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WOMEN'S HERSTORY ACROSS THE GLOBE

From the first US woman to run for president in 1872 - To Liberian women, muslims and christians, uniting for peace - To black women rising from apartheid to positions of power as judges in South Africa- To rape victims in the Congo breaking the silence - To women revolutionaries in Nepal - To creating the first feminist political party in Sweden - To Israeli women soldiers in Gaza and the West Bank - all are speaking to us. These films won’t change the world but they can empower our lives

Co-presented by New York Civil Liberties Union - Suffolk Chapter

and supported by Women's Mending Wall

PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL

Sunday, March 22 at 2pm

Guest Speaker: Jacob Massaquoi , Director of African Refuge,

a volunteer and community-driven center that develops crucial linkages

between the African community and social service providers

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$9 Members / $12 Public / Includes Reception
Active Membership Will Be Checked

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In 2003, Liberia was devasted by decades of political dislocation, humanitarian crisis and street-tostreet urban warfare. Charles Taylor, then president of Liberia, had emptied the country’s pockets as creatively as any dictator in memory. His rise to power led to the deaths of thousands of people and a nation in ruins. Out of the wreckage, more than 2000 Christian and Muslim women throughout the country began to organize and banded together in an effort to bring an end to the fighting. At great personal risk they protested creatively and persistently for peace in the worst days of brutal and protracted conflict. USA, 2008, 72 min.; Dir.: Gini Reticker; Producer: Abigail Disney

The Suffolk NYCLU, a chapter of the New york State affiliate of the ACLU, defends the rights and liberties guaranteed by the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Click HERE for the official website of the NYCLU, Suffolk Couty Chapter.

Woman’s Mending Wall is a new women’s multifaith initiative. We are inviting women across Long Island to join and participate in the formation of this groundbreaking network. As exemplified in the movie, women of faith possess valuable experiences and resources. The mission of the Women’s Mending Wall is to harness this unlimited potential by connecting women across Long Island.

Further information, please contact Cristina Notaro crisnotaro@aol.com or 516-313-5228 or Diane Esposito scidi25@gmail.com. Visit our website www.womensmendingwall.org

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Co-presented by Huntington League of Women Voters

AMERICA'S VICTORIA:

Remembering Victoria Woodhull

Thursday, March 26 at 7:30pm

Guest Speaker: Victoria Bond, Composer & Conductor

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The extraordinary ambition of Victoria Woodhull is the subject of America's Victoria: The Victoria Woodhull Story, as her 1872 campaign for the presidency of the U.S. is documented. Enough people supported her cause to ensure a nomination, and although she was a strong advocate of women's suffrage, she had other issues on her agenda, including marriage reform and legalization of prostitution. Her opponents mounted an attack on her personal life, and her story is told here with the help of Gloria Steinem and Kate Capshaw. USA, 1998, 54 min.; Director: Victoria Weston

Winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize in Documentary and the inspiration for a 2008 U.N. Resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war, this extraordinary film, shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), shatters the silence that surrounds the use of sexual violence as a weapon of conflict. Many tens of thousands of women and girls have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. A survivor of gang rape herself, Emmy Award®-winning filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson travelstravels through the DRC to understand what is happening and why. USA, 2007, 76 min.; Director: Lisa Jackson

Courting Justice takes viewers behind the gowns and gavels to reveal the women who make up 18 percent of South Africa’s male-dominated judiciary. Hailing from diverse backgrounds and entrusted with enormous responsibilities, these pioneering women share with candor, and unexpected humor, accounts of their country’s transformation since apartheid, and the evolving demands of balancing their courts, country, and families.

South Africa, 2008, 71 min.; Created by Ruth B. Cowan; Director: Jane Thandi Lipman

Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In this award-winning documentary, the frank testimonials of six female Israeli soldiers stationed in Gaza and the West Bank pack a powerful emotional punch. The young women revisit their tours of duty in the occupied territories with surprising honesty and strip bare stereotypes of gender differences in the military. The former soldiers share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, immaturity and power-tripping as they describe atrocities they witnessed and participated in.

Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepal’s modern history, The Sari Soldiers is an extraordinary story of six women’s courageous efforts to shape Nepal’s future in the midst of an escalating civil war against Maoist insurgents, and the King’s crackdown on civil liberties. When Devi, mother of a 15-year-old girl, witnesses her niece being tortured and murdered by the Royal Nepal Army, she speaks publicly about the atrocity. The army abducts her daughter in retaliation, and Devi embarks on a three-year struggle to uncover her daughter’s fate and see justice done. The Sari Soldiers follows her and five other brave women, including Maoist Commander Kranti; Royal Nepal Army Officer Rajani; and Mandira, a human rights lawyer. The Sari Soldiers intimately delves into the extraordinary journey of these women on opposing sides of the conflict, through the democratic revolution that reshapes the country’s future.

The Feminist Initiative reveals the passion, pitfalls and promise of a diverse group of women working to establish the world’s first feminist political party in Sweden in the spring of 2005. Even in one of the most gender-equal societies in the world, the advancement of women’s agenda within the patriarchal establishment requires a revolution. Beginning from the innovative and inclusive decision to elect three party leaders rather than one, the film charts every trail-blazing step (and misstep) of the Feminist Initiative (F!) from their energetic start to the climactic moments of their inspiring, celebritysupported rally. Sweden, 2007, 97 min.; Director: Liz Weisberg