PAST FILMS: 2007

Friday, December 28, 2007, 7­9:30 PM

NO FILM THIS WEEK(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, December 21, 2007, 7­9:30 PM Film: "JOYEUX NOEL" (116 min, Christian Carion, 2005) In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well underway. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called aninformal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front­line soldiers of the conflictpeacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with afleeting brotherhood. This film dramatizes one such section as the French, British andGerman sides partake in the unique event, even though they are aware that their superiorswill not tolerate its occurrence.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, December 14, 2007, 7­9:30 PM Film: Something a Little Different: "SET UP TO FAIL" ­ A PLAY PRESENTED BY JUSTICE WORKS!

And a Film: "CORPORATE LOCKDOWN" (22 min, Sarah Adele Zammit,2001) CORPORATE LOCKDOWN is a hard­hitting documentary on the corporatization of prisons,and reveals how corporate moguls and cost­efficiency prison models have turned prisonersinto products.Justice Works! is a grassroots criminal justice reform organization. SET UP TO FAIL ­ theplay, is the centerpiece for their outreach and public education program. SET UP TO FAILprovides factual information about the criminal justice system combined with the powerfulemotional expressions of incarceration and release from prison. Audience participationallows citizens, if only for a few minutes, to experience the reality of living in a cage. Mass incarceration and a “tough on crime” mentality have devastated individual lives,families and whole communities. The criminal justice system disproportionately impactspeople of African descent which gives way to hopelessness and defiance. The system setspeople up to fail which causes desperation, which is one of the key factors contributing tocrime. Justice Works! endeavors to reduce crime by restoring individual dignity and success,strengthening families and communities by creating an environment for individuals to giveand receive support, while working together to improve the criminal justice system. (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 30, 2007, 7­9:30 PM Film: “CLEAN ELECTIONS: VOTES FOR SALE?” (60 min, John Siceloff,2006) With Craig Salins, executive director of Washington Public Campaigns Many legislative votes and each election smells of scandal and corruption, which raises thequestion: Can anyone stop the influence of big money and big influence on politicalcampaigns? "VOTES FOR SALE?" is an investigation into the fight to keep Americanelections free and fair across the country. It spotlights the clean elections movement, aradical public­funding experiment adopted in Maine and Arizona to revolutionize howcampaigns are conducted. It works like this: candidates for public office receive a flat sum ofmoney from the government to finance their campaign. In return, the candidates agree touse almost no private funds to run their elections. Pushing special interest money out of the election process may do more than clean thingsup. It could also open the door for a variety of people who care about democracy to run foroffice with realistic hopes of winning. Will "politics of the people" be a clean democratic step forward or a messy economic stepbackward? Craig Salins, executive director of Washington Public Campaigns plans to join us to provideinformation on the status of the move for clean elections in Washington State, perhapsaccompanied by one or more state legislators. More info: http://www.washclean.org/ andAmericans for Campaign Reform DOWNLOAD FLYER HERE(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 23, 2007, 7­9:30 PM Film: “THE GLOBAL BANQUET: POLITICS OF FOOD” (57 min, AnneMacksoud, John Ankele, 2001) (Thanksgiving Special) "THE GLOBAL BANQUET" exposes globalization’s profoundly damaging effect on our foodsystem in terms that are understandable to the non­specialist. It debunks several underlyingmyths about global hunger: ­ That hunger results from scarcity; ­ That small countries don’t know how to feed themselves; and ­ That only market­driven, chemically­based, industrial agriculture can feed the world. This film reveals how agribusiness squeezes out small farmers and how trade liberalizationundercuts subsistence farming—in the U.S. as well as in the developing world. Itdemonstrates how food security is linked to social development and how women, inparticular, are affected by that. And it links factory farming and the alteration and patenting oflife forms to degradation of the natural environment. Through interviews with farmers, policy analysts, and international activists, "THE GLOBALBANQUET" examines the ethical questions at the heart of the globalization debate. Beyondthat, it shows how farmers, laborers, environmentalists, animal­rights activists, churchgroups, and students—worldwide—are mobilizing to address the situation (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 16, 2007, 7­9:30 PM

Film : "SALUD!" (93 min, Connie Field, 2006)And: A Panel and Open Community Discussion on National Healthcarewith The Washington Community Action Network (WASHCAN)

The Panel will include:Dr. David Mc Lanahan ­ Western Regional Coordinator for Physicians for a National HealthProgram; Dr. Michael Lippman ­ Family Physician with Seattle­king County Public Health and Boardmember of Western Washington Chapter of Physicians for a National health Program; Tom Warner ­ long time community activist with Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee, and Patricia Scott ­ with Washington Community Action Network.

Film: "SALUD!" (93 min, Connie Field, 2006)SALUD! traces the conflicting agendas in the quest for global health. Filmed in Cuba, SouthAfrica, The Gambia, Honduras and Venezuela, it documents the philosophy and experienceof a community­oriented, preventive and universal health care model. . SALUD! explores thecurious case of Cuba, a cash­strapped country with what the BBC calls 'one of the world'sbest health systems.' SALUD! challenges us to think about the larger questions: Dogovernments have a responsibility for the health of their citizens? How do we get enoughdoctors and health workers to where they are needed most?Facilitated discussion to follow.Sponsored by Washington Community Action Networkwww.washingtoncan.org and US Women and Cuba Collaborationwww.womenandcuba.org.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 9, 2007, 7­9:30 PM Film: “AMERICAN DRUG WAR: THE LAST WHITE HOPE” And: A Panel and Open Community Discussion on the SocialImpacts of the Drug War

With:Larry Gossett ­ King County CouncilmemberNora Callahan ­ Founder and Executive Director of The November Coalition Chuck Armsbury ­ Senior Editor of The Razor WireMatt McCally ­ Former Probation OfficerDouglas Hiatt ­ Criminal Defense AttorneySunil Aggarwal ­ Immediate Past President of Washington Physicians for SocialResponsibility

Film: “AMERICAN DRUG WAR: THE LAST WHITE HOPE” (Kevin Booth, 2007)35 years after Nixon started the war on drugs, we have over one million non­violent drugoffenders living behind bars.The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, thequestion has become, how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of fourfamily members from "legal drugs" Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why theDrug War has become such a big failure. Three and a half years in the making, the filmfollows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges,politicians, prisoners and celebrities. Most notably the film befriends Freeway Ricky Ross; the man many accuse for starting theCrack epidemic, who after being arrested discovered that his cocaine source had beenworking for the CIA. AMERICAN DRUG WAR shows how money, power and greed have corrupted not just drugpushers and dope fiends, but an entire government. More importantly, it shows what can bedone about it. This is not some 'pro­drug' stoner film, but a collection of expert testimonialsfrom the ground troops on the front lines of the drug war, the ones who are fighting it and theones who are living it.Larry Gossett, as member of the King County Council, is a strong advocate for reform of thecriminal justice system. He has called for an end to the $40 billion­per­year War on Drugsand feels that organizing at a grassroots level is crucial. At a recent Seattle communitymeeting, he stated that we must all recognize that class and race matter, and a progressive,multiracial people’s movement is required to put an end to the war on drugs.Sunil Aggarwal is the Immediate Past President of the Washington Physicians for SocialResponsibility and a 3rd year medical student at the University of Washington. Currently, heis working on his Doctorate in Medical Geography, and a major focus of his dissertation isthe political ecology of botanical cannabanoid medicine delivery.Nora Callahan is the founder and executive director of The November Coalition, a non­profitorganization working to end drug war injustice. A grassroots leader, she shared the 1998Thomas Paine Award and was awarded the Robert C. Randall Award for Achievement inthe Field of Citizen Action honoring those citizens making democracy work in the difficultarea of drug law and policy reform.

