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Loves Got Everything to Do With It My letter addresses how we treat each other and how the world would be as a result of that....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 12:49am PDT
Calling all Documentary Filmmakers! The Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is now seeking submissions....
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 4:36pm PDT
April 21: Film Screening:"Carry on Ken" and "Rebel County" Saturday, April 21 at 6:00 PM - Film Screening: "Carry on Ken" and "Rebel County"
New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, SF - Two new films on the life of working class film director Ken Loach and a film about the background to his latest film The Wind That Shakes The Barley....
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 9:23pm PDT
Mike Farrell of M*A*S*H on His Journey to Actor and Activist Actor Mike Farrell is perhaps best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt in the popular TV-series M*A*S*H. But aside from that, he is also known for his decades of social justice activism. Farrell has just come out with a new book called "Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 7:11am PDT
Sacto Film: 4/20: Film Fri 4/20: End of Suburbia -Peak Oil doc + Dan Jacobson from Envt CA Friday, April 20. 7 PM. $5.00. A Screening of "The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream." With Dan Jacobson from Environment California in attendance. Fools Foundation - 1025 19th St, Sacramento....
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 1:03pm PDT
Sunday April 22: People's Park's 38th Anniversary Sunday! April 22! Free!
People's Park's 38th Anniversary!
Noon 'til 6pm! Fun! Music! Fun!
Fun, Community and Music with Stratosphere68, The Flux, All Nations Singers, Country Joe McDonald and Kapakahi!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:42am PDT
"I'm Teaching In The Hayward Schools" Hayward Teacher Strike Song by Andy & the Angry, From: Andrew knight
Sent: Apr 17, 2007 3:50 PM
Subject: Support your local teacher: Request Hayward Teacher Strike Song on KFOG!
I teach art at Hayward High School, therefore I'm the LOWEST paid public school teacher in the east bay. I work for the HIGHEST paid admistrators in the east bay area.
I wrote a song about our struggle with my Angry, Tired Teacher Band. We just played it live on KFOG this morning.
If you have a moment, could you help us spread the word, "stick it to the ...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 6:21pm PDT
Rachel's Words Silenced Again Once again the play My Name is Rachel Corrie has been cancelled, this time in South Florida....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:34am PDT
David Rovics Concert: A Celebration of Freedom Come hear David Rovics, Emcee Lynx and Molotov Mouths at the Brava Theatre tonight at 7:30PM!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 12:42pm PDT
Berkeley Critical Mass today! Berkeley Critical Mass (every second friday)...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 1:48pm PDT
Memo to Imus: You're Fired In an absolutely mind bending turn of events, Don Imus is now a man without a job....
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 10:17am PDT
PBS Criticized for Excluding Latino, Native Voices from Documentary on Second World War A coalition of Latino organizations have been criticizing PBS over a forthcoming documentary by Ken Burns on World War II because it ignores the role played by Latino soldiers in the war. The 14-hour film, “The War,” includes no interviews with any Latino veterans even though over 500,000 Latinos served in the war. The documentary also includes no interviews with any Native American veterans. We speak with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, a University of Texas professor who has led the protests agains...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:51am PDT
Who Killed the Electric Car? New Documentary Looks at the Mysterious Disappearance of the EV-1 General Motors has been at the center of one of the nation's largest controversies over clean emissions-cars. In 1996 the company introduced the EV-1 electric car in California and Arizona. Hundreds of the electric cars were soon on the road. Then they all disappeared. The mystery behind their disappearance is the subject of the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” We’re joined by the film’s director Chris Paine, and Chelsea Sexton, a former GM employee who worked on the EV-1 electric c...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:48am PDT
New Film On UK Skinheads: As an Asian teenager, Sarfraz Manzoor lived in fear of skinheads As an Asian teenager, Sarfraz Manzoor lived in fear of skinheads. Shane Meadows' tough new film shows what they fought so viciously to protect...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:29am PDT
Vonnegut made this ridiculous life bearable Using mischief, structural anarchy writer tackled conundrums of human life...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 5:26pm PDT
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Sitting Up Mud Lies Down “”God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"...And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud...I got so much, and most mud got so little. Thank you for the honor! Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep. What memories for mud to have! What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met! I loved everything I saw! Good night.” - The Last Rites of the Bokononist faith (Written by Kurt Vonnegut, jr. - RIP)...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 8:44am PDT
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84 The author Kurt Vonnegut has died. He was eighty-four years old. Vonnegut authored at least nineteen novels including “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle.” In recent years, Vonnegut was a fierce critic of the Bush administration and a columnist for the magazine In These Times....
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 7:29am PDT
Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Condemn Don Imus' Remarks MSNBC and CBS Radio are coming under increasing pressure to fire Don Imus over his recent remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team calling them "nappy-headed hos." Imus has suspended for two weeks beginning on Monday but he remains on the air this week. On Tuesday members of the Rutgers women's basketball team spoke out for the first time. We play excerpts....
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 7:38am PDT
Grassroots Film Project Seeks Footage We are the Think Peace Documentary Project, a non-profit film project based in Vancouver, BC, Canada and we are looking for video footage....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 3:21pm PDT
Violence or nonviolence? Two documentaries reviewed When she hijacked two planes over thirty years ago, refugee Leila Khaled helped put the Palestinian struggle on the international radar. A generation later, however, the realization of Palestinians' rights is elusive as ever and the tactics of their resistance are increasingly scrutinized. The limits of resistance are examined in Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha's documentary Encounter Point as well as Lina Makboul's Leila Khaled, Hijacker....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:23am PDT
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