Don’t forget about our local film festival, which starts today! I’m skipping off to NM to see Michael Franti this weekend, but I hope to make it back to see some of the Sunday shows. The film, Drowning River, in particular, has me very interested.
Peaceable Kingdom film showing
Wednesday, February 27th
Cline Library Assembly Hall at Northern Arizona University
7:00
FREE!
Hosted by Animal Rights NOW!
“From the incredibly talented filmmakers of ‘The Witness,’ this deeply moving film explores the plight of farmed animals through the story of Gene and Lorri Bauston of Farm Sanctuary. Heartbreaking actual footage from factory farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses is masterfully interwoven and juxtaposed with beautiful scenes from the sanctuary, as well as with rescue missions and intensely personal interviews with people who experienced first hand — and ultimately rejected — the painful realities of farm life. This film has the power to effect real change in people. Gather some friends and family to watch it, and by the end, there will not be a dry eye — or untouched heart — in the house.”
Event #1
Myra’s Women’s and Gender Studies 191 class is doing a fund raiser, sponsored in part by Northland Family Help Center.
WHAT: Film Screening of- Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes by Byron Hurt
WHEN: Monday, November 19th at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
WHERE: Gardener Auditorium (First floor of the new Business Building on South Campus Room 101)
The first goal if this event is to raise funds for the new Indigenous Youth
Media Center & Infoshop Bookstore. The class is suggesting a $2 donation;
there will also be a book list in which you can buy a book for the infoshop.
Event #2
WHAT: The PEACE Project is performing!
WHERE: Northern Arizona University Studio Theatre
(College of Arts and Letters- between the parking garage and cline library
on North Campus)
WHEN: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Let me know if you have any questions.
A Benefit for the Indigenous Youth Media Arts Center/Infoshop
and a Celebration of Indigenous Resistance!
Friday, November 23rd
6:30 p.m. $4-7 Donation
At the Youth Media Arts Center/Infoshop
1926 N. 4th St. #7B - Flagstaff, AZ
Come out and support Flagstaff’s newest Flagstaff’s newest Indigenous established community space.
Youth Media Arts Center & Infoshop Bookstore Presents:
FILM NIGHT
Every Tuesday in November!
1926 N. 4th St. #7B - Flagstaff, AZ
(In the Pine Grove Shopping Center Near Hunan East)
Nov. 15th - 6:30PM - Film screening: “EL NORTE” and Discussion of Border
Justice. Join us for this report back from the No Borders Camp.
Nov. 20th - 6:00PM - “BEYOND OIL: 8 Shorts
Nov. 27th - 6:00PM - “THE END OF SUBURBIA: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of
The American Dream”
The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the
planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to
outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are
upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary.
Arizona Snowbowl will be holding their annual Job (un)Fair this Wednesday.
Join us and voice/demonstrate your concerns with Snowbowl’s attempts to desecrate the Sacred San Francisco Peaks, cause ecological harm and risk community health.
This is an opportunity to educate people that are considering working at Snowbowl.
What: Protest Arizona Snowbowl’s Job (un)Fair!
When: Wednesday, November 7th from 4PM-7PM
Where: Northern Arizona University’s Walkup Sky Dome (click here for a map)
Why: Snowbowl Ski Area is attempting to expand their current ski area development and make fake snow from treated sewage effluent on the Sacred San Francisco Peaks despite pleas from tribes, environmental groups and the greater community.
Who: You and anyone who cares about community health, our environment and respecting Indigenous cultures!
yes, already. Life is moving fast today.
It was pretty rad to see Dr. Doug Brown there, the econ professor. He helped me out with that vegetarian article I wrote (aka meatosaurus rex)… and he rides a bike!
First rally: Monday, Nov. 5, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., public sidewalk in front of Flagstaff Planned Parenthood on South Plaza Way.
As many of you know, Flagstaff Planned Parenthood has recently begun to experience weekly anti-choice protests by fundamentalist Christians (see background information below). The protestors are not simply exercising their First Amendment right to free speech – they are harassing patients, family and friends by shouting through bullhorns, taking photographs of people entering and leaving the clinic, standing in the shopping center parking lot and handing people pamphlets, and generally behaving in an abusive manner. Several protestors have been cited for disorderly conduct. Nearby business owners and patrons have also spoken of harassment. These protests take place on Thursdays.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact me and I’ll send you a weekly e-mail to let you know the day and time of the weekly rally. Lisa Rayner, Lisa@LisaRayner.com
Background on the anti-choice protestors
The protestors belong to NAU Students for Life and the Flagstaff Chapter of Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust. Members have also been tabling with graphic photographs of late term fetuses on the NAU campus and outside Flagstaff high schools. Members attended a fundamentalist “pro-life boot camp” this summer. They hold extremist views on sex and contraception. For example, they lie to people about hormonal birth control and emergency contraception, claiming that birth control causes abortion (in reality, hormonal birth control methods prevent ovulation). They consider a single-celled fertilized egg that has not yet implanted in a uterus to be the moral equivalent of an infant (or adult woman for that matter). “Survivors” chapter leader “Bud” Shaver was arrested in July in Wichita, Kansas for entering a Lutheran church during the Sunday service and screaming Bible verses at the congregation (a doctor who runs a women’s clinic is a church member).
This is so rad. I can’t believe it’s finally happening. High fives to Klee, Crystal, and everyone else for making this happen. I’m going to try to get down there this weekend to help out and I’m going to volunteer as much as possible. Let me know if you want to ride there with me and help out.
I know they’ve been ordering books from AK Press, and they’re giving them like 40% off. They’re phenomenal to work with…
When: Thursday, October 25th (In Pine Grove Shopping Center near Hunan East)
6:00 pm - 9:30 pmWhere:
1926 N. 4th St. #7B
Flagstaff, AZ
Music, Video Presentation by Outta Your Backpack Media, Spoken Word Poetry, Food, Books, Zines, Independent CDs & DVDs, T-shirts and more!
This is also a fundraising event for this community sustained space.“We are an Indigenous-established volunteer-run collective dedicated to
creatively confronting and overcoming social and environmental injustices
in Flagstaff and surrounding areas. We are restoring and redefining knowledge and information in ways that will be meaningful to our communities. We offer access to independent media, the arts, and alternative education, with the goal of self-development as well as empowerment for youth and the greater community into action in favor of a more just and sustainable world.” More info: info@indigenousaction.org
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