Chuck Armsbury is the Senior Editor of The Razor Wire and a long time social justiceactivist. He has taught sociology, worked with the civil rights movement, and has served timein federal and state prisons. Matt McCally, after six years experience as probation officer with the Washington StateDepartment of Corrections, several letters of commendation, and hopes for a career incriminal justice, quit his position, realizing he could no longer fool himself about the War onDrugs.Douglas Hiatt, criminal defense attorney, has spent many years handling complicatedmedical marijuana defense cases and working with downtrodden victims of drug waraggression. (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 2, 2007, 7­9:30 PM Film: "GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB" (82 min, Rory Kennedy, 2007)Part of a nation­wide project, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT).The documentary film, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB, looks beyond the headlines toinvestigate the psychological and political context in which torture occurred. The familiar anddisturbing pictures of torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison raise many troubling questions: Howdid torture become an accepted practice at Abu Ghraib? Did U.S. government policies makeit possible while protections granted to prisoners under the Geneva Conventions wereignored? How much damage has the aftermath of Abu Ghraib had on America's credibilityas a defender of freedom and human rights around the world? Ultimately, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB raises serious questions about what happened, whyit happened and whether it was an isolated incident, as the government continues tomaintain. Using footage from famous obedience experiments performed at Yale by eminentsocial psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, the film suggests that under orders mostpeople are capable of perpetrating inhumane and unjust acts against others.Cosponsored by Keystone Church. For more information on the nation­wide project, theNational Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), go to: www.tortureisamoralissue.org. Facilitated discussion to follow. (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 26, 2007, 7­9:30 PM Film: "HOMECOMING" (AKA “ZOMBIES ATTACK GEORGE BUSH” ) (60 min, Joe Dante, 2005)and COMMUNITY HALLOWEEN PARTY! Everyone Is Welcome ­ Costumes encouraged ­ Prizes. …So, dust off that old DickNixon mask; Come as an Ann Coulter zombie! Maybe come as a 'phantom' democrat.Jerry Falwell too scary? ...What more can we say?! Just when things looked like they couldn't get any worse for President Bush, here come thezombies to vote him out of office. One part satire of soulless Beltway insiders, one part gut­crunching horror flick, ZOMBIES kicks off when the flag­draped coffins of soldiers killed inIraq burst open and the reanimated corpses of dead veterans hit the streets, searching forpolling places where they can pull the lever for "anyone who will end this evil war." From abullying pundit cloned from Ann Coulter's DNA to a Jerry Falwell doppelganger, this flick, asZNet states: "praises the troops in Iraq while offering up the politicians and pundits who sentthem there as finger food for the undead."(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 19, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: "THE EXONERATED" (90 min, Bob Balaban, 2003) With Amnesty InternationalAnd an open discussion with Stefanie Anderson, the Washington State Death PenaltyAbolition Coordinator for Amnesty International.This is Amnesty International’s Weekend of Faith In Action Against the Death Penalty. 133countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. On average, in the pastdecade more than three countries a year have abolished the death penalty for all crimes.Despite internationally accepted human rights standards, the United States still executespeople. THE EXONERATED presents the compelling true­life stories of those wrongfullyconvicted and sentenced to death row. Sixteen years. Imagine everything you could do with sixteen years. Imagine everything you

did the last sixteen years. Now take it all away. Sunny Jacobs was convicted and sentencedto death for a crime she did not commit. Her story and those of five other wrongly convicteddeath row survivors are told in The Exonerated, an Academy Award nominated film starringBrian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo, Aidan Quinn, Susan Sarandon and DavidBrown, Jr. These powerful, true stories about innocence, injustice and redemption willengage your emotion and incite your passion in an unforgettable way.Facilitated discussion to follow. More info on AI’s efforts to abolish the death penalty:http://www.amnestyusa.org/Our_Issues/Death_Penalty/page.do?id=1011005&n1=3&n2=28(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 12, 2007, 7­9:30 PM Film: "SUBDIVIDED: ISOLATION AND COMMUNITY IN AMERICA"(45 min, Dean Terry, 2007) With Lisa Stuebing and Cecile Andrews, and the organization, “Take Back Your Time.” …where is everybody? Democracy requires community… Subdivided is a documentary film about life in contemporary suburbia: a personal study ofisolation and the struggle to find and maintain community in an era of careless development,the uninspired design of the modern subdivision, urban sprawl, and the invasion of theMcMansion. American life is more divisive than ever, and poorly designed neighborhoodsfurther encourage isolation and separation. With no sense of place or belonging, is this thenew American Dream? Interviews with James Howard Kunsler (Geography of Nowhere)and Robert Putnam (Bowling Alone).

Lisa Stuebingis Executive Director of the organization "Take Back Your Time." Communityrequires that people are home, at least sometimes. They need to have time to see eachother and connect. In her recent run for Seattle School Board, she door­belled 650 squareblocks. There were big differences between 2003 and 2007. In 2007, for example, peopleare now typically not getting home until 7 pm. This in turn, partially accounts for the lowvoter turnout, about 24%. It also points to something even more serious: the withering ofparticipatory Democracy.

Cecile Andrews is the founder of The Phinney Ecovillage; she is author of Circle ofSimplicity: Return To the Good Life, and her latest book, Slow Is Beautiful: New Visions ofCommunity, Leisure and Joie de Vivre. She is a community educator with her doctorate ineducation from Stanford University. One way to rekindle community and democracy isthrough the new localization movement, with people focusing on developing community andsustainability in their neighborhoods. ­ www.cecileandrews.com.

“TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY” will be celebrated internationally on Wednesday, Oct24th. www.timeday.org; (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 5, 2007, 7­9:30 PM Film: "CRUCIBLE OF EMPIRE, THE SPANISH­AMERICAN WAR”(120 min, Daniel A. Miller, 1999)The beginning of American Empire. Teddy Roosevelt charging up the San Juan Heights, theRough Riders and the sinking of the battleship, the U.S.S. Maine­­­these are what peoplecommonly know about the United States' war with Spain in 1898. What they may notremember is that this was the war that steered the United States to center stage as a worldpower. Victorious over Spain in Cuba and the Philippines, the United States, a nationfounded in opposition to imperialism, grappled with its new role as an imperial power. Morerecent events in Vietnam, Somalia, Yugoslavia and Iraq bear striking parallels to those of1898. Even in its own time, the war with Spain was understood as a turning point inAmerican history.Crucible of Empire demonstrates how and why the Spanish­American War constitutes suchan important milestone in U.S. history. This program examines the events and attitudes thatled to war, followed by an exploration of the conflict and its outcome. Early film footage andstills of battle scenes, plus rich visuals, a compelling story, and intriguing analogies tocurrent foreign policy make Crucible of Empire a riveting documentary.(Event is FREE and open to the public! …but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, September 28, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “WHY WE FIGHT” (99 min, Eugene Jarecki, 2006) "Why We Fight," the new film by Eugene Jarecki which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005

Sundance Film Festival, is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine,weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a "who's who" of military andbeltway insiders. Featuring John McCain, Gore Vidal, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson,Richard Perle and others, "Why We Fight" launches a bipartisan inquiry into the workings ofthe military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, September 21, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFILM: “V­DAY: UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS” FROM THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES PROJECT (73 minutes, Abby Epstein, 2004)Extraordinarily empowering and heartbreakingly funny, the Sundance favorite UNTIL THEVIOLENCE STOPS chronicles how Eve Ensler's hit off­Broadway solo show The VaginaMonologues grew into V­Day, an international grassroots movement to stop violenceagainst women and girls. The first of its kind, The Vagina Monologues has been widelyrecognized as "a celebration of women's sexuality and a condemnation of its violation" (TheNew York Times) and praised as "frank, humorous and moving" (Chicago Tribune).In 2002, over eight hundred cities around the world have participated in V­Day by stagingbenefit performances of The Vagina Monologues. From locales as diverse as New York, thePhilippines and Kenya, director Abby Epstein's UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS featuresemotionally charged interviews and readings by everyday and celebrity women (includingRosie Perez, Salma Hayek, Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda and Lisa Gay Hamilton), all ofwhom courageously reveal their intimate experiences and bond together to break thesilence that surrounds abuse. More than just a group testimonial, UNTIL THE VIOLENCESTOPS is a moving celebration of community awareness that leaves us with the hope thatchange can happenCO­SPONSORED WITH SEATTLE NOW CHAPTER (www.nowseattle.org) INCONJUNCTION WITH TAKE BACK THE NIGHT ORGANIZING. Facilitated discussion tofollow. (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, September 14, 2007, 7­9:30 PM“THE CORPORATIZATION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION"WITH SEATTLE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER, SALLY SORIANOA selection of short films on The Corporatization of Public Education.The United States was the first Western industrialized nation to establish public schools.Under the rubric of a variety of privatization proposals, numerous advocates for reform havestated as their goal nothing less than the complete dismantling of public education. Theconservative critics of public education are pushing for privatization as the medicine that willcure the many ills which beset America's public schools.As calls for the reform of public education across the US have grown louder, nearly everyconstituency associated with public education has come under attack. Teachers, especiallytheir unions, students and parents, especially those from low income areas, have been thetargets of blame for perceived school failures. Out of this debate two camps have emerged: 1) those who believe that the public educationsystem is still very viable but in need of greater accountability and innovation; and 2) thosewho regard the system as fundamentally flawed and in need of total dismantling so that itcan be replaced by privately managed schools that operate on the principles of themarketplace.In 2004, the powerful in Washington state government along with the backing frommillionaires was poised to bring charter schools to Washington State. Critics of charterschools argue that tax dollars are siphoned away from public institutions without anyaccountability. Voters in Washington State have so far turned down charter schools threetimes. We are now one of only ten states without charter schools. Join us in a selection of short films on The Corporatization of Public Education, and in afacilitated discussion with Seattle School Board Member, Sally Soriano. Sally is a nativeSeattleite who grew up attending Seattle public schools. Four years ago she worked withparents and nine other school boards to defeat charter schools in our state. (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, September 7, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “ROAD TO BROWN" (90 min, Mykola Kulish, 1990)THE ROAD TO BROWN tells the story of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling as theculmination of a brilliant legal assault on segregation that launched the Civil Rightsmovement. The film plunges us into the nightmare world of Jim Crow that robbed formerslaves of the rights granted by the 14th and 15th Amendments. Under the "separate butequal" doctrine of the Supreme Court's 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, black citizenswere denied the right to vote, to attend white schools, to get sick in white hospitals or to beburied in white cemeteries. Moving from slavery to civil rights, THE ROAD TO BROWNprovides a concise history of how African­Americans finally won full legal equality under theConstitution, and opens up a discussion of the true significance of the Brown v. Board ofEducation decision on the path towards racial equality.(Event is FREE and open to thepublic! ..but Donations are kindly accepted). (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted)

OFF FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST

Friday, July 27, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “WAR MADE EASY: HOW PRESIDENTS AND PUNDITSKEEP SPINNING US TO DEATH” (72 min, Loretta Alper & Jeremy Earp, 2007)WAR MADE EASY reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50­year pattern ofgovernment deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war afteranother from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumesremarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W.Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncriticallydisseminated the pro­war messages of one administration after another.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, July 20, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “HABLEMOS DEL PODER”:(“TALKING OF POWER”) (62 min, produced by the Global Women's Strike, 2005)Venezuela report­backs with members of the Seattle Peace Chorus Delegation and USWomen and Cuba Collaboration!

DON'T MISS THIS EVENT!!From the Hills of Caracas to the banks of the Orinoco, the grassroots Venezuelan people tellhow they are changing our world! Neoliberalism increases women's workload. Who suffersmost, who works most when health services are privatized? Women, mothers... The highestparticipation in the Missions: women...Social Security for housewives is a constitutionalmandate (Article 88)." ­President Hugo Chavez. "Bolivarian ideology: grassroots self­management...The majority in the land committees are women." ­Juanita Romero, UrbanLand Committee. "Power is about doing and achieving for the benefit of all, of the collective.No one can speak for us, we must all speak for ourselves." ­Angelica Alvarez, BanMujer,Women's Development Bank. Featuring a discussion and Venezuela report­backs with members of the Seattle PeaceChorus Delegation and US Women and Cuba Collaboration. Co­sponsored with the SeattlePeace Chorus and the US Women and Cuba Collaboration (www.womenandcuba.org) (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, July 13, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: BILL McKIBBEN: DEEP ECONOMY ­ A TALK ANDCONVERSATION WITH MICHAEL POLLAN (70 min, Maria Gilardin, 2007) and A DISCUSSION WITH CECILE ANDREWS: SUSTAINABILITYAND THE ’NEW LOCALISM’.

