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DESCRIPTION:Award-winning filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman will premiere World Peace is a 
 Local Issue, at a celebration of local, community-based 
 projects. Activists from East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Palo Alto and 
 Redwood City will participate by presenting currently important local 
 issues. The evening will include a Memorial Tribute in which former Palo 
 Alto Mayor Peter Drekmeier will honor two former Palo Alto Council Members 
 Gary Fazzino and Ellen Fletcher who are featured in the film.\n\nDEMOCRACY 
 IN ACTION \nCommunities Organizing for Change Locally\n\nDATE/TIME: Friday, 
 October 25, 7:00 pm til 10:00 pm\nLOCATION: Lucie Stern Community Center, 
 Stern Ballroom, 1305 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94301\nCOST: No 
 Admission Fee \n\n\nOSCAR-nominated, EMMY-winning local filmmaker Dorothy 
 Fadiman PREMIERES a NEW FILM\nWORLD PEACE is a Local Issue\nA digitally 
 remastered, re-edited production \n\nAward-winning filmmaker Dorothy 
 Fadiman will premiere World Peace is a Local Issue, at a celebration of 
 local, community-based projects. Activists from East Palo Alto, Mountain 
 View, Palo Alto and Redwood City will participate by presenting currently 
 important local issues. The evening will include a Memorial Tribute in 
 which former Palo Alto Mayor Peter Drekmeier will honor two former Palo 
 Alto Council Members Gary Fazzino and Ellen Fletcher who are featured in 
 the film.\n\nFadiman’s film documents a memorable event in mid-Peninsula 
 history: the efforts of Palo Alto residents (in 1983) to convince their 
 City Council to adopt a resolution endorsing a Nuclear Weapons Freeze. This 
 drama takes place against a backdrop of worldwide grassroots efforts to 
 rein in the alarming nuclear arms race during the Cold War era.  The film 
 focuses on the tension of the council meeting where impassioned pleas of 
 residents result in two council members changing their positions, ensuring 
 passage of the controversial Resolution.\n\nThe evening’s program will 
 also feature presentations by activists from East Palo Alto, Mountain View, 
 Redwood City and Palo Alto, who are hard at work on local issues and 
 who’ve been involved in past successful efforts. Guests will be welcomed 
 by a local jazz trio.\n\nHOST:  Paul George - Director of Peninsula Peace 
 and Justice Center\n\nPRESENTERS\nIsaiah Phillips: a young East Palo Alto 
 activist (In The Name of Art), who will present three short video clips 
 detailing a variety of citizen-based efforts in his town.  The videos are 
 YUCA vs Romic, The Weeks Neighborhood Plan, and Cultivating the 
 Vision.\n\nJohn Rinaldi: a Mountain View current community advocate and 
 former Board Member for the Day Worker Center.  Mr. Rinaldi will recall the 
 history of the arduous, eventually successful struggle to establish the Day 
 Worker Center.\n\nErika Escalante: a Palo Alto activist who is President of 
 the Buena Vista Home Owners Association. She is also President of the newly 
 formed Save Buena Vista organizing committee.  Ms. Escalante will discuss 
 the effort to save nearly 200 low income residents from losing their mobile 
 homes.\n\nJames Lee: a Redwood City Organizer and Secretary of Save 
 Pete’s Harbor, active in current efforts to save the Bay shoreline from 
 commercial development, while fending off the displacement of dozens of low 
 income residents.\n\nMEMORIAL DEDICATION During the program, Peter 
 Drekmeier will honor the memories of Gary Fazzino and Ellen Fletcher.. 
  Fletcher introduced the Nuclear Freeze Resolution; Fazzino was one of the 
 Council members after hearing from local residents,  switched his vote to 
 support the Freeze Resolution \n\nRECEPTION: Following the formal program, 
 presenters and attendees from local communities are invited to meet, share 
 ideas and get to know each other.\n\nCONTACT: Dorothy Fadiman, Paul George 
 and all of the presenters are available for interviews.\nDorothy Fadiman 
 (650) 568-4340  Paul George 650) 326-8837 cell (650) 575-8207\n\nFREE 
 EVENT\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/23/18740261.php
SUMMARY:Democracy in Action Communities Organizing for Change Locally
LOCATION:Lucie Stern Community Center, Stern Ballroom, 1305 Middlefield Rd, Palo 
 Alto, CA 94301\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/23/18740261.php
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