March 23, 2022
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Mountain Time
Screening of "Not Going Quietly"
Join ACS for a screening of the documentary "Not Going Quietly" featuring famed attorney Ady Barkan.
"Ady Barkan's life as an advocate for progressive social justice causes was upended in 2016 when he was diagnosed with ALS. A confrontation with a powerful senator catapulted him to national fame and ignited a once-in-a-generation political movement. In Nicholas Bruckman’s compassionate “Not Going Quietly,” a clearsighted and traditionally inspirational documentary portrait of Barkan’s rise to prominence in the healthcare debate, Barkan rightfully indicates that dealing with insurance then was far worse than this harrowing awareness. Simply put, he needed a breathing machine to stay alive, but his insurance company refused to pay for it, flagging the device as 'experimental.'"