New College CESA Events List, 3/23 - 3/29

"Voices of Dissent: Activism & American Democracy"
Screening & Discussion with Filmmaker Karil Daniels

Thursday, March 23, 7:00 PM
New College Cultural Center
766 Valencia Street, San Francisco

Filmmaker Karil Daniels screens her award-winning video documentary about defending our First Amendment rights and civil liberties against government attempts to repress democracy and our freedom to dissent. The film includes many of the surprising and creative ways Americans have found to express their views in dissent against the Bush administration policy of war in Iraq.

After the screening, join a discussion with filmmaker Karil Daniels about what we can do to protect authentic democracy.

This 42-minute documentary has been honored at 8 film festivals. Proceeds will support plans to expand it to full feature length.

Admission: $8 General / $4 Students & Seniors

Using events, theater, song, dance, comedy, satire, music, poetry, interviews with many well-known personalities and the wisdom of our founding fathers, VOICES reminds us of our roots and the importance of protecting authentic democracy. Featuring Martin Sheen, Woody Harrelson, Al Franken, Arianna Huffington, Daniel Ellsberg, Medea Benjamin, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, Norman Solomon, Will Durst, Rene Hicks, Starhawk, Drew Dellinger, Ron Kovic and many more.

Karil Daniels is a long-time activist film & video maker. She is a founding member of the Film Arts Foundation and a current member of the Board of Directors of Bay Area Women in Film and Television.

This event is co-sponsored by New College Center for Education and Social Action, and the film is a sponsored project of the Film Arts Foundation, a non-profit organization.

For more information, contact Jon Garfield, New College Center for Education and Social Action at 415-437-3425 or jon [at] newcollege.edu.

See also:
http://www.VoicesOfDissent.us
Karil Daniels, Point of View Productions, 415) 821-0435
http://www.karildaniels.com

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"Venezuela from Below" - a film by Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini
Screening & Panel Discussion

Monday, March 27, 7:00 PM
New College Theater
777 Valencia St, San Francisco

Panelists:
Oliver Ressler - Artist and co-director of the documentary film Venezuela from Below
Dario Azzellini - Writer and political analyst, and co-director of the documentary film Venezuela from Below
Chris Gilbert - MATRIX Curator

In Venezuela, a profound social transformation identified as the Bolivarian process has been underway since Hugo Chávez's governmental takeover in 1998. It concerns a broad process of self organization, from which has developed a progressive constitution, a labor law, new educational possibilities, and a number of further reforms for the impoverished majority of the population of what is potentially a wealthy state.

In Venezuela from Below by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler (2004; 67 min), the true actors in the social process are able to speak: workers from the oil company PDVSA, farmers from a newly founded cooperative in Aragua, loan recipients from the 23 de Enero barrio in Caracas, indigenous community members from the Orinoco river valley, and others. These are the people of the grassroots and they speak about what they did and what they are doing, how they feel about the Bolivarian process, and about their expectations and ideas in the search for a social and economic model beyond neo-liberalism. Following the screening, panelists will engage in discussion with the audience and each other about this film and Azzelini and Ressler's new video project about the on-going movement toward worker-controlled enterprises in Venezuela.

Donation Requested $5 (no one turned away due to lack of funds)

Presented by:
The Labor Video Project, LaborFest in conjunction with BAMPFA
Hands Off Venezuela Coalition, New College Center For Education & Social Action

For more information: (415) 282-1908 or email lvpsf [at] labornet.org

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BACORR and New College of California
present:

Reproductive Rights Movie Night! - at the Roxie Cinema

Films & Discussion: Leona's Sister Gerri & The Last Abortion Clinic

Wednesday March 29, 7:00 PM
Roxie Cinema
3117 16th Street (between Valencia & Guerrero), San Francisco

$ 8 - General Admission / $ 4 - Students

“Leona's Sister Gerri” (1995), is an award winning film by Jane Gillooly.
This film tells the dramatic story of Gerri Santoro, a mother of two and the "real person" in the now famous photo of an anonymous woman on a motel floor, dead from an illegal abortion. Reprinted thousands of times on placards, and in the media, this grisly photo became a pro-choice icon.

“The Last Abortion Clinic” (2005)
Written, produced and directed by Raney Aronson-Rath.
The New York Times said "...'The Last Abortion Clinic,' gives a lucid picture of how the anti-abortion movement in states like Mississippi has worked so many hurdles into local laws that abortions are almost unattainable for poor women."

If you care about this issue NOW is the time to get involved.
Abortion has already been banned in South Dakota. Who’s next?

BACORR (Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights) is a coalition of organizations and individuals working for reproductive rights. Check out BACORR's website: http://www.bacorr.org/ or e-mail us at bacorrinfo [at] riseup.net .

New College of California: http://www.newcollege.edu/
Roxie Film Center at New College: http://www.roxie.com/

For more information about this event call: 415-437-3425.

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New College CESA:
http://www.newcollege.edu/cesa/
415-437-3425