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Events for Thursday, 02 December 2004
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Search for Global Justice-Bhopal, 20 Years in the Making
We never want to see another Bhopal" - Bhopali survivors
December 3rd, 2004, will mark twenty years since the people of Bhopal awoke from their sleep, choking, near-blinded, to scenes of unimaginable horror and suffering. The count of those affected is well over 150,000 to date, including 12-15,000 killed. The ongoing efforts of both Union Carbide and its new owner Dow Chemical to evade their pending liabilities in Bhopal represent a classic case of corporate crime gone unpunished and unchecked. Join people around the world to observe this call for Global Day of Action around Dec 3rd and call for clean-up of the contamination left behind by Carbide (Dow) and accountability for people who continue to suffer.
"Beyond the initial horror and devastation of the gas tragedy is the spreading damage of environmental and genetic assault. At stake is more than fair compensation and long-term rehabilitation for the afflicted - "Bhopal" has become a rallying cry for post 9/11 concerns about chemical industry security and industrial pollution. Ultimately, the horrific gas leak at Union Carbide (now Dow Chemical) imposed a "chemical trespass" of the human body that demands greater regulation by governments and responsibility from multinational corporations."
Location:
Rm. 101, White Hall, 301 Dowman Dr, Emory University
Cost: Free
Directions: map.emory.edu/front
Organizer:
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Baltimore IMC General Meeting
The Baltimore IMC general meetings are open to the public, and all are welcome and encouraged to participate.
We now have one general meeting that begins at 7:30 rather than splitting the Editorial group and general meetings. We discuss ongoing and upcoming news coverage projects, finances, forthcoming events (speakers, workshops, etc), and any other business related to the IMC.
If you are interested in attending, but aren't sure how you might participate in the group, please come and discuss it with us! We're a friendly group, and there are all sorts of ways to contribute...
Location:
Progressive Action Center
1443 Gorsuch Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21218
Directions: The PAC (Progressive Action Center) is located at the corner of Gorsuch and Kirk Ave. From the south, go north to 25th street, and head east about 7 blocks to Kirk Avenue (7-11, Allfirst Bank). Turn left and head about 5 blocks to Gorsuch. From the north, take 33rd street east to Loch Raven. Turn right (south) and head a few blocks to traffic light at Gorsuch. Turn left (east) and head 3 blocks to Kirk.
Organizer:
Hearing for well-known Boston activist Richard Picariello
This Thursday, December 2 at the Boston Courthouse at Post Office Square, an important hearing and a trial are talking place.
The hearing is for well-known Boston activist Richard Picariello. Richard has been charged with leafletting and being present during a demonstration against Bush last spring. The charges are fabrications for the purpose of intimidating the activist community in Boston. Up to seven hearings in court have taken place without the prosecution providing any reason for even bringing charges.
A second trial on Thursday, December 2 involves two protesters arrested at the Democratic National Convention last July. The arrests were a case of the Boston police attacking the protest in order to make it look like there was a reason to spend millions of dollars on "security" for the DNC. The defendants were arrested for no reason. The trial will also be held at the Boston Post Office Square courthouse.
Twenty or more people came to support Aimee Smith in her trial in Cambridge Court Tuesday November 30. The trial was postponed because the MIT police improperly filed two reports just before the proceedings, leaving Aimee's lawyer no choice but to ask for a continuance. The new trial date is January 13, 2005.
Please come. Attendance at these trials shows that Boston activists are not
alone, and that they have the support of the community.
Location:
Boston Post Office Square Courthouse
Hearing for well-known Boston activist Richard Picariello
This Thursday, December 2 at the Boston Courthouse at Post Office Square, an important hearing and a trial are talking place.
The hearing is for well-known Boston activist Richard Picariello. Richard has been charged with leafletting and being present during a demonstration against Bush last spring. The charges are fabrications for the purpose of intimidating the activist community in Boston. Up to seven hearings in court have taken place without the prosecution providing any reason for even bringing charges.
A second trial on Thursday, December 2 involves two protesters arrested at the Democratic National Convention last July. The arrests were a case of the Boston police attacking the protest in order to make it look like there was a reason to spend millions of dollars on "security" for the DNC. The defendants were arrested for no reason. The trial will also be held at the Boston Post Office Square courthouse.
Twenty or more people came to support Aimee Smith in her trial in Cambridge Court Tuesday November 30. The trial was postponed because the MIT police improperly filed two reports just before the proceedings, leaving Aimee's lawyer no choice but to ask for a continuance. The new trial date is January 13, 2005.
Please come. Attendance at these trials shows that Boston activists are not
alone, and that they have the support of the community.
Location:
Boston Post Office Square Courthouse
Hearing for well-known Boston activist Richard Picariello
This Thursday, December 2 at the Boston Courthouse at Post Office Square, an important hearing and a trial are talking place.
The hearing is for well-known Boston activist Richard Picariello. Richard has been charged with leafletting and being present during a demonstration against Bush last spring. The charges are fabrications for the purpose of intimidating the activist community in Boston. Up to seven hearings in court have taken place without the prosecution providing any reason for even bringing charges.
A second trial on Thursday, December 2 involves two protesters arrested at the Democratic National Convention last July. The arrests were a case of the Boston police attacking the protest in order to make it look like there was a reason to spend millions of dollars on "security" for the DNC. The defendants were arrested for no reason. The trial will also be held at the Boston Post Office Square courthouse.
Twenty or more people came to support Aimee Smith in her trial in Cambridge Court Tuesday November 30. The trial was postponed because the MIT police improperly filed two reports just before the proceedings, leaving Aimee's lawyer no choice but to ask for a continuance. The new trial date is January 13, 2005.
Please come. Attendance at these trials shows that Boston activists are not
alone, and that they have the support of the community.
