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DESCRIPTION:NLG Summer Film Series presents\nCommitting Poetry in Times of War\n\nWhen: 
 August 11, 2008, 7pm\n\nWhat: Outdoor Film Showing, and poetry 
 reading\n\nFilm: Committing Poetry In Times of War\n\nSpecial Appearances: 
 Filmmaker Eric Sirotkin to introduce film, and Q&A; Poet Shahid Buttar will 
 perform to kick off the event\n\nWhere: El Rio, 3158 Mission Street, San 
 Francisco, 94110. \n\nEntry Price: $8-$20 sliding scale donation, no one 
 turned away for lack of costs.\n\nDrink specials: $1 Pabst, $2 well drinks 
 all night.\n\nContact: Raul Aguilar at 415-285-5067\nThe National  Lawyers 
 Guild-San Francisco presents a summer film series & benefit at El Rio's 
 outdoor patio.  Join us and Executive Producer Eric Sirotkin, for a 
 presentation of the award winning Independent Film Committing Poetry in 
 Times of War, a Dogone Picture, recognized as the 2007 Poetry Film of the 
 Year. Poet  Shahid Buttar will be kicking off the event with a 
 performance.\n\nThe central story in Committing Poetry shows the 
 Albuquerque, NM community's response to seven local high school teachers 
 losing their jobs for refusing to censor their students' anti-war Slam 
 Poetry and artwork. Poets and musicians joined together to support these 
 teachers and youth in freedom of speech, organizing peaceful anti-war 
 protests that were quickly broken up by local police using tear gas and 
 forcing the people into "Free Speech Zones," a practice that soon became a 
 national policy.\n\nOut of this fire arose a diverse community of artists, 
 poets, lawyers & musicians whose courageous words would not be silenced, as 
 documented in the film. They came together in a series of unifying events 
 across the country, from New York, to New Orleans and San Francisco, 
 defying the fear based suppression of the times. This movement was called 
 Poetic Justice.\n\nCommitting Poetry in Times of War was a winner of the 
 New Mexico State Film Office's New Vision Award and the Telluride Talking 
 Gourd Poetry Festival's Tellus Poetry Film of the Year Award. Please visit 
 www.committingpoetry.com and www.myspace.com/committingpoetrymovie for 
 updated information.\n\nFor more information on Shahid Buttar, please 
 visit: www.shahidbuttar.com\nProceeds from the event will benefit the 
 National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.  Dedicated to the 
 need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic 
 system, the NLG is an association seeking to unite the lawyers, law 
 students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers of America, to function as an 
 effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the 
 end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property 
 interests.  Find out more at www.nlgsf.org\n\nEvent is wheelchair 
 accessible.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/24/18519539.php
SUMMARY:NLG Summer Film Series presents: Committing Poetry in Times of War
LOCATION:El Rio, 3158 Mission Street, San Francisco, 94110. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/24/18519539.php
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