Our Matching Fund for Cuba Hurricane Relief raised to $7000. Plus: Upcoming political films on Sundays
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Dear friends,
We have a increased our matching fund for Hurricane Irma relief MEDICC donations to Cuba. We have surpassed our previous goal of $5000 matching fund, and have increased it to $7000.
Not only is every dollar you give doubled by us, but on top of that, MEDICC doubles donations itself, through the end of this year, so that every dollar you give becomes four dollars. If we can meet our match of $5000, then in total, $20,000 will be sent to Cuba.
So far we have received $5874.50, which means $23,138 will go to Cuba medical aid.
** Checks to MEDICC are tax deductible.**
Hurricane Irma was the first Category 5 hurricane to hit Cuba since 1952. Yet this has not stopped the US blockaded country of Cuba from sending aid and medical professions to neighboring countries devastated by the hurricanes. Let us respond in the spirit of solidarity that Cuba so exemplifies to the world.
You may write a check payable to “MEDICC,” and mail your check to:
Stansfield Smith
2961 S. Bonaparte, Chicago, IL 60608
or
Gisela Lopez
7617 N. Eastlake Terrace, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60626
Thanks from the sponsors,
Chicago ALBA Solidarity, MLToday.com, and Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba
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Loyola Political Film Series Fall 2017
Sundays, 2pm
Loyola University (downtown)
Corboy Law Center, room 301, 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago
(one block north of Chicago & State Red line L stop)
October 15 Strike Sergei Eisenstein 1925 122min
"The strength of the working class is organization. Without organization of the masses, the proletarian is nothing. Organized it is everything. Being organized means unity of action, unity of practical activity." Lenin (opening shot)
Sergei Eisenstein's first full-length feature, to celebrate the 1905 Russian Revolution, depicts a workers' strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a piece of machinery, he commits suicide, and his fellow workers revolt against the owner of the factory. As the strike drags on and government officials grow more desperate to end it, their methods of dealing with the rebellious workers become grislier.
The film is most famous for a sequence near the end in which the violent suppression of the strike is cross-cut with footage of cattle being slaughtered, although there are several other points in the movie where animals are used as metaphors for the conditions of various individuals. Another theme in the film is collectivism in opposition to individualism which was viewed as a convention of western film.
October 22 Battle for Stevastopol 2015 110min
Superbly shot action scenes and acting make this drama about Lyudmila Pavlichenko – most successful woman sniper in the history of warfare. During the Red Army’s defence of the Soviet Union’s western border in 1941, sharpshooter Lyudmila Pavlichenko chalked up 309 confirmed kills – all Nazis. The film details the achievements of Pavlichenko, considered the greatest woman sharpshooter the world has seen. Nicknamed “Lady Death”, 25-year-old Pavlichenko is a complex character, and Yulia Peresild gives an impressively layered performance.
October 29 Aristide and the Endless Revolution 2005 84min
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the former president of Haiti, was twice removed from office with the complicity of the US and the French. The film exposes the Western manipulation, the economic alliances between the Haitian and U.S. elite, the armed criminals posing as freedom fighters and other factors that have consistently threatened this country.
The film introduces renowned physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer, President Aristide himself, UN goodwill ambassador Danny Glover, Noam Chomsky, Roger Noriega (Assistant Secretary of State under George W. Bush), Congresswoman Maxine Waters, James Dobbins (director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at Rand and former U.S. Special Envoy in Haiti), John Shattuck (former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor) and many Haitian Voices.
November 5 October: Ten Days that Shook the World Sergei Eisenstein 1928 104 min
Soviet silent historical film by Sergei Eisenstein It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the event. The film covers the key events of the Russian revolution from February 1917 to October. Beginning with the crumbling of the Russian monarchy, the production depicts the growing conflicts at Petrograd, with Lenin leading the rebellion that results in the overthrow of the tsar's Winter Palace. In addition to its historically rooted narrative, the film is renowned for its inventive use of striking montage imagery.https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/03/ber4-m10.html
November 13 Viva Cuba Juan Carlos Cremata Malberto 2005 80 min
In a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist that is proud of her family's social standing. She places similar restriction on her son, who does not want him playing with the daughter anti-revolutionary family. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malu and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malu's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to run away and travel to the other side of the island to find Malu's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it. The story of their escape across the island is a very touching on.
The film became a box office hit and went on to win many awards nationally and internationally as it was displayed at many film festivals around the world, including 2005 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix Ecrans Juniors Award, plus awards in countries as diverse as Australia, Italy, Guatemala, Germany, France, and Taiwan. In 2008, it was shown all over Venezuela.
November 19 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 98min
This Soviet film portrays the difficulties and heroism of the Soviet peoples in their struggle against fascism in World War II.While set during World War II, Ballad of a Soldier is not primarily a war film. It recounts, within the context of the turmoil of war, various kinds of love: the romantic love of a young couple, the committed love of a married couple, and a mother's love of her child, as a Red Army soldier tries to make it home during a leave, meeting several civilians on his way and falling in love. Won award at San Francisco International Film Festival 1960, and nominated for Academy Awards in 1962
Sponsors: Loyola University Department of Sociology, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, [email protected], Stan Smith 773-322-3168
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