Friends,
I just wanted to give you a heads up that one of my favorite pieces of theater in recent years will be shown on PBS tonight (Friday) and throughout the weekend and the coming week all across the U.S.
It’s the musical about the brave women fighting for and winning the right to vote. It’s called SUFFS (short for “Suffragettes”). It debuted on Broadway two years ago and won two Tony Awards. I saw it and it was incredible. Now it’s coming to PBS. Don’t miss it! I was so moved. The music was great. And to watch this during this moment we are living through — INSPIRING. Just what the gender that makes 82 cents on the male dollar called for!
My grandmother, Lois Elizabeth Wall, was a suffragette who helped organize the women in my hometown to get the 19th Amendment passed. This was the family my sisters and I were raised by. How lucky we were!
Again, please watch Suffs Friday night or whenever it’s on PBS this week in your neck of the woods. A brilliant, entertaining way to spend a couple hours this weekend.
And keep up the fight against this new war, against the American-funded genocide of the Palestinian people, and everything else this fascist government is up to. We have no other choice.
Yours,
Michael Moore
Independent journalism keeps democracy alive.
Carl Deal and Tia Lessin’s new film, STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! opens tomorrow (Friday 4/24) in:
Oakland, CA
Palm Springs, CA
San Diego, CA
Santa Monica, CA
Iowa City, IA
Louisville, KY
Hudson, NY
Portland, OR
Salem, OR
Bellingham, WA
In addition to:
New York, NY
Pleasantville, NY
Glendale, CA
Berkeley, CA
San Francisco, CA
San Rafael, CA
Santa Barbara, CA
Sebastopol, CA
Montclair, NJ
Sacramento, CA
Rhinebeck, NY
Seattle, WA
Go see it this weekend. StealThisStory.org
@stealthisstoryplease
Corporate media won’t save us; we need independent journalists willing to speak truth to power.
Carl Deal and Tia Lessin’s new film follows Amy Goodman and fight to hold power accountable.
STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! is in theaters now.
StealThisStory.org
Academy Award®–nominated The Voice of Hind Rajab is a powerful and deeply moving film that brings truth, memory, and humanity to the forefront, honoring a story that cannot and should not be forgotten.
Available to watch at home now on Apple TV, Amazon, and Fandango at Home - US only.
On January 7th in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ICE shot a mom of three in the face in broad daylight.
21st century fascism is here. Right in our faces. Unless we do something about it.
This weekend, get out in the streets! ABOLISH ICE! For Renee Good and all the people terrorized and brutalized by ICE this year alone. Join a protest or vigil near you: mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132
Read the rest of my letter on Substack (link in bio).
There is one song that stands out as a plea for peace, as relevant this year as it was during the height of the Vietnam War: Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Its release in 1971 was accompanied by a two-year long international campaign for peace in 11 cities, bearing a simple but powerful message: WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT.
@sean_ono_lennon won an Oscar last year for Best Animated Short Film. A few days ago he asked me if I’d like to share it with all of you and of course I said yes. The anti-war short is about two soldiers playing chess on opposite sides of a battle, and the pigeon who carries their messages across the battlefield.
Check it out on YouTube at https://youtu.be/W68-XaFepOg. It’s a very moving film, and beautifully animated. It’s only 11 minutes. Share it with friends and family over this holiday season.
Sean is also using the film to raise money to help kids in conflict zones this holiday season. This has been one of the deadliest times to be a child in this century. Please join me in donating to @warchilduk to get these kids (in places like Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan) life-saving medical and mental health aid.
It’s now been 3 Christmas seasons since Israel started its campaign of genocide. Over 70,000 Palestinians killed, including at least 20,000 children. That’s literally one child killed every hour. The murder is paid for with our tax dollars.
Read the rest of this post and more of my writing at michaelmoore.com, link in bio.
