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SUMMARY:Underground Gallery Exhibition by Nina Berman: "Evidence and Fantasy - Militarism in American Life"
DESCRIPTION:Nina Berman is an award-winning documentary photographer based in New York City\, widely publicized and exhibited\, with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. Her work examines the influence of war and militarism on American life at this time in our history when so many resources\, both human and material\, are dedicated to military pursuit. Many of the soldiers Nina met said they thought it would be fun\, but their experiences told a different story. She became interested in how as a culture we visualize and fantasize war and what role the burgeoning homeland security state plays in the creation and dissemination of these fantasies. This exhibition featured her series Homeland\, Purple Hearts\, and Marine Weddings. The exhibition will be on view from September 26th through December 12th\, 2009.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/underground-gallery-exhibition-by-nina-berman-evidence-and-fantasy-militarism-in-american-life/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091002T190000
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SUMMARY:"The Baader Meinhof Complex" Screening
DESCRIPTION:The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) is a new Academy Award-nominated drama by Uli Edel which shows how founders of the Red Army Faction graduated from rhetorical debates to revolutionary violence\, as terrorism rocked the fragile 1970’s German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation led by Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu)\, Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) and Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment\, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed\, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold (Bruno Ganz). And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists\, he knows he’s only dealing with the tip of the iceberg. \n\n\n\nStill from The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel \, 2008\, 2hr 30min)\n\n\n\nAbout the Film:\n\n\n\nProducer and scriptwriter Bernd Eichinger (PERFUME – STORY OF A MURDERER\, DOWNFALL) brings Stefan Aust’s standard work on RAF terrorism\, Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F. to the big screen for Constantin Film. Director Uli Edel (LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN\, ZOO) presents the dramatic events that shook the democratic foundations of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1967 to the “German Autumn” of 1977. \n\n\n\nStefan Aust’s book Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F. was first published in 1985 and has defined today’s view of the Red Army Faction’s war against the state like no other book. It is neither a case for the prosecution nor the defense. It does not proclaim any verdict\, either legally or morally. It is a protocol\, a chronicle of the events that reached their peak in the “German Autumn” of 1977\, in the hijacking and liberation of the passengers and crew of the Lufthansa plane “Landshut\,” the suicides of the imprisoned RAF leaders and the murder of the Employers’ Association President Hanns Martin Schleyer. \n\n\n\nStefan Aust’s masterful history of the group presents the definitive account\, capturing a highly complex story both accurately and colorfully. Much new information has surfaced since the mass suicide of the groups’ leaders in the 1980s. Some RAF members have come forward to testify in new investigations and formerly classified Stasi documents have been made public since the fall of the Berlin Wall\, all contributing to a fuller picture of the RAF and the events surrounding their demise. \n\n\n\nAust presents the complete history of the RAF\, from the creation in 1970 to the breakup in 1998\, incorporating all of the new information. For instance\, there is growing evidence that the German secret service eavesdropped on Baader\, Meinhof\, and the other RAF members imprisoned in Stammheim and that they knew that the terrorists planned a mass suicide\, but did nothing to prevent it. Also\, there is new information about the role of the RAF lawyers (among them Otto Schily who later was Minister of the Interior in Gerhard Schroder’s cabinet)\, and the roles of the different RAF members and the rivalry between them. The volume also contains numerous photos. \n\n\n\nTerrorism today is never far from most people’s thoughts. Baader-Meinhof offers a gripping account of one of the most violent terrorist groups of the late twentieth century\, in a compelling look at what they did\, why they did it\, and how they were brought to justice. \n\n\n\nPress:\n\n\n\n“Riveting.” —Washington Post \n\n\n\n“There has never been an account as authoritative\, or as gripping\, as ‘Baader-Meinhof\,’ which has the advantage of being related by a journalist who was once so close to the action that the gang targeted him for death… a riveting portrait of the gang and its two leaders\, Andreas and Ulrike Meinhof. … Mr. Aust tells the Baader-Meinhof story with journalistic care but also with an acute sense of drama… ‘Baader-Meinhof” might seem an unlikely book to recommend — after all\, it’s about far-away and long-ago antiwar radicalism. But it is also a clear-eyed look at the inner workings of a group driven by violent fanaticism\, and on that score Mr. Aust’s indispensable work could not be more timely. “—Wall Street Journal \n\n\n\n“Meticulously researched.”