Get involved with the exciting and engaging lectures, film screenings, workshops and
symposiums happening at the Bagwell Center for the Study of Markets and Economic Opportunity
in the Coles College of Business.
Fall 2024 Film Screenings
Mighty Ira
Date: October 23, 2024 Time: 12:00pm - 1:45pm Location: Student Center, STA 180 BC - Kennesaw Campus
Description: Ira Glasser is one of America鈥檚 unsung champions of civil rights and liberties. As the leader of the American Civil Liberties Union for 23 years, he transformed the organization from a small, 鈥渕om-and-pop鈥� operation on the verge of bankruptcy into a civil liberties juggernaut with offices in every state and a $30 million endowment. As his generation retires from the barricades, Ira reminisces on his life at the forefront of defending the rights of all Americans, from civil rights leaders to neo-Nazis.
His story takes us to his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where in 1947 Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers broke the color barrier in baseball and inspired a generation of civil rights activists; to the offices of Robert Kennedy, where the U.S. Senator spoke with a young Ira and convinced him to take his first job with the ACLU; and to California, where a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor explains to Ira why he thinks the ACLU was wrong to defend the right of neo-Nazis to demonstrate near his home in Skokie, Illinois, over 40 years ago 鈥� and how recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, evoke painful memories.
Amid high-profile controversies surrounding free speech, racial equality, and antisemitism 鈥� and on the occasion of the ACLU鈥檚 centennial 鈥� Ira Glasser鈥檚 story is as timely and provocative as ever.
Description: As news and social media amplify a narrative of an America on the brink of civil
war, politicians in Washington, DC stir conflict: red against blue, rich against poor,
urban against rural, race against race, and man against woman. They cast us as enemies
locked in battle, usurping power and posing as our saviors.
UNDIVIDE US challenges the idea that citizens who disagree are not capable of civil
conversation and demonstrates the truth that, even in our differences, the American
experiment is still alive and well.
It exposes the power players in Washington DC as the true disruptors of peace, driving
our legitimate differences to the brink of disaster. Hear from experts about the roots
of this toxic polarization and learn how to counteract it in our local communities
and lives.
Description: They grew up believing their land was paradise. Now, they risk everything in escaping
it. In an unforgettable documentary, follow families on a treacherous journey to defect
from their homeland of North Korea, as the threat of severe punishment and possible
execution looms over their passage, revealing a world many have never seen.
