Get Up, Stand Up
Selected by Lelalois Beard, 90 minutes

Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, donít give up the fight
Get Up, Stand Up.  Life is your right
So we can't give up the fight
-Bob Marley & Peter Tosh

Everyone in the world is born with a little hidden voice inside of us that will someday awake to resist and protest a person, place, or thing that goes against their moral values or threatens their quality of life on this earth.  When this voice of protest erupts, it sounds off like a lioness defending her cubs from predators in the wild.

Get Up, Stand Up showcases two must-see documentaries about activism and protest produced in the first part of the new millennium. These documentaries not only examine historical and present-day stories of resistance and protest, but create their own language and style of documentary filmmaking.

Investigation of a Flame
by Lynne Sachs, 45 minutes, 16 mm film, 2001

A documentary portrait of the Catonsville Nine. On May 17, 1968 nine Vietnam War protesters, including a nurse, an artist, and three priests, walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. Investigation of a Flame is an intimate, experimental documentary portrait of the Catonsville Nine, this disparate band of resisters who chose to break the law in a defiant, poetic act of civil disobedience.

Pharaoh's Streets: Homelessness and Voices of Providence in the City of Angels
by Jethro Rothe-Kushel, 45 minutes, video, 2000

Pharaoh's Streets is a modern day tale of an ancient battle against oppression. The film wrestles with the filmmaker's experience at the first National Homeless Convention at Dome Village and on the streets of Los Angeles during the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 2000.