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November 22 (Saturday) - Protest / Demonstration
Race to the Bottom - 5k Fun Run & March to Stop the FTAA
Timed to co-incide with the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) ministerial meeting, our "race to the bottom" will be a symbolic trip through Seattle to highlight the many different issues that are connected locally to unbalanced trade policy. Event includes 5k fun run/walk and also a march. more...
November 18 (Tuesday) - Lecture / Talk
'Getting Globalism Right': John Newhouse, author of 'Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order'
John Newhouse, senior fellow at the Center for Defense Information. Newhouse will talk about his new book, Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order, exploring lost opportunities and ways to move forward. William Ruckelshaus, former administrator of the EPA, will introduce and moderate the evening.
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November 16 (Sunday) - Film / Video
IMC Film Series: 'The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It' (WWII Conscientious Objectors)
Seattle Independent Media Center presents THE GOOD WAR AND THOSE WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT IT, as part of our documentary film series happening every Sunday evening in November. THE GOOD WAR tells the true stories of WWII Conscientious Objectors with shocking footage and in-depth interviews. Following the film guest speaker Pete Knutson, a conscientious objector, will share his response and experience. more...
November 16 (Sunday) - Protest / Demonstration
Shut Down the School of Assassins
School of the Assassins NW is organizing its first annual regional nonviolent vigil and action on the anniversary of the massacre of six Jesuit priests, their co-worker and her 14 yr-old daughter by graduates of the SOA in El Salvador in 1989. This will be a peaceful, family event with speakers, musicians and informational tabling. more...
November 15 (Saturday) - Protest / Demonstration
Ft Lewis Protest-No More Troops for an Unjust War!
Sign-holding outside of Ft. Lewis Army Base on the Saturday that 3,000 National Guard troops will report for duty before being shipped to Iraq. Military family members of soldiers in Iraq will make statements. more...
November 14 (Friday) - Film / Video
"Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies": "HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT”
FILM: "HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT” - presented by Wallingford Neighbors For Peace and Justice "Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies" - U.S. Foreign Policy Film Series.
Please join us as we continue to explore U.S. foreign policy through film. This week, we will show “Hidden In Plain Sight”, a bold, unflinching look at the nature and consequences of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. It provides brief but to-the-point history of the “School of the Americas”. This film is a spirited debate, a personal story, and a call for accountability.
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November 9 (Sunday) - Film / Video
Film: 'The Killing Fields' - Amnesty Intl. Film Festival
A special archive presentation of Roland Joffé's Academy Award Winning film on the civil war in Cambodia. THE KILLING FIELDS is a stunning historical drama based on actual events, and though nearly 20 years old, remains just as relevant-if not more so-today.
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November 9 (Sunday) - Film / Video
Film: 'Suspino: A Cry for Roma' - Amnesty Intl. Film Festival
SUSPINO: A CRY FOR ROMA takes an unflinching look at the persecution that continues to plague Europe's largest and most vilified minority. The film focuses on Romania where Europe's largest concentration of Roma (or "Gypsies" as they are pejoratively called) are considered 'public enemies', and Italy, where the Roma are classified as nomads and relegated to living in camps. Hosted by filmmaker Gillian Darling Kovanic. Q&A to follow the screening. more...
November 9 (Sunday) - Film / Video
IMC Film Series: 'Fear and Favor in the Newsroom' (The Press, Censorship, and Corporations)
Seattle Independent Media Center presents FEAR AND FAVOR IN THE NEWSROOM, the second film in our documentary film series happening every Sunday evening in November. Join us for a behind the scenes look at the mainstream press and how a small corporate elite constricts the free flow of ideas and information upon which our democracy depends. Co-Producer Randy Baker will be speaking after the film screening about the complicated process of bringing FEAR AND FAVOR to the public eye. $1-$10 suggested donation.
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November 8 (Saturday) - Film / Video
Films: 'Afghan Massacre' and 'Search for Freedom' - Amnesty Intl. Film Festival
AFGHAN MASSACRE tells of the horrific forced journey undertaken by thousands of prisoners who surrendered to Afghan allies of the U.S. military after the siege of Kunduz. Up to 3,000 are said to now lie buried in a mass grave. SEARCH FOR FREEDOM is a documentary film that explores the personal lives of four Afghan women who are based in Pakistan. Through a feminist lens, it portrays how the lives of these women were affected by the political and social turmoil in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the present day. more...
November 8 (Saturday) - Film / Video
Films: 'Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia' and 'Strong Roots: The Landless Workers Movement in Brazil' - Amnesty Intl. Film Festival
RESISTENCIA is a radical and thought-provoking exploration of how young Colombians feel about the crisis afflicting their country. STRONG ROOTS documents the growth of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement, the courageous tactics it employs, and the brave peasants at its heart who risk their lives struggling for land and dignity. more...
