Playing tonight at 6:30 at Brooklyn College.

My friend, Adam Zucker, is the director of Greensboro: Closer to the
Truth, a documentary, which is playing at Brooklyn College on November
3rd for one day.

November 3rd happens to the 29th anniversary of the Greensboro massacre. On that day, members of the Communist Workers Party were holding a Death to the Klan
rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. Suddenly a caravan rounded the
corner, scattering the protesters. Klansmen and Nazis emerged from the
cars, unloaded an arsenal of guns and began firing. Five people were
killed.

It turns out that a professor and chairperson at Brooklyn College has a profoundly close connection to the event.

Sally Bermanzohn, professor and chairperson of the Political Science
Department at Brooklyn College, was a labor organizer in the Duke
Hospital cafeteria when her husband Paul was critically wounded in the
Greensboro Massacre. 

At present, she is researching and teaching courses on the
international phenomenon of truth and reconciliation commissions.
Bermanzohn is the author of Through Survivors’ Eyes: From the
Sixties
to the Greensboro Massacre (2003), for which she received the Brooklyn
College Award for Excellence in Creative Achievement. 

She also co-edited Violence and Politics: Globalization’s Paradox
(2002),which includes her chapter on Violence, Non-violence and the US
Civil Rights Movement.

She will be present at the screening of the film,Greensboro: Closer
to the Truth, which reconnects many of the players in this
tragedy—widowed and wounded survivors, along with their attackers—and
chronicles how their lives have evolved in the aftermath of the
killings. All converge at the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission
ever held in the United States in Greensboro from 2004- 2006 to
investigate the Massacre.

The Where and When

TONIGHT: Monday, November 3rd at 6:30 p.m.
Greensboro: Closer to the Truth
Brooklyn College
Woody Tanger Auditorium in the Library