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Estudios de nativos americanos • Sociología • Historia de EE. UU. • Estudios americanos • Sociología del deporte • Estudios medioambientales
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¿Qué significa ser un REVOLUCIONARIO AMERICANO hoy? Grace Lee Boggs, una mujer chino-estadounidense de Detroit, que murió en octubre de 2015 a los 100 años, tiene una visión sorprendente de la revolución. Escritora, activista y filósofa arraigada durante más de 70 años en el movimiento afroamericano, dedicó su vida a una revolución en evolución que abarcaba las contradicciones del pasado de Estados Unidos y su futuro potencialmente radical. Este documental ganador del Premio Peabody nos sumerge en la práctica de toda la vida de Boggs de encender el diálogo y la acción comunitarios, trabajo que atraviesa los principales movimientos sociales estadounidenses del siglo pasado: desde los derechos laborales hasta los derechos civiles, pasando por el Black Power, el feminismo, el asiático-americano y el medio ambiente. movimientos de justicia y más allá.
Angela Davis, Bill Moyers, Bill Ayers, Ruby Dee y Ossie Davis, Danny Glover, el marido de Boggs, James Boggs, y una gran cantidad de camaradas de Detroit de tres generaciones ayudan a dar forma a esta historia exclusivamente estadounidense. Mientras lucha con un Detroit en transición, las contradicciones de la violencia y la no violencia, Malcolm X y Martin Luther King Jr., las rebeliones de 1967 y nociones no lineales del tiempo y la historia, Boggs emerge con un enfoque que es radical en su simplicidad y claridad: la revolución no es un acto de agresión o simplemente una protesta. La revolución, dice Boggs, tiene que ver con algo más profundo dentro de la experiencia humana: la capacidad de transformarse uno mismo para transformar el mundo. Con más de diez años de realización, esta película interdisciplinaria tiene un gran atractivo.
Prof. Allan M. Winkler, Author of To Everything There Is a Season: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
“What an absolutely lovely documentary about Faith Petric! This film covers not only her own life, but beautifully records her interactions with all the major figures of the folk revival.”
Prof. Judith Smith, American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Singing for Justice takes us through the twentieth century on the shoulders of a tremendously appealing, ordinary, and yet extraordinary woman, Faith Petric. Her unconventional life journey revises historical generalizations about rural life, the Great Depression, World War II, the Red Scare, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Counterculture (not just for the young!) For Faith, singing with others was a way to expose injustice, build community, support social change, and become one’s authentic self, having a wonderful time every step of the way.
Students in US History, American Studies, and Women’s Studies will find Singing for Justice an inspiring account of what might be possible: leaving a one room log cabin in Idaho where she began singing hymns and cowboy songs, discovering folk songs in the 1930s, and then seizing any opportunity to be part of singing social movements from the 1940s until shortly before her death in 2013."
Rev. Fred Small, Singer-Songwriter
"Singing for Justice is a miracle of a film: in less than an hour it captures Faith Petric’s essence and effervescence, bringing her inspiring example and irrepressible grin to new audiences worldwide just when we need them most. For Faith, it was never about the singer or even the song. It was about building community and lifting our spirits, empowering us to take our place joyfully in the long struggle for justice and peace."
Elise Bryant, Director, D.C. Labor Chorus and President, Coalition of Labor Union Women
“Singing for Justice is a beautifully powerful film about one of our unsung – until now – s/heroes, Faith Petric. Faith spent her whole adult life creating a community space where anyone and everyone could come together in songs that addressed the everyday struggles and victories of workers, women, and immigrants. Faith was always a shining light of song and hope in the face of adversity. This film is relevant to all musical groups and other audiences. They will look upon this story of one woman’s effort to build a community of social justice singer/activists, and be renewed.”
Prof. Anne Gray Fischer, U.S. Women's, Gender, and Sexuality History, University of Texas at Dallas
"Singing for Justice brings the history of folk music to life through the surprising and inspiring story of musician Faith Petric. I had never heard of Faith Petric before, but thanks to this joyful and resolute history of her life, she is unforgettable to me now. Singing for Justice will be a welcome watch for students curious about the history of music, gender, and struggle--and for anyone who believes in the restorative power of a community singalong."
Zoe Mahony, High School History Teacher
"Singing for Justice is an excellent documentary to watch with United States History or Ethnic Studies students. Faith’s story brings to life in a personal and inspiring way many of the 20th century events we study. Students will enjoy watching Faith’s activism in peace and Civil Rights movements and identifying her personal experience in a “Rosie the Riveter” job and being targeted by McCarthy. This film provides abundant opportunity for discussion on living a values-rich life and building community as well as an opportunity to discuss how music has been used for activism by many different people and movements."
48 Hills | Marke Bieschke
"Petric led one of those infuriatingly productive and inspirational lives that renews one’s faith in humanity, all while singing some of the most rousing, humorous, and catchy tunes ever written."
Mission Local | Pam Grady
"What Freedman and Herring uncovered in their work was a remarkable life, from Petric’s arrival in San Francisco from Idaho via freighter as a young woman in the 1930s, to her work as a real-life Rosie the Riveter building Liberty Ships during World War II, to a life spent in support of the peace and civil rights movements, including marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, in 1965."
AWARDS
Best Editor | LA Independent Women Film Awards
Runner Up, Best Documentary Film | B!tchFest Film Festival & Screenplay Contest
FESTIVALS
United Nations Association Film Festival
Reel Work Labor Film Festival
DC Labor Film Festival
Dumbo Film Festival
Montreal Women Film Festival
Toronto Women Film Festival
SCREENINGS
National PBS Broadcast Presented by KQED
AARP "Movies for Grownups"
Organization of American Historians
Roxie Theater
Tara Theater