—Kurt Loder\, MTV.com \n\n\n\n“This is one of the best books I’ve read this year in any genre.” —John Wilson\, Christianity Today \n\n\n\n“Riveting.”—Regina Weinreich \n\n\n\n“Aust writes about his subject with admirable dispassion and clarity and in exacting detail\, tracking the cat-and-mouse movements between the group and the German police and its political leaders not just over several years\, but down to the hour… one could not ask for a better guide to this story\, and baring some significant new revelations\, “Baader-Meinhof” is certain to be the final word on the subject.”—The Seattle Times \n\n\n\n“Exhaustively detailing the group’s exploits from 1970 until the prison suicides of the leaders in 1977\, Aust offers fascinating insights into both the spectacular and the mundane aspects of life in a terrorist cadre. He also offers includes new information obtained from Stasi files released after Germany’s reunification… this fast-paced account allows readers to peer into the minds of actors engaged in committing horrific acts of violence with the goal of advancing a political agenda–a timely subject in the age of global terrorism.”—Library Journal \n\n\n\n“Among Germany’s many chronicles of its homegrown terrorists\, Stefan Aust’s 1985 600-page Baader-Meinhof Komplex stands out as the classic…. The 2008 reworked translation of Aust’s book\, Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F. \, provides English readers with the German Autumn story\, updated with Aust’s latest findings.” —Washington Monthly \n\n\n\n“Excellent.”—Christopher Hitchens\, Vanity Fair
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-baader-meinhof-complex-screening/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! Workshop with Nan Rubin: Digital Preservation
DESCRIPTION:“Video Archiving 101: How to Save and Access Your Video Collection” for organizations and individuals. So you made your media and got it out there; now what? This workshop will help you safeguard that treasured masterpiece for generations to come. Learn what formats work and which don’t for archiving your media projects. \n\n\n\nMORE ABOUT NAN RUBIN\, Digital Preservation Pioneer: Since its start in 2005\, the NDIIPP Preserving Digital Public Television Project has made significant progress in building infrastructure\, creating standards and obtaining resources\, and much of the credit goes to its project director\, Nan Rubin. \n\n\n\nRubin has a warm smile and a straight-shooting New Yorker demeanor. She has been a social activist since her teenage years and is accustomed to fighting for causes\, especially empowering under-represented people through broadcast media. “I’ve really focused on trying to expand people’s voices using the media that’s been available\,” Rubin said. She started community radio stations in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, and Denver\, Colo.\, and has been a radio producer for 30 years. \n\n\n\nHer work eventually led her to public television station Thirteen/WNET New York. A project to move the station’s 60\,000 videotapes resulted in creating an archive for the station\, which was a revelation for Rubin. “I realized how important it was to community groups to save their legacy and put it online and make it available to people in new ways\,” she said. Her passion for preservation extends to other projects in addition to her full-time work with Thirteen: she is also helping a large network of bilingual public radio stations in California develop an archive project to make 20 years of news programs available on-line. \n\n\n\nRubin is a driving force in working with the Library of Congress to preserve public television digital program content. Her NDIIPP project focuses on creating a consistent approach to digital curation among stations that produce national programming for PBS. In addition to Thirteen\, there are three other partners in the project: PBS; WGBH in Boston; and New York University. Rubin says that this collaboration has resulted in important benefits. NYU\, for example\, has provided critical digital-preservation expertise. \n\n\n\n“They have a graduate program in moving-image preservation that Howard Besser started\,” she said. “So not only do they have a technical side for building a digital repository\, expertise that doesn’t exist within public television\, but they also have the resource of students and research assistants that we’d never have on our own.” The project has produced new tools and improved practices. “We’ve chosen a set of metadata schema that includes four elements: PBCore (a standard developed by and for public media organizations)\, METS rights\, MODS and PREMIS.” \n\n\n\nRubin has also facilitated several successful data transfer tests with the Library\, and is working to develop transfer tools. The success of the project is also being watched closely in Europe\, where they see the NDIIPP repository as a valuable model for approaching preservation of digital video. “We didn’t expect to be at the leading edge of solving these problems\,” she said\, “but we’re glad to share our experience with and learn from colleagues abroad. Digital sustainability is way too big a task for any single organization to take on alone.” \n\n\n\nIn addition to the NDIIPP project\, Rubin is involved with efforts to send copies of nationally distributed programs to the Library for copyright deposit purposes and long-term storage. In the Library’s 2005 interview with