Location:
Boston Post Office Square Courthouse
Hearing for well-known Boston activist Richard Picariello
This Thursday, December 2 at the Boston Courthouse at Post Office Square, an important hearing and a trial are talking place.
The hearing is for well-known Boston activist Richard Picariello. Richard has been charged with leafletting and being present during a demonstration against Bush last spring. The charges are fabrications for the purpose of intimidating the activist community in Boston. Up to seven hearings in court have taken place without the prosecution providing any reason for even bringing charges.
A second trial on Thursday, December 2 involves two protesters arrested at the Democratic National Convention last July. The arrests were a case of the Boston police attacking the protest in order to make it look like there was a reason to spend millions of dollars on "security" for the DNC. The defendants were arrested for no reason. The trial will also be held at the Boston Post Office Square courthouse.
Twenty or more people came to support Aimee Smith in her trial in Cambridge Court Tuesday November 30. The trial was postponed because the MIT police improperly filed two reports just before the proceedings, leaving Aimee's lawyer no choice but to ask for a continuance. The new trial date is January 13, 2005.
Please come. Attendance at these trials shows that Boston activists are not
alone, and that they have the support of the community.
Location:
Boston Post Office Square Courthouse
India and China's Entrepreneurial Trajectory
India and China's Entrepreneurial Trajectory
December 2nd - 3rd, 2004
The 2004 Global TIES Conference will be the first of a series of conferences on the management of technology and innovation to be held in key high-tech clusters around the world. Our series of conferences focuses on each stage of the process of successfully bringing innovations to market.
The MIT Global TIES 2004 conference builds bridges between clusters of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology around the world. This year's conference focuses on the rapidly evolving environments in India and China.
Global TIES Panels:December 3rd, 2004
Keynote Speakers: Robert Mao, CEO, Nortel China
Richard Garnick, Chief Executive Americas', Wipro Technologies
Selected Panelists:
Bill Huang, CTO, UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI)
Hugo Shong, Vice Chairman and General Partner, IDG Ventures
Andy Kau, Managing Director, Walden International
Shujin Li, CFO, Shanda Interactive (Nasdaq: SNDA)
Paresh Patel, Managing Director, the Sparta Group
Srini Rajam, CEO, Ittiam Systems
Rajiv Mody, CEO, Sasken Communication Technologies
Dr. Vijay Chandru, CEO, Strand Genomics
Somesh Sharma, CSO, Nicholas Piramal India (NICH.BO)
Krisztina Holly, Executive Director, MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Sherwin Greenblatt, Director, MIT Venture Mentoring Services
Jack Turner, Associate Director, MIT Technology Licensing Office
Rachel Oberai-Soltz, Associate Director, MIT Office of Corporate Relations
Professor Lester Thurow, Former Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
Sponsor: MIT Global Technology Innovation Entrepreneurship Series (TIES)
Accenture, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Perkins Smith & Cohen
Location:
Kresge Auditorium and Student Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cost: $48 - $425
Organizer:
Mars Homestead Recruitment Session
Mars Homestead Recruitment Session
Joe Palaia & Bruce Mackenzie
The Mars Homestead Project is presently seeking volunteers for design studies of the first permanent settlement on Mars for 12 people. Expertise is especially needed in chemical engineering, material science, plastics engineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering, industrial engineering, geology & mineralogy, metallurgy, and agriculture. The primary area of focus for the upcoming design effort will be investigating technologies and processes useful for the manufacture of materials from local resources (dirt, rock, atmosphere, subsurface water, etc). Such manufacturing reduces the mass of required materials brought from Earth while simultaneously establishing infrastructure that can be used for settlement expansion. The design studies will begin with some minimal review of background material leading to an intensive IAP workshop. If you or someone you know would be interesting in working on this exciting project, please attend our introductory session or send us an email at info-AT-marshome.org You can help open this new frontier!The recruitment session will consist of an overview presentation on the Mars Homeastead Project and detailed information about the present focuses of investigation (manufacturing, agricultural, construction equipment, gas handling equipment).
Sponsor: MIT Mars Society
Admission free
Open to the public
Location:
M.I.T. Room 66-319
Cost: free
Organizer:
20 Year Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Disaster-Dow Chemical
Chemical Disaster Still Taking Victims 20 Years Later
Bostonians Commemorate 20th Anniversary of Bhopal Chemical Disaster
As Dow Chemical Continues to Deny Legal Responsibility for the Disaster Victims
WHO: Boston Investors, Labor, Environmental Health and Human Rights Organizers, Citizens
WHAT: A New Shareholder Resolution asking Dow Chemical to account for its liabilities in Bhopal, India sponsored by Boston Common Asset Mgmt., Showing of 20 Years Without Justice: The Bhopal Chemical Disaster and discussion with Indian labor organizers following.
WHEN: 12-2pm, Thurs. Dec 2nd
WHERE: Wainwright Bank, 63 Franklin St., Lower Concourse Conference Rm.
RSVP requested 617-524-6018
WHY: Union Carbide is considered a fugitive from justice in Indian Criminal Court and Dow must present its subsidiary to stand trial. In addition, the Indian Government may demand that Dow clean up the contaminated Bhopal site costing millions of dollars. Dow Chemical has a history of hiding the true impacts of its production, violating human rights and the very foundations of life itself. Each of us carries Dows legacy in the form of dioxin and other chemicals in our bodies with unknown and harmful effects visited on us and generations to come.
There will be a screening of a new 17 min. documentary video, Twenty Years Without Justice: The Bhopal Chemical Disaster; depicting the injustices the people of Bhopal have endured in the decades since the disaster, and the current efforts to bring Union Carbide and its parent company, Dow Chemical, to justice. See the video at bhopal.strategicvideo.net. The video will be followed by a presentation on the Dow Shareholder Resolution by its writers and an update from an Indian Union Organizer on the current situation with industry there now. Coffee and dessert will be provided.
