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One country's terrorist is another country's revolutionary...

The award-winning documentary "Freeing Silvia Baraldini" is a profound inquiry into the life of an Italian woman who became an American radical.  Silvia spent 24 years in prison following her conviction of helping to free Black Panther, Assata Shakur from prison.  Filmmakers Margo Pelletier and Lisa Thomas unlock a chapter in U.S. radical politics that has been until now, sequestered by the U.S. government.

Click here to see a trailer for "Freeing Silvia Baraldini" and find out more about the film!

UNIQUE EVENT: CHOICE All Night in Troy NY

On October 30, 2009 at 7 pm, Words of Choice is teaming up with The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY, to present an entirely unique evening on reproductive freedom. "Here's a scary thought the night before Halloween — women losing their rights!"

To download a flyer for this event, click here (PDF requires Acrobat Reader or Apple Preview).

We're doing a Creativity Workshop with participants, led by Cindy Cooper, award-winning playwright, journalist, and creator of the social-activist theatre organization Words of Choice.. We're hearing selections from Words of Choice by the wonderful Words of Choice actresses Claudia Schneider and Abigail Ramsay. We're showing DVD excerpts. AND, we're being joined by Alexis Greene, co-editor of the hot new book "Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women." (Alexis trained as an actress ... and she'll be doing some of that, too!)