Thursday, March 22, 7pm
Drexel Theater, 2254 E. Main St., Bexley
$8.00
The first 10 people to email the Columbus Free Press - colsfreepress@gmail.com - after seeing this, can get into the movie for free! Put FREE MOVIE in the subject line.

Join us for the Columbus International Film & Animation Festival screening of The Organizer. This film is sponsored by the Free Press and will be followed by a Q&A with Wade Rathke.

THE ORGANIZER is a film about people who have dedicated their lives to the often hidden, usually messy and always controversial job of building power for the powerless. Wade Rathke founded ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The film depicts how the biggest poor people’s organization in US history was built, and it was destroyed.

Rathke, a former anti-Vietnam war and welfare rights organizer, founded ACORN in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1970 with a handful of low-income families. When the organization became national news decades later, it had half a million members and chapters in over a hundred cities across the USA.

In between is an incredible story about the dedication and entrepreneurial vision of a small group of organizers and a growing army of inspiring community activists.

Director: Nick Taylor
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Founded in 1952, the Columbus International Film & Animation Festival is the oldest film festival in the United States. Presented by Columbus College of Art & Design, the festival showcases world-class independent films in central Ohio.