The Gene Siskel Film Center is going to be showing "Thunder in Guyana," a Women Make Movies release this Friday January 9 at 8 pm and Monday January 12 at 6 pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street. [ http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2004/Jan/docs.htm#thunder ] This film tells the remarkable story of a young Chicago woman, Janet Rosenberg, who married Guyana-born activist Cheddi Jagan, and set off for the British colony to start a socialist revolution. Jagan and Rosenberg became important political figures in Guyana, but they also faced arrest, repression, and the intervention of powerful nations under the leadership of individuals including Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy. Free and fair elections were finally instituted in the country in the early 1990s, and Janet Rosenberg-Jagan was elected the first foreign-born, female president of Guyana in 1997. Watch for inter-racial dynamics, political activism, and the complex history of Guyana in this remarkable film by Suzanne Wasserman [WHO WILL BE AT THE SCREENINGS IN PERSON].
Advance tickets are available at 312-575-8000. See you there! ~ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead." ~Arundhati Roy = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ------------------------------------------------ visit http://www.geocities.com/sapacchicago email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe sapac" in msg body to unsubscribe