Cecile is the author of Slow Is Beautiful: New Visions ofCommunity, Leisure and Joie de Vivre and The Circle ofSimplicity: Return to the Good Life, and founder of The PhinneyEcovillage.(Also see below for information on a Special Saturday extendeddiscussion session on this topic)Bill McKibben's discussion focuses on the intersection between America's economy andAmerican's happiness. This is a truly hopeful program, with good suggestions and insights.Bill McKibben, author of “Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the DurableFuture,” sets out to challenge the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in humanhistory, “more” is no longer synonymous with “better” ­ indeed, for many of us, they havebecome almost opposites. We must begin to think in new ways about the things we buy, thefood we eat, the energy we use, and the money that pays for it all. Our purchases need notbe at odds with the things we truly value. In this talk, recorded at Berkley in March 2007, he is joined on stage by colleague, MichaelPollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma", and "Botany of Desire". McKibben envisions atransition to local­scale enterprise. The time has come to move beyond “growth” as theparamount economic ideal and begin pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, withcities, suburbs, and regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their ownenergy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment. Following the film, Cecile Andrews will lead a community discussion on sustainability andthe"New Localism.'"More info on Bill McKibben: www.billmckibben.comMore info on Cecile Andrews: www.cecileandrews.com Learn about The Phinney Ecovillage: www.phinneyecovillage.net (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted)

Saturday, July 14, 2007, 10AM to Noon Meaningful Saturday Morning ConversationAn Extended Conversation on Sustainability and the "NewLocalism" Location: Same as Film Screenings: Keystone Church, 5019 Keystone Place North inWallingford.Please come join us in a continuation of the community conversation on the Sustainabilityand the "New Localism" and the Bill McKibben film, facilititated by Cecile Andrews. This isan opportunity to explore the topics begun during the Friday evening discussion in moredepth. If you were not able to attend the Friday evening screening of "Deep Economy", pleasecome regardless. The conversation will extend well beyond this.

Friday, July 6, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “THE FARM: ANGOLA, USA” (91 min, Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau &Jonathan Stack, 1998)

If someone goes to prison for life, does that person really have any life left? Thisdocumentary was written by a prisoner serving life­without­parole for murder, and it probesthis question. Once a southern plantation, Angola is America’s largest and oldest maximumsecurity prison where 85% of the prison population are serving life sentences. THE FARMfollows the lives of six inmates in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, and looks at “thepossibility of forgiveness as part of the criminal justice system.” This film has been used allover the country to raise awareness about criminal justice issues. It is now mandatoryviewing for all incoming correctional employees at the Louisiana Department of Corrections.An Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary 1999. Winner of many "Best Picture"awards, including Sundance Grand Jury prize, National Society of Film Critics, New YorkFilm Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, JUNE 29, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “HORMONE IMPOSTERS” (47 min, Eileen Thalenberg, 1997) HORMONE IMPOSTERS looks at the frightening way chemicals in our everyday lives areinfiltrating our bodies, mimicking our hormones. By doing this they trigger unwantedactivities and block other crucial biological events from taking place. Sexual identity, reproduction and brain development are among the many functions thathormones are responsible for in humans and other animals. In humans, attention deficit,problems with reading and memory, and difficulty in coping with stress may all be linked tohormone­disrupting toxins in our environment.Following scientific clues, this investigative documentary concludes that plastics are one ofthe main culprits. There are endocrine disrupting chemicals in all plastics, in personal careproducts from cosmetics to contraceptives, in pesticides and in industrial waste. Will milkprocessed through plastic tubes, then microwaved in a plastic baby bottle, affect a child'sdevelopment?(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, JUNE 22, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “IN DEBT WE TRUST” (93 min, Danny Schechter, 2007)IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector." Thishard­hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt.It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls"Financialization"­­the "powerful emergence of a debt­and­credit industrial complex." Whilemany Americans may be "maxing out" on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power isshifting into fewer hands.....with frightening consequences.IN DEBT WE TRUST shows how the mall replaced the factory as America's dominanteconomic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress anddrive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Americans and ourgovernment owe trillions in consumer debt and the national debt, a large amount of it to bigbanks and billions to Communist China. “The American public needs to know why debt hasbecome ‘the enemy.’ All Americans need to know what we can do about it."(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, JUNE 15, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “ROSITA” (58 minutes, Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, US)A documentary by award­winning filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater (SilverDocs, Latin American Film Festival in London, Cinefestival in San Antonio), Rosita traces ayoung girls' journey from innocent victim to unwitting victor. When a nine­year oldNicaraguan girl becomes pregnant as a result of a rape, her parents ­­ illiterate compesinosworking in Costa Rica ­­ seek a legal abortion to save their only child's life. Their quest pitsthem against the governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, the medical establishment andthe Catholic Church. When their story gains international media attention, the repercussionsripple across Latin America and Europe. "This film is not just for the activists in the

reproductive rights movement, it is for all who work in social justice and who work to defendour human rights. Her story is both moving and inspiring and demonstrates the tragic realityof a young woman who was stripped of her dignity and denied her fundamental human rightto decide her future." ­ Sylvia Hernandez, ED, National Latina Institute for ReproductiveRights. Discussion follows, lead by Marcy Bloom, US liaison with GIRE (El Grupo de Informacion enReproduccion Elegida (The Information Group on Reproductive Choice, Mexico) and formerED of Aradia Women's Health Center. Sponsored by:the US Women & Cuba Collaboration (www.womenandcuba.org), GIRE (www.gire.mx.org) ,and the Seattle NOW Chapter (www.NOWSeattle.org) (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, JUNE 8, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: "QUIET RAGE ­ THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENTS"(50 min, Phillip Zimbardo, 1991) TO BE CONFIRMED Subject of the new book, "The Lucifer Effect" by Phillip Zimbardo, QUIET RAGE is apsychological account of how ordinary people sometimes turn evil and commit unspeakableacts. This is the only authorized full­length film on the Stanford Prison Experiment,conducted in 1971. In that study, normal college students were randomly assigned to playthe role of guard or inmate for two weeks in a simulated prison, yet the guards quicklybecame so brutal that the experiment had to be shut down after only six days. How and why did this transformation take place, and what does it tell us about recent eventssuch as the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses in Iraq? Equally important, what does it say aboutthe "nature of human nature," and what does it suggest about effective ways to prevent suchabuses in the future?Although it is often hard to discuss evil on a personal level, we must understand its causesin order to contain and transform it through wise decisions and innovative communalactions.Also see a preview of the film: “SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE” by Catherine Ryan, GaryWeimberg, showing at the Seattle International Film Festival (June 7 at 7PM at McCaw Hall& June 9 at 1:30PM at Harvard Exit). Filmmaker Gary Weimberg will be present to introduce this trailer. “Soldiers ofConscience” is a look at US soldiers who've chosen to serve their country but not to kill.which highlights Kevin Benderman, Camilo Mejia, Aiden Delgado and others soldiers ofconscience. More information: http://www.seattlefilm.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=24707&FID=32(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, JUNE 1, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “IN SEARCH OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE” (66 min, Judy Jackson, 2006)WITH AMNESTY INTERNATIOINAL This is the first film about a crucial new commitment to the International Rule of Law ­ sovictims will no long suffer without being heard, and war criminals will be punished. Sixtyyears ago, with the Nuremberg charter, the world first said "Never Again." But these provedempty words for the victims of the Cold War years. The Superpowers couldn't agree on auniversal code to punish war criminals. Tyrants ruled with impunity. So the voices of theirvictims have echoed down through the decades, refusing to be silent, even in death. Joinedby relatives who are unable to move on, until they know how their loved ones died. Differentlanguages from different places, but with the same universal theme ­ begging to bedelivered from the torment of living somewhere between life and death. Telling us that theywill be able, finally, to rest, when we find out how they died. Insisting we listen. It is because of these voices that International Justice has been reborn. In 2002 theInternational Criminal Court was established in The Hague. So far 100 countries havesigned on to the Court's mandate. However, the world's remaining superpower, the UnitedStates is strongly opposed. Filmed in: Kosovo, Northern Uganda, Iraq, Rwanda, And Darfur.To learn more about the International Criminal Court and Amnesty International USA’scampaign for international justice, please visit: www.amnestyusa.org/international_justice(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted)

