Contact National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter for event and ticket information.
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 7:30 PM (PT)
Join your friends from the National Lawyers Guild and filmmaker Emily Kunstler for a special benefit screening of William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe.
Where: Landmark Shattuck Cinema, 2230 Shattuck Avenue
When: 7:30 pm
A portion of ticket sales benefits the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the NLG. This event is expected to sell out, so reserve your tickets early.
Watch the trailer by clicking here.
In William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed “Chicago 8” activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer.
To his daughters, it seemed that he was at the center of everything important that had ever happened. But when they were growing up, Kunstler represented some of the most reviled members of society, including rapists and assassins. This powerful film not only recounts the historic causes that Kunstler fought for; it also reveals a man that even his own daughters did not always understand, a man who risked public outrage and the safety of his family so that justice could serve all.
"The most hated and most loved lawyer in America."
-The New York Times
"Expertly put together and never less than compelling."
-The Hollywood Reporter
Dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system, we seek 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.
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