In Cambridge October 15- The People Speak" - Free UPandOUT film screening

"once a nation is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back." ~Gore Vidal "Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil." ~ Gore Vidal The People Speak [see trailer] Showing Thursday, September 17, in Cambridge [please download & distribute flyer] The People Speak is a feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances, as well as film footage, to bring to life the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans--acclaimed and anonymous--who, by insisting on equality and justice, spoke up for social change throughout US history. The film is narrated by historian Howard Zinn and is based on his books A People's History of the United States and, with Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States. Produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn. "We must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country... conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated... And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners." ~Howard Zinn "This is the perfect format for a history lesson. You're getting the actual historical text verbatim, so there's no spin.  History is intimidating. There's so much to know."  ~Matt Damon "So, I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there." ~Matt Damon, as Tom Joad from John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath "A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing." ~Muhammad Ali "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing, rain without thunder and lightning. ...This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one ... but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." ~Frederick Douglass "We didn't want to hear the words of the White House. We wanted to hear the words of those picketing the White House. Agitators. The anti-war protesters. The socialists and anarchists. In other words, the people who gave us whatever liberty and democracy we have in this country. What's common to all of them is the spirit of resistance to illegitimate authority." ~Howard Zinn When/where doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm 243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor rule19.org/videos Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends! free film & free door prizes[donations are encouraged]feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed "You can't legislate good will - that comes through education." ~ Malcolm X UPandOUT film series - see rule19.org/videos Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars - on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya. Syria, Iran, So America, etc etc - for billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil rights...