Tonight at 6:00 PM is your chance to see and hear
THE PEOPLE SPEAK! at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of MC,
1475 West Front Street, Lincroft
The People Speak is a 2009 American documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans. The film gives voice to those who, by insisting on equality and justice, spoke up forsocial change throughout U.S. history and also illustrates the relevance of this to today's society.The film is narrated
by historian Howard Zinn and is based on his books A People's History of the United States and, with Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States.
The People Speak is produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn. It is co-directed by Moore,
Arnove and Zinn.
You are invited to make your most rousing two-minute speech on a
topic of your choice as part of our post-film discussion.
Light refreshments and discussion after the film.
On Thursday, December 12, FrankTalk Multimedia, the T. ThomasFortune Project and the Red Bank Public Library Presented THE PEOPLE SPEAK LIVE! at the Red Bank Public Library.
The introduction part of the film, THE PEOPLE SPEAK, was shown
and tonight you are invited to see it in it's entirety.
People from the community stood up one by one and read the words of significant figures in American history, ranging from Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez and Harvey Milk, to
Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Red Bank's
own African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune.
Posted by
Lynn Humphrey
BizEturtle.com
732-759-0485
This event is approved and recommended
by the T. Thomas Fortune Project
A committee to raise funds for the purchase, rehabilitation and
repurposing of the home of T, Thomas Fortune at
94 Drs. James Parker Blvd in Red Bank, New Jersey,