Rubin and her 2006 Library Web cast\, she recounted the history of the relationship between PBS and the Library. She also has impressive knowledge about the evolution of video formats and metadata requirements for storing and retrieving program content. The goal is ultimately for PBS and other national content to arrive in digital form at the Library’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center\, a bunker turned state-of-the-art repository embedded into a lush Virginia hilltop overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains. There the content will be preserved on servers and data tapes. This goal is a key element of the American Archive\, a new national initiative which will support digital archiving and access for public television and radio programs nationwide. \n\n\n\nRubin has high hopes for the American Archive but she is concerned about getting equal representation for all public broadcasters. “WGBH and Thirteen create 60 percent of the national programming seen on public television\, but the American Archive has to include small stations as well as independent and minority producers in both television and radio\,” she said. “I consider it a really important to represent those community producers. And they’re not going to be brought to the table unless they have advocates. It’s not just Great Performances and Nova that need to be preserved; it includes these all these other parts of public broadcasting – local stations\, independent and small producers\, who represent the heart of our rich collective program sources. All of these need to be part of the planning for preservation.” \n\n\n\nMany stations are still unsure about what to do with their programs for the long term and Rubin promotes the American Archive as a solution. She is frank about the many challenges that must be addressed\, and knows that it will take time and effort to bring about change. But Rubin also has faith that the public-broadcasting world will recognize the achievements of the NDIIPP Preserving Digital Public Television Project and will elevate digital preservation as a priority. “We need to demonstrate how it’s really important to production\, to be able to get your stuff later\, and that it can be integrated without being overly burdensome or unmanageably expensive\,” Rubin said. “We’re working on that now.” \n\n\n\nOur Be the Media! workshop series provides local artists\, producers\, and citizen journalists with opportunities to acquire and improve the skills necessary for successful and powerful independent media-making. We offer an interdisciplinary approach to diverse media arts practices with new technologies\, with core focus on creative practice and artistry. \n\n\n\nBe The Media! is funded in part by New York State Council on the Arts.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-workshop-with-nan-rubin-digital-preservation/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Theatrical Sneak Premiere of "The Yes Men Fix the World" with Filmmaker Mike Bonanno
DESCRIPTION:The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who\, armed with nothing but thrift-store suits\, pose as top executives of giant corporations\, lie their way into big business conferences\, and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks\, parodying their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways.  \n\n\n\nFrom New Orleans to India to New York City\, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed. Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun? Don’t miss this North American theatrical premiere\, presented by Yes Man Mike Bananno.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/theatrical-sneak-premiere-of-the-yes-men-fix-the-world-with-filmmaker-mike-bonanno/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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SUMMARY:Community Media Quilt Project
DESCRIPTION:Share in a collective celebration of the history of grassroots communication with this quilt-making workshop\, to be held October 17th and 18th 2009. Bring your community media t-shirts\, and we will add them to our quilt. Whether you are an experienced quilter and/or sewer\, or someone whose always wanted to participate\, join us! The final quilt will be auctioned in the Spring ’10 season as part of our upcoming 5th Anniversary Celebration.  \n\n\n\nLynn Miller\, San Francisco quilter\, and Simone Steigler Sleeper\, our Youth Leader quilter\, will help with this workshop. We actually have in our donation box a few of these t-shirts to make in our quilt– Prometheus Radio’s great flame\, and Pacifica Radio’s “Feel the Love.” Please check out your old community media t-shirts and add to our SANCTUARY QUILT!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/community-media-quilt-project/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091017T190000
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SUMMARY:"Workers' Republic" with Filmmaker Andrew Freund
