Love Bars Hate Prisons
Tue. 02/07 | 7:00PM
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Love Bars Hate Prisons is a film series focusing on the prison system. This month: Lucio.
http://www.lucio.com.es/trailer-mediano_ing.html
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, 75, now lives in Paris, still raising anarchist hell. 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.
Written by
Aitor Arregi and José María Goenaga
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