DemDaily: Watch and Learn
September 18, 2017
If you want to understand the history of the civil rights movement, the progressive movement, and how to build your own movement -- then you will want to check out Heather Booth Changing the World.
Heather Booth, a renowned organizer and activist, began her remarkable career at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Through her life and work this inspiring film explores many of
the most pivotal moments in progressive movements that altered our history over the last fifty years -- from her involvement with Fannie Lou Hamer and the Freedom Summer Project, to her founding of the JANE Underground in 1964, to her relationships with respected leaders such as Julian Bond and Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Watch and Learn
Join colleagues, activists, progressive leaders and friends tomorrow night to see this incredible film by award-winning independent filmmaker Lilly Rivlin.
Where: The Woman's National Democratic Club
1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC (Dupont Circle Metro)
Time: 6:00pm: Reception
6:30pm: Introduction
7:00pm: Film Screening and Q&A
- 8:30pm with Heather Booth
Cost: $15 Members, $20 General. Hors d'oeuvres, Cash Bar
Tickets: Purchase Here! (it will sell out)
Meet Heather and learn why she has been an inspiration to thousands of young activists! If you can't join us, catch the film at an upcoming showing or order a copy!
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"One of the nation's most influential organizers for progressive causes. Inside almost every liberal drive over the past decades - for fair pay, equal justice, abortion rights, workers' rights, voter rights, civil rights, immigration rights, child care - you will find Booth." -- Huffington Post
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September 23 & 24: Winter Park, Florida
September 28th: Washington, DC
Common Cause
October 5-8th: Jersey City, New Jersey
Golden Door International Film Festival
October 19th: Boise, Idaho. The Flicks
October 29th: Palm Springs, California
Planned Parenthood Film Festival
November 13th: West Newton, Massachusetts
West Newton Cinema
For More Details: HeatherBoothTheFilm
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The Woman's National Democratic Club (WNDC), founded in 1922, is a meeting place for Democrats, Independents and Progressives in the nation's capital. WNDC serves as a forum for writers, scholars, events, and advocacy for public policy that advances our nation's democratic values.
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