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If you are really into this, set up a regular movie night once a month or once a week so that more and more people know where to find you regularly. See if there is a local coffee shop, church, community space, room on campus or other place where this could be held. Or, take turns hosting it in different people's homes.
warning: all these movies explore controversial issues about oppression, and several deal with the reality of sexual and other violence.
Quoted descriptions, unless otherwise specified, are from IMDB.com
If These Walls Could Talk
"The movie examines the abortion issue through three stories set in different eras - 50s, 70s and 90s."
IMDB Watch a Clip Precious
Based on the novel Push by Sapphire. "In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction."
IMDB Watch the Trailer "The Potential of Precious Girls Everywhere" by Annie Day "The Controversy Over Precious" by Carl Dix The Whistleblower
"A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal."
IMDB Watch the Trailer After Tiller
From the filmmakers: "After Tiller explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller."
Movie Homepage Watch the Trailer Freedom Riders
From PBS: "FREEDOM RIDERS is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South."
Movie Homepage (PBS.org) Watch the movie online From the Burkha to the Thong:
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Don Jon
"A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love."
IMDB Watch the Trailer Read a review of Don John at revcom.us The Price of Pleasure
How to Survive a Plague
"The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition."
IMDB Watch the Trailer Girls Town
Abortion, Morality, and the Liberation of Women
Presentations and Q&A on abortion, morality, and the liberation of women, with Sunsara Taylor, writer for Revolution Newspaper and initiator of Stop Patriarchy, and Dr. Susan Wicklund, abortion provider.
Movie Homepage (The World Can't Wait!) Watch the movie online Speak Out: I Had an Abortion
From the filmmakers: "Speak Out: I Had an Abortion... documents the stories of 11 women ranging in age from 21 to 85. The film cuts across race, religion, region, class, sexuality, and politics--demonstrating that abortion affects all women."
Movie Homepage (abortionandlife.com) Pornography and the Sex Industry: Reclaim, Regulate, Uproot, or Abolish?
At the Left Forum, Sunsara Taylor, writer for Revolution Newspaper and initiator of Stop Patriarchy! debates Melissa Gira Grant, writer and board member of the Lusty Lady Theatre in San Francisco.
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