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Visionnement de "Lucio" // Film Screening of "Lucio"


7:00pm
- 9:00pm
Friday July 13 2012

Venue: La Belle Epoque, Espace Social Anarchiste
Address: 1984 Rue wellington, Metro Charlevoix
Cost: Free
Accessibility: Not wheelchair accessible

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Vendredi 13 juillet 19h: Visionnement de "Lucio" 

 

Il y a beaucoup d'anarchistes dans ce monde. Plusieurs on commis des vols et/ou fait de la contrebande pour leur cause. Mais très peu on discuté de stratégie avec Che Guevara ou on sauvé la peau d'Eldrige Cleaver,le leader des Black Panthers.

 

Pourtant,ce n'est qu'un résumé partiel de la vie d'une seule personne!En plus de mettre à genou les plus grande banque du monde en forgeant de faux chèques et ce, sans manquer une seule journée de son emploi journalier! Nous parlons de Lucio Urtubia, né dans un petit village du nord de l'Espagne. Maintenant âgé de 75 ans, il vit à Paris ou il continue de milité activement dans le millieu anarchiste. Il a été témoin et protagoniste  de plusieurs événements historiques de la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle.

 

Sa famille fut persécuté par le régime Franciste. Il pris par à Mai 68 et et à la révolution cubaine. Il aidât de milliers de réfugiés en leurs procurants de faux papiers. Sans doute, son plus grand triomphe fut de frauder la First National Bank (maitenant Citibank) de 25 millions de dollars pour ensuite le réinvestir dans les causes dans lesquelles il croyait. Il fut appelé le «Bon bandit» ou le Zorro basque.

 

Et pourtant il ne passa que quelques mois de son extraordinaire vie en prison. 

 

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Friday, July 13, at 7pm: Film Screening of "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, 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 

Organizer:labelleepoque@riseup.net

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