CARRY IT FORWARD
benefit film screening
- Tue, Sep 23rd
- 7:00 - 9:00 pm (doors open at 6:30, seating is limited)
- The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Suggested donation $10 (add'l, tax-deductible donations welcome)
- Co-sponsored by The Shoatz Family & Free Maroon Philly
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- Additional support from Prison Radio and Decarcerate PA
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. It is a recording of the theatrical production staged in June 2013 on the 60th anniversary of the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
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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.