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SUMMARY:Galen Joseph-Hunter & Tom Roe of free103point9 on “Transmission Arts” 
DESCRIPTION:Galen Joseph-Hunter and Tom Roe will discuss the field of “Transmission Arts\,” and free103point9. Free103point9 has an array of goals toward which it is perpetually working\, each ultimately focused on expanding the scope of radio’s possibilities and advancing the genre of Transmission Arts. The nonprofit organization’s online radio transmissions introduce audiences to aggressive and challenging contemporary music and also include diverse sets like Field Recordings (found sounds\, weird abstract noise) and live performances from artists visiting free103point9’s new Greene County\, NY Wave Farm site. A pioneering Transmission Arts presenter\, free103point9 originated in Brooklyn\, in 1997\, as a quasi-collective of artists\, musicians\, and community members dedicated to providing an airwave alternative to corporate radio.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/galen-joseph-hunter-tom-roe-of-free103point9-on-transmission-arts-%ef%bf%bc/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060406T210000
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SUMMARY:“Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony” 
DESCRIPTION:Lee Hirsch’s 2002 film Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony documents South African musicians\, playwrights\, poets and activists as they recall the struggle against apartheid from the 1940s to the 1990s that stripped black citizens of South Africa of basic human rights\, and the important role that music played in that struggle. The documentary uses a mixture of interviews\, musical performances and historical film footage. Among the South Africans who take part are Miriam Makeba\, Abdullah Ibrahim\, Hugh Masekela\, Vusi Mahlasela and others. The freedom songs heard in the film have an important historical context. Particularly in the United States\, freedom songs have referred to protest songs of the abolitionist\, civil rights\, and labor movements. Yet\, in South Africa\, the songs take on a different meaning\, referring to a unique collection of songs tied to the struggle for racial equality during the 20th century. Stylistically\, freedom songs originated in choir as a unifying and prevalent genre that combined southern African signing traditions with Christian hymns. Most of the songs have simple melodies and are sung a cappella. More importantly\, they are composed and sung in groups\, and often reflect changing political circumstances and attitudes. The film is bookmarked by the exhumation of the remains of Vuyisile Mini\, trade union organizer\, member of the African National Congress\, and composer of “Beware Verwoerd” and other protest songs. Mini was executed by the apartheid regime in 1964.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/amandla-a-revolution-in-four-part-harmony/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060330T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060330T210000
DTSTAMP:20230109T023759Z
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SUMMARY:"Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage" with Filmmaker and Author Heather Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Author and filmmaker Heather Rogers will screen her documentary on the political history of rubbish in the United States\, “Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage” and talk about her new book of the same name. Every day a phantasmagoric rush of spent\, used and broken riches flows through our homes\, offices\, and cars. The U.S. is the planet’s number one producer of garbage\, and over the past 30 years America’s garbage output has doubled. Rogers explains that\, despite popular wisdom\, this torrent of trash is not primarily the responsibility of the individual consumer\, instead it’s the outcome of a free market system that needs waste to maintain high consumption levels. To understand the roots of today’s waste-addicted culture\, Rogers examines the grisly\, oddly fascinating underworld of trash.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/gone-tomorrow-the-hidden-life-of-garbage-with-filmmaker-and-author-heather-rogers/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060329T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060329T210000
DTSTAMP:20230109T023811Z
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SUMMARY:Bread and Puppet Theater Presents: "How to Turn Distress Into Success: A Parable of War and Its Making"
DESCRIPTION:How to Turn Distress into Success: A Parable of War and its Making is a funny\, poignant\, radical\, occasionally violent response to the 9/11 attacks\, filtered through the coolest puppets you’ll ever see. It’s a layered event; a commentary on a puppet administration\, put on by puppet masters who\, more than just about anyone\, know exactly what it means to be anything but.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/bread-and-puppet-theater-presents-how-to-turn-distress-into-success-a-parable-of-war-and-its-making/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060323T190000
