“Sir, No Sir!” Screening at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center

Oct 4th at 3PM, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
Proceeds to benefit World Can’t Wait and the Film.
Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, 164 N. State Street on Wednesday October 4th, starting at 3pm.

Join director David Zeiger for a benefit screening of his powerful
documentary film “Sir, No Sir!” In the 1960s an anti-war movement
emerged,. that altered the course of history. This was a movement of
active duty servicemen and women that spread throughout the
battlefields of Vietnam as soldiers refused to fight an unjust war and
took to the streets at home. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into
exile. Ultimately the movement forced Nixon to end the war and resign
from office in disgrace. It’s a great film to watch on the eve of
October 5th, when tens of thousands of people will take to the streets
to drive the Bush regime from power.

Donation of $10 at
the door will benifit the film and World Can’t Wait.

For more information, call The World Can’t Wait | Drive Out The
Bush Regime at:  773.227.2453

Film Synopsis

In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the
course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in
barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs
and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite
military colleges like West Point. And it
spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one
expected, least of all those in it. 
Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile.  And by 1971 it had, in the words of one
colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about
the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.

The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films,
both fiction and non-fiction, but this story-the story of the rebellion of
thousands of American soldiers against the war-has never been told in film.

Today, with hundreds of thousands of American GIs once again
occupying countries on the other side of the world, these history-changing
events have been erased from America’s
public memory.

Sir! No Sir! aims to change all that. The film does four
things: 1) Brings to life the history of the GI movement through the stories of
those who were part of it; 2) Reveals the explosion of defiance that the
movement gave birth to with never-before-seen archival material; 3) Explores
the profound impact that movement had on the military and the war itself; and
4) Tells the story of how and why the GI Movement has been replaced with the
myth of the spat-upon veteran.