Fight, The

[Partially subtitled] [Opens July 31 in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] An educational, critically acclaimed, ire-inducing, heartbreaking, inspirational, behind-the-scenes, 96-minute documentary that follows a group of committed, dedicated, heroic American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorneys, including ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero, Voting Rights Project Director Dale Ho, Deputy Director of ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project Brigitte Amiri, senior staff lawyer Joshua Block at the LGBT & HIV Project, ACLU Deputy Director of Immigrants' Rights Lee Gelernt, and Deputy Director Transgender Justice Chase Strangio, who represented a diverse group of clients during the Trump administration on unpopular, controversial cases involving abortion rights, immigrant rights and the separation of children from their parents who are seeking asylum in America, LGBT rights and the prohibition of transgenders serving in the military, the legality of the citizenship question in the census, and the Muslim travel ban that denies Muslims from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, and Somalia from entering the U.S. and consists of commentary by director of refugee resettlement Scott Lloyd, naval petty officer Brock Stone, ACLU legal directors Jeffrey Robinson and David Cole, and ACLU communications director Stacy Sullivan.
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