On December 4th and 6th there will also be screenings of Bhopal - The Search for Justice at MIT and Tufts respectively. The film straddles the intersection between science, politics and human rights. Exploring charges of corruption, graft and greed, the film follows Raajkumar Keswani, the local journalist whose prediction of the Union Carbide disaster proved prophetic and addresses the human costs of the disaster. More details on this film at www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/. For details e-mail secular-AT-mit.edu.
Background: At midnight on December 2, 1984 twenty-seven tons of lethal gases leaked from Union Carbides pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, immediately killing 8,000 people and poisoning thousands of others. Today, at least 150,000 people, including children born to parents who survived the disaster, are suffering from exposure-related health effects such as cancer, neurological damage, chaotic menstrual cycles and mental illness. Over 20,000 people are forced to drink water laced with unsafe levels of mercury, carbon tetrachloride and other persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals.
Human rights, legal, environmental health and other experts are demanding that Dow Chemical, the current owner of Union Carbide, be held accountable for this atrocity. Many events worldwide are taking place to coincide with the 20th anniversary. A new film screening and a presentation for Dow investors and interested parties will be taking place in Boston on the 2nd and 4th of December. Other events include the release of a major new human rights report exposing Dow Chemical, teach-ins and vigils at over 40 U.S. colleges nationwide and a new Environmental Health Fund book entitled Trespass Against Us: Dow Chemical and the Toxic Century.
This week, Boston Common Asset Management filed a shareholder resolution with Dow Chemical addressing its liability for the Bhopal disaster. Boston Common is requesting that Dow quantify and analyze the impacts that the Bhopal disaster may reasonably pose to the company, its reputation, its finances, and its expansion elsewhere. The resolution also calls on Dow to include in the report any new initiatives instituted by the management to address the specific health, environmental and social concerns of the survivors. Boston Common filed the resolution on behalf of its client, the Brethren Benefit Trust, Inc. along with other social investors. The filers are responding to the growing controversy Dow faces because it continues to deny its accountability to the Bhopal survivors. In 2004, a similar resolution garnered favorable analysis from proxy voting services like IRRC and Institutional Shareholder Services including a For Vote recommendation from ISSs Social Investment and Proxy Voting Services division whose clients are social investors, pension funds and labor unions. Institutional investors who supported the call for a report by Dow on these issues included CalPERS and NYCERS. Boston Common expects similar support from these types of investors in 2005.
The 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal known as the Hiroshima of the Chemical Industry has left an estimated 150,000 people chronically ill, 50,000 of whom are too sick to earn a living. The impact on survivors health continues to exceed the most pessimistic predictions. The compensation paid by Union Carbide is less than nine U.S. cents a day per victim a pathetically inadequate amount, given the economic and health needs of survivors, says Tim Edwards of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. Dow Chemical assumed liability for the Bhopal plant when it acquired Union Carbide in 2001.
Union Carbides $470 million compensation package covered only civil awards for the half million people exposed, leaving unresolved the potential damages for criminal charges and for environmental contamination unrelated to the disaster. Accused of culpable homicide, Union Carbide is officially a fugitive from justice, defying orders of the US and Indian courts to face trial in India, said Satinath Sarangi of the Bhopal Group for Information and Action. After leaving its factory a global toxic hotspot, so poisoning Bhopal a second time, Carbide also faces a case in the US courts. The growing movement for corporate accountability will never let this issue rest.
For More Information
On the Dow Shareholder Resolution Contact: Lauren Compere, Boston Common Asset Management, (617) 720-5557, weekend (617) 335-9764 lcompere-AT-bostoncommonasset.com
On the 20th Anniversary of the Bhopal Chemical Disaster and Worldwide Events check out: www.bhopal.net/gda2004.php or contact Diana Ruiz at diana-AT-panna.org or (415) 981-6205 ext 321
Location:
Wainwright Bank, 63 Franklin St., Lower Concourse Conference Room. Boston (Near Post Office Square)
RSVP requested but not required 617-524-6018
Cost: free
Organizer:
Refugee Rights after 9/11: Comparing the Canadian and US Regimes
Refugee Rights after 9/11: Comparing the Canadian and US Regimes
Dr. Obiora Okafor, PHRJ Research Fellow
Sponsor: Center for International Studies, Program on Human Rights & Justice
Admission free
Open to the public
Location:
M.I.T. Room E38-615
Cost: free
Organizer:
Israel/Palestine forum feat. Elaine Hagopian, Souad Dajani
Suffolk University Students for Palestine presents:
"Defeating Peace: The History and Future of US/Israeli Policy Toward the Palestinians"
Featuring ELAINE HAGOPIAN, Professor Emerita of Sociology at Simmons College, editor of "Civil Rights in Peril" and Dr. SOUAD DAJANI, independent development consultant and researcher, author of "Eyes Without Country" and a forthcoming study on land issues in Israel/Palestine.
Thursday, December 2 @ 6:00 p.m.
Suffolk Univ. Law School Rm. 285
120 Tremont St, Boston
(Take the "T" to Park St. Cross Tremont St. and go left at Finagle a Bagel. Suffolk Law School is two blocks down on your right.)
For more information, contact suffolkforpalestine-AT-yahoo.com
Location:
Thursday, December 2 @ 6:00 p.m.
Suffolk Univ. Law School Rm. 285
120 Tremont St, Boston
Directions: (Take the "T" to Park St. Cross Tremont St. and go left at Finagle a Bagel. Suffolk Law School is two blocks down on your right.)
Organizer:
Colombia: The Profits of Extermination
The Profits of Extermination
with Colombian author/union leader Francisco
Cuellar
Francisco Ramirez Cuellar is president of
Sintraminercol, the Colombian mining workers
union. His union has taken a leading role in the
struggle against privatization of Colombias
mineral resources, in exposing the abuses of multi-national corporations in the mining and energy sector, and in pressing for legislative reform to return some of the profits of the mining sector to the country. The union has been active in the defense of the rights of indigenous and Afro-Colombian people displaced by mining and energy projects and in environmental issues, as well as labor issues.
