A film showing about the song
'Strange Fruit'

Time:7:pm
Date:Friday 13 October 2006
Place: Jury Inn Hotel 60-96 Jamaica street

Ahmet Ertegun the legendary record producer,called 'Strange Fruit'
which jazz singer Billy Holiday first sang 16 years before Rosa Parks
refused to yield her seat on a Montgomery,Alabama bus 'a declaration of
war...the beginning of the civil rights movement'
The jazz drummer & civil rights activist Max Roach said of Holiday
she made a statement that we all felt as black folks. No one was speaking
out. She became one of the fighters,this beautiful black lady who could
sing and make you feel things. She became a voice of black people and
they loved this women''

To mark Black history month Glasgow Socialist Workers Party will host
the film Strange fruit. It tells a dramatic story of America's past by
using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its
epicenter. The saga brings us face-to-face with the terror of lynching as
it spotlights the courage and heroism of those who fought for racial
justice when to do so was to risk ostracism and livelihood if white - and
death if black. It examines the history of lynching, and the interplay
of race, labour, the Left and popular culture that would give rise to
the civil rights movement.

for more info tel number 07877705423
the film is around 1hour and will be followed by discussion

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/film.html
http://www.bookmarks.uk.com/cgi/store/bookmark.cgi