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10th July 2016, 14:59
1.Chgo BLM events;2. DePaul Tuesdays films: July 12 "She's Beautiful When's She's Angry" July 19 Citizen 4 (Snowden)
Chicago Black Lives Matter events:
Sunday:
Call to Action Against DOJ at 2pm -https://www.facebook.com/events/147386525683438/
Monday:
1. 2pm - #BlackLivesMatter Sit-In at Millenium Park -https://www.facebook.com/events/1070487246373011/
2. 4:30pm - Protest for #AltonSterling and #PhilondroCastille at Federal Plaza -
3. 7pm - Church on the 9 -https://www.facebook.com/events/1694284510832447/
Wednesday:
9pm - #SandyStillSpeaks Vigil marking one year since her death. 9pm Federal Plaza . Organized by her family.https://www.facebook.com/events/1042105192540926/
Anti-War and Liberation Film Series:
Tuesdays, 7 pm
DePaul University, Schmitt Academic Center Room 254
2320 N. Kenmore, Chicago (2 blocks west of Fullerton Red, Brown Lines)
Tuesday, July 12
She's Beautiful When She's Angry 2014 92 min
With Nancy Rosenstock to talk about the film after the showing.
Today we are nearly as far away from the women’s movement of the early ‘70s as the feminists of that era were from their suffragist forebears.
This documentary dives into the heart of the women’s movement from 1966-1973, through archives and interviews with scores of vibrant, passionate women. What were women’s priorities in 1966? Beauty contests, clothes, weddings, having children, being beautiful... “If you were raped, no one would believe you.” Brimming under the surface was a kind of anger that reached critical mass and exploded. “The Feminine Mystique” was a book that captured what many women were thinking but hadn’t yet expressed. Back then, if you didn’t like the way things were, it was your fault. Women were treated like objects, not as full-fledged people. But women were finally starting to organize... they found others who shared their issues. The National Organization for Women started reaching out, later with other women’s organizations, demanding reproductive rights, equal opportunity, equal pay, universal day care, education, women’s studies, freedom from objectification and the basic right to be taken seriously as an equal human being. Now, looking back, in many ways we have retreated from the gains made by this third wave of the US women’s movement.
Interview with director:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/05/shes-beautiful-when-shes-angry_n_6278698.html
http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/
Tuesday, July 19
Citizen 4 2014 113 min
No amount of familiarity with whistleblower Edward Snowden and his shocking revelations of NSA, U.S. government’s wholesale spying on its own citizens can prepare one for the impact of Poitras’ extraordinary documentary “Citizenfour.” The film tersely records the deed in real time, as Poitras and fellow journalist Glenn Greenwald meet Snowden over an eight-day period in a Hong Kong hotel room to plot how and when they will unleash the bombshell that shook the world.
“Citizenfour” is the final installment of Poitras’ trilogy on post-9/11 America (following “My Country, My Country” and “The Oath”). She was already two years deep into a film about surveillance when contacted by “Citizenfour,” who sought her help in exposing proof of the government’s indiscriminate gathering and processing of U.S. citizens’ emails, cell-phone conversations, bank accounts and digital transactions.
Poitras portrays Snowden as a fascinating, calm, utterly sincere gatherer of unwelcome information. Like Poitras herself, Snowden fully accepts the possible repercussions of his actions on his personal well-being, even while actively seeking to avoid them. Once Snowden goes undercover, Greenwald becomes the public promulgator of his legacy, holding press conferences and appearing before committees abroad.
http://www.avclub.com/review/edward-snowden-doc-citizenfour-less-film-monumenta-210751
Tuesday, July 26
Fidel, (1969) 96 min
This Saul Landau documentary is a personal profile of Fidel Castro and a view of the developments since the revolution 10 years before. There are images of Fidel listening to complaints, arguing, laughing and philosophizing. Fidel encounters with a wide range of Cuban peasants, townspeople and workers, revealing both the popular support for, and bitter complaints about, the social transformations then under way. The film provides a capsule history of the revolution, features in-depth interviews with Castro about his family history, political philosophy and the problems of revolutionary social transformation, and both pro and con comments on the new society from farmers, peasants, students, and political prisoners.
Tuesday, August 2
Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point 2014 58 min
With Anne Sheetz, Illinois Single Payer Coalition
Fix It is a great documentary about the incredible drain in time and money that our multi-payer healthcare insurance causes on our system. The movie advocates for the Single Payer model supported by the Physicians for National Healthcare Program.
This documentary takes an in-depth look into how our dysfunctional health care system is damaging our economy, suffocating our businesses, discouraging physicians and negatively impacting on the nation’s health, while remaining un-affordable for a third of our citizens.
33 cents of every health care dollar has nothing to do with the delivery of healthcare, it is being spent on administrative costs.
