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fter losing her job as a hotel worker in Las Vegas, Ruby Duncan co-founded a welfare rights group of ordinary mothers who defied notions of the “welfare queen.” In a fight for a universal basic income in 1969, Ruby and other equality activists took on the Nevada mob in organizing a massive protest that shut down Caesars Palace. Storming Caesars Palace, a film by Hazel Gurland-Pooler, challenges the pernicious lie of the “Welfare Queen,” and highlights the visionary leadership of low-income grassroots organizers whose courage, tenacity and dreams could not be quashed, against all odds.

Join us for a free community screening of this documentary film at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta on February 21 at 7 PM.

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