The Fire This Time: Documentary trailer re NJ 7 Video Trailer of documentary: the Fire This Time The story was a few years back- here- On June 14, four African-American women—Venice Brown (19), Terrain Dandridge (20), Patreese Johnson (20) and Renata Hill (24)—received sentences ranging from three-and-a-half to 11 years in prison. None of them had previous criminal records. Two of them are parents of small children. Their crime? Defending themselves from a physical attack by a man who held them down and choked them, ripped hair from their scalps, spat on them, and threatened to sexually assault them—all because they are lesbians. The mere fact that any victim of a bigoted attack would be arrested, jailed and then convicted for self-defense is an outrage. But the length of prison time given further demonstrates the highly political nature of this case and just how racist, misogynistic, anti-gay, anti-youth and anti-worker the so-ed U.S. justice system truly is.

Related documentary: The Sakia Gunn Film Project This is a documentary related to what happened in New Jersey. All of the defendants of the New Jersey 7 had gone to the same school as Sakia Gunn and went to school with her. She was black, butch and murdered for it at 15 years old.

I just got my schedule for orientation to volunteer for the Denver Film Festival. No films listed on the website yet. I wonder if this one will be one. I attended a screening of one GLBT movie a couple of weeks ago and am excited to be part of the festival.

That sounds super-cool*)!! Hope it is!!