CARRY IT FORWARD
benefit film screening
- Thu, November 6th
- 7:00 - 9:30 pm
- At the Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center (1331 West Albion Ave., Chicago IL - see parking and public transportation details below)
- Suggested donation $10 (add'l, tax-deductible donations welcome)
This 90-minute film stars Angela Davis, Eve Ensler and Cotter Smith (as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg), radical hip hop artists Rebel Diaz, folk duo Mike + Ruthy, poet Martín Espada, members of the Rosenberg/Meeropol family, and other artists and activists.
The production uses dramatic readings, acted vignettes, poetry, music, and historical photos, to dramatize the last four days of the Rosenbergs’ lives through their prison letters and Robby and Michael Meeropol’s firsthand accounts. The film also tells the stories of present-day activist families the Rosenberg Fund for Children assists (including the family of Russell Maroon Shoatz), and celebrates current movements for peace, environmental justice, immigrants' rights, civil liberties and other progressive struggles from Idle No More and Stop, Stop and Frisk, to the fight to free all political prisoners.
Parking/Public transportation: Accessible by CTA Red line (Loyola), #151 and #36 buses (Glenwood/Devon), #147 Bus (Loyola). Limited parking is available one block south of Kovler Center on Loyola and one block east on Lakewood btw. Albion and Loyola. Please pay attention to parking signs as some areas are restricted until 7 pm.