Northeast Neighbors for Peace & Justice presents another Friday Night Video/Potluck at Flor y Canto:
Rescheduled from August: Just One Step (1987, 90 minutes) with special guest filmmaker James Knight
Eighteen years ago, a group of 500 people walked across the US on the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. "Just One Step" documents this extraordinary journey. It is a film about commitment, passion, counter-cultural and mainstream America. People from all walks of life - many of whom had never marched for anything before - gathered in a historic effort to affect the politics of a nation. The film chronicles not only the logistical, emotional, and spiritual trials of the marchers - living in tents, walking through all terrains and weather - but also their interaction with thousands of Americans in rural and urban communities along the way. Today the threat of nuclear destruction still looms over us, but when this film was made few people dreamed that Nelson Mandela would become president of South Africa, that the Berlin Wall would come down, that the Soviet Union would break up, or that America would invade Iraq. The Great Peace March is an important and relevant lesson in what's possible.
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Northeast Neighbors for Peace and Justice Video/Potlucks almost every Friday, Gather about 8:00, movie starts about 8:30, bring food or drink to share if you can www.FloryCanto.org
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