He is author of La Gran Minera en Colombia: Las Ganancias del Exterminio, soon to appear in English as The Profits of Extermination: How US Corporations are Destroying Colombia. He has been brought to the US in the face of increasing threats and a close attempt on is life.
Location:
Cost: Free
Organizer:
Jesus Christ Terrorist
Jesus Christ Terrorist
guerilla rock musical
Dont miss the first public performance of the rock musical/guerilla theater
Jesus Christ Terrorist featuring
The Reagan Babies and a cast of idiots
Only 75 tickets will be available for this show, so get em early!
Find out what happens when Jesus returns amidst the current war/terrorist hysteria. Watch him do battle with militarism, corporate media, PC liberals, and the right-wing.
Will Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft and their corporate henchmen teach him that words like love thy neighbor is simply enemy propoganda and deserving of swift punishment?
Will Jesus consumate his relationship with Mary Magdellan (or is Jesus playing both sides of the field these days). Will he be outed?
What is a Feminist Critique Chorus and will their voices be heard?
Dont miss this wacky night If you do, well then the terrorists will have won!
Location:
Zeitgeist Gallery
Cost: Donations for this event are $20
Groundbreaking Documentary *Peaceable Kingdom*
ABOUT PEACEABLE KINGDOM
A Tribe of Heart Documentary
Imagine awakening one day to realize that the work you were trained to do since birth, the life you had always imagined youd lead, the very values that had been taught in your family for generations, went against the deepest part of your being.
In Peaceable Kingdom, we hear the riveting stories of people struggling with their conscience around some of our societys most fundamental assumptions.
An inspiring story of personal redemption, compassion, healing and hope, Peaceable Kingdom is described by many of its viewers as a life changing experience.
What if the things you were taught don't make sense anymore?
Harold Brown was a farm kid who loved animals.
"Id have friends who took livestock to county fairs. And I realized I wasnt alone, because even these kids, too -- they cried when they auctioned off their prize cow at the end of the fair... but you could never get anybody to talk about it... I mean, the last thing you ever wanna be is weak. Weak farmers dont survive."
What if speaking the truth meant losing your community?
Howard Lyman, who turned his family's small organic farm into a massive feedlot operation, learned too late that his success was destroying everything he loved.
"How was I gonna go to my wife and say... maybe what we oughta do is get out of this business? How was I going to go and talk to my friends about it when every one of them was involved in doing exactly what I was doing? There was no support mechanism, even if I went to my minister."
What if following your heart meant doing the impossible?
Lorri Bauston and her husband, Gene, investigated stockyards and found sick animals piled on top of dead animals. What began as a spontaneous act of mercy for a dying sheep grew into a lifetime commitment to shelter hundreds of rescued farm animals and transform the way farm animals are viewed in our society.
"You turn that sorrow into action, and for me it was just saving one. Just saving one helped me cope."
Peaceable Kingdom is a beautiful film and a must-see.
--Alicia Silverstone
Audiences are saying:
Powerful and extremely enlightening.
Thank you for showing this film. You changed my life today!
Never before has a film made such an impact on my thoughts, dreams and feelings in the days following its viewing.
A most powerful film that needs to be seen by everyone... people must learn the truth.
Peaceable Kingdom is a masterpiece.
-- Dr. Jane Goodall
Refreshments will be served :)
Location:
Boston College
Merket Chemistry Center Rm 130
Cost: free
Directions: See map- Merket Chemistry Center is in grids C & D3 at bottom right hand of map. www.bc.edu/about/maps/s-chestnuthill/
Meditation and Discussion on Enlightened Mind: Bodhicitta
Meditation and Discussion on Enlightened Mind: Bodhicitta
Ven. Tenzin LS Priyadarshi
Our text for this semester will be Vast As Heavens, Deep As the Sea: Verses on Bodhicitta (published by Wisdom Publications) written by the previous Khunu Rinpoche.This is a wonderful contemplative text shedding light on the cultivation and actualization of Bodhicitta, the Enlightened Mind.
Sponsor: Buddhist Community at MIT
Admission free
Open to the public
Location:
M.I.T. Chapel
Cost: free
Organizer:
Balagan Experimental Film & Video Series
In this program we will begin to explore the complex relationship between politics and art in film. Looking at several short works that express their political ideologies through very different approaches from lyrical meditations on the daily crisis in Palestine to an in your face testimony of a suicide bomber, we will undoubtedly raise more questions than answers at the end of the night.
Tension 26 min, video, 1998
Director:Rashid Masharawi (Palestine)
Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi conveys the palpable sense of tension that he perceived below the surface of daily life for the Palestinian population during the period of the "peace process." Tension focuses on the act of observation itself, eschewing spoken dialogue altogether for a narrative that is produced rather through the editing of images, music, and incidental sounds on the track. Tension is organized around the natural cycle of sunrise and sunset, restated in terms of another "natural" work cycle: the many waves of Palestinian day workers who move through gates and checkpoints to labor in Israel and return each evening.
Born in 1962 in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, Masharawi is the director of several documentaries and fiction films. He is also the winner of many international awards, including the UNESCO Award at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. In 1996, Masharawi founded the Cinema Production Centre in Ramallah, West Bank, which aims to improve and develop the Palestinian movie industry by encouraging and training young Palestinian movie-makers. Aninnovative artist, Masharawi created the Mobile Cinema which has allowed thousands of children to enjoy local and foreign films.
