Revisiting the documentary film You Got To Move for the next generation
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
This presentation includes a film showing (87 minutes) and panel discussion. Thirty years after completing the documentary film You Got To Move: Stories of Change in the South, filmmaker Lucy Massie Phenix joins a panel of scholar/activists to explore questions of the Appalachian region and the south in the twenty first century. Grounded in community work on racial, social, and environmental justice, the film explored empowerment through the work of Highlander Research and Education Center in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In revisiting the film, we ask, what is the legacy of these earlier decades of activism? Have globalization and migrations changed the nature of the issues communities are facing? How does each generation learn "how to move"? How do the ways of empowerment demonstrated in the film relate to issues in the contemporary political climate?
Revisiting the documentary film You Got To Move for the next generation
This presentation includes a film showing (87 minutes) and panel discussion. Thirty years after completing the documentary film You Got To Move: Stories of Change in the South, filmmaker Lucy Massie Phenix joins a panel of scholar/activists to explore questions of the Appalachian region and the south in the twenty first century. Grounded in community work on racial, social, and environmental justice, the film explored empowerment through the work of Highlander Research and Education Center in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In revisiting the film, we ask, what is the legacy of these earlier decades of activism? Have globalization and migrations changed the nature of the issues communities are facing? How does each generation learn "how to move"? How do the ways of empowerment demonstrated in the film relate to issues in the contemporary political climate?