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Friday, MAY 25, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “TEARS FOR THE CROCODILE” (32 min, Nova High School EastTimor Sister School Project, 2006) WITH STUDENTS FROM NOVA HIGH SCHOOL AND JOESZWAJA; with MARY ANNE MERCER FROM HEALTH ALLIANCEINTERNATIONAL, who just returned from East Timor andwill bepresent to answer questions about the current situation.The film TEARS FOR THE CROCODILE chronicles a school trip made in April 2005 by 10Nova high school students along with their teacher and his wife to their sister high schoollocated in East Timor, the world’s newest country. (Nova is a small, democratically run publichigh school located in Seattle’s Central District).The program will feature introductory remarks on East Timor’s history and the history of thesister school relationship by former Nova student Ashley Barnard, the chief architect of thesister school relationship, as well as Vincent Scott, a current Nova student who participatedin the trip to east Timor. Next, the 32 minute documentary­ it features photos and film footagefrom the trip, historical material chronicling East Timor’s 24 year struggle to break free fromIndonesian occupation and testimonies from Nova students concerning how the trip helpedchanged their lives. Following the film, Nova students and their teacher – Joe Szwaja – willprovide an update on the current situation in East Timor as well as Nova’s sister high schoolin Manatuto, East Timor and answer questions.The program will also feature free cups of fair trade, organic East Timorese coffee which isused to raise money for the sister school. The Timorese coffee will also be available in bagform for $10 a pound to benefit the Sister School project. Nova’s sister school program hassent about $30,000 in humanitarian relief to assist their sister school located near Manatuto,East Timor since the program’s founding in May 2002. During Indonesia’s illegal occupation of East Timor between 1975 and 1999 about a third ofthe population perished as a result of the repressive measures pf the invaders. The USgovernment approved the original invasion in December of 1975, provided 90% of theweapons used in the invasion and offered political support and training for the occupationunder every president from Gerald Ford to Bill Clinton. According to Ashley Barnard, formerNova student and the founder of the sister school program, “We don’t view what we aredoing as charity but rather as reparations. We hope to give back a little something to thecountry that was ripped apart with our tax dollars for two and a half decades.” Come join us in this presentation and in an open discussion with Students From NovaHigh School, Joe Szwaja and Mary Ann Mercer on the current situation in East Timor,and this incredible restorative Sister School effort.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, MAY 18, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “AYAMYE” (“GOODNESS, KINDNESS, GENEROSITY”) (Eric Matthies &Tricia Todd, 43 min) with DAVID PECKHAM and VILLAGE BICYCLE PROJECT ...ALSO, TWO SHORT FILMS CELEBRATING BIKE TO WORK DAY! In Ghana, West Africa a rural village eagerly awaits a shipment of bicycles from the UnitedStates. The shipment of donated bicycles and the workshop that distributes them is one ofmany orchestrated by the grassroots organization Village Bicycle Project, based in Moscow,Idaho. When mobility is improved so is the standard of living. Inspiring, resourcefulindividuals let us into their lives in this dramatic look at how lack of transportation can impactevery facet of life. Millions of rural Ghanaians suffer from a critical lack of reliable, affordable transport. Walkingmiles through the heat or spending 50% of their income on carfare has crippled manycommunities. The rural way of life is in crisis as many people leave their villages in hopes ofbetter options in the capital city of Accra. When sustainable transportation is introduced itbecomes a tool of economic development. Education, health care and jobs becomeaccessible and enable people to stay in their villages. AYAMYE begins in Boston with the loading of a container full of donated, used bikes andparts by the organization Bikes Not Bombs. The container is sent to Ghana, West Africa,where the majority of the bikes are sold in a colorful frenzy to pay for shipping costs, whilethe best bikes are set aside to take to a rural community with limited transportation options.AYAMYE celebrates the energy of the community and proves that sustainable solutions to

crisis are not always complex. This evening's program includes two more short films about Village Bicycle Project and adiscussion with VBP founder David Peckham. Dave is in Seattle this weekend for theloading of another shipment of bikes to Ghana, with local partners Bike Works. To donate a bike for Africa or to help with loading, contact vbp@pcei.org, (509)330­2681. More information on Village Bicycle Project: http://www.pcei.org/vbp/ .(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, MAY 11, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: "ARSENAL OF HYPOCRISY:THE SPACE PROGRAM AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIALCOMPLEX" (60 min, Bruce Gagnon & Randy Atkins, 2003) IN SUPPROT OF GROUND ZERO ACTION AT BANGORSUBMARINE BASE TO STOP TRIDENT MISSLE SYSTEM FORMOTHER'S DAY, SUN. MAY 13th and MON. MAY 14th. The glory days of NASA are over! Today the Military Industrial Complex is marching towardsworld dominance through Space technology on behalf of global corporate interest. Tounderstand how and why the space program will be used to fight all future wars on earthfrom space, it's important to understand how the public has been misled about the originsand true purpose of the Space Program. This 2004 film features GN Coordinator Bruce Gagnon, Noam Chomsky and Apollo 14astronaut Edgar Mitchell talking about the dangers of moving the arms race into space. Theone­hour production features archival footage, Pentagon documents, and clearly outlinesthe U.S. plan to "control and dominate" space and the Earth below. ARSENAL OFHYPOCRISY spells out the dangers of the Bush "Nuclear Systems Initiative" that will expandthe use of nuclear power in space by building Project Prometheus ­­ the nuclear rocket. Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon, warns that a war in space would create massivebits of space junk that would create a mine field surrounding the Earth making it virtuallyimpossible to launch anything into the heavens. Mitchell calls space a fragile environmentthat must be protected. Noam Chomsky talks about how the U.S. intends to use space technology to control theEarth and reminds the viewer that the U.S. refuses to negotiate a global ban on weapons inspace. He also speaks about the role of the media in suppressing this important issue. The video contains archival sound of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1961 warning theAmerican people about the power of the military industrial complex. Arsenal ofHypocrisy was produced by filmmaker Randy Atkins from Gainesville, Florida.Unite the Human Family in Peace! Abolish Nuclear Weapons! Stop the War Now!Celebrate Mother's Day 2007 with Ground Zero at the gates of Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor.Traditional vigil and nonviolence training on Sunday, May 13. Nonviolent direct action onMay 14. More information and Ground Zero's downloadable flyer: www.gzcenter.org Nonviolence is the answer! Together we can make a difference.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

