Fourth Friday Flicks & Fun Notes

Fourth Friday Flicks

August 25, 2006 – The Time is Now by Ken Brady

Discussion Group

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Gary

_______

Alisha

Anna

Art

Bobby

Brneda

Carl

Cathy

Charlie

Charlotte

Cheryl

Clay Smith

Don S

Eric

Jeff

Jim

Nicholas

Robert

Robin

Rochelle

Ron

Roy

Sherry

Tom

Victoria

Willie

C. Lee

Film Suggestions

*With screening rights

1. Live and Death
2. Corporation
3. Hijacking Catastrophe
4. Road to Guantanamo
5. *Loose Change – Robert Graham suggestion. Movie about 9-11
6. *Votergate – Robert Greenwald not out quite yet
7. *Help America Vote on Paper
8. Weather Underground
9. Who Killed the Electric
10. Smartest Guys in the Room (Enron)
11. Power of Nightmares (3 hours)
12. Revolution Won’t Be Televised (Chavez coup d’etat)
13. Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land (about the Middle East starting off the 1982 invasion of Lebanon; on the Truth Seekers site by Media Foundation, which urges screenings)
14. Battle of Algiers
15. School of the Americas: Hidden in Plain Sight (history of the school of the Americas)
16. Jenin Jenin
17. Control Room
18. Paradise Now (about two young Palestinians who contemplate suicide bombing)
19. Sir, No Sir (about soldiers who refused to fight during Vietnam)
20. Winter Soldier (Vietnam atrocities)
21. V for Vendetta (to be screened at UH Clearlake tomorrow night, Aug. 26)
22. Denial Stops Here (Michael Murdoch, 2005 +-)
23. Why They Hate Us (Ted Turner)

Other venues: Super Happy Funland, Artery, Aurora, Havens Center, Oxford Hall (not handicap accessible); Taft Street Coffee House ($600); Rice Media Center; Warehouse at Adams and Navigation

Victoria was in San Diego at Democracy Fest and met film maker (Ken Brady), wrote, directed and starred in film using money he made waitressing

Comments about the film: Brilliant use of the political brought to the personal level; missing the promise of cutting the military budget by 3/4; soul wrenching process of coming to terms with our history; information not new to most of group; likened to Spalding Gray; likened to Bob Avarkian film; recommend Radio4All website for history lessons by academic, pundits, social critics the voices that the gate keepers and silenced check out Unwelcome Guest; effectively put the deaths in US on 9-11-01 and how it pales next to the deaths US foreign policy inflicted across the globe

Discussion about outreach; other venues/neighborhood; urge folk to check out National Archives and encourage those who might be ignorant of our history to explore; awareness has made her less tolerant of mainstream source; beautiful tool showing kids what a single person can do; some kids might be turned off by lecture style; Fr. ___ whose worked long on closing the School of the Americas will speak at the Houston Peace and Justice Fundraiser

Discussion ended after 10 p.m.