[Peace-discuss] Human Rights Film Series starts 2/22!

[Karen Medina]

AWARE,

IDF Annual Human Rights Film Series
Spring 2007
Thursdays, 7-9pm

Thursday, February 22nd @ 7pm
DECLINING BY DEGREES (about higher education). Details below.

Thursday, March 1st  @ 7pm
HUNGRY FOR PROFIT (about Global Agribusiness). Details below.
Robert Naiman, the national coordinator of Just Foreign Policy and a Board member at IDF, will facilitate the discussion afterwards.

Thursday, March 8th @ 7pm
WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
(why did GM crush all of the EV1 electric vehicles?). Details below.

Thursday, March 15th @ 7pm
WHY WE FIGHT (rise of the U.S. military-industrial complex). Details below.
Joe Miller, a national coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and an IDF Board member, will facilitate the film showing.


Where are the films being shown?: First Floor, IDF
Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF)
610 E. Springfield Ave.
Champaign, IL  61820

Cost: Free Admission and Snacks
http://www.prairienet.org/idf/filmseries.html

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DECLINING BY DEGREES
Thursday, February 22nd @ 7pm

DECLINING BY DEGREES is a fascinating documentary exploring the question:
What happens between admission and graduation?  Often not enough. As Richard Hersh, former president of Trinity College and Hobart and William Smith College says, "Higher education is about the future. And it is about the way in which we travel to the future in terms of being prepared, or
it’s the way  in which we fail the future. Being prepared is one of the biggest challenges students face. Another is the overgrowth of class and campus sizes. Others felt college was not demanding enough. The documentary also highlights the impact of market forces in higher education today, including how public and government funding is no longer
maintaining the social contract the U.S. made sixty years ago.

Facilitator TBA.

For more information: http://www.decliningbydegrees.org

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HUNGRY FOR PROFIT
Thursday, March 1st  @ 7pm

Is our food bought at the price of famine in the developing world? HUNGRY FOR PROFIT, filmed on five continents, takes a close look at the global agribusiness system, which is turning the world’s food supply into a global supermarket, buying food at the lowest prices - regardless of the
effect on small farmers and local populations - and selling it at the highest price and the greatest profit whenever possible.

Robert Naiman, the national coordinator of Just Foreign Policy and a Board member at IDF, will facilitate the discussion afterwards.

For more information: http://www.richtervideos.com/HungryforProfit

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WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
Thursday, March 8th @ 7pm

It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity and produced no emissions. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did GM crush all of the EV1 electric vehicles in the desert? This electric car prototype was so revolutionary
it inspired California to pass the Zero Emissions Mandate, which would require 10% of cars sold to be emissions free by 2003. But the EV1 threatened the status quo. This film follows the life and death of the EV1, examining its effects and how they rippled through the halls of government and business. This film interviews and investigates automakers,
legislators, engineers, and consumers to solve the murder of the electric car.

Facilitator TBA.

For more information: http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/

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WHY WE FIGHT
Thursday, March 15th @ 7pm

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki entitled this documentary after a World War II propaganda film by Frank Cappa, outlining the reasons for entering the war. WHY WE FIGHT describes the rise of the U.S. military-industrial complex while concentrating on wars led by the U.S. of the last 50 years
and specifically the invasion of Iraq. Jarecki was inspired by Eisenhower’s farewell speech, where he spoke of the military-industrial complex, and Chalmer Johnson’s quote, "It is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever." Every decade since World War II, the
public has been told a lie to bring it into war to fuel the
military-economic machine, which in turn maintains American dominance in the world. The film includes interviews with John McCain, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Gore Vidal and Joseph Cirincione.
It also includes the stories of a Vietnam War vet whose son died on Sept. 11 and then had his son’s name written on a bomb dropped on Iraq, a 23-year old who enlists citing his financial troubles after his only family member died, and a former Vietnamese refugee who now develops explosives for the American military.

Joe Miller, a national coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and an IDF Board member, will facilitate the film showing.

For more information: http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight

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The IDF would like to thank this semester's cosponsors: Activist Forum,
Amnesty International #124, 
Channing-Murray Foundation, 
Central Illinois Jobs with Justice, 
Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center, 
Champaign County Health Care Consumers, 
Interfaith in Action, 
La Casa Cultural Latina, 
Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative, 
School for Designing A Society, 
Socialist Forum, 
UC-IMC Steering Group, 
and Vietnam Veterans Against the War (CU Chapter).

The Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF) is a pioneering peace with justice campus ministry and non-profit organization located on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. For more information about the film
series or the IDF, please contact us at (217) 352-8721,
idf at prairienet.org, or visit our website at http://www.prairienet.org/idf.

**The IDF is located at the NW corner of Springfield and Wright streets in Champaign. It is only 2 blocks from the U of I Quad and on several CU-MTD bus routes. Limited free parking is available. The film series is wheelchair accessible.

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Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF)
610 E. Springfield Ave.
Champaign, IL  61820
Office Hours: Mon - Fri from 12-5pm
(217) 352-8721 | idf at prairienet.org
www.prairienet.org/idf