In this episode, we sit down with an outside agitator with Unity of Fields who was involved in the Columbian encampments and the occupation of Hinds Hall, to review the 2025 documentary, 'The Encampments' produced by Watermelon Pictures.
As more and more encampments are doing screenings of the documentary, we feel that it’s important to provide some much needed criticisms that have not been engaged from the complete erasure of the Palestinian resistance to its erasure of US-led imperialism, this is a misleading film of a subject without a predicate.
Timestamps
0:00: Excerpt of speech by Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) in front of Hamilton Hall, 1968.
3:32: intro
5:07: introducing UoF
6:45: Al-Aqsa flood, student intifada, and PalAction
10:30: Beginning of critique
15:29 timeline of columbia encampment, ‘68, and policing
23:59: Returning to film
38: Film painting an image of reality of false unity
39:40: Who was Yahya Sinwar?
42:26: Who/What is the Axis of Resistance?
45:33: Critique of the films’ universalist position rather than a partisan perspective.
50:30: Revisionist History of 1968
54:35: Occupation of Hinds Hall
References/Resources:
Audio/Videos
Excerpt of speech from Imam Jamil Al-Amin at Hamilton Hall occupation, 1968
Imam Jamil Al-Amin Mixtape from the Anti-Imperialist Archive
Red Star, "Palestine and the Axis of Resistance" with Max Ajl (Youtube Video)
Texts:
Unity of Fields website: https://unityoffields.net/
"I Want them Free" Interview with Sinwar, 2018.
Statement from students in Gaza referring to the student intifada, May 2024
Anatonomy of a Counter-Insurgency - Monthly Review (2020)
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, "Towards a New Cinema"
