THE BLACK AND THE GREEN
St Clair Bourne, 1983, 45 mins

RADIO HAITI
Moira Tierney, 2001, 4 mins

Thursday May 30, 2024, 7pm

RADICAL SOLIDARITY CINEMA at THE P.I.T.
411 South 5th St, Los Sures, Williamsburg. Brooklyn, NY 11211
propertyistheft.org

We'll have the honour of being joined by Reverend Herbert Daughtry, who
travelled to Belfast in 1983 and was also on the Brooklyn Bridge march in 2000

THE BLACK AND THE GREEN
In 1983, St. Clair Bourne produced and directed one of his most rarely seen films,
The Black and the Green, chronicling a fact-finding trip to Belfast made by five
American civil rights activists, who found that many Catholics in Northern Ireland
had been influenced by the civil rights movement in the U.S. As The Washington
Post reported at the time: "In the Belfast ghetto, the delegation members are
strangers in a familiar land of crushed tenements, graffiti-stained walls and heavily
armed law officers". St Clair Bourne told The Post that "the film ends up seeming
pro-Irish Republican Army in the same sense that a film about Selma in the 60s
might have ended up seeming pro-black, but then I’m a filmmaker from the 60s.
I try to be humanistically political".

Excerpt from THE BLACK AND THE GREEN

Review in The Nation

RADIO HAITI
New York's Haitian community take it to the bridge to protest a year of mortal
policing, Easter 2000

moiratierney.net/haiti.htm

Entry by donation:
90% of proceeds to the distributors of The Black and the Green
10% towards a new scan of Radio Haiti for this screening