Hey, we're inviting anyone and everyone out to a film screening of Lucio:
Anarchist, Forger, Bank robber. Bricklayer. The film is being shown at the
Goldie Mill Park Ruins at 8:30 pm. on Thursday July, 29th. The event is by
donation and all of the proceeds will go towards supporting local political
prisoners. Below is a synopsis of the film.
Lucio
There are plenty of anarchists in the world. Many have committed robbery or
smuggling for their cause. Fewer have discussed strategies with Che Guevara
or saved the skin of Eldridge Cleaver – the leader of the Black Panthers.
There is only one who has done all that, and also brought to its knees the
most powerful bank on the planet by forging travellers cheques, without
missing a single day of work in his construction job. He is Lucio Urtubia,
from a tiny village in Navarra in North of Spain.
Lucio has been protagonist and witness to many of the historic events of the
second half of the 20th century. His family was persecuted by Franco’s
regime, he was on the streets of Paris for the phenomenon of May of ’68, he
actively supported Castro’s revolution, he helped thousands of exiled people
by providing false documents to them… But without a doubt, his greatest
triumph came in the second half of the seventies. The press called him “the
good bandit”, or the “Basque Zorro”. He managed to swindle 25 million
dollars from the First National Bank (now Citibank), to later invest the
money in causes he believed in. Miraculously, he spent no more than a few
months in jail throughout his “career”.
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