[News] NLG SF - 7/14 - Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: the Fred Korematsu Story

[Anti-Imperialist News]

NLG Summer Film Series presents:

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: the Fred Korematsu Story



When: July 14, 2008, 8pm

What: Outdoor Film Showing

Film: Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: the Fred Korematsu Story, Director 
appearing in person

Where: El Rio, 3158 Mission Street, San Francisco, 94110

Entry Price: $8-$20 sliding scale donation, no one turned away for 
lack of costs.

Drink specials-$1 Pabst, $2 well drinks all night.

Contact: Carlos Villareal at 415-285-5067

More info: http://www.elriosf.com/calendar/view_entry.php?id=1428&date=20080714

Bonus: Film Director Eric Fournier will be there to answer questions 
about the film.



The National  Lawyers Guild-San Francisco presents a summer film 
series & benefit at El Rio's outdoor patio.  On July 14, come see Of 
Civil Wrongs and Rights: the Fred Korematsu Story, a film about Fred 
Korematsu, an American who resisted, and then challenged in court, 
the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during World War 
II.  Korematsu lost his landmark Supreme Court case in 1944, but 
never his indignation and resolve. Of Civil Wrongs and Rights 
documents the 40-year legal fight to vindicate Korematsu - one that 
finally turned a civil injustice into a civil rights 
victory.  Director Eric Fournier, will be there to answer questions. 
See the film on Monday, July 14, at 8pm on the back patio at El Rio, 
3158 Mission Street, San Francisco, 94110. Bring an $8 to $20 
donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds benefit 
NLG-SF; the event is wheelchair accessible, and there will be drink specials.



The next film in this series at El Rio will be Committing Poetry in 
Times of War on August 11.


Proceeds from the film festival will benefit the National Lawyers 
Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.  The NLGSF is the largest 
chapter of the New York-based National Lawyers Guild (NLG), in 
existence since 1937.  Dedicated to the need for basic change in the 
structure of our political and economic system, the NLG is an 
association seeking to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers 
and jailhouse lawyers of America, to function as an effective 
political and social force in the service of the people, to the end 
that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property 
interests.  In the Bay Area, the NLG organizes a number of programs 
including: Immigrant Rights and Immigration Court Monitoring; 
Demonstration Legal Support; Post 9-11 Civil Liberties Assistance; 
Thomas Steel LGBT Legal Internships; and more. Find out more at 
<http://www.nlgsf.org/>www.nlgsf.org



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