Rally to Demand Britain Free Julian Assange Tuesday April 16, 4:30-6 pm 625 N. Michigan, outside British Consulate https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoALBASolidarityCommittee/photos/gm.626982934445600/2348855928729935/?type=3&theater "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love." Julian … Continue reading Rally to Demand Freedom for Julian Assange
Category: Political Prisoners
Loyola Political Film Series November-December 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) November 5 October: Ten Days that Shook the World Sergei Eisenstein 1928 104 min Soviet silent historical film by Sergei Eisenstein It is a dramatic celebration of the 1917 … Continue reading Loyola Political Film Series November-December 2017
Spring 2017 Political Film Series
click on the title to read. movie April 16 is canceled.
Fall 2016 Film Series: The Fight Against the 1%
Fall 2016 LoyolaFilm Series: The Fight Against the 1% 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) September 18 Shock Doctrine 78 min 2009 A documentary adaptation Naomi Klein's 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine. An investigation of … Continue reading Fall 2016 Film Series: The Fight Against the 1%
DePaul Fall 2014 Film Series: Peoples’ Struggles in the Americas
DePaul University Schmitt Academic Center Room 254 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue. Chicago (2 blocks west of Fullerton Red Line) Sundays at 2pm October 26 Revolutionary Medicine : The Story of the First Garifuna Hospital Speaker from Honduras Solidarity Network Revolutionary Medicine is a 45-minute documentary by Beth Geglia and Jesse Freeston, who had been … Continue reading DePaul Fall 2014 Film Series: Peoples’ Struggles in the Americas
Loyola African-Women-Labor-Latin America Film Series Jan-June 2014
Loyola Film Series: Winter-Spring 2014 Afro-American, African, Women, Labor, and Latin America Sundays, 2pm Loyola University (downtown) Corboy Law Center, room 422, 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago (one block north of Chicago & State Red line L stop) January 12 Negroes with Guns: Robert Williams and Black Power (2004) Williams was a NAACP leader in … Continue reading Loyola African-Women-Labor-Latin America Film Series Jan-June 2014
Report on the International Peoples Tribunal on Leonard Peltier
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/report-on-the-international-peoples-tribunal-on-leonard-peltier-by-stan-smith/ “Manifest Destiny was a terrible doctrine that cost the lives of millions of our native peoples.” “We are the subjects of the longest undeclared war in the history of the United States.” Dennis Banks “The FBI is the continuation of historic US policy, the modern day cavalry.” Bill Means … Continue reading Report on the International Peoples Tribunal on Leonard Peltier
Political Prisoners in the United States
Leonard Peltier, an activist in the American Indian Movement, whose goal was to organize the native American communities to stand up for their rights. In a Cointelpro style operation, he was sentenced to life for murdering two FBI agents on the basis of fabricated and suppressed evidence. Evidence exonerating Peltier was withheld by the FBI. … Continue reading Political Prisoners in the United States
Loyola Fall 2013 Latin America and Political Repression Film Series
Latin America and Political Prisoners Film Series Loyola University (downtown campus) Corboy Law Center, room 422 Sundays, 2pm 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago September 15 Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up? By Saul Landau 2010 85 min Twelve years after five Cubans were arrested in America for espionage, Saul Landau has made a … Continue reading Loyola Fall 2013 Latin America and Political Repression Film Series