Little Feather Film Festival

Press Release

Indigenous Talking Circle Presents:

The Little Feather Film Festival
Saturday November 13, 2004 9:00am-5:00pm

This event will also feature guest speaker Dave Hill of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee.

The Indigenous Talking Circle addresses issues that are relevant to the lives of Native Americans living in the state of Arkansas. The Talking Circle also works in collaboration with Native Americans throughout the United States.

The Featured Films Include:

In Whose Honor? American Indian Mascots in sports
Indigenous Lives at La Zona Rosa. Austin, TX "99"
On and Off the Rez With Charlie Hill
A Skirt Full of Butterflies
Columbus Didn't Discover Us

Location:
William F. Laman Library
2801 Orange St.,
North Little Rock

Cost: free

Organizer:

Ladyfest South

(upstairs from Bridgetown Grill across from the Fox Theater)
689 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30308


Advance tickets will be available only from our website beginning Wednesday, October 27, 2004.
**21+ only venue



Emcee for all fours days is Kelli Dunham check her out at www.kellidunham.com


Thursday Nov 4th (9pm - 2am)

Malika
Carrie Taylor
Fhena
Lindsey Hinkle
Divine Maggees

Friday Nov 5th (9pm - 3am)

Peri Mason
Hope for AGoldensummer
Manifest Frequency
Modern Marriage
Burning Idols
Animal Nation
Three5Human

Saturday Nov 6th (5pm - 2am)

Julia Carroll
Janiece Thompson
Tracy Elliott
My Siamese Self
Kelly Andrews
Tracy Walker

GoGirls Elite Showcase:

Moe Loughran
Nellie Bly
Something for Jess
Carol Plunk
The Catholic Girls **canceled**

Sunday Nov 7th (12pm - midnight)

Heidi and the Hushpuppies
Lauren Fincham
Diane Durrett
Julie Loyd
Brianna Lane
Daniell Seibel
Stolie
Tonya M Smart
Chris Pureka
Sue Witty
Halcyon
Liz Melendez
Scott Turner Schofield (formerly Kt Kilborn)
Athens Boys Choir

Location:
The Mambo Room
689 Peachtree ST NE
ATL GA 30308

Cost: $15/day $40/ all days

Directions: North Ave Marta Station

URL: http://www.ladyfestsouth.com

Atlanta IMC Audio Working Group Meeting

Audio Working Group Meeting.

Ongoing and Upcoming Audio Events.

Plan weekly WREK radio show.

Location:
165 mayson ave, which is in the edgewood
neighborhood. call 404-223-3663 if you get lost.

Cost: $0

Directions: *turn on whiteford from dekalb ave. this is a right if you're coming from downtown/little 5 and a left if you're coming from decatur.

*come to a four-way stop and make a left on La France

*at the next four-way stop, make a right on mayson ave

*165 mayson ave is on your left

park on the gravel road to the left of the house, bring bikes inside. enter on the left side of the house

Organizer:

URL: http://atlanta.indymedia.org

After the Elections: What Challenges for Progressives?

Mark Solomon, professor emeritus of at Simmons College, sees this election as among the most vital in the nation's history. It will play a major role in determining whether right-wing domination continues or if space will be won to turn the country towards peace and justice.

Location:
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St. (Copley Square)
Boston, MA

Cost: Free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.commchurch.org

Boston IMC General Meeting

Boston Indymedia general meeting. Status reports from all current working groups, administrative duties, and general concerns, inquiries, projects and discussions. This open meeting is not limited to current members, and all are invited to attend to get involved with Boston IMC.

Location:
Lucy Parson's Center, 549 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA, 02118-1125

Cost: n/a

Directions: Directions: By train/public transportation: Take the Orange Line to the Mass Ave stop, or the Green "E" line to the Symphony stop. Walk south on Mass Ave for a minute or two. Go left onto Columbus Ave. for 1-1/2 blocks. Lucy Parsons Center will be on the left.

By bus: Take the #1 Dudley/Mass Ave. bus to the corner of Columbus Ave. and Mass. Ave. Walk east on Columbus Ave. 1-1/2 blocks. Lucy Parsons Center will be on the left.

