which destroyed offices of the ruling People’s National Congress in Guyana’s capital city, Georgetown. More than two year later, after Rodney’s assassination, the charges were dismissed.
Also commentary by Pierre Labossiere, Dr James Garrett, Eusi Kwayana
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