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WHAT'S HAPPENING |
There is another globalization at work and that is the globalization of citizens connecting to each other......................—Vandanna Shiva
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January 15, 2010: InView Film Series - This year's focus is dedicated to exploring the complexities of sexuality and gender.
Freeheld (the Laurel Hester Story)- Detective Lieutenant Laurel Hester spent 25 years investigating tough cases in Ocean County, New
Jersey, protecting the rights of victims and putting her life on the line. She had no reason to expect that
in the last year of her life, after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, that her final battle for justice
would be for the woman she loved.
The documentary film FREEHELD chronicles Laurel’s struggle to transfer her earned pension to her
domestic partner, Stacie Andree. With less than six months to live, Laurel refuses to back down when
her elected officials — the Ocean County Freeholders — deny her request to leave her pension to Stacie,
an automatic option for heterosexual married couples. The film is structured chronologically, following
both the escalation of Laurel’s battle with the Freeholders and the decline of her health as cancer spreads
to her brain.
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6:30pm - 10:00pm |
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Laidlaw Performing Arts Center, RM 1032 (Acting Lab) |
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University of South Alabama, University BLVD |
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Mobile, AL |
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Introductory Comments and Round-Table Discussion Moderated by Dr. Moira Amado-McGittigan
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