By car, from Storrow Drive: Exit at Copley. Go left at the light, onto Arlington Street. Continue approximatley five blocks until Columbus Ave. Go right onto Columbus Ave. for approximately eight blocks. Lucy Parsons Center will be on your right. If you reach Mass Ave., you've gone one block too far.

From Rt. 93 N or S: Take the Storrow Drive exit. Continue 1-2 minutes on Storrow and exit at Copley. Go left at the light, onto Arlington Street. Continue approximatley five blocks until Columbus Ave. Go right onto Columbus Ave. for approximately eight blocks. Lucy Parsons Center will be on your right. If you reach Mass Ave., you've gone one block too far.

Organizer:

Los Pájaros

Proyección de la película de A. Hitchcock

Location:
C/ Dr. Marañón nº3 bajo La Laguna

Organizer:

TALLER DE BIOCONSTRUCCIÓ: BIOCLIMATISME

Com integrar les variables climàtiques de cada lloc -l'aigua, el sól, el vent...- a l'hora de dissenyar construccions per tal d'optimitzar-ne l'eficiencia energética.

Location:
Can Masdeu (metro linea 3, Canyelles -pregunta als veins)

Organizer:

CineFòrum: "Bowling for Columbie" al CSOA l'Estella

Següint amb l'habitual CineFòrum dels diumenges al CSOA l'Estella aquest: "Bowling for Columbie" un film documental de Michael Moore sobre la relació que tenim amb les armes.

Location:
CSOA l'Estella

Directions: c/Lepant, 83
al costat de l'estació de tren
de Mataró

Organizer:

URL: http://www.musaik.net/estella

a-n-t-e-n-a-k))))))) -hiriko haizeak / la ciudad en el aire-

Azaroaren 7tik 14ra Bilbon jardunaldi batzuk antolatuko dira, hiria eta Informazio medioen arteko lotura eta hartuemanak eztabaidatzeko. Hiri egitura berrien garai honetan, teknologien ugaltzeak eragindako zenbait fenomenoren azterketa.

Del 8 al 14 de noviembre organizamos unas jornadas de debate en Bilbao sobre el modo en que la ciudad y los medios de informacion se articulan e interactuan. En una epoca de proliferacion de medios tecnologicos y nuevos tejidos urbanos, donde cuerpos, maquinas, imagenes y llamadas perdidas se dan cruce.

Location:
Bilbo

URL: http://euskalherria.indymedia.org/eu/2004/10/17612.shtml

a-n-t-e-n-a-k))))))) -hiriko haizeak / la ciudad en el aire-

Azaroaren 7tik 14ra Bilbon jardunaldi batzuk antolatuko dira, hiria eta Informazio medioen arteko lotura eta hartuemanak eztabaidatzeko. Hiri egitura berrien garai honetan, teknologien ugaltzeak eragindako zenbait fenomenoren azterketa.

Del 8 al 14 de noviembre organizamos unas jornadas de debate en Bilbao sobre el modo en que la ciudad y los medios de informacion se articulan e interactuan. En una epoca de proliferacion de medios tecnologicos y nuevos tejidos urbanos, donde cuerpos, maquinas, imagenes y llamadas perdidas se dan cruce.

Location:
Bilbo

URL: http://euskalherria.indymedia.org/eu/2004/10/17612.shtml

Lenin Eguna

Egun osoan zehar aktibitate ezberdinak egongo dira.
11:00 Kalejira auzoan zehar.
13:00 Marx eta Lenin-en bustoa berriro jartzea monolitoan+Ekitaldi politikoa
14:00 Triki poteoa
15:00 Bazkari herrikoia eta ondoren...
Zozketak, kantaldia, postuak, bertsolariak eta giro ona.

