[VegChat] Free Friday night documentary film series starts January 6th!

Fri Jan 13 09:28:23 UTC 2006

Hello,

I saw the movie, Black and Gold, at the University of Ottawa last Friday.
It's amazing to see real, everyday people involved in heroic work; the film
moved me to tears. Here's a list of the winter 2006 Ottawa film event
schedule to date. The films "A Call to Action" and "El Contrato" are on this
Friday, January 13. These movies are offered free every Friday at 7:30 pm,
and all are welcome. There's a discussion time following the films in which
to share ideas and get feedback.

To get notices about movies and Activism Night sent directly from
Alternative Voices, please send an e-mail to emaillist at alternativevoices.ca.

Edelweiss

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University of Ottawa campus Cinema Politica series

Winter 2006 season:

Fridays, January 6th to April 7th,

7:30 pm,

MacDonald Hall auditorium (MCD 146), 150 Louis Pasteur Street,

University of Ottawa campus.

http://cinemapolitica.org/ in partnership with www.alternativevoices.ca

January 13th

Two films and Ottawa anti-poverty activists to lead discussions

(1) A Call To Action. (2004, NFB, 12m, in French w EST)

http://www.nfb.ca/trouverunfilm/fichefilm.php?lg=en&id=51945

Anti-poverty activist and OCAP employee Gaetan Héroux tell a moving story!

http://www.ocap.ca/

Members of the Under Pressure Collective (http://upcollective.org/) will

be on-site to lead discussions.

(2) El Contrato. (2003, NFB, 51m, in English and Spanish w EST)

http://www.nfb.ca/trouverunfilm/fichefilm.php?lg=en&id=51087

This outstanding and emotional documentary film could be called:

"Slavery and loss of human dignity in Ontario?" Third World workers

leave their families and meet their First World masters
 Gripping!

More than 17,000 such migrant workers come to Canada every year

January 20th

War Hospital. (2005, NFB, 1h29m)

http://www.onf.ca/trouverunfilm/fichefilm.php?id=51984

Partial story of possibly the most horrendous civil war and human rights

abuses in UN history, an ongoing genocide in Darfour, Sudan...

Student organizers with STAND (Students Take Action Now – Darfour) will

host the film and lead the post-film discussions.

January 27th

What I Learned About US Foreign Policy. The War Against the Third

World. (2h3m)

http://www.addictedtowar.com/dorrel.html

Great historical footage and coverage: Martin Luther King, Jr., John

Stockwell, Bill Moyers, Iran-Contra, School of Assassins, Genocide by

Sanctions, Panama Deception, Ramsey Clark, Brian Wilson

February 3rd

TBA

February 10th

FILM CANCELLED: GSAED Interdisciplinary Conference

http://www.uottawa.ca/gsaed/conference2006/

Lewis Lapham keynote talk at 7 pm, Tabaret Hall (TBT 112)

February 17th

TBA

February 24th

TBA

March 3rd

TBA

March 10th

TBA

March 17th

TBA

March 24th

In Search of History: The Plot To Overthrow FDR. (History Channel, 50m)

http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=42344

The true story of a narrowly foiled fascist plot and coup attempt on US

soil:

http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/53-index.html

Anti-war activist extraordinaire Richard Sanders will host the film and

lead the post-film discussion.

March 31st

TBA

April 7th

TBA

(Last film of the winter 2006 series, Ottawa Cinema Politica)

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If you want to be removed from my list, let me know-Edelweiss

  -----Original Message-----
  From: dr.dreammaker [mailto:dr.dreammaker at gmail.com]
  Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:36 PM
  To: edandrea at magma.ca
  Subject: Re: [VegChat] Free Friday night documentary film series starts
January 6th!

  just wondering if you know the schedule for upcoming films... or contact
information for the coordinator of the series? i went last week and it was
excellent but i was hoping to find out which films are playing when...

  thanks!

  kelly.

  On 1/2/06, Edelweiss D'Andrea <edandrea at magma.ca> wrote:
    The Alternative Voice Series (AVS) free political documentary film
series
    and post-film discussions
    will continue into the winter 2006 academic term at the University of
    Ottawa.

    There will be a film every Friday night at 7:30 pm from January 6, 2006,
to
    April 7, 2006,

    in the:
    MacDonald Hall auditorium, MCD 146, main auditorium on ground floor,
    150 Louis Pasteur Street,
    University of Ottawa campus

    Please join us, all welcome!  Please also help us promote our film
    series and invite your interested friends.

    Upcoming films include:
    Still We Ride
    Manufacturing Consent
    Breaking the Bank - Washington 2000
    Zapatista
    Black and Gold

    and others...
    Many of these titles have never been shown in commercial theaters and
    some are not available elsewhere.

    Let's start the winter series with:

    Black and Gold. The Latin King and Queen Nation.
    http://www.cultureshop.org/details.php?code=BANDG
    A remarkable documentary about the efforts of a notorious NY street gang
      to become a peaceful resistance political movement.  Mainstream
    society's reaction is educational!  Learn about the psychology of gangs
    and the mechanisms of new political movements...  Remarkable!

    Friday, January 6th,
    MacDonald Hall auditorium (not Marion auditorium like last term!)
    7:30 pm (don't be late)

    Hope to see you there.

    News:  AVS film series has started the process of joining
cinemapolitica:
    http://cinemapolitica.org/

  --
  you won't know what hit you.
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