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GUATEMALA FILM SERIES

The Roosevelt University Library
and
The Association of Latin American Students
Present

GUATEMALA FILM SERIES 

A series of four films will be shown beginning this week:

Devils Don't Dream!
A Flim by Adreas Hoessli
The story of the 1954 U.S. backed military coup against democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz that led to four decades of civil war.

 When the Mountains Tremble
Civil war in Guatemala; the story of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. Describes the struggle of the largely Indian peasantry against a heritage of state and foreign oppression.

 GRANITO: HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR
Part political thriller, part memoir, GRANITO shadows a haunting crime across four decades. Each of the five main characters whose destinies collide in GRANITO are connected by the Guatemala of 1982, then engulfed in a war where a genocidal "scorched earth" campaign by the military exterminate nearly 200,000 Maya people.

 Somos Una América: Shut Down the SOA!
This film provides background on the School of the Americas and the campaign to shut it down, and then Somos Una América moves further: the film puts a spotlight on U.S. militarization and features the voices of a rising hemisphere-wide anti-militarization movement.

You can find when and where each film will be shown, at either the Chicago campus or the Schaumburg campus by following the links below for each campus location. Also check out this awesome research guide for more information and resources available from the RU Library on each film! http://libguides.roosevelt.edu/guatemalafilmseries

Chicago Campus Film Series Schedule

Schaumburg Campus Film Series Schedule

Contact information

Richard Uttich, University LIbrarian at 312-341-3460, ruttich@roosevelt.edu
The Association of Latin American Students, alas.roosevelt@gmail.com

Create a READ Poster of Your Favorite Book Right Now!

Get Started Right Now:

• Follow this link to the American Library Association webpage where you can upload your picture and create your “READ” poster choosing your own style and text
• After you create your image, save it to your computer and send it to the Library to [mjefferson@roosevelt.edu] with: your Name, the Title of the book, and a short blurb of why you liked the book so much 

In observance of National Library Week (April 11 - 17), Roosevelt University Libraries encourages the RU community to celebrate with the library the importance of reading and sharing of knowledge by giving you the opportunity to create your very own “READ” poster. Posters will be featured on the Library’s Facebook page during National Library Week.

All you need to do is pick your favorite book and take a picture or create a visual representation that exemplifies you and how the book has inspired you. Once you are happy with your creation you can follow this link to the American Library Association webpage where you can upload your picture and create your “READ” poster choosing your own style and text.  

After you create your image, save it to your computer and send it to the Library to [mjefferson@roosevelt.edu] with: your Name, the Title of the book, and a short blurb of why you liked the book so much. If you so choose, feel free to submit your own image without using the mini-poster template (or if your feeling extra lazy - no image at all, but we still need your info and a blurb!). Submissions start now and we will kick it off with an example!

Have Fun & Be Creative!

 

Micah Jefferson

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / by Douglas Adams

“Best book ever. Enough Said. But I could say more. This book literally takes you from one side of the universe to the other.”

Joseph Davis

The Wall Street Journal

“The Wall Street Journal is my favorite newspaper – that is, except for Barrons!”