As a result of this waste and inefficiency, our total spending on health care soared above $3 trillion in 2014. More than 17% of our national GDP is now eaten up by health care costs, far more than any other country — that’s $1 trillion out of the $3 trillion heathcare budget on administration. http://fixithealthcare.com/
Tuesday, August 23
The End of Poverty 2010 104 min
This thought-provoking documentary revealing that global poverty is not an accident. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries keeping poor countries trapped in that condition, exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries. The film asks why today 20% of the planet's population uses 80% of its resources and consumes 30% more than the planet can regenerate. Includes Nobel prize winners in Economics, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz; authors Susan George, Eric Toussaint, John Perkins, Chalmers Johnson; government ministers such as Bolivia's Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera. The film was selected to over 25 international film festivals.
Tuesday, August 30
Bread and Roses 2010 110 min
Millions of people have no medical insurance in the richest country in the world, the United States. Among the uninsured are recent immigrants, who often work at wages below the minimum allowed by law. In Bread and Roses, director Ken Loach focuses on nonunion Los Angeles janitors who in 1999 earn $5.75 per hour without benefits. When the film begins, Maya is illegally transported across the border from México, and finds a cleaning job in a janitor company in downtown Los Angeles. A union organizer explains at Rosa’s home that in 1982 union janitors in Los Angeles earned $8.50 per hour with benefits, whereas in 1999 the company she works for pays below-minimum wages. Maya decides to participate in the union drive, which grows as more workers are discharged. In order to inspire and to train workers for demonstrations, the organizer shows a video of the success of the 1990 Justice for Janitors strike at Century City, Los Angeles, the very event on which Bread and Roses is based. This movie offers a powerful glimpse at how immigrants and janitors are unlawfully exploited and what unions can do to help.
Tuesday, September 6
Eugene Debs and the American Movement 1977 43 min.
This tells a story of the bloody strikes and brutal government reaction to the American workers' attempts to organize. From after the Civil War until his death in 1926, Debs was part of U.S. history at a time when the foundations of modern corporate America were established. In this fifty year period, Debs was influenced by events as diverse as the massive railroad strike of 1877, the rapid growth of monopolies in the 1890s, World War I, and the Russian Revolution. This film presents a unique picture of the historical conditions as well as a portrait of a man who founded the American Railway Union, led the Pullman Strike of 1894, founder of the Socialist Party of America in 1901, ran four times as the Socialist Party presidential candidate - campaigning tirelessly, explaining the principles of socialism to people across the United States, organized the Industrial Workers of the World, along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood and others, served two and a half years in federal prison for opposing World War I, and received a million presidential votes while in jail.
Debs and the movement he helped build are more than just nostalgia, they are roots of a long and bloody struggle of American working people to own collectively what they produce.
http://debsfoundation.org
Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle, edited by William Pelz, introduction by Howard Zinn.
Sponsored by DePaul University Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies,
& Chicago ALBA Solidarity
[email protected]
773-322-3168
Chicago Black Lives Matter events:
Sunday:
Call to Action Against DOJ at 2pm -https://www.facebook.com/events/147386525683438/
Monday:
1. 2pm - #BlackLivesMatter Sit-In at Millenium Park -https://www.facebook.com/events/1070487246373011/
2. 4:30pm - Protest for #AltonSterling and #PhilondroCastille at Federal Plaza -
3. 7pm - Church on the 9 -https://www.facebook.com/events/1694284510832447/
Wednesday:
9pm - #SandyStillSpeaks Vigil marking one year since her death. 9pm Federal Plaza . Organized by her family.https://www.facebook.com/events/1042105192540926/
Anti-War and Liberation Film Series:
Tuesdays, 7 pm
DePaul University, Schmitt Academic Center Room 254
2320 N. Kenmore, Chicago (2 blocks west of Fullerton Red, Brown Lines)
Tuesday, July 12
She's Beautiful When She's Angry 2014 92 min
With Nancy Rosenstock to talk about the film after the showing.
Today we are nearly as far away from the women’s movement of the early ‘70s as the feminists of that era were from their suffragist forebears.
This documentary dives into the heart of the women’s movement from 1966-1973, through archives and interviews with scores of vibrant, passionate women. What were women’s priorities in 1966? Beauty contests, clothes, weddings, having children, being beautiful... “If you were raped, no one would believe you.” Brimming under the surface was a kind of anger that reached critical mass and exploded. “The Feminine Mystique” was a book that captured what many women were thinking but hadn’t yet expressed. Back then, if you didn’t like the way things were, it was your fault. Women were treated like objects, not as full-fledged people. But women were finally starting to organize... they found others who shared their issues. The National Organization for Women started reaching out, later with other women’s organizations, demanding reproductive rights, equal opportunity, equal pay, universal day care, education, women’s studies, freedom from objectification and the basic right to be taken seriously as an equal human being. Now, looking back, in many ways we have retreated from the gains made by this third wave of the US women’s movement.
Interview with director:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/05/shes-beautiful-when-shes-angry_n_6278698.html
http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/
Tuesday, July 19
Citizen 4 2014 113 min
No amount of familiarity with whistleblower Edward Snowden and his shocking revelations of NSA, U.S. government’s wholesale spying on its own citizens can prepare one for the impact of Poitras’ extraordinary documentary “Citizenfour.” The film tersely records the deed in real time, as Poitras and fellow journalist Glenn Greenwald meet Snowden over an eight-day period in a Hong Kong hotel room to plot how and when they will unleash the bombshell that shook the world.
