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DESCRIPTION:8:30 PM: "500 Miles to Babylon"   \nTo be introduced by film maker David 
 Martinez   www.graffitifilms.com\n\n9:45 PM: "We Interrupt This 
 Empire"\n\n$5-15 (no one turned away for lack of funds)\nPopcorn 
 included!\n\nA fundraiser for Direct Action to Stop the War 
 (www.actagainstwar.net), a decentralized, unaffiliated network of Bay Area 
 affinity groups and activists, working together to organize a day of 
 coordinated, independent, and nonviolent direct actions against the 
 government and war profiteers in San Francisco on March 19, 2008 as well as 
 actions leading up to that date.\n\n-----------\n\n500 Miles to Babylon is 
 a one-hour documentary shot in multiple cities in Iraq in 2003-4. Narrated 
 by the filmmaker, it addresses the current war not simply as a conflict 
 over petroleum profits or a scheme to fill a company's coffers, but as part 
 of a larger American imperial project. Through impromptu interviews, 
 glimpses of daily life, still photographs, and footage of car-bombs, 
 demonstrations, night-time graffiti artists, Sufi rituals, and the 
 celebrations following Saddam's capture, 500 Miles To Babylon charts the 
 early days of the U.S. occupation as it blundered its way and Iraqi society 
 began to collapse.\n\nIt is a film not about soldiers, not about 
 governments, but about Iraqi civilians and a handful of independent 
 journalists in a country being turned into hell.  A cinema verite narrative 
 of daily life, disintegration, and the humor that ordinary people adapt 
 when living in a warzone.\n\nThe story ends with rare footage from inside 
 besieged Fallujah, where the filmmaker went in April 2004 with a group of 
 volunteers to deliver medical aid to the town's inhabitants and 
 subsequently reported to the world about the conditions of civilians during 
 the fighting.\n\nWith a soundtrack of Iraqi Choubi songs compiled by 
 Sublime Frequencies.\n\n-----------\n\nWe Interrupt This Empire... (2003, 
 DV, 52:17) is a collaborative work by many of the Bay Area's independent 
 video activists which documents the direct actions that shut down the 
 financial district of San Francisco in the weeks following the United 
 States'’ invasion of Iraq. \n\nWith the audio backdrop including live 
 broadcasts of Enemy Combatant Radio from the San Francisco Bay Area 
 Independent Media Center, the documentary takes a look at the diverse show 
 of resistance from the streets of San Francisco as well as providing a 
 critique of the corporate media coverage of the war and exploring such 
 issues as the Military Industrial Complex, attack on civil liberties, and 
 the United States' current imperialist drive.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/05/18477259.php
SUMMARY:Double Feature for Direct Action!
LOCATION:Station 40 \n3030b 16th St @ Mission\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/05/18477259.php
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