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DTSTAMP:20230109T023746Z
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SUMMARY:Prometheus Radio Project Presents "The Spectrum Roadshow"
DESCRIPTION:The creation of the Low Power FM radio service stands as one of the greatest successes in recent efforts for grassroots media reform. As a result\, hundreds of new low power community stations are broadcasting that otherwise would not be—operated by civil rights groups\, schools\, farmworker organizations\, environmentalists\, cultural organizations\, and others. Low power radio has allowed nonprofits in the United States to re-imagine and revitalize their relationship with media; and this has set the stage for a dramatic expansion of civil society into the world of radio station operations. The Prometheus Radio Project was founded in 1998 by activists working within social change movements such as housing\, environmentalism\, health care\, anti-war\, and criminal justice reform. The success of these movements was limited by corporations’ ownership and control of media\, who used their power to suppress debate on vital issues. Prometheus continues to support dozens of low power stations with their day-to-day operations. We have helped over a hundred groups to apply for full power radio licenses in the 2007 filing opportunity\, and assisted dozens in the 2010 application window. Over 120 interns and volunteers have worked with Prometheus over the past 10 years\, emerging as community leaders and activists in the fight for participatory media.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/prometheus-radio-project-presents-the-spectrum-roadshow/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060322T190000
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SUMMARY:"Quantum Leaps" with Video Curator Astria Suparak
DESCRIPTION:Quantum leap\, a physics term deriving from the mid 1900s indicating significant and swift advances (originally via a sudden shift in energy within an atom)\, became the title of an early 1990s American television series featuring a time traveling\, body-swapping\, do-gooder scientist. In 2006 this inspirational screening of new video follows suit\, cataloguing heroes\, compressing history\, and hallucinating futures. The Quantum Leaps program\, curated and presented by Astria Suparak\, features videos by Daniel Barrow\, Philippe Blanchard\, Dearraindrop\, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby\, Jim Finn\, Caroline Koebel\, J. Macdonell\, Jim Munroe\, Liz Rosenfeld\, Seth Price\, Andy Puls. Also exhibited are silk-screened posters\, journals\, zines by: Celebrate People’s History\, Lady Scientist\, LTTR.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/quantum-leaps-with-video-curator-astria-saparak%ef%bf%bc/
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060306T190000
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SUMMARY:"The Trouble With Music" with Author Mat Callahan
DESCRIPTION:Mat Callahan’s The Trouble with Music (2005) explores the crisis facing music. The signs are everywhere\, from the saturation of public space by tuneful trivia to the digital downloading controversy. Quantity has replaced quality. The number of units sold is now the criteria by which music is judged and high-gloss\, mass-produced\, low-content music is everywhere. You can’t shop\, eat\, ride a bus or see a movie without hearing it as each day you are inundated with enticements to buy it. Like the replacement of essential nutriment by junk food\, music lovers are expected to surrender their critical faculties and consume the phony McMusic that can be more effectively controlled and profitably sold than the genuine article. Callahan unravels and elucidates the crises facing music as well as its liberatory potential.  \n\n\n\nThe Trouble with Music includes discussions of: technology and its effects on music making and listening; superabundance and the absence of critical thought; the development of radio; music criticism; copyright; the digital domain and the Internet; labor and music making; and the special relationships among words\, dance\, politics and music. A large segment of the general public seeks a relationship to music and an exceptional profit for those who own and control it. Callahan provides a means of evaluating music and a powerful critique of the music industry. Whether you whistle at work\, sing in the shower or conduct concertos\, this book will challenge and enhance how you think about music. Includes introductions by musician and Dischord Records founder\, Ian Mackaye; Rock and Rap Confidential editor\, Dave Marsh; and an afterward by Boff\, from the multimillion selling group Chumbawamba. Mat Callahan has been a composer\, musician\, engineer and producer for 40 years.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/author-mat-callahan-the-trouble-with-music-03-06-06/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060302T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060302T210000
