Join the ACLU of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Film Festival for three screenings of American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs.
Sunday, Sept. 29 - 4:30 pm - Oriental Theatre
Tuesday, Oct. 8 2:45 pm - Oriental Theatre
Thursday, Oct. 10 2:00 pm - Fox Bay Cinema
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS 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. Boggs’s constantly evolving strategy – her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her – drives the story forward. Angela Davis, Bill Moyers, Bill Ayers, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Danny Glover, Boggs’s late husband James and a host of Detroit comrades across three generations help shape this uniquely American story.
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.