Location:
Otxarkoaga Auzoan, Monolitoa Bus enparantzan dago kokatua eta bazkaria "vaguada"-ko frontoian egingo da, Gabriel Aristi institutoren alboan

Cost: Bakarrik ordaindu behar da bazkaria

URL: http://www.nodo50.org/ehk/

Lenin Eguna

Egun osoan zehar aktibitate ezberdinak egongo dira.
11:00 Kalejira auzoan zehar.
13:00 Marx eta Lenin-en bustoa berriro jartzea monolitoan+Ekitaldi politikoa
14:00 Triki poteoa
15:00 Bazkari herrikoia eta ondoren...
Zozketak, kantaldia, postuak, bertsolariak eta giro ona.

Location:
Otxarkoaga Auzoan, Monolitoa Bus enparantzan dago kokatua eta bazkaria "vaguada"-ko frontoian egingo da, Gabriel Aristi institutoren alboan

Cost: Bakarrik ordaindu behar da bazkaria

URL: http://www.nodo50.org/ehk/

מהפכה

המהפכה

Location:

Picnic in the Park

Click here for the history of Food Not Bombs.
Food not bombs is an international movement of people who work along autonomous, egalitarian, decentralized, organization in order to share vegan and vegetarian food with the hungry and homeless, as well as protest social, economic, environmental, and animal injustice world wide.
Our three main principles are food recycling, non-violence, and consensus.
We feel food, being a substance necessary to sustain life, is a right, not a privilege.
According to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
We feel that the government spends too much money on weapons and war, and not enough to attend to the basic needs of its people.
We feel that by spending money on war instead of its own people, the government's main priority lies outside its own borders.
According to the Congressional Budgeting Office, the United State's will spend over $400 billion on defense alone, and only $387 billion on all other services (Table 10).
We do not feed the homeless. We have picnics and share food with anyone. The most hungry happens to be the homeless. We don't feed them. The food is shared; we sit with them, talk to them, and learn from them. This is not a soup kitchen or any other impersonal service.

Who is Hungry and Why?

According to the US Census, 12.1% (34.6 million people) of the population are current in poverty.
According to America's Second Harvest, the number of Americans who were hungry or food insecure was 33.6 million in 2001.
23.3 million people sought emergency food relief from their network of services in 2001.
The number of homeless people living in America is unknown, however the National Coalition for the Homeless cites an Urban Institute study which says that 3.5 million people (1.35 million children) will experience homelessness in any given year.
In Florida, America's Second Harvest states that the poverty rate is 12%, and that the childhood poverty rate is 18.8%.
The Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County counts 6,481 homeless people.
There is no single cause of homelessness in the United States.
Some reasons include lack of jobs, lack of a living wage, decline in public assistance, a lack of affordable housing, lack of affordable health care, domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse (this may often begin after becoming homeless, as a way to deal with the harsh reality of living on the street).
The Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough says the two biggest trends of homelessness in the county are a shortage in affordable housing and a rise in poverty, although other factors do have an influence.
There are homeless because our society needs them. It needs people on the bottom and it needs minimum wage earners/"flexible" labor/a reserve army of labor, etc. Why criminalize what we're doing? Doing what we are doing threatens the status quo, social stratification, the "necessary" reserve.. We are lifting the homeless up and treating them as equals - it's revolutionary.

Why Not Get a Permit?

See the main page, Information section, for all the documents the police have given us.
The permit application is expensive, around $100, although the application fee can be waved for non-profit organizations.
We cannot nor do we want to obtain 501(c)3 non-profit status. It is not beneficial to our organization.
The city requires $500,000 liability insurance (3.2).
Insurance purchased through the city costs $240 or more per event.
There is a $25-$50 fee for reservations, plus a $100 clean up fee (although we make no messes).
Permits can only be obtained three times per year.
According to page 2 (#16), of the City of Tampa Special Events Permit Application (the permit we have been arrested for not having) "food and drinks cannot be given away to the public". However it specifies food may be sold, although to do so requires an additional $100 vendor permit.
Overall, we feel that we do not need permission to share our food in our parks with those in need.
We take full responsibility for all food consumed. In fact, we are eating with the homeless, and keep all of our health and safety in mind.

Why Not Feed on Private Property?

Picnics and gatherings are what parks are for.
These are public parks, which means they are our parks, and we have a right to use them.
This is where the homeless live. We feel it is wrong to make the homeless come to us. We wish to share food and have them eat at their homes, and speak with them in their environment.
Tampa Food Not Bombs has been picnicking there for 8 years. The homeless know us and like us; some even prefer our food over others.
Herman C. Massey Park, according to the Tampa Government website, is solely dedicated for picnic use. The fact that there are no bathrooms is something the city must reconcile. What if a family was there to have a picnic and needed to use the bathroom? Where should they go?
The human body takes 4-8 hours to digest food. People are able to find bathrooms within that time, however, are often only able to use them after paying for goods. This excludes the poor, hungry, and homeless.
We have not encountered any problems with waste disposal.

Why is FNB Doing This?

It's the right thing to do!
The government isn't doing it.
We as a community feel we should take care of our fellow humans.
We wish to build and improve our community.
We wish to treat the homeless, hungry, and poor as equals, and raise awareness that they should be treated as such.
We wish to teach self-sustainability.
We wish to build confidence in the homeless.
We are doing this because it should not be illegal. To ignore the laws is to keep sharing food illegal.
We are doing this to change the laws in Tampa. We wish to amend or rescind the current city law that prevents us from sharing food.
For 8 years, we haven't had problems.
We feel this is a violation of our civil liberties guaranteed by the constitution, including the freedom of speech, and the freedom of assembly.
We feel that food is a right, not a privilege or commodity, and therefore it should be given away freely.
We do it out of love.
We feel we must raise awareness that the city is spending more money on redevelopment than on dealing with homelessness and poverty.
There are homeless because our society needs them. It needs people on the bottom and it needs minimum wage earners/"flexible" labor/a reserve army of labor, etc. Why criminalize what we're doing? Doing what we are doing threatens the status quo, social stratification, and the "necessary" reserve. We are lifting the homeless up and treating them as equals - it's revolutionary.

Why doesn't FNB Work with Churches?

We don't need to, the churches are working with us.
The work churches do are important, and we will refer people to utilize their services, however we are not a church, and have different goals, beliefs, and actions.
We are working together to change the laws.
However, we do not share the same goals.
Our organization works on consensus, and we decided through that method that we do not want to be affiliated with churches.
Not everyone in our organization is religious.
We are more secular based.
With religious services, there is no dialogue with the people. You do not get to sit, eat, and talk with those you feed. With us, we ensure open dialogue.
We do not believe humanitarian services should be accompanied by preaching.
We do not believe food should be exchanged for religious ideology.
Churches do not serve vegetarian meals.
Churches are not flexible.
Churches are hierarchical, we are not. We do not want to be entered into their hierarchy and bureaucracy.
Churches should not have a monopoly on feeding the homeless.
There are no requirements to eat food with us.
We feel that religious people often speak to others in a condescending tone.
Religious groups are often exclusionary: excluding different races, ethnicities, other religions, non-religious people, or even gays and lesbians.
We do more than feed. We try to improve lives, provide companionship, promote healthy living, build community, give clothes and books, and teach and learn from the homeless.
We do not push our beliefs on those we share food with.
We don't just feed the homeless; everyone is welcome at our picnics. We also share food at events and protests.

What are the Solutions to Homelessness?

There is no one solution.
We should ask them what they think the solution is.
Taking care of our communities should be our first priority..
We should try to build strong local infrastructures.
We should try to provide more jobs and houses.
We should build more homeless and community centers.
There should be free healthcare and education.
We should end unjust economic practices such as greed; overconsumption; waste; commodification of goods such as food, water, and healthcare; profit fixations, etc.
Mayor Iorio should visit the HUD meetings which have a very detailed blueprint for ending homelessness. She failed to attend the last meeting.
End the stigmatization of homelessness by ending the myths of laziness, violence, etc.
We need to come together to solve the problem because when people suffer, its everyone's problem.
Obviously, there should be money for food, not for bombs.

Location:
Downtown Tampa @ Herman Massey Park

Cost: Free to ALL

Directions: www.tampagov.net/appl_tampa_address_locate/mappage.asp

Organizer:

URL: http://www.TampaFNB.org

SILENT VIGIL MOURNING THE VICTIMS AND THE TRAGEDY OF THE IRAQ WAR

100,000 IRAQI DEAD?
1,100 US DEAD
AND STILL COUNTING
Join us in a
SILENT VIGIL

MOURNING THE VICTIMS AND THE TRAGEDY
OF THE IRAQ WAR
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7
11:30 am 1 pm

(latecomers welcomed)



in

FAIRPORT

at the corner of Church Street and Main Street



(From 490 Fairport exit, follow Fairport Rd, which becomes Church Street.

Park in lot at north end of Perrin St., one block west of Main off Church.)





Participants are asked to dress in black

and to bring signs appropriate to the occasion

________________________________________________________________________

Action sponsored by Peace Action & Education (PA&E),
a Task Force of Metro Justice (585-325-2560)

Location:
FAIRPORT

at the corner of Church Street and Main Street

Directions: From 490 Fairport exit, follow Fairport Rd, which becomes Church Street.

Park in lot at north end of Perrin St., one block west of Main off Church.)

Organizer:

Young Anarchist Gathering

Young Anarchist Gathering

Sunday.November7.2004.1pm
San Diego - Balboa Park [President's way & Park Blvd]

Tentative Schedule:
100pm - Free Lunch from the NorthCounty FoodNotBombs
200pm - Art Workshop
230pm - Drug Free Lifestyle Workshop
300pm - Gender Roles & Womyn's Liberation within our Community
330pm - Protest/Direct Action Workshop
400pm - Zine Publishing Workshop
430pm - Book/Zine [club] Discussion
*Yes, this is a very ambitious schedule. Yes, some of the workshops will probably overlap. Yes, there will be an hour between the meal and the first workshop for spontaneous discussion and workshops.

Things to bring:
-Water to drink
-Everything from Junk to Punk for Trade-N-Swap
-Notebook and Pencil to take notes at workshops
-Personal Calendar or Organizer to write down inportant dates and events
-Favorite book[s] and/or zine[s] for discussion
-Friend that wouldn't normally come, or come on their own

PLEASE try to carpool to this event, ride your bike, or take public transportation.
PLEASE tell all the kids you know to come and hang out.

We are the Youth. We are the Future.

Location:
San Diego - Balboa Park [President's way & Park Blvd]

Cost: FREE

STRIKE! Hyatt Hotel Monterey

Locked out Local 2 members will be picekting at Hyatt Hotel in Monterey starting at 4 AM Sunday, November 7th. This is a MBCLC sanctioned strike... we need to be on the lines. Come at 6 AM if you can, come any time during the day. Come especially for the rally from 2-4 PM.


This is our opportunity for SOLIDARITY ACTION with 4,200 hotel workers who have been LOCKED OUT of their jobs for 2 months by hotel corporations.
See also:
www.montereybaylabor.org/

Location:

Organizer:

URL: http://www.montereybaylabor.org/

Uri Avnery: Truth Against Truth - POSTPONED

We have just been notified that this event is being postponed (probably until March 2005) because of the serious political crisis in Israel/Palestine right now.
~Nanlouise for RCNV.

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Uri Avnery, journalist, activist, writer and peace activist, (www.avnery-news.co.il/english) is one of the leading spokespersons for the Israeli peace movement. As a young immigrant to pre-Israel Palestine, Avnery joined the Jewish terrorist underground movement. He fought and was twice wounded and his brother was killed in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. He later started Israel's best known cutting-edge newsweekly. He was one of the first Israelis to openly meet with the PLO's Yasser Arafat, when such contact was still illegal, and interviewed Arafat in Beirut during Israel's 1982 siege of Lebanon. He later served in the Israeli Parliament, representing a joint Jewish-Arab political party. Avnery has been among the most outspoken advocates of a Two State Solution and for equal rights for Arab citizens of Israel. Avnery is a founder and leader of Gush Shalom, the "Israeli Peace Bloc" (www.gush-shalom.org/english). Avnery will visit Santa Cruz as part of a month-long speaking tour to the West Coast organized by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and the American Friends Service Committee in San Francisco.

Location:
Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave.

Cost: $5 - $20 (also reserved seating & reception option)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.rcnv.org

March For Social Justice

This 5K march-a-thon is both a public expression of opposition to the war on the black community and a fundraiser for the Uhuru Movement, working for social justice and democratic rights in the African community.

Join the march or pledge a marcher! Visit the March for Social Justice Website.

Location:
Crescent Lake Park
22nd Ave N & 7th N
St. Petersburg, Florida

Organizer:

URL: http://www.marchforjustice.net

Peace Witness, Tallahassee

Join the Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Sundays and Thursdays in front of the Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street
BUSH LIED; CHENEY LIED; RUMSFIELD LIED; POWELL LIED; THEY ARE ALL LIARS; AND THEY THINK YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. BUSH LIES - GIs DIE
Sundays 12:30 to 2:30.
Thursdays 4:00 to 6:00
www.tnjp.org
organize-AT-TNJP.org

Location:
Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street

Cost: FREE!!!!!

TERRY GALLOWAY’S “IN THE HOUSE OF THE MOLES”

The Mickee Faust Club presents…
TERRY GALLOWAY’S “IN THE HOUSE OF THE MOLES”

Why is it that it’s always the ugly, queer, trouble-making thinker who gets it in the end? That’s the essential question posed in Terry Galloway’s original play, “In the House of the Moles”. This tragedy in burlesque opens Thursday, November 4th with additional shows Nov. 5-7 and November 11-14 at the Mickee Faust Clubhouse in Railroad Square. Members of the media are welcome to attend the final dress rehearsal, Wednesday November 3rd. All shows start 8PM.

There will also be an opportunity to be part of the live audience during the videotaping of the show Sunday, November 21 and Monday, November 22.

“I’ve loved working on this production,” says Galloway. “It’s funny and profane. Not profound. Profane!”

Galloway and FSU Communications Professor Donna Marie Nudd have directed this show, and allowed for a give-and-take with the actors to create the final script for this performance. The play has also been read and workshopped at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and American Place Theater in New York City.

“If I were to describe this play, I’d say its sort-of like “Little Women” with beer, dope and violence,” says Galloway.

The play proper focuses on a family of four sisters and their late mother’s live-in male friend. To honor their mother’s memory, the sisters agree to perform their mom’s life work—her play—one last time. Within this drama comes another morality play creating a play-within-the-play-within-the-play, and a show that both entertains and provokes.

“There’s certainly a “Little Women” gone awry at the start,” says Dr. Nudd, “But there are also elements of vaudeville and “Punch and Judy” in the other parts, and the basic plot elements are lifted from Hamlet, a testament to Terry’s love of Shakespeare and her performance background.”

Tickets are $10 general admission/ $5 seniors and students with ID. Tickets for the shows can be purchased at the door the night of the performances. There are some tickets set aside for reservation each night, so please call 309-5353.

Location:
Mickee Faust Clubhouse
Railroad Clubhouse

Cost: $10.00 / $5.00 students/seniors

Organizer:

Nashville Food Not Bombs at Legislative Plaza

Every Sunday, Food Not Bombs shares free vegetarian food with Nashville's hungry and homeless. All are welcome to attend. Feel free to bring food you have cooked or just come eat with us. Clean-up volunteers are especially welcome!

Location:
Legislative Plaza in downtown Nashville (between Charlotte and Union along 6th Ave. N.)

Cost: Free!

Organizer:

Just Talking with Rev. Fuzz

'Just Talkin' with host, Pastor Enoch Fuzz
WVOL Radio am1470 /Sundays 5pm til 7pm

'Just Talkin' provide an important community forum to interview leaders and news makers who can share unique information and discuss issues pertinent to the lives of people and the community.
Phone calls with questions and comments are always welcome 227.1470 or 737.WVOL!!!

Editors note: This is an excellent community forum in Nashville which focuses on a broad range of issues relevant to progressives in middle tennessee including labor, civil rights, immigrant rights and urban development.

Location:

Mideast Peace Coalition

The mideast peace coalition is a progressive book discussion group and gabfest. It has also been an incubator for some of Nashville's most interesting social justice groups including the Peace Coalition. They meet at the nashville peace and justice center. 1016 18th Ave So.

Location:

Knoxville Independent Film Series

Knoxville Independent Film Series:

All screenings at 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm
at the Pilot Light in the Old City of downtown Knoxville.
The Pilot Light is located at 106 E. Jackson St. www.pilotlight.com, 865-524-8188.

Free and Open to the public, donations encouraged.
Proceeds will be benefit KFAR 90.9 FM – Knoxville’s First Amendment Radio – www.kfar.org

Sunday, October 10th – “Outfoxed”
This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know. This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. www.outfoxed.org

Sunday, October 24th – “The Corporation”
This complex and highly entertaining documentary examines the far-reaching repercussions of the corporation’s increasing preeminence. Based on Joel Bakan’s book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, the film is a timely, critical inquiry that invites CEOs, whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation’s inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. Featuring illuminating interviews with Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Howard Zinn and many others.

Sunday, November 7th – “The 4th World War”
A film from the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, 'the North' from Seattle to Genova, and the 'War on Terror' in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war. www.bignoisefilms.com

Sunday, November 21st – “The Miami Model”
In November 2003, trade ministers from 34 countries met in Miami, Florida, to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). To show their opposition to the FTAA, thousands of union members, environmentalists, and human rights activists also gathered in Miami. What happened there was a disturbing example of the state of free speech under a wartime president. Protestors were attacked with rubber bullets, pepper spray, electric tazer guns, and shock batons, all coordinated by the new United States Department of Homeland Security, and paid for by an $8.5 million line item within the $87 billion appropriation for the Iraq war. THE MIAMI MODEL also showcases the issues that drove the protestors to Miami, and the alternative models of grassroots resistance, creative action sustainable development, and solidarity that they came to promote. www.ftaaimc.org/miamimodel


For more information, please contact: johnjef (at) bledsoe.net or call 865-522-6527

Location:

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Pioneer Valley Vigil for Peace and Justice

The Sunday vigil was begun by local "Parents and Grandparents for Peace" on July 14, 1979, under the street-wide banner: "TOWARD GLOBAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND A VERIFIABLE US-USSR MORATORIUM ON NUCLEAR TESTING." The vigil has met every Sunday since, from 12 noon to 1 p.m., barring a couple of impossible blizzards. It has passed out thousands of leaflets on a great variety of issues under the slogan, "If You Want Peace, Work for Justice," and participants have varied from a dozen or so die-hard activists to fifty and more during the Gulf War.

Location:
Amherst Common

URL: http://www.nonviolence.org/amhvigil/

Sojourner Truth and Her Neighbors: The African-American Community of Florence, 1845-1860

Historical Walking Tour of sites related to the antebellum African-American Community of Florence during the time that Sojourner Truth was a resident. In addition to Truth, prominent Underground Railroad agent David Ruggles, fugitive lecturer Thomas H. Jones, long-time residents and former slaves Basil Dorsey and Henry Anthony made their homes in Florence. Frederick Douglass was a frequent visitor. Join us to explore these remarkably architecturally in tact neighborhoods.

Location:
Meet at the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue. Corner of Park and Pine Street, Florence

Cost: Sliding scale of $0-$10 to benefit the STMS Scholarship fune

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FACING THE PAIN OF WAR

This panel discussion--led by military veterans and
members of military familes--will focus on the effect of past wars and the
current war in Iraq on military personnel, on their families and on American
society. In addition to first-person stories about the impact of war,
panelists will talk about coping with and healing from war's aftermath. The
event is offered in observance of Veterans Day and in conjunction with the Amherst
College Mead Art Museum exhibit "The Pain of War," which features the works
of internationally-acclaimed artists and photographers.


The panelists for "Facing the Pain of War" will be: Michael Harrington
(Amherst College, 1975), U.S. Army, Vietnam Veteran; The Reverend James
Munroe, Vietnam veteran of the U.S.M.C.; Debra Lucey, sister of Jeffery
Lucey (3/16/81-6/22/04), U.S.M.C. Reserves, Iraq veteran; Jessica Mills,
daughter of a Vietnam veteran diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder;
Dr. Claudia Ciano-Boyce, Professor of Psychology, Westfield State College.
The Moderator will be Stephen Sossaman, Vietnam veteran, Professor of
English, Westfield State College.

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EVENTS: The Pain of War

Exhibition Opening and Reception
Thursday, October 28: 4:30 p.m.
With recognition of the Amherst College faculty who contributed written
responses to works in exhibition. This collection, entitled In Response to
The Pain of War, will be available in the gallery throughout the course of
the Exhibition.
Mead Art Museum

Special lectures
Thursday, November 4: 7:00 p.m.
Kim Phuc, Goodwill Ambassador, UNESCO.
The subject of one of the most memorable photographs of the Vietnam War,
which depicts Kim Phuc as a child fleeing from her village with burns from a
napalm attack.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Religion. Lecture supported by Willis Wood
Fund Stirn Auditorium

Tuesday, November 9: 8:00 p.m.
Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Amherst College Corliss Lamont Lectureship for a Peaceful World: "Americans
as Survivors-Vietnam and Iraq"
Stirn Auditorium

Gallery Talks, Mead Art Museum
Wednesday, November 10: Noon
Carol Solomon Kiefer, Curator of European Art, "The Pain of War"

Friday, November 12: 11:00 a.m.
Carol Solomon Kiefer, Curator of European Art, and Erin Sullivan, Graduate
Intern, UMass: "The Pain of War" (Homecoming Weekend Events)

Thursday, December 2: 5:00 p.m.
Lance Duerfahrd, Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Amherst
College: "Learning from War Photographs"

Panel Discussions
Sunday, November 7: 7:00 p.m.
Facing The Pain of War
With first person accounts of combat veterans and military family members
about the effect of past wars and the current war in Iraq on military
personnel, their families, and American society. Converse Hall (Red Room)

Thursday, November 11: 4:30 p.m.
On The Pain of War.
Panel: Amherst College Professors Robert Bezucha (History), Lawrence Douglas
(LJST), Heidi Gilpin (German), Margaret Hunt (History). Moderated by Carol
Solomon Kiefer, curator of the exhibition.
Stirn Auditorium

Film Screenings
Thursday, October 28 and December 2: 7:00 p.m.
War Photographer, Christian Frei, 2001 (96 min.)
2001 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary. The subject is James
Nachtwey, one of the leading war photographers of our time.
Stirn Auditorium

Thursday, November 18: 7:00 p.m.
The Last Train (Posledny poezd), Alexei A. German, Jr.,
2003 (82 min.) (with English subtitles).
Winner Amnesty International-DOEN Award at International Film Festival
Rotterdam 2004. Powerful debut film with surreal effects, set in the winter
of 1944 on the Russian Front.
Sponsored by the Department of Russian, Amherst College Teaching Gallery,
Mead Art Museum

Thursday, December 9: 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
No Man's Land (Hell on Earth) (Niemandsland), Victor Trivas, 1931 (75 min.)
(with English subtitles).
Five Soldiers from different countries find themselves buried alive in the
trenches of World War I and are forced to get along with one another in this
gripping anti-war film, a little-known masterpiece from the late Weimar
Period.
Sponsored by the Department of German, Amherst College Stirn Auditorium

Related Exhibition
The Way of Sacrifice: Images and Accounts of War in Amherst's Archives and
Special Collections.
Archives and Special Collections, Frost Library, Amherst College, October 28
- December 19, 2004. Exhibition curator, Daria D'Arienzo, Head of Archives
and Special Collections, Amherst College.

*Due to the graphic content of this exhibition, viewer discretion is
advised*

Location:
Converse Hall, Cole Assembly (The Red Room), Amherst
College

Cost: free and open to the public

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