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...years Godard has been redefining, re-evaluating, re-applying Marxist-Leninism-Maoism, black liberation, women's liberation as have many other French "progressives" (Sartre, Genet, Fanon, De Bouvier, Marcuse). Godard himself always try to ask the most relevant questions at that stage of the movement which he is recording. He obscures the line between information and propaganda, between content and form...
After three hours of rock music by bands including Elephant's Memory, the massive rally began at 4 p. m. Author Jean Genet passed the mircrophone to Elbert "Big Man" Howard, Panther Deputy Minister of Information, who read Genet's statement in English to the crowd. "The existence of the Black Panther Party comes first, ahead of your diplomas. You must face life directly, not in comfortable aquaria," Genet had said...
Hilliard and Douglas, accompanied by French Author Jean Genet, were in New Haven, Conn., watching pretrial hearings for the trial of Chairman Bobby Seale and 13 other Panthers. They are charged with the torture slaying of another Panther. When Hilliard tried to talk to one of the defendants in the tense courtroom, officers moved in to quiet him. Douglas attempted to intervene, and the pair were grabbed and wrestled to the bench by state troopers and deputy sheriffs. Superior Court Judge Harold M. Mulvey promptly sentenced them to six months in jail for contempt of court...
...There is no sex in the usual sense, because the characters prefer to engage in whippings. It turns out that tape is not the ideal medium for dramatizing this kind of eroticism, but there is enough twaddle about the relationship between violent crime and perverted sex to make St. Genet set fire to his halo...
Later, I heard Jean Genet at a Black Panther rally at M.I.T. I had gone to see Genet, not to hear him, but I did hear him make the straightest, most eloquent plea for justice and honesty that could have been made. He moved me out of my apathetic sensibility and aesthetic neuralgia, and I had an inkling of what writers can do in this kind of a time. He made me feel how poetry can be immediate and alive, and he made me understand that what is most vital now is what is illicit, what is deemed anti-social...