DESCRIPTION:Workers’ Republic (2009) is a story of the courage\, resolve\, creativity\, and solidarity of the workers at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago\, who stood up for their rights after being thrown out of work three weeks before Christmas 2008.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace and the Troy Area Labor Council. \n\n\n\nWorkers’ Republic(Filmmaker: Andrew Freund\, 2009\, 62 min)“When the economy fell\, they stood up.” \n\n\n\nThree weeks before Christmas 2008\, in the depths of the economic crisis\, Chicago company Republic Windows and Doors told their workforce that the factory was closing shop. Republic executives complained about dwindling sales due to the crash of the housing market. Three days later\, when the Republic employees came in to pick up their final paychecks\, they were informed that they would not be paid for their final week or receive their accrued vacation pay. Their insurance benefits were cut immediately\, and they were denied the 60-day severance guaranteed under the federal WARN Act. \n\n\n\nWhat those workers did next reverberated across the country\, reminding the working class it possesses a power long forgotten. They occupied the doomed factory 24-hours a day for six days\, declaring they would not leave until they were given what their employer owed them. \n\n\n\nWorkers’ Republic conveys the courage\, the resolve\, the creativity\, and the solidarity of those window-builders who vowed to stand up for their rights. From the opening moments to the final settlement and culminating in the surprise fate of the Chicago factory\, the film commits one of American society’s most grievous sins: speaking in favor of radical action as a solution to exploitation. \n\n\n\nFilmmaker and union steward Andrew Freund has assembled the accounts of several of the main fighters in the Republic struggle\, including front line workers\, the organizers of their tiny union United Electrical\, Radio\, & Machine Workers\, and a few of the thousands of everyday people that supported them through small acts of solidarity. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nFilmmaker Andrew Freund is an Emmy-nominated videographer whose work has appeared on PBS and Chicago television stations. He worked on the upcoming documentary film\, Immigrant Nation. Freund has produced several half-hour episodes for the non-profit\, pro-union TV show Labor Beat\, and serves as chairman of its board. He resides in Chicago and is an activist against war and domestic violence\, and uses his video skills to campaign for workers’ rights. He is an IBEW steward. His new film\, Workers’ Republic\, documents the December 2008 factory occupation of Republic Windows and Doors by its laid-off employees.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/workers-republic-with-filmmaker-andrew-freund/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091022T190000
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SUMMARY:"Orgasmic Birth" Screening and Panel Discussion with Birthnet
DESCRIPTION:In Orgasmic Birth (2009) director Debra Pascali-Bonaro shares what she calls the “best-kept secret” as we witness women in the ecstatic release of childbirth\, challenging educating cultural myths by inviting viewers to see the emotional\, spiritual\, and physical heights attainable through birth.  \n\n\n\nA panel discussion with follow the screening\, organized by Birthnet. \n\n\n\nMore about BirthNet\n\n\n\nFounded in 2000\, BirthNet is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate the public about maternity care in order to improve it. \n\n\n\nBirthNet’s goal is to encourage all women and families to learn about their rights and options during the childbearing year. Birth options\, such as where\, with whom\, and how to give birth\, are reproductive rights. \n\n\n\nWe work to improve maternity care for women of all ages\, ethnic backgrounds\, races\, religions\, abilities\, sexual orientations\, and socio-economic circumstances. \n\n\n\nBirthNet coordinates programs with our Speakers Bureau. Our primary programs include: \n\n\n\n\neducation in the classroom (middle school through college)\n\n\n\ncommunity forums or workshops\n\n\n\nmedia outreach\n\n\n\ngathering and distributing information about maternity care\n\n\n\nnetworking with professionals and policy makers\n\n\n\n\nBirthNet has endorsed the evidence-based Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative\, developed by the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services. BirthNet also supports the Midwives Model of Care.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/orgasmic-birth-screening-and-panel-discussion-with-birthnet/
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091025T120000
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! Workshop with Devorah Hill: Community Digital Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:This two-part workshop with facilitator Devorah Hill\, is aimed at organizations and citizens from the regional community\, to get their stories heard! Let us help you turn photos and narration into a video to promote your group and the work you do. Use digital storytelling as a tool for community engagement and empowerment by exploring mixed media storytelling techniques! Combine written and recorded narration\, music and still images\, to effectively communicate a compelling vision of yourself and/or your organization. We’re looking for diverse community groups\, organizations and individuals to share their stories.  \n\n\n\nThis first session lays groundwork for the finished product. Workshop Part 1: Script and Pre-production; Workshop Part Two: Post Production Work in Lab is a four hour session (by appointment between October 26th and December 5th\, 2009) with a Be The Media! artist educators or Media Alliance Staff member (Andrew Lynn\, Brenda Ann Kenneally\, Vickie Kereszi\, Branda Miller\, Bhawin Suchak\, Jamie Kay\, Chris Gang\, Nicole Belanger\, Chris Gang\, Jill Malouf\, and Steve Pierce).
