Still hoping for change: Five Chicagoans reflect on four years of the Obama presidency
Tag: community organizer
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Saul Alinsky, poster child
How strong is the link between Obama and Saul Alinsky? To right-wingers, it’s as strong as they say.
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A Good Man
Bob Hercules and Gordon Quinn screen an excerpt from their forthcoming Bill T. Jones dance documentary “A Good Man,” in a retrospective of films by Hercules and his Media Process Group tonight at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Street Gospel
Rev. Michael Pfleger in “Radical Disciple” Bob Hercules, who explored the lives of Barack Obama, pioneering community organizer Saul Alinsky, and gadfly Holocaust survivor Eva Kor in his previous documentaries, turns his eye on another kind of rabble rouser in his new Radical Disciple: The Father Story of Father Pfleger. The film premieres Friday, Aug. […]
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Making waves
Local filmmaker Bob Hercules presents portraits of two great community organizers and a controversial Holocaust survivor in three documentaries screening this week in the first Chicago Independent Film Festival.