Mon 9.20.10| Driving Out the Dealers

Meeting Room screens at the San Francisco Irish Film Festival

 

 

In the 1980s, heroin rapidly swept through poor communities in Dublin. As large numbers of kids turned into addicts, local women and men organized themselves to force out the heroin dealers in their neighborhoods. James Davis, director of "Meeting Room," talks about the rise of Concerned Parents Against Drugs, how the Provisional Irish Republican Army backed their efforts, and how the authorities eventually squashed a movement they couldn't control.

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