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-workshop-with-devorah-hill-community-digital-storytelling/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091030T190000
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SUMMARY:Front Lines: Words of Choice
DESCRIPTION:Join us in this creative event for reproductive rights! The evening will include an excerpted reading from the newly published and acclaimed book Front Lines: Book of Plays\, a discussion with editor Alexis Greene\, as well as a creativity workshop around reproductive rights issues led by Words of Choice creator Cindy Cooper. \n\n\n\nThe New Press has just released Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women\, edited by Alexis Greene and Shirley Lauro. From the country’s leading female playwrights\, seven brilliant plays on the hot-button issues of our time. Words of Choice — in its original version — is among the seven contemporary plays from the country’s leading female playwrights on “hot-button issues” of our time. \n\n\n\nThe New Press writes: Front Lines is a pathbreaking collection of the most important\, critically acclaimed plays written by the country’s leading con-temporary female playwrights. In the preface\, Shirley Lauro writes: Ever since this country came into being\, women have waged battles for rights in the pages of their plays\, and on the stages where those plays were performed. \n\n\n\nThe Library Journal writes: Plays tell stories\, and the best ones stay with us. Compiled by theater critic Greene (Women Who Write Plays) and playwright Lauro (Open Admissions)\, the stories in this collection of critically acclaimed works by seven leading female playwrights address some of the most contentious of contemporary issues\, and they will stick in readers’ minds for a long time. Cindy Cooper’s Words of Choice looks at the issue of reproductive choice in first-person accounts\, poems\, and satire. In Elliot\, A Soldier’s Fugue\, Quiara Alegría Hudes deftly interweaves the tales of three gener-ations of Latino men who served in Korea\, Vietnam\, and Iraq. The Exonerated\, by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen\, is based on interviews with men and women on death row for crimes they did not commit. Also included are plays by Paula Vogel\, Emily Mann\, Lauro\, and Nilaja Sun. Recommended for all academic and public drama collections. \n\n\n\nWriting in the introduction\, Alexis Greene describes Words of Choice:\n\n\n\nWords of Choice\, a compilation of first-person accounts\, satiric sketches\, and poems\, illuminates the many angles from which Americans approach the issues of reproductive choice\, especially the choice of whether or not to have an abortion. Among other things\, the play is intended as a warning about the consequences of reversing the 1973 Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade\, which made abortion legal in the United States. A father describes how his daughter was assaulted and raped one Fourth-of-July evening\, as she walked home through Washington\, D.C. [originally from a book of interviews by Angela Bonavoglia.] There is an excerpt from entertainer Kathy Najimy’s stand-up comedy show Parallel Lives and a sprightly riff about an imaginary “morning-after burrito” from Taco Bell [originally from The Onion.] There is also nurse Emily Lyons’s account of being blown nearly apart by a bomb\, which antiabortionist Eric Rudolph exploded at a Birmingham\, Alabama\, women’s clinic in 1998. “I’ve been to war\,” Lyons says. “I’ve gone to hell\, and I’ve come back.” Greene begins her comments by saying\, “Playwrights have a responsibility to address the social and political issues of their time\,” and concludes with noting that the underlying political issue of all of the plays in the volume is the drive to preserve an individual’s freedom.” \n\n\n\nMore about Cindy Cooper: Cindy Cooper is an award-winning playwright and journalist in New York City. Her plays have been produced in New York\, regional theaters\, Canada and parts of Europe\, including at the Women’s Project\, Primary Stages\, Art and Work Ensemble\, the Women’s Project in Minneapolis\, Venus Theater\, and elsewhere. Among her works is How She Played the Game about six women in sports history. A member of the Dramatists’ Guild\, her plays are contained in eleven volumes\, including ‘Great Monologues for Women’ and ‘On The Edge.’ With a background as a lawyer\, she was communications director in the field of reproductive justice\, she first created ‘Words of Choice’ in 2000. Read a commentary by Cindy here: On the Road with Choice. \n\n\n\nThe following is a poem\, created by the audience during the Words of Choice event:\n\n\n\nSanctuary for Independent Media\, Troy NYPoem by Audience:Reproductive Freedom \n\n\n\nMY BODY. \n\n\n\nThe right of any person to choose whether or not to parent.Freedom for MY BODY\, my mind\, my spirit…for my own choice.The ability to decide when\, where and why.Rights to one’s own mind\, spirit\, life & livelihood! \n\n\n\nMY BODY. \n\n\n\nThe ability to make decisions on what birth control to use\, to enjoy MYSELF with the same consequences a man would have. \n\n\n\nFreedom to learn\, understand and exercise the right to decide when and whether to be a parent\, and to access quality care\, regardless of MY choices. \n\n\n\nMY BODY. \n\n\n\nThe freedom to choose how I love myself in the present & future; the freedom to choose the legacy I have.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/front-lines-words-of-choice/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Speaker,Workshop
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