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Friday, MAY 4, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: "CLASS DISMISSED: HOW TV FRAMES THE WORKINGCLASS" (Loretta Alper, Pepi Leistyna, and Jeremy Smith)...WITH FILMMAKER AND AUTHOR, PEPI LEISTYNANarrated by Ed Asner, and based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, LaughingMatters: "TV's Mockery of the Working Class," CLASS DISMISSED navigates the steadystream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings totoday's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows. Featuring interviewswith media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary film from THE MEDIAEDUCATION FOUNDATION (www.mediaed.org) examines the patterns inherent in TV'sdisturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants ­­stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy. Class Dismissed breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in which race, gender,and sexuality intersect with class, offering a more complex reading of television's often one­

dimensional representations. The video also links television portrayals to negative culturalattitudes and public policies that directly affect the lives of working class people. Featuringinterviews with Stanley Aronowitz, (City University of New York); Nickel and Dimed author,Barbara Ehrenreich; Herman Gray (University of California­Santa Cruz); Robin Kelley(Columbia University); Pepi Leistyna (University of Massachusetts­Boston) and MichaelZweig (State University of New York­Stony Brook). Also with Arlene Davila, Susan Douglas,Bambi Haggins, Lisa Henderson, and Andrea Press. After the film, pleas join us in a facilitated discussion with Pepi Leistyna andrepresentatives from Reclaim The Media. Co­Sponsored by Reclaim The Media, www.ReclaimTheMedia.org(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

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Friday, April 27, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: "SOURCE TO SEA: THE COLUMBIA RIVER SWIM" (88 min,Andy Norris) ...WITH FILMMAKER ANDY NORRISOn July 1, 2003 Christopher Swain became the first person to swim the entire 1,243­milelength of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. His swim brought stories about theriver's disrupted ecosystems and dislocated peoples to over twenty thousand NorthAmerican schoolchildren, and to a worldwide media audience of over one billion people. A group of thirty­plus Northwest filmmakers, led by Andy Norris, followed Swain's swim, andcreated a modern history of the Great River of the West. The result was a film that onereviewer called, "a heart­wrenching tale of a man and a river." The film includes stunning pre­inundation footage of Celilo and Kettle Falls, as well as a broad spectrum of interviewswith tribal members, agency representatives, fishers, authors, nonprofit leaders, and citizenswho trace the natural history and present­day challenges of the Columbia River in their ownwords. Join us following the film for a conversation with the filmmaker, Andy Norris. More info: www.swimforcleanwater.org(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, April 20, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: INTERVIEW WITH JOHN PERKINS, ECONOMIC HIT MAN:HOW THE U.S. USES GLOBALIZATION TO CHEAT POORCOUNTRIES OUT OF TRILLIONS (60 min, Democracy Now!, 2004) Amy Goodman spends an hour with John Perkins, Author of the book Confessions of anEconomic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out ofTrillions, and a former respected member of the international banking community. In hisbook, he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poorcountries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than theycould possibly repay and then taking over their economies. Perkins writes, "The book was to be dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men whohad been his clients whom I respected and thought of as kindred spirits ­ Jaime Roldós,president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fierycrashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposedthat fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire.We Economic Hit Men failed to bring Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hitmen, the CIA­sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.” (OriginalBroadcast on Democracy Now!, Dec. 31, 2004. (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, April 13, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “SCARED SACRED” (105 min, Velcrow Ripper, 2004)In a world teetering on the edge of self­destruction, award­winning filmmaker VelcrowRipper sets out on a unique pilgrimage. Visiting the 'Ground Zeros' of the planet, he asks ifit's possible to find hope in the darkest moments of human history. Ripper travels to theminefields of Cambodia; war­torn Afghanistan; the toxic wasteland of Bhopal; post­9/11 NewYork; Bosnia; Hiroshima; Israel and Palestine. This powerful documentary captures his five­year odyssey to discover if humanity can transform the 'scared' into the 'sacred'. Deep in the jungles of Cambodia, Ripper meets Aki Ra, a child soldier forced to laylandmines for the Khmer Rouge. Today Aki wanders his ravaged country with a simplewooden stick, decommissioning thousands of mines each year. In the shattered land ofAfghanistan, Ripper searches for a Sufi musician who was banned from performing or evenlistening to music, by the reign of fundamentalism. The musician discovered a way out: hefilled his house with songbirds. In each Ground Zero, he unearths unforgettable stories ofsurvival, of ritual, resilience and recovery."Remarkably moving, strikingly beautiful and surprisingly hopeful... Ripper's startling imagesof destruction and resilience often arrive so unexpectedly that you're kept on the edge ofyour seat. The film looks at disputes without rhetoric, providing testimonials that will breakyour heart. But nothing that happens here will break the human spirit. Anyone who sees thismovie will be the better for it." ­­ David Spaner, The Province (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, April 6, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: "OIL, SMOKE AND MIRRORS" (50 min, Ronan Doyle, 2006)"OIL, SMOKE & MIRRORS" offers a sobering critique of our perceived recent history, of ourpresent global circumstances, and of our shared future in light of imminent, under­reportedand misrepresented energy production constraints.Through a series of impressively candid, informed and articulate interviews, this film arguesthat the bizarre events surrounding the 9/11 attacks, and the equally bizarre prosecution ofthe so­called "war on terror", can be more credibly understood in the wider context of animminent and critical divergence between available global oil supply and global oildemand. "OIL, SMOKE & MIRRORS" paints is one of a tragically hyper­mediated global­political culture, which, for whatever reason, demonstrably disassociates itself from thevalues it claims to represent.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, MARCH 30, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: "HISTORY OF OIL" (46 min, Robert Newman, 2007)Everything you need to know about war, peace, propaganda, the origins of WWI, WWII, PeakOil, The War on Iraq, The War on Iran and the Western Crusade for Middle EasternDemocracy, all delivered at locomotive speed by British stand­up comic/sage RobertNewman. Filmed live on the bicycle­powered stage in London, Mr. Newman delivers arapid­fire political­historical enema that lets you laugh as you learn the truth abouteverything. Mr. Newman is highly praised producer of the CDs “Apoclypso Now”, “FromCaliban to the Taliban” and “Resistance is Fertile”. His critically acclaimed best­selling thirdnovel, “The Fountain at the Center of the Universe”, is about loss and hope, identity andbelief, assassination and passport­theft, set around the world from refugee detention centersto a Welsh trawler to tropical disease hospitals to the Seattle WTO protests, tear gas andrubber bullets. The NY Times has described Robert Newman as Tom Wolfe inside the headof Noam Chomsky. “Newman's is a kind of Revolutionary Renaissance stand­up and it isabsolutely wonderful. His comedy probably has more constituent parts than any othercomic's, and the whole is still greater than the sum of those parts. Firstly he is very, veryfunny. He can be witty, satirical and surreal in turn, and every so often will pull out a brilliantimpression, just to remind us that he has more strings to his comedic bow than are attachedto a World Bank loan.” ­ FIVE STARS The Scotsman Monday August 15 2005 (commentingon “Apocolypso Now”).(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, MARCH 23, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: "REFLECTIONS ON WATER" (Hadas Levy, 2006) “Reflections on Water”is a visual collage of local and international films covering a wide range of topics andgenres. The program includes work that deals with political, social, and environmentalissues surrounding water and interweaves people's personal stories and aesthetic explorations of water. Under the banner of “Reflections on Water”, art and activism flowtogether to weave creative expressions and ideas about water that contribute to anappreciation of this essential and sacred element. "The growing number of citizens andgroups who belong to the water justice movement and the global justice movement at largewho are fighting for a water secure future, believe in the beauty of this dream: that the globalwater crisis will become the source of global peace; that humanity will bow before Natureand learn to cooperate with the limits that Nature gives us and with each other." ­ MaudeBarlow and Tony Clarke.Featured is the film, “Oil and Water” by Corwin Fergus, which explores the relationshipbetween humans and the natural world. Shot in Prince William Sound, Alaska, over thecourse of 20 years, it is an introspective chronicle of loss within the destruction of pristinewilderness. Fergus uses the tragedy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill to examine how wildernessis critical habitat for the human psyche and how thousands of years of cultural history haveled us away from this once most obvious of truths. Produced by Hadas Levy of ParaDocs Productions in Vancouver, BC.