November 8 (Saturday) - Film / Video
Films: 'Too Flawed to Fix: The Illinois Death Penalty Experience' and 'Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War' - Amnesty Intl. Film Festival
"Too Flawed to Fix" explores and exposes the irreparable flaws in the criminal justice system that wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death13 people in Illinois. "Tulia, Texas" takes a look at the collateral consequences of the Drug War in America. A federally funded undercover anti-drug sting is undertaken in the small agricultural town of Tulia, Texas. The resulting fallout is the imprisonment of more than 10 percent of Tulia's African-American community.
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November 7 (Friday) - Film / Video
Films: "And Along Came A Spider" and "The Tree That Remembers" - Amnesty Intl. Film Festival
"And Along Came A Spider" (Iran) is a shocking portrait of the world of a recently captured serial killer, who sees his killing of prostitutes as in accordance with Islamic teaching. The second film, "The Tree That Remebers," is an extraordinary film that explores the lives of Iranian refugees who cannot escape painful memories. more...
November 7 (Friday) - Film / Video
Film: 'Jeremy Hardy vs. the Israeli Army' - Amnesty Intl. Film Festival
British comedian Jeremy Hardy decides to travel to Palestinian Territories in March 2002 to become a part of an international solidarity group struggling for the rights of Palestinians. However, he winds up getting more than he bargained for when he is caught in the crossfire during the invasion of Bethlehem by the Israeli army. more...
November 7 (Friday) - Film / Video
'School of the Assassins' and 'S.O.A.: Guns & Greed' - Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies
This week, we will welcome three speakers to the showing to discuss with us the short films "School of Assassins" (1995) and "S.O.A.: Guns & Greed" (2000). FR. BILL BICHSEL, SJ: A nationally known Jesuit who helped found the School of the Americas Watch with Fr. Roy Bourgeois. Educator, pastor and social activist, he splits his time between pulpit and prison for civil disobedience. KEN LITTLE: A full time volunteer activist, unionist and member of the national board of SOA Watch. He's lead organizer of the NOV16 RALLY in Tacoma. SR. MAUREEN NEWMAN, SP: A prisoner of conscience recently released from federal prison for "crossing the line" at last year’s School Of Americas Watch protest at Fort Benning. This is in preparation for the November 16th SOAW-NORTHWEST Protest Rally in Tacoma more...
November 6 (Thursday) - Film / Video
Films: "Death on a Friendly Border" & "Brothers and Others" - Amnesty Intl. Film Festival
Two films: "Death on a Friendly Border" - since the mid-1990s, when the United States began militarizing its southern border, an average of one person a day has died crossing into our country. This short film puts a human face on this international tragedy. "Brother and Others", is a documentary on the impact of the September 11th tragedy on Muslims and Arabs living in America. more...
November 6 (Thursday) - Film / Video
Films: 'The New Rulers of the World' and 'In Whose Interest' - Amnesty Intl. Film Festival
In 'New Rulers of the World', acclaimed British journalist John Pilger turns the spotlight on Indonesia, and goes behind the hype of the new global economy and looks at the new rulers of the world-the great multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them. The second film, "In Whose Interests", takes an eye-opening journey, questioning the effects of U.S. foreign policy over the past 50 years. Revealing a pattern of intervention, the film focuses on Guatemala, Vietnam, East Timor, El Salvador, and Palestine/Israel. more...
November 5 (Wednesday) - Film / Video
12th Annual Amnesty International Seattle Human Rights Film Festival
The Amnesty International Film Festival is proud to present its 12th annual program in Seattle. This year's festival features 17 films by talented filmmakers from around the world who work against long odds, short finances, and threatening politics to bring to the screen these powerful stories of human struggle, sacrifice, and triumph. more...
November 5 (Wednesday) - Film / Video
Film: "Discovering Dominga" (Guatemala's civil war) - Amnesty Intl. Film Festival
A young Iowa mother discovers she is a survivor of one of the most horrific episodes in Guatemala's 36-year-long civil war. Denese Becher (born Dominga Sic Ruiz) was a nine-year-old Maya Indian girl living in a remote highland village in 1982 when soldiers and paramilitary patrollers killed her parents and more than 200 other villagers in what became know as the Massacres at Rio Negro. more...
November 2 (Sunday) - Film / Video
“SLAVERY: A GLOBAL INVESTIGATION”
Film, Speakers and Discussion:
Film: SLAVERY: A GLOBAL INVESTIGATION (80-min, color, 2001): Kate Blewitt's and Brian Woods' eye opening documentary, based on the book Disposable People, exposes cases of slavery in the rug-making sector of Northwest India, the cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast, and even the homes of World Bank officials in Washington, D.C. Filmed in India, Brazil, West Africa, London, and the US, the documentary shows how slavery fits into the global economy. The filmmakers actually buy slaves in Africa and help to free child slaves in India. Peabody Award Winner in 2001.
Speakers: Jessica Reitz from Free The Slaves and Allan Paulson of Seattle Sustainable Coffee Coalition. FREE! more...
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