On the 6th year commemoration of the US invasion of Iraq, Peace Action for Diplomacy,Theaters Against War, NYCUFPJ, War Resisters League and Veterans for Peace invite you to the thought-provoking, award-winning film
Operation Lysistrata
Join us for a screening of the inspiring film of a theatrical protest that took place on March of 2003, before a single bomb was dropped. The Lysistrata Project, the simultaneous readings of the play Lysistrata (in which the women of Athens organize a sex strike to stop a war) was a protest of the then-approaching war in Iraq. The project was the brainchild of two New York actresses who began with a simple idea of organized protest.
News of the Lysistrata Project blossomed until March 3, 2003, when Lysistrata was performed over 1,000 times in all 50 states and 59 countries around the world on one single extraordinary day. It truly demonstrated how ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference in the world.
Featuring:
F. Murray Abraham, Kathleen Chalfant, Keir Dullea & Mia Dillon, Judith Malina, Ellen McLaughlin, Viggo Mortensen, and more!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
6:00 PM—-9:00 PM
Film starts at 6:30
at
The International Youth Hostel
891 Amsterdam Ave. @ 103 Street, New York City
It will make you laugh, cry, and inspire you all at the same time!
Stay after the film for a discussion of the peace movement, exploring where we are headed with this new administration.
With:
Judith Mahoney Pasternak, War Resisters League, Judith Malina, Cofounder, The Living Theater
and invited guests: Congressman Rangel, Congressman Nadler, Congresswomen Maloney, Congresswoman Velasquez
Organized by Peace Action for Diplomacy, a chapter of Peace Action NYC
Endorsed by THAW—Theaters Against War, NYCUFPJ, War Resisters League, Veterans for Peace
