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DESCRIPTION:Come join us this Wednesday to celebrate the new issue of Fault 
 Lines!\n\nTake a stack of Fault Lines to distribute in your neighborhood, 
 at events, and to your friends! Meet the members of the Fault Lines 
 collective and find out how to get more involved. \n\nAfterwards, stay to 
 watch "Sir, No Sir," a film documenting the resistance formed out of the  
 military's own rank-and-file during the Vietnam War (review 
 below).\n\nWHAT: Issue 19 Distribution Dinner Party + screening of "Sir, No 
 Sir"\n\nWHEN: Wednesday,Oct 25 8:30pm, movie at 9pm\n\nWHERE: Station40, 
 3030b 16th st. (at Mission) in SF\n\n\n(if you want to bring a meal or help 
 out with cooking, contact: sakura at ssrecords@gmail.com – any help is 
 greatly appreciated!)\n\nreview from Issue 16, by Liam\n\nSir No 
 Sir\n\nDirected by David Zeiger\nDisplaced Films\n\nWhen most documentaries 
 explore the anti-war movement the 60's, they use images of stoned hippies 
 and indignant students.  The flower power scene and the campus radicals 
 dominate America's collective memory, because the most dramatic aspect of 
 this resistance has largely been ignored, forgotten.  During the Vietnam 
 years, the Pentagon reported more than half a million "acts of desertion" 
 by U.S. troops, radical underground media and cafes flourished on and 
 around military bases, and soldiers blowing up their commanding officers 
 with fragmentation grenades was epidemic.\n\nIf our country thinks of the 
 60's as a time of dreams, full of starry-eyed idealists and muddy nudists, 
 Sir No Sir reveals the nightmarish flipside.  This film was made by 
 military-hating veterans of Vietnam.  Through interviews and historical 
 footage they tell their stories—angry, sad, disgusted tales of being 
 forced to slaughter innocent women and childen, "bomb entire villages back 
 to the stone age," refusing to march into certain death, and languishing in 
 violent U.S. military prisons.\n\nThe film traces this history from the 
 first conscientious objectors who locked down in San Francisco churches to 
 avoid Vietnam to the eventual rank-and-file revolt of the ground troops 
 that preceded full U.S. withdrawal.  The vets explain how D.I.Y. "Fuck the 
 Army" zines flooded the military bases from within, and with the burning of 
 military prisons and mass refusals to fight, the cogs in the war machine 
 ground to a halt.\n\nThe filmmakers are now shipping DVDs of "Sir No Sir" 
 to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Hopefully our soldiers in the 
 Middle East pay close attention.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/24/18322811.php
SUMMARY:Fault Lines! Distro party and screening of Sir, No Sir
LOCATION:3030b 16th st. (at Mission)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/24/18322811.php
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