The West Virginia University Center for Women’s Studies will screen the filmSpeaking Our Peaceon Monday, March 6, as part of its movie nights series this semester.

The film will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the National Research Center for Coal and Energy Conference Rooms A and B. Bonni McKeown, activist and barrelhouse blues musician, will lead a discussion after the film.

Speaking Our Peaceis a 1985 documentary focusing on local and international peace initiatives by women in the former Soviet Union, who used the camera lens to outline their views on war and peace.

The film includes scenes of women in mass demonstrations at Litton Systems in Canada and at Greenham Common in England, as well as footage of ordinary citizens who must live with the health and environmental problems caused by uranium mining and nuclear weapons testing.

This is the third of four movie nights sponsored by the Center for Women’s Studies this semester. The fourth film will beLesbian Grandmothers from Mars: One Couple’s Journey for Marriage Equality,to be shown April 3.

The Morgantown chapter of the National Organization for Women and the Feminist Equality Movement are co-hosts for the screening. The Center for Women’s Studies is part of WVU ’s Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information, contact Barbara Howe, director of the Center for Women’s Studies, at Barbara.Howe@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-2339 ext. 1155.