Friday Video: Rerelease of You Got To Move: Stories of Change in the South.

From the Milestone Films webpage.

Each Friday on our Facebook page we’ve been posting a video that we’ve come across that explores the intersection of cultural tradition and grassroots action.  It dawned on me that I should also post those videos here for folks who may not be following the blog on facebook.  (To follow The Boiled Down Juice on facebook go here and “like” the page).

I’ve been seeing several posts lately about this amazing documentary, and so this week’s video is a preview of the re-release of 1985  film You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South. The preview alone is an incredibly inspiring look at how regular people fight for justice and features the amazing work of Highlander Folk School, now known as Highlander Research and Education Center.

Here’s the opening quote from the preview which sums up participatory research and action so well. “Well no, I’m not a leader they would say.  But we say, “You know the problem.  If you know the problem, you see the problem, you know what needs to be done to solve that problem then you’re the one that have to take the ball and run with it.”"

From the Milestone webpage:

Milliarium Zero’s release in celebration of the legendary Highlander Folk School, YOU GOT TO MOVE follows a group of individuals in the process of becoming involved in grassroots social change in the South. These people have been active in some of the most significant movements in the past fifty years, from Civil Rights and labor organizing to citizens’ actions against toxic waste dumping and strip mining.

Produced by Lucy Massie Phenix Directed and edited by Lucy Massie Phenix & Veronica Selver, the film features Myles Horton, Bernice Robinson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Bill Saunders, Rebecca Simpson, Gail & Richard Story, May Justice, MaryLee & Russell Rogers, Becky Simpson, members of the Bumpass Cove community and the Cranks Creek Survival Center of Kentucky.

You can watch a preview of the rerelease via youtube by clicking here.

And here’s an older preview that’s great too.

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