Shape Notes Film Screening: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

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EMMY Award-winning Screaming Queens tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn.

Border Journey: Thirty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall with Kerstin Lange

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When the Berlin Wall fell under the pressure of peaceful protests on November 9, 1989, the highly fortified border that had separated the two German states also became obsolete.  Less than a year later, East and West Germany reunited.   Vermont-based writer Kerstin Lange joins us for a talk about the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.