DTSTAMP:20220303T170413Z
CREATED:20220303T170412Z
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SUMMARY:"Tying the Knot" with Filmmaker Jim de Séve
DESCRIPTION:Jim de Séve’s 2004 documentary Tying the Knot digs deeply into the meaning of marriage today. From an historical trip to the Middle Ages\, to gay hippies storming the Manhattan marriage bureau in 1971\, this eye-opening exploration of the embattled institution looks at rights\, privilege and love as gay activists and right-wing politicos lock horns in the fight for marriage.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/tying-the-knot-with-filmmaker-jim-de-seve/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060220T210000
DTSTAMP:20220303T161134Z
CREATED:20220303T161134Z
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SUMMARY:Prison Activist Robina Courtin and "Chasing Buddha"
DESCRIPTION:Chasing Buddha (2000) is a documentary by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson about Robina Courtin\, an Australian ex-Catholic\, ex-political activist and feminist who has been a Buddhist nun since 1978. Teaching Buddhism around the world\, she shatters the stereotype of a Buddhist nun\, her intense and direct style leaving an indelible impression on everyone she meets. In the heart of America’s bible belt\, Robina visits Kentucky State Penitentiary\, guiding death row inmates and others on the path to enlightenment. Determined to harness their minds and deal with their violent crimes\, they inspire Robina to work even harder at her own rigorous spiritual practice. Courtin-Wilson’s uncompromising films have screened at festivals including Sundance (Chasing Buddha)\, Cannes (Cicada\, 2009) and the Venice Film Festival (Hail\, 2011).
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/prison-activist-robina-courtin-and-chasing-buddha/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060213T210000
DTSTAMP:20220302T175401Z
CREATED:20220302T175400Z
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SUMMARY:Steve Kurtz of the Critical Arts Ensemble Speaking on “Art and Discipline”
DESCRIPTION:This lecture was built upon the following premises: first\, any action within the cultural landscape performed from a minoritarian position will be perceived by authority as contestational act; and second\, once challenged any or all of a variety of disciplinary agents will be sent to restabilize the discourses of the status quo through the managing or silencing of resistant cultural production. Steve Kurtz is a founding member of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). CAE is a collective of tactical media practitioners of various specializations\, including computer graphics and web design\, wetware\, film/video\, photography\, text art\, book art\, and performance. Formed in 1987\, CAE’s focus has been on the exploration of the intersections between art\, critical theory\, technology\, and political activism. The collective has performed and produced a wide variety of projects for an international audience at diverse venues ranging from the street\, to the museum\, to the Internet. Critical Art Ensemble has also written five books\, and has just released its sixth work Marching Plague: Germ Warfare and Global Public Health. Kurtz is an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY\, Buffalo.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/steve-kurtz-of-the-critical-arts-ensemble-speaking-on-art-and-discipline/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060209T210000
DTSTAMP:20220302T173227Z
CREATED:20220302T173226Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: "Land Mines: A Love Story"
DESCRIPTION:Dennis O’Rourke’s latest documentary Land Mines: A Love Story (2004) is part observational and part essay – driven by a polemic that is both angry and subtle\, and a damning portrayal of the human costs of war. Land Mines is a compelling anti-war film set in Afghanistan\, a country that has become synonymous with conflict. It is also a story of romance and a celebration of life\, hope and love. The film tells the story of Habiba and Shah. Shah\, a former Mujaheddin soldier and land mine victim\, works as a cobbler on the pavements of the ruined city of Kabul. One day\, he noticed a pretty Tajik girl who had only one leg\, and he began to court her. Amidst the chaos and violence\, and despite all the obstacles of tradition and religion\, Shah and Habiba were able to marry. O’Rourke has received numerous awards for his filmmaking including the Director’s Prize for Extraordinary Achievement at the Sundance Film Festival. His films include the award-winning Cunnamulla and The Good Woman of Bangkok.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-land-mines-a-love-story/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060208T210000
DTSTAMP:20220302T172317Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: "Home\," with Filmmakers Jeffrey Togman and Pierre Defendini
DESCRIPTION:Home (2005) will be presented by director Jