Chicago 10

We just watched "Chicago 10: Speak Your Peace". A documentary movie mixed archival footage, animation, and music to look back the anti-Vietnam-war protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the 1969 Conspiracy Trial. Worth watching.



Long Time Coming (BY GRAHAM MEYER)
Q: Why did you choose Chicago 10 as the title, rather than Chicago Seven or Chicago Eight, as the group is better known?

A: It was called C7 for five years. We liked that it made it feel like a movie, as opposed to a documentary. However, there were eight defendants. Jerry Rubin once said, "Anyone who calls us the Chicago Seven is a racist. Because you're discrediting [Black Panther leader and codefendant, in part] Bobby Seale. You can call us the Chicago Eight, but really we're the Chicago Ten, because our two lawyers went down with us." And I felt like it would also allow me to appropriate the story, rebrand the story.