'Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth To Power' follows the California representative's 20-year political career, which includes being the only congressperson to vote against 2001's Authorization for the Use of Military Force to enter Afghanistan.
I give the credit to the filmmaker, Abby Ginzberg, because as I’ve said before, I was an unwilling subject. It took her twice as long to do this job. To this day, it’s like I never agreed to it, she just did it. She would show up and I was like, “What are you doing here?” But she did a great job because she connected the dots for people.First of all, I’m doing real work. I’m an elected official, public service is what I’m about. Secondly, I didn’t want anybody to invade my privacy.
I work with these people every day and they’re people I look up to. The film was actually first released on my birthday at a drive in- theater on July 16 [2020], and John died the next day, July 17. I was like “oh my God.” He was such a good friend of mine, a really good friend. The first time I saw him talking about me like that was on the big screen the day before he died, so that was pretty powerful and really sad for me.
First, just the thought that this film is coming out the week of the withdrawal of forces and the evacuations is just really, in many ways, it’s bittersweet, it’s powerful, but it also reminds me of the fact that we can’t nation-build and there’s no military solution in Afghanistan. What I’m doing now, of course, is trying to help with the families. I have many in my district who are trying to get their families out.
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