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DESCRIPTION:Film evenings begin with potluck refreshments and social hour at  6:30 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the 
 film.\n\nATOMIC MOM\nby M.T. Silvia\n– appearing in person\n\nAtomic Mom 
 weaves an intimate portrait of a complex mother-daughter relationship 
 within an important moment in American history.  As the only female 
 scientist present during atomic detonations in the Nevada desert, Pauline 
 Silvia, the filmmaker’s mother, undergoes a crisis of conscience.  After 
 a long silence and prompted by her daughter, she finally reveals grim 
 secrets of working in the U.S. atomic testing program.  In our present 
 moment of Wikileaks, Pauline is a similar whistle-blower having been cowed 
 by the silencing machine of the U.S. military for decades.  In an attempt 
 to reconcile with her own mother’s past, her daughter, filmmaker M.T. 
 Silvia, meets Emiko Okada, a Hiroshima survivor trying to reconcile her own 
 history in Japan.  This moving film follows these survivors, each on a 
 different end of atomic warfare, as they meet through the filmmaking 
 process, and as they, with startling honestly, attempt to understand the 
 other.  With the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the footage of the 
 devastation is hauntingly familiar to the destruction of Hiroshima and 
 Nagasaki.  As Japan experiences its second nuclear crisis, this film 
 illustrates how we are all downwind of this story.  The film invites 
 viewers to confront American nuclear history in a completely new way and 
 will inspire dialogue about human rights, personal responsibility, and the 
 possibility — and hope — of peace.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the 
 corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/03/18678817.php
SUMMARY:Atomic Mom
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/03/18678817.php
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