LEFT ON PEARL: Women Take Over 888 Memorial Drive

Описание: Please note: This documentary film is available on YouTube for individual, non-commercial viewing. if you would like to hold a public screening or to use the film in a classroom, please contact us at [email protected].

LEFT ON PEARL explores a pivotal but little-known event in the history of the Women's Liberation Movement, the 1971 takeover and occupation of a Harvard University-owned building by hundreds of Boston area women. The ten-day occupation of 888 Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts by women demanding a Women’s Center for greater Boston and low-income housing for the local community, embodied within it many of the hopes, triumphs, conflicts and tensions of Second Wave feminism.

One of the few such takeovers by women for women, this action was transformative for the participants, and led directly to the establishment of the Cambridge Women’s Center in 1972. 55 minutes. ©2024. 888 Women's History Project

CREDITS:
Produced and directed by Susie Rivo
Edited by Iftach Shavit
Cinematography by Lynn Weissman
Executive Produced by Libby Bouvier, Rochelle G. Ruthchild, Susan K. Jacoby, Cheryl Stein
Social Media by Lily Bouvier
Partly funded by MassHumanities, Blaufarb Documentary Film Award, Tamiment Library, NYU
The Lois & Irving Blum Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Samuel Rubin Foundation, The Ten Ten Foundation, The Union Institute & University Faculty Research Fund, The Edna Wardlaw Trust

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This film is for individual consumer, non-commercial viewing only. if you would like to hold a public screening or to use the film in a course or classroom, please contact us at [email protected].