<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div id="yiv152547695" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-family: times, serif; "><div style="font-family: times, serif; "><div id="yiv152547695"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: times, serif; "><div class="yiv152547695MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;background:white;">TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv152547695MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;background:white;">Sunday, March 11 at 2:00pm at the Urbana Free Library</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv152547695MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;background:white;">A special film showing in celebration of International
Women's Day</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><br>
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<div class="yiv152547695MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;background:white;">TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; ">, tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari
Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to
safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy.</span><br></div><div class="yiv152547695MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Through chilling first person
accounts and TV-news footage, Taking Root documents the Green Belt Movement’s
dramatic political confrontations in which Maathai and other Kenyan women
endured violent suppression and hunger strikes, and risked personal injury.
Contemporary cinema verité footage of the tree nurseries, and the improved
lives of the women and children who tend them, is testimony to the power of
Maathai’s vision and the positive change it has brought about. </span><br>
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<div class="yiv152547695MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="background-color:white;">Two special guest
speakers will follow the film: Anne
Lutoma, (UIUC Ph. D Student from Kenya</span>) and Teresa Barnes (Associate
Professor, Gender and Women's Studies UIUC). <span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><br>
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<span style="background:white;">Cosponsored by the University of Illinois Center for African
Studies and the African Students Organization. </span></span></div></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>