“Citizenfour” is the final installment of Poitras’ trilogy on post-9/11 America (following “My Country, My Country” and “The Oath”). She was already two years deep into a film about surveillance when contacted by “Citizenfour,” who sought her help in exposing proof of the government’s indiscriminate gathering and processing of U.S. citizens’ emails, cell-phone conversations, bank accounts and digital transactions.
Poitras portrays Snowden as a fascinating, calm, utterly sincere gatherer of unwelcome information. Like Poitras herself, Snowden fully accepts the possible repercussions of his actions on his personal well-being, even while actively seeking to avoid them. Once Snowden goes undercover, Greenwald becomes the public promulgator of his legacy, holding press conferences and appearing before committees abroad.
http://www.avclub.com/review/edward-snowden-doc-citizenfour-less-film-monumenta-210751
Tuesday, July 26
Fidel, (1969) 96 min
This Saul Landau documentary is a personal profile of Fidel Castro and a view of the developments since the revolution 10 years before. There are images of Fidel listening to complaints, arguing, laughing and philosophizing. Fidel encounters with a wide range of Cuban peasants, townspeople and workers, revealing both the popular support for, and bitter complaints about, the social transformations then under way. The film provides a capsule history of the revolution, features in-depth interviews with Castro about his family history, political philosophy and the problems of revolutionary social transformation, and both pro and con comments on the new society from farmers, peasants, students, and political prisoners.
Tuesday, August 2
Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point 2014 58 min
With Anne Sheetz, Illinois Single Payer Coalition
Fix It is a great documentary about the incredible drain in time and money that our multi-payer healthcare insurance causes on our system. The movie advocates for the Single Payer model supported by the Physicians for National Healthcare Program.
This documentary takes an in-depth look into how our dysfunctional health care system is damaging our economy, suffocating our businesses, discouraging physicians and negatively impacting on the nation’s health, while remaining un-affordable for a third of our citizens.
33 cents of every health care dollar has nothing to do with the delivery of healthcare, it is being spent on administrative costs.
As a result of this waste and inefficiency, our total spending on health care soared above $3 trillion in 2014. More than 17% of our national GDP is now eaten up by health care costs, far more than any other country — that’s $1 trillion out of the $3 trillion heathcare budget on administration. http://fixithealthcare.com/
Tuesday, August 23
The End of Poverty 2010 104 min
This thought-provoking documentary revealing that global poverty is not an accident. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries keeping poor countries trapped in that condition, exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries. The film asks why today 20% of the planet's population uses 80% of its resources and consumes 30% more than the planet can regenerate. Includes Nobel prize winners in Economics, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz; authors Susan George, Eric Toussaint, John Perkins, Chalmers Johnson; government ministers such as Bolivia's Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera. The film was selected to over 25 international film festivals.
Tuesday, August 30
Bread and Roses 2010 110 min
Millions of people have no medical insurance in the richest country in the world, the United States. Among the uninsured are recent immigrants, who often work at wages below the minimum allowed by law. In Bread and Roses, director Ken Loach focuses on nonunion Los Angeles janitors who in 1999 earn $5.75 per hour without benefits. When the film begins, Maya is illegally transported across the border from México, and finds a cleaning job in a janitor company in downtown Los Angeles. A union organizer explains at Rosa’s home that in 1982 union janitors in Los Angeles earned $8.50 per hour with benefits, whereas in 1999 the company she works for pays below-minimum wages. Maya decides to participate in the union drive, which grows as more workers are discharged. In order to inspire and to train workers for demonstrations, the organizer shows a video of the success of the 1990 Justice for Janitors strike at Century City, Los Angeles, the very event on which Bread and Roses is based. This movie offers a powerful glimpse at how immigrants and janitors are unlawfully exploited and what unions can do to help.
Tuesday, September 6
Eugene Debs and the American Movement 1977 43 min.
This tells a story of the bloody strikes and brutal government reaction to the American workers' attempts to organize. From after the Civil War until his death in 1926, Debs was part of U.S. history at a time when the foundations of modern corporate America were established. In this fifty year period, Debs was influenced by events as diverse as the massive railroad strike of 1877, the rapid growth of monopolies in the 1890s, World War I, and the Russian Revolution. This film presents a unique picture of the historical conditions as well as a portrait of a man who founded the American Railway Union, led the Pullman Strike of 1894, founder of the Socialist Party of America in 1901, ran four times as the Socialist Party presidential candidate - campaigning tirelessly, explaining the principles of socialism to people across the United States, organized the Industrial Workers of the World, along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood and others, served two and a half years in federal prison for opposing World War I, and received a million presidential votes while in jail.
Debs and the movement he helped build are more than just nostalgia, they are roots of a long and bloody struggle of American working people to own collectively what they produce.
http://debsfoundation.org
Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle, edited by William Pelz, introduction by Howard Zinn.
Sponsored by DePaul University Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies,
& Chicago ALBA Solidarity
[email protected]
773-322-3168