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Friday, MARCH 16, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “WAITING TO INHALE” (74 min, Katherine Covall and Jed Riffe, 2005) With Sunil Aggarwal, Damon Agnos and the Washington Campaign for Safe Access.WAITING TO INHALE examines the heated debate over marijuana and its use as medicinein the United States. Eleven states have passed legislation to protect patients who usemedical marijuana. Yet opponents claim the medical argument is just a smokescreen for adifferent agenda ­ to legalize marijuana for recreation and profit. What claims are beingmade, and what are the stakes? Waiting to Inhale takes viewers inside the lives of patientswho have been forever changed by illness, and parents who lost their children to addiction.Is marijuana really a gateway drug? What evidence is there to support the claim thatmarijuana can alleviate some of the devastating symptoms of AIDS, cancer and multiplesclerosis? Waiting to Inhale sheds new light on this controversy and presents shocking newevidence that marijuana could hold a big stake in the future of medicine. Sunil Aggarwal isthe Immediate Past President of the Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility and a3rd year medical student at the University of Washington. Currently, he is working on hisDoctorate in Medical Geography, and a major focus of his dissertation is the politicalecology of botanical cannabis medicine delivery. Damon Agnos is the coordinator for theWashington Campaign for Safe Access, a statewide grassroots organization of patients,medical professionals, scientists, and concerned individuals. The WCSA works to promotesafe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. More info:www.safeaccesswashington.org (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

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Friday, MARCH 9, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “INVISIBLE CHILDREN” (55 min, Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and LarenPoole, 2002) Can a story change the world? In the spring of 2003, three young Americans traveled toAfrica in search of such a story. What started out as a filmmaking adventure in Africatransformed into much more, when these three boys from Southern California found

themselves stranded in Northern Uganda. What they found was a tragedy that disgustedand inspired them – a story where children are the weapons and the victims. Theydiscovered children being abducted from their homes and forced to fight as child soldiers.“Invisible Children” exposes the effects of a 20­year­long war on the children of NorthernUganda. Out of the filmmakers’ efforts, a movement has been born that provides resourcesskills, and funds for health care, safety, education and employment for the people ofNorthern Uganda. The goal of the movement is to empower individual viewers to become apart of the story and “be the change they wish to see in the world” through action.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

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Friday, MARCH 2, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “REGRET TO INFORM” (72 minutes, 1998) In Support of International Women’sDay, March 8th A rare women's perspective on war, in which two women widowed by the Vietnam War ­­Vietnamese translator Xuan Ngoc Nguyen and US filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn ­­ travelthrough Vietnam looking at the heritage of the war and its impact on them and on otherwomen. Nominated for a US Academy Award as Best Documentary. Co­sponsored by the USWomen & Cuba Collaboration (www.womenandcuba.org) and The National Asian PacificAmerican Women's Forum ­ Seattle Chapter. Representatives from The National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum will leadthe discussion. (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, FEBRUARY 23, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION” (104 minutes, Tom Peosay, 2002) With the Venerable Tulku Yeshi of Sakya Monastery, and Tibetan­born Rigdzin Tingkhyeto explain and discuss the current situation in Tibet. Also on hand to answer questionswill be representatives of Tibet Education Network at Global Source, Tibetan NunsProject, and Seattle Tibetan Youth Congress. A definitive exploration of a well known yet little understood subject, TIBET: CRY OF THESNOW LION tells the epic story of modern Tibet: a story of struggle and suffering, courageand compassion. The story of the Dalai Lama’s efforts to maintain a non­violent struggle forjustice takes on renewed relevance in a world focused on war and terrorism. In the words ofTibetan intellectual Lhasang Tsering, “All leaders in the world are talking about peace, butnobody is doing anything about it. Everybody is condemning violence, but nobody is doinganything to support non­violence.” Nevertheless, despite more than fifty years ofoppression, Lhasang stresses that Tibetans “have not lost the hope and the courage to befree.” CRY OF THE SNOW LION powerfully examines the history of devastation in Tibet, theinternational significance of the Tibetan issue today, and the spiritual beliefs that continue toinspire hope for the future. (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, FEBRUARY 16, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “GANDHI”from the series, "A Force More Powerful" (30 min, Steve York, 2000) AND WITH BERNIE MEYER, APPEARING AS GANDHI.Gandhi, the most influential figure in the history of nonviolent resistance, steered a shrewdlystrategic, ever­escalating course of “non­cooperation” that included mass demonstrations,strikes, and the boycott of British goods. Presentation: BERNIE MEYER appearing as Gandhi: Bernie Meyer brings you Gandhithrough his portrayals cast in the historic dhoti of the Mahatma. Throughout his forty­year

