Racial Justice Community Organizing Film Series!
First film!
Saturday June 25th. 7:00-9:30pm
Plainfield Opera House (Wheelchair accessible)
FUNDI: Ella Baker Documentary (48 mins.)
This film reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker, a friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, played in shaping the American civil rights movement. The dynamic activist was affectionately known as the Fundi, a Swahili word for a person who passes skills from one generation to another. By looking at the 1960s from the perspective of Baker, the "godmother of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee," FUNDI adds an essential understanding of the U.S. civil rights movement.

Hosted by Showing Up for Racial Justice Central VT (CVTSURJ), a local group organizing against racism and white supremacy (learn more: https://www.facebook.com/CVtSURJ/ )

Film followed by brief discussion. $7 suggested donation to go to the http://iamvt2.org/ project challenging racial micro-aggressions in VT. Child care provided. Please refrain from wearing any fragrances.
Stay tuned for:
Sat. 7/23
Grace Lee Boggs Documentary (1hr. 22 mins.)
Location: To be announced
This film plunges us into Boggs’s lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. As she wrestles with a Detroit in ongoing transition, contradictions of violence and non-violence, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, the 1967 rebellions, and non-linear notions of time and history, Boggs emerges with an approach that is radical in its simplicity and clarity: revolution is not an act of aggression or merely a protest. Revolution, Boggs says, is about something deeper within the human experience — the ability to transform oneself to transform the world.

Sat. 8/27
Mirrors of Privilege (45 mins.)
Location: To be announced
The stories in the film reveal what is often required to move through the stages of denial, defensiveness, guilt, fear, and shame into making a solid commitment to ending racial injustice. This film catalyzes powerful dialogue to support the learning, change and healing of all people who want to undo race-based oppression. Use this groundbreaking film and conversation guide in your organization to help bridge the gap between good intentions and meaningful change. It features stories from white men and women on overcoming issues of unconscious racism and entitlement.

If you are interested in helping volunteer at any of these film screenings (lots of awesome volunteer roles to fill!) or would like more information, contact: Madeline, sharrow32@yahoo.com