HISTORY LESSONS

Featuring: Daniela Glusberg

Youth Filmmakers: Alex Cheng, Daniela Glusberg, Danielle Strandburg-Peshkin, Chelsea Vaught

Adult Mentor: Mindy Faber

While still a student in sub-urban Illinois, Daniela Glusberg became enamored of American History. This country's centuries' old fight for a democratic republic represented more than dull facts in a book for this daughter of Argentinean parents who barely escaped a brutal military dictatorship. Continually sensitive to the issues faced by her parents in their native country and the new threats of the Patriot Act at home, Daniela and her fellow students organized to fight injustice and oppose the American invasion of Iraq, eventually leading the largest student walkout of the high school anti-war movement in the U.S.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• listen up!
• Beyond Borders
• Evanston Illinois
• Iraq
• invasion
• student walkout
• anti-war
• Argentina
• Patriot Act