Where there's a Will, there's a way

Last week's Liberty Brew & View double feature had a good turnout and I was happy to hear people say how much they loved both movies. State's Attorney candidate Ron Stradt stopped by and spoke about his campaign before Shut Up and Sing started. If you couldn't make it last Tuesday, Meeting Resistance and Shut Up and Sing are both worth finding to view on your own.

October will feature an election-themed movie, Iron Jawed Angels, a historical drama about two suffragist leaders, starring Hilary Swank.

IRON JAWED ANGELS recounts for a contemporary audience a key chapter in U.S. history: in this case, the struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Focusing on the two defiant women, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), the film shows how these activists broke from the mainstream women's-rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women's voting rights in 1920. Breathing life into the relationships between Paul, Burns and others, the movie makes the women feel like complete characters instead of one-dimensional figures from a distant past.

After the movie a speaker will discuss the petition being circulated by the ACLU and other groups in support of the Illinois Reproductive Justice and Access Act (House Bill 5615). If you've been to certain political events you may have noticed women collecting petition signatures. Read more about the act and petition drive at the Illinois ACLU website.

I've shown movies on several topics and I thought it was about time I picked one on women's rights. I think its particularly relevant this election year.

Watch the trailer:

Iron Jawed Angels
Tuesday, October 21
7:00pm. Doors open at 6:30
Capital City Bar & Grill
3149 S. Dirksen Pkwy, Springfield