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<div>Reflections on Violence and Social Justice:<br>
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<div>Announcing a screening of the Academy Award nominee</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+4" color="#000000"><b>THE WEATHER
UNDERGROUND</b></font></div>
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director Sam Green</b></font></div>
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</b></font><font face="Arial" size="+3" color="#000000"><b>7:30 pm
Saturday March 6 MLH</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+3" color="#000000"><b>"Hello, I'm
going to read a declaration of a state of war...within the next 14
days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice."
~ Bernardine Dohrn</b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="+3"
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</font><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Thirty years ago,
with those words, a group of young American radicals announced their
intention to overthrow the U.S. government. In THE WEATHER
UNDERGROUND, former Underground members, including Bernardine Dohrn,
Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Brian Flanagan, speak
publicly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring
the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's
most wanted list.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Fueled by outrage
over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground waged a
low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the
1970s--bombing targets across the country that they considered
emblematic of the real violence that the U.S. was wreaking throughout
the world. Ultimately, the group's carefully organized clandestine
network managed to successfully evade one of the largest manhunts in
FBI history, yet the group's members would reemerge to life in a
country that was dramatically different than the one they had hoped
their efforts would inspire. Extensive archival material, including,
photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven with
modern-day interviews to trace the group's path, from its pitched
battles with police on Chicago's streets, to its bombing of the U.S.
Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary
out of prison. Sam Green and Bill Siegel's film explores the
Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time and
features interviews with former members of the Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panthers. It also examines the
U.S. government's suppression of dissent in the 1960s and
1970s.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Looking back at
their years underground, the former members paint a compelling
portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times, and the forces that
drove their resistance.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+2">"...a fascinating window into
American political history... one of the most thought-provoking
documentaries of recent times." --Desson Howe, WASHINGTON
POST</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+2">"...a terrific movie, energetic
and articulate. It's the don't-miss documentary of the
season."</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="+2">--David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR</font></div>
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<div>http://www.upstatefilms.org/weather/</div>
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</b></font><font face="Arial" color="#000000">This event brought to
you by Student Action Against Racism, Theater Board, the Radical
Cheerleaders, Enfield D.A.L., the Law Program, and the Photo, Film and
Video Program.</font></div>
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