Tuesday Feb 9, 7pm. UMass Campus Center Room 903 Away With All Pests. A film on health care in China under the leadership of Mao TseTung. See how revolutionary China doubled life expectancy through the creation of a medical system that served the needs of the people instead of profit. 1969. 60min.
Wednesday Feb 10, 7pm. UMass Campus Center Room 903 La Operacion. About the u.$. sterilization campaign against the wimmin of the Puerto Rican nation. Contains interviews with wimmin forced to be sterilized as well as explanations as to how the size of the Puerto Rican population was manipulated to serve the economic interests of U.$. companies. 50 min. 1982.
Thursday, Feb 11, 7pm. UMass Campus Center Room 905 People's War. This account of a 1969 trip to North Vietnam shows a society committed to national liberation despite a constant state of Amerikan war. The film focuses on how individual villages and the nation fought against economic underdevelopment. 40min, 1970.
Sponsors for Revolutionary History Film Week (as of 1/1/99) Friends of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RSO), Student Activities Cultural Enrichment Fund (SACEF).