plus activist career he has emulated and honored the teachers of peace and justice byapplying the learning to life in the United States and the world. In March 2005 he returnedfrom India where he portrayed Gandhi at the invitation of Indian activists working to bringabout a renewal of Bapu’s work. The Indian response to his portrayals was to name him the“American Gandhi”, a “breathtaking response”, a formidable challenge to Bernie. Thepurpose: Bernie sees this work as a contribution to peace, to saving the earth and to savinghumanity. Bernie will also speak about his upcoming trial for protesting nuclear weapons inPort Townsend. AND A CELEBRATION OF THE BEGINNING OF OUR 5TH YEAR OF “FRIDAY NIGHT ATTHE MEANINGFUL MOVIES” !(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, FEBRUARY 9, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “GRANITO DE ARENA” (“GRAIN OF SAND”) (60 min, JillFriedberg, 2005) WITH THE FILMMAKER, JILL FRIEDBERG A film about the privatization of the public school system in Mexico and the struggle fordemocratic community education in the face of economic globalization. Filmmaker JillFriedberg spent almost two years in southern Mexico documenting the strikes, marches, anddirect actions of over 100,000 teachers, parents, and students fighting the privatization ofMexico's public schools. She has just returned from Oaxaca and will report on the situationthere. Featuring interviews with Eduardo Galeano and Maude Barlow, and a drivingsoundtrack by DJ Food, PlanB, Los Mosocos, and Correo Aereo, “Granito de Arena” fuelsindignation, inspires action, and raises important questions about democracy, sovereignty,and the universal right to public education. More info about the film at www.corrugate.org (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, FEBRUARY 2, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “W. E. B. DUBOIS ­A BIOGRAPHY INFOUR VOICES ” (116 minutes, 1995, US) With Gary OwensIn Honor of Black History Month. The remarkable life of Dr W.E.B. DuBois (1868­1963) offersunique insights into an eventful century of American history. Born three years after the end ofthe Civil War, DuBois witnessed and wrote about the terror of Jim Crow, the birth of the CivilRights Movement and the success of independence struggles in Africa. MacArthur GeniusAward winner Louis Massiah brings his story to life. DuBois was the consummate scholar­activist whose path­breaking works like The Souls of Black Folk remain among the mostsignificant ever produced on the subject of race. This first film biography of such far­reachingcontributions and legacy required the collaboration of four prominent African Americanwriters to provide thematic narration: Weleley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambaraand Amiri Baraka. Not to be missed!Garry Owens, longtime Seattle community activist, former Black Panther and memberof the Board of LELO will be introducing the film and leading a discussion.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, JANUARY 26, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “AMERICAN BLACKOUT” (92 min, Ian Inaba, 2006) Chronicles the recurring patterns of disenfranchisement witnessed from 2000 to 2004 whilefollowing the story of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who not only took anactive role in investigating these election debacles but also found herself in the middle ofone after publicly questioning the Bush Administration about the 9­11 terrorist attacks. Somecall Cynthia McKinney a civil rights leader among the ranks of Shirley Chisholm andMalcolm X. Others call her a conspiracy theorist and a 'looney.' American Blackout gainsunprecedented access to one of the most controversial and dangerous politicians inAmerica and examines the contemporary tactics used to control our democratic process andsilence political dissent. The film features interviews with: US CongressionalRepresentatives, John Lewis, Cynthia McKinney, John Conyers, Bernie Sanders, andStephanie Tubbs­Jones; former US Civil Rights Commissioner & Dean of UC Berkeley'sSchool of Law, Christopher Edley; BBC journalist Greg Palast; and, Van Jones, Executive

Director of the Ella Baker Center.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, JANUARY 19, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “BUSTING OUT” Film: “BUSTING OUT” (57 MIN, Francine Strickwerda and Laurel Spellman Smith, 2005)An exploration of the history and politics of breast obsession in America, and its connectionwith breast cancer, breastfeeding and body image. BUSTING OUT is a disarmingly honestand intimate exploration of our society's fascination with women's breasts. DirectorsStrickwerda and Spellman Smith unflinchingly examine the good, the bad and the ugly sidesof this American icon, delving into the history and politics of breast obsession in the US.From breast­crazy men shouting "Flash those racks!" to the fears of breast cancer and thedisparate attitudes of cultures worldwide, the directors leave no stone unturned in their questto demystify the American breast.Told from the point of view of Strickwerda who lost her mother to breast cancer as a child,BUSTING OUT will challenge both women and men to question our obsession with breasts,and to gain a healthier perspective.(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, JANUARY 12, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “THE LAST ATOMIC BOMB” WITH THE GROUND ZERO CENTER FORNONVIOLENT ACTIONFilm: “THE LAST ATOMIC BOMB” (92 minutes, Robert Richter, 2006)WITH THE GROUND ZERO CENTER FOR NONVIOLENT ACTION and a discussion of thestate of nuclear weapons in the Puget Sound area. As Iraq devolves into chaos, and North Korea strives to join the nuclear nations, theexhortations of THE LAST ATOMIC BOMB ring with an uncomfortable currency. Directed bythe veteran documentarian Robert Richter, the movie is an unvarnished emotional plea fornuclear disarmament. Nuclear proliferation of today is seen through the life of a Nagasaki survivor and collegestudents dedicated to making sure the truth about the last atomic bomb deliberately used onhuman beings will never be forgotten. As it documents the survivor's devastating yetinspirational life, THE LAST ATOMIC BOMB interweaves the still controversial U.S. decisionto use the bomb, censorship in the U.S. and Japan of the bomb or its effects, discriminationagainst survivors by other Japanese, buildup of nuclear weapons during the Cold War, theanti­nuclear movement, and today’s nuclear proliferation issues.Truman told the world that the atomic bombs were used to end the war and save Americanlives. But there is another very disturbing side to this widely accepted view of history."Shedding light on the dark corners of history... fascinating...alarming ...the simple, earnesttruth." —The Villager (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted). This insupport of Ground Zero’s Annual Martin Luther King Vigil andNonviolent Actions Against Nuclear Weapons and Trident at BangorSubmarine Base on JANUARY 15th. JOIN US! ­ More info on Ground Zero: www.gzcenter.org Download Ground Zero Vigil Flyer : Front ­ Back

Friday, JANUARY 5, 2007, 7­9:30 PMFilm: “IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY”

Film: “IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY” by John Nichols (58 MIN, TUC Radio, 2006)Start the year out right! The acclaimed author, Washington correspondent for the Nation, andmedia critic John Nichols wrote a new book entitled: The Genius of Impeachment. Theauthor Studs Terkel said about Nichols` book: "Never within my memory has the case forimpeachment of Bush and his equally crooked confederates been so clearly and ferventlyoffered as John Nichols has done in this book. They are after all our public servants whohave rifled our savings, bled our young, and challenged our sanity. And Nichols has givenus the history, the language and the arguments we will need to do so."John Nichols went to San Francisco just before the November 2006 election to urge thegroup of friends and activist that had gathered to meet him that the real political work was tobegin on the day after the election. And that work will be – he suggested ­ to bring about theimpeachment of Bush and Cheney. (Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).