Submission 10min, video, 2004
Director: Theo Van Gogh (Holland)
Controversial Dutch filmmaker and newspaper columnist Theo van Gogh, who made a film about violence against women in Islamic societies, was stabbed and shot dead in Amsterdam on November 2. Van Gogh was criticized for a film, Tension, shown this year on Dutch television about a Muslim woman forced into an arranged marriage who is abused by her husband and raped by her uncle. One of his colleagues said he was a champion of free speech. Van Gogh was stabbed and shot near a park in central Amsterdam. He did receive death threats but he never took them quite seriously. He was a controversial figure and a champion of free speech, a colleague at Van Goghs film production company said. Van Gogh had also been working on a feature film about the 2002 murder of controversial anti-immigration populist Pim Fortuyn, which was due to make its premier in January with previews to be shown on the Internet next month.
Van Gogh received death threats after Submission was broadcast on Dutch national television earlier this year. He made the film with Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee given Dutch citizenship after fleeing an arranged marriage 12 years ago. Hirsi Ali, who calls herself an ex-Muslim, has been under police protection since receiving death threats because of the film.
Meeting Evil 9min, Video, 2002
Director: Reza Parsa
A man is sitting on the back seat of a car. He has twelve minutes left to live and speaks his words of valediction into the camera. A disturbing and highly controversial film which has been screened at Cannes. Perhaps the most astonishing moments ever created in a Swedish film, according to Ingmar Bergman.
Director Reza Parsa, born in 1968, comes from Tehran and has been living in Sweden since 1980. At the age of 22 he enrolled at the Danish Film School where he trained as a director. He has made ten short films so far. His feature film debut Before the Storm has won national and international awards. Filmography (Selection): 1995: Never; 1997: Tigerheart; 1998: The 8th Song; 2000: Before the Storm; 2002: Meeting Evil
Journeys 40min, 35min on video, 2003
Director: Vinayan Kodoth (India)
"In the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay), the long trips commuting from home to work and back again is gradually taking on unbearable proportions. The trains are so overcrowded that people can only board, using their elbows. At first, the scenes of people frenetically trying to secure a seat are almost funny: it seems like a game of musical chairs. At the same time, its clear that the lack of capacity is leading to perilous situations. People ride with their bodies sticking outside the train, they sit on the roof and hang off the sides. They often jump on while it is still moving. The rush and stress causes people to be very careless and agressive. A newspaper headline 14 dead in 24 hours speaks volumes. From a distance, the throng of people is the streets is a column of ants. A general view shows how choked up the arterial roadways really are. There is contrast between the slum-swellers scratching out a living in the small spaces between the roads and the tracks and a glittering Bombay city soaring above them. Roads are lined with billboards advertising luxury items. Thus, the film raises questions about progress and urbanisation and the price that is paid." - International Documentary Film Festival (Amsterdam)
Vinayan Kodoth was born in 1963, in Kerala, India. He completed a post-graduate degree in literature in 1986. In 1989 he joined the film direction program at the Film and Television Institue of India in Pune. Between 1992 and 1996, he worked in television in Mumbai (Bombay). Since 1996, he has taught film and video at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
Location:
Coolidge Corner Theatre
Directions:
The Coolidge Corner Theatre is located 1/2 block from the corner of Harvard and Beacon Streets in the Coolidge Corner shopping district of Brookline. We're just minutes from downtown Boston and Harvard Square.
By train: take the Green Line (C branch to Cleveland Circle) trolley from downtown to Coolidge Corner via Beacon Street. The Coolidge Corner stop is at Harvard Street, 5-10 minutes from Kenmore Square.
By bus: take bus #66, Dudley/Harvard Square.
All buses and trolleys stop at the Harvard Street/ Beacon Street intersection.
Both lines are also on the night owl route - operating until 2:00am on Friday and Saturday nights.
From Mass Pike, 90: Take exit 18 Allston/Brighton. As you exit tolls, stay to left for Allston exit and merge with Cambridge St. Follow until you reach Harvard Ave on your left, after the overpass at the intersection with the frightening "Captain Fishbones" sign. Take the left onto Harvard Ave and follow through Allston and across Commonwealth Ave, continuing for about 1.5 miles. Just before reaching the major intersection of Harvard and Beacon St, you will notice our giant theatre marquee on your right.
From Interstate 93: Take the Storrow Drive exit and follow to Storrow Drive (this navigation changes periodically because of Big Dig construction, so watch for the signs). Take Storrow Drive to the Kenmore Square exit. As the exit splits, stay in the right hand lane. Take the first right onto Beacon St. Follow Beacon St through Kenmore Square (past the legendary Citgo sign), staying in the center lane. After you cross the overpass, keep going straight ahead, following the trolley tracks along Beacon St until you reach the intersection of Beacon and Harvard St, landmarked by a large Tudor style building with a clocktower (and a Walgreens) on the corner. You'll see us one half block up Harvard, but continue on Beacon to Center St and turn right to access our parking lot behind the building.
From Route 9: Route 9 inbound to the Brookline Village/Harvard St intersection. The Brookline fire station is on your right. Go through the intersection and take a right immediately after the fire station, and loop around the back. You can now turn right and cross back over Route 9 onto Harvard St. Follow Harvard St through Brookline Village, about one mile to Beacon St. Cross Beacon St and you will immediately see our marquee on your left. Parking is along Beacon, or go around the block and enter the lot behind our building on Center St.
I Encontro de Estudantes Libertrios
Para aqueles que ainda acreditam num movimento estudantil despartidarizados e como um meio de contestao e transformao social, ocorrer no dia 02/12(Quinta-feira) s 18h no ptio do IFCS um encontro de estudantes para a construo de um movimento estudantil libertrio, que se apresente como alternativa essa escolinha para formao de polticos a qual foi transformado o movimento estudantil
Location:
Rio dee Janeiro-RJ, no ptio do IFCS, largo so francisco
Organizer:
[Gran Canaria] Concentración por una Sanidad Digna
Concentración
+contra la saturación del Centro de Salud
+para exigir la prueba del Sintrom en el C.A.E.
+por un servicio de Urgencias digno
+contra las listas de espera
+por la defensa de la Sanidad Pública
NI UN DÍA MÁS!
Location:
Plaza de San RAfael, Vecindario.
Organizer:
Evoluci del sistema processal-penal i repressi dels moviments socials
Continuen a la pres de la Trinitat els dos joves de l'Hospitalet detinguts a Sants el passat 4 doctubre acusats de llenar un cctel molotov.
Ponents que intervindrn a lacte:
-Jordi Busquets (advocat)
-Jaume Asens (Col.lectiu Layret)
-David Fernndez (amic de les vctimes)
Location:
Aula 35 de la Facultat de Dret UB
Organizer:
Accions contra la precarietat
La Xarxa Solidria contra els Tancaments i la Precarietat, nascuda al febrer de 2004, ha organitzat per aquest desembre diverses accions i les Primeres Jornades Vius en precari: REBEL.LAT! el proper desembre amb l'objectiu de mobilitzar-nos i debatre com enfrontar-nos a la precarietat.
2 de desembre: ACCIONS DESCENTRALITZADES
-10,30h Contra la precarietat al sector pblic i els acomiadaments. Delegaci Economia i Finances de la Generalitat de Catalunya, c/Fontanella (entre PCatalunya i Urquinaona) Barcelona
-12h Cercavila Destruim la Precarietat, Pa Civica. Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona
-12h Accions i penjada de pancartes al Campus Diagonal. Contra la precarietat als menjadors universitaris i contra el menjar escombreria, Universitat de Barcelona
-12h Accions i sensibilitzaci contra la precarietat al Pati
de Jaume I-Campus Ciutadella. a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
-1730h cercavila contra la precarietat a Pa de Sants (Barcelona)
-18h cercavila contra la precarietat a la rambla de Poble Nou amb
doctor Trueta per Poblenou-Clot (Barcelona)
-18,30h accions des dels Jardinets de Gracia (Barcelona)
-19h Cercavila de denncia de les multinacionals i responsables de la precaritzaci de la vida a Passeig Maragall, davant Telefnica i British Petroleum, Horta-Carmel (Barcelona).
-20 h cercavila contra la precarietat pel barri de la Rivera (Barcelona)
Altres aciones contra la precarietat a Vilanova i la Geltr, Banyoles, Anoia, Capellades, Lleida i Vilafranca.
Location:
Diversos
Xerrada: Estatut d'autonomia i Constituci espanyola: un model esgotat.
Xerrada a crrec de Jordi Miralles, Coordinador General d'Esquerra Unida i Alternativa i diputat al Parlament de Catalunya, Aquesta xerrada s'enmarca dins del cicle de "Xerrades inconstitucionals" que organitza el collectiu del Campus Diagonal de la CJC.
Location:
Facultat d'Econmiques UB
Aula 116
Organizer:
presentacio Revista DesMONtando MUNdos
Acto de presentacin del primer numero de la Revista "DesMONtando MUNdos",
editada conjuntamente por JIS de lHospitalet y la asociacin AMLK de Nicaragua.
El proximo jueves dia 2 a las 19,30h.
Location:
Casa de la Solidaridad
c/Vistalegre,15 (Raval)
Barcelona
Cost: LLiure-libre-Free
Organizer:
Xerrada Okupacions de Mataró
Cicle de xerrades sobre les Ocupacions de Mataró
al CSOA l'Estella al carrer Lepant,83.
Tots els dies a 2/4 de nou.
Dijous 4 de novembre
Ateneo Libertario. (carrer 10 de gener) Okupat l'any 1977
Espai Social Cerdanyola. Okupat l'ay 1975
Dijous 11 de novembre
Les Esmandies. a càrrec d'en Pep Sivilla. Okupat pels veïns de Rocafonda
Can Noè. Okupat pels veïns de Rocafonda
Dimecres 17 de novembre
COPP (Cafè Nou). a càrrec d'Aureli Masafrets. Okupat l'any 1983.
Seu de la CNT a Mataró
Dijous 25 de novenbre
La Drogueria. Okupat l'any 2002
Cafè de Mar. a carrec d'en Gustavo i la Sara. Okupat l'any 1998
Dijous 2 de desembre
Talua rodona amb tots els participants al cicle discutim
El Futur de l'Okupació
Location:
CSOA l'Estella
Directions:
c/Lepant,83
al costat de l'estació de tren
de Mataró
Organizer:
Indymedia Scotland - New Members Meeting
Do you want to get involved in running Indymedia Scotland?
We are looking for new people to get involved in Glasgow, and Scotland generally. This meeting will discuss future events, explain how Indymedia works and offer people a chance to get involved.
All welcome - come all ye!
Location:
Camcorder Guerilla Office
3rd Floor
Glasgow Media Access Centre (GMAC),
34 Albion Street, Glasgow
Cost: £0
Organizer:
Anarchist Black Cross Letter Writing
The Anarchist Black Cross has sought to bring attention to the plight of all prisoners and to inspire an Anarchist resistance and support movement on the outside. We fund-raise on behalf of prisoners or defense committees in need of funds for legal cases or otherwise, and organize demonstrations of solidarity with imprisoned Anarchists and other prisoners.
Please attend a letter writing session before attending a regular meeting.
Location:
Solidarity!
13 W. 14th Street
Lawrence
Cost: free
Directions: Between Massachusetts and Vermont, on the south side.
Organizer:
Movement for Change Weekly Meeting
Movement for Change has its weekly meeting on this day at the Center for Social Justice on the corner of Davis and Moreno. They are open to the public and start at 7 p.m.
Location:
Center for Social Justice
1603 N Davis St
Cost: FREE
Directions: corner of Davis and Moreno
Organizer:
MASSIVE PROTEST against the media blackout of the STOLEN ELECTION 2004
MASSIVE PROTEST
against the media blackout of the
STOLEN ELECTION 2004
5:45pm
Thursday, December 2nd
Gather at Hall of Justice, Exchange Street
March to Democrat and Chronicle
Shed some light on the issue. Bring a candle.
This demonstration is being called by Metro Justice
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It's headline news in the United States- the discrepancies
between exit polls and the official vote count and widespread
electoral fraud led international election observers to cry
foul.
Yet the corporate media is not referring to what happened in
Ohio, New Mexico or Florida, it's reporting on the elections in
Ukraine.
How is it possible that the mainstream media can miss the
glaring irony of the criticisms of the Ukranian election made by
Colin Powell and Republican Senator Richard Lugar?
Where is the coverage of electoral fraud hearings in Ohio?
Where are the first person narratives from Florida about
touchscreen ballots that default to Bush? Where are the stories
about the diverted voting machines and long lines at polling
places in black neighborhoods in Ohio? Where are the interviews
with experts who can show how electronic voting tabulators can
be hacked?
The Democrat and Chronicle totally blew the weapons of mass
destruction story in the run up to the invasion of Iraq. Now it
is failing to cover widespread electoral fraud in the 2004
election.
IT IS TIME FOR THE DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE TO DO ITS JOB!
Location:
Hall of Justice, Exchange Street, Downtown Rochester
Indymedia Center General Meeting
General meeting to disucss our website, how to get more people to post stories, how to get more people to use the site, how to promote the site and finance the site, how we can do a better job "being the media". Got any ideas? We'de love to hear them.
Location:
1129 State Street at the Rain.org office, off the indoor patio.
Cost: Fre
Directions: downtown near Anapaum and State Streets off the indoor patio, accross from the Nu Restaurant
Organizer:
City Repair "A Street Corner Revolution" Slide Show And Talk with Mark Lakeman of City Repair Portland
Join visionary architect Mark Lakeman as he inspires and guides the grid structure of a typical American city into a vital social commons with Portland's City Repair Project (www.cityrepair.org). Now a national movement, City Repair is about cities, towns, grids and the intersections where our lives can converge. Multidisciplinary, City Repair combines architecture, urban planning, anthropology, community development, public art, permaculture and ecological design in projects that transform public space.
Dec 2 Thursday NOON City Repair, A Street Corner Revolution slide show and talk with Mark Lakeman $5 Faulkner Gallery Downtown Library Santa Barbara a professional presentation for County,City employees, politicians, builders and architects
Dec 2 Thursday 7pm City Repair, A Street Corner Revolution slide show and talk with Mark Lakeman $5 Faulkner Gallery Downtown Library
ontact Santa Barbara Permaculture Network sbpcnet-AT-silcom.com, www.sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571
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Dec. 3, Fri 7:30 pm: "The Village Lives," a slide show and talk with Mark Lakeman of Portland's City Repair $10 (sliding scale ok). Reservations recommended 213/738-1254 or <crsp-AT-igc.org> LA Eco-Village www.ic.org/laev/.
Dec. 4, Sat.10 am - 4:30 pm. "Redesigning our Intersection," a design workshop with Mark Lakeman. $100 - $50 sliding scale. Reservations required 213/738-1254 or <crsp-AT-igc.org>.www.ic.org/laev/.
Dec. 5 , Sun. 10 am - 4:30 pm. "Intersection Repair in L.A. Eco-Village." Wear old clothes and shoes. We'll be building some of the projects we designed on Sat. 12/5. $100 - $50 sliding scale. Reservations required 213/738-1254 or <crsp-AT-igc.org>.
LA Eco-Village 117 Bimini Place Los Angeles CA 90004
.Dec. 6, Slide Show & Talk, MTA, One Gateway Plaza (where Cesar Chavez and
Vignes meet in downtown LA, noon, no charge, bring a brown bag lunch. 213/738-1254 or <crsp-AT-igc.org>.www.ic.org/laev/.
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Dec 7 , Tues 5pm Dinner with Mark Lakeman
Farmer and Cook Farmer and the Cook Restaurant 39 El Roblar Drive, Meiners Oaks, CA (near Ojai)
www.farmerandcook.com
Please RSVP 805-640-9608
Dec 7 Tues 7pm A Street Corner Revolution slide show and talk with Mark Lakeman, donation $5
Help of Ojai, Little House , Kent Hall 111 West Santa Anna St (next to Ojai City Hall )
Turn off Hwy 150 onto Blanche St Ca between Bank of America and Star Market
Contact Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, sbpcnet-AT-silcom.com www.sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571,
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Dec 9 Thursday 7pm City Repair, A Street Corner Revolution slide show and talk with Mark Lakeman, donation $5
SLO Public Library 995 Palm Street
Contact Elaina Geltner at QuietStar Center for Transformation, 783-2662 or elaina-AT-quietstar.com. " and Tara Burke 995-2904
Cosponsors L.A. Eco-Village, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, Hopedance Magazine, The Sustainability Project, The
Community Environmental Center, Los Angeles Permaculture Guild, South Coast Permaculture Guild,www.GreenHomesForSale.com, Ojai Permaculture Guild, Sustainable Building Council SLO,Central Coast Permaculture Guild ,QuietStar Center for Transformation
Location:
Faulkner Gallery Downtown Library 40 E Anapuma
Cost: $5
Organizer:
Screening of the film 'Bhopal Express"
If you're free this Thursday evening, consider this!
What: Screening of the film 'Bhopal Express"
Why: To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the
Bhopal, India chemical disaster, in collaboration with
hundreds of screenings and other actions going on
around the world this week. (What's this all about?
See below....)
When: This Thursday, Dec. 2, 7:00pm
Where: The Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515
Broadway St., Santa Cruz. (just east of the
intersection of Ocean and Broadway)
Cost: $5 - $15 sliding scale donation requested. All
proceeds to go to The International Campaign for
Justice in Bhopal. But please come even if you have
no $ to spare....
Bhopal Express explores the true story of one of the
world's largest industrial disasters. The 1984 gas
explosion at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal which
killed over 16000 people and destroyed the lives of
50000 more. Championed by David Lynch and featuring
Nasserudin Shah (Monsoon Wedding) and Zeenat Aman, the
tragedy is revealed through the experiences of
newlyweds Verma (Kay Kay), a foreman at the Carbide
plant, his wife Tara (Netha Raghuraman) and their
friend Bashir (Shah). Resolutely political, the film
explores the events leading up to the disaster,
relives the crucial moment of the gas leak, the
devastation left in its wake and the Union Carbide
Corporation's refusal to accept responsibility for the
tragedy. With Oliver Stone working on a production
based on the book 'Five Past Midnight' by Dominique
LaPierre, this is a timely opportunity to see the
story told before it is reworked by the Hollywood
movie machine. The film is a Bollywood production
(always entertaining), and runs 120 minutes.
For more information on the film and the Bhopal
incident, link to www.bhopalexpress.com
20 years later, thousands of Indians in Bhopal still
suffer severe physical and emotional debilities from
the catastrophe, and there is now a renewed push to
hold Dow Chemical accountable. There will be
information at the event about current actions and
ways to get involved.
I hope to see you there!
Location:
The Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515
Broadway St., Santa Cruz. (just east of the
intersection of Ocean and Broadway)
Cost: $5 - $15 donation requested. But please come even if you have $ to spare...
Presentation: Save the Trees
This Thursday, December 2nd, at 7 PM in the grange hall, there will be a lecture by Ann Peterman and Orin Langelle of the Global Justice Ecology Project and the Native Forest Network entitled, "Save the Trees." It will address the issue of contamination of native forests with genetically
modified tree cultivars. There will also be live Latin American music by Zun Zun, a photo exhibit, and a preview of a video on the topic.
A $5 suggested donation is requested to defray costs; no one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more information, call 475-2715. I hope you can make it.
Location:
Live Oak Grange
1900 17th Ave.
Cost: $5 suggested donation is requested to defray costs; no one will be turned away for lack of funds
Directions:
Want directions to the grange hall?
greengrange.org/directions.html
Organizer:
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!!!!!
Jose Luis Orozco-Singer, Activist Friend of The Migrant Farmworker To Perform In Greensboro, FL
Children's Singer and Song writer will perform his songs from all over Latin America.
Location:
WestGadsden High School Greenboro, Florida
Cost: Free
Directions: From Tallahassee take I-10 West to the Greensboro exit, turn left onto Highway 12 go 2.2 miles and WestGadsden High School will be on your right. The event is in the Cafetaria the second entrance to the Highschoool.
Organizer:
Vigil at Lockheed Martin
Vigil at Lockheed Martin, one of the arms companies that profits the most for our neverending wars.
Location:
Northwest corner of Pilot Know Road and Yankee Doodle Road in Eagan.
Thomas Augst on "The Clerk's Tale"
Thomas Augst pesents on his book, "A Clerk's Tale."
"Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young men understand the volatile world of American capitalism and make sense of their place within it?
"Thomas Augst follows clerks as they made their way through the boarding houses, parlors, and offices of the big city. Tracing the course of their everyday lives, Augst shows how these young men used acts of reading and writing to navigate the anonymous world of market culture and claim identities for themselves within it. Clerks, he reveals, calculated their prospects in diaries, composed detailed letters to friends and family, attended lectures by key thinkers of the day, joined libraries where they consumed fiction, all while wrestling with the boredom of their work. What results, then, is a poignant look at the literary practices of ordinary people and an affecting meditation on the moral lives of men in antebellum America."
Location:
Coffman Memorial Union, room 307
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, East Bank
300 Washington Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Cost: free to attend, $5 membership for students, $10 membership for non-students
Directions: onestop.umn.edu/Maps/CMU/index.html
Organizer:
Workshop on Conscientious Objection
This workshop is aimed primarily at young women & men up to 26 years of age, parents of people this age, and people who work with such students. Space is limited. There'll be pizza & drinks.
During the workshop, the students and others will meet, most of the time in small groups, to figure out whether or not they're C.O.'s, to talk out their answers to the questions on the C.O. application, and to find out what to do next on their C.O. files.
Space is limited. To register for this workshop, email conant-AT-ecs.umass.edu with subject "CO Workshop" and including your name, address, phone number, and email, or by US mail to Roger Conant, 153 North Valley Rd, Pelham MA 01002. Or, if you have further questions about the workshop, send your inquiry the same way.
Location:
Grace Church on the Amherst Common
Cost: none, but pre-registration required
Organizer:
From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning
The Kogi Indians are the descendants of the ancient Tairona civilization of pre-Columbian America. For four centuries the Kogis have watched us from their mountain. They call themselves the Elder Brothers of the human race, and are convinced that we, the Younger Brothers, will soon destroy the balance of life on earth. They believe that the only hope is for us to change our ways, and have set out to teach us what they know about nature and the spiritual world.
From their mountaintop in Colombia, the Kogi see the snows melt around them. They know that we are changing the Earth, and they beseech us to stop.
Location:
Jones Library, Amity Street and Pleasant Street, Amherst
Cost: free
Organizer:
THE MIAMI MODEL
Q and A and discussion to follow
Miami Model tells the story of the protests against the FTAA that took place in
November 2003--from the Root Cause March to the violence on Thursday morning.
As well as putting the extreme brutality used by the Miami police in the
context of the greater Miami community.
This event is part of the Progressive Film Series and sponsored by the UMass RSU
Location:
Campus Center 903 on the UMass campus.
Organizer:
