General Public

Storming Caesars Palace

Documentary Feature
Directed by: Hazel Gurland-Pooler
Duration: 86 minutes
English
Watch Trailer
Watch Trailer
Add to Favorites
Add to Favorites
Share
Share
Viewing Options
Viewing Options
Storming Caesars Palace
Click to Unmute
Storming Caesars Palace
Due to geographic restrictions, this content is available only in New York.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas — until now. When Ruby Duncan loses her Las Vegas hotel job due to a workplace accident and accepts public assistance, she discovers firsthand the stigma and harassment by an over-zealous, fraud-obsessed welfare department. With Mary Wesley and Alversa Beals, Ruby creates a welfare rights group to fight for an adequate income, dignity, and justice. They, along with low-income mothers across the country, form the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) with the support of George Wiley, a chemistry professor-turned-activist and Frances Fox Piven, a radical social-scientist. Together, the mothers of the NWRO introduce a Universal Basic Income campaign with feminist Gloria Steinem at their side, at the Democratic National Convention in Miami in 1972.

STORMING CAESARS PALACE shares the story of how a group of ordinary low-income mothers launched an extraordinary grassroots movement for economic justice and Black women’s empowerment in the 1960s and 1970s. This film reveals the roots of today’s movements, highlighting the experiences of Black women organizers from one of the most challenging and forgotten feminist, anti-poverty movements in our history, and places it in the limelight, where it will inspire, embolden and honor the women whose courage, tenacity and dreams could not be quashed, against all odds.
Genres: Documentary and Reality, BIPOC, Biopic
Perspectives: Black, Women
Studio: Gurland Documentaries
Producers: Hazel Gurland-PoolerNazenet Habtezghi
From: United States
Produced In: United States
Writers: Hazel Gurland-PoolerSunita Prasad
Lead Actors: Ruby DuncanGloria Steinem

If you don’t have an Apple ID or Google account, click either button and follow the prompts to create a new account.

Enter the code below into your set top device to associate it with your account.

Imagine This International Women's Film Festival
Overview
Technology
Essential Functions
Non-essential Functions

We respect your privacy

We use various technologies to track your identity and your interaction with our content while you are on our site. Our goal is to limit the use of this kind of technology to functions that are strictly necessary for the purpose of being a festival attendee, filmmaker, judge, or presenter. You have full control over the few exceptions that are not strictly necessary.

Cookies and Local Storage

We do not use any first-party cookies on this site, though we do use a newer technology called "local storage" to store information about your identity and interaction with our site on your computer. We may use a third-party cookie for analytics tracking and another for your purchases. We do not use third-party cookies for the purposes of advertising or collecting information for use by third-parties.

Use of Essential Cookies/Storage

The primary need for our storage of data on your computer is to track your authentication status and synchronize the purchases stored on the web site, thus enabling you to access the content to which you have access. When you are not authenticated, we also use this technology to track viewing of content in verification of our right to show you that content. On your profile page, you can see the information we store about you and manage it. You do have the right to be forgotten by us, but you will lose access to any purchased content should you exercise this right.

Non-essential Cookies/Storage Preferences

There are two non-essential functions: our use of Google Analytics to help us analyize usage of our web site and our automated watch list tracking. You may turn off one or both non-essential functions. We do ask that you allow these functions as they are used solely for the purposes of bettering this web site and are not used for advertising or sold tracking your beavhior for use by third-parties.

Tracking
Watch List

Click "Accept" to accept this use of cookies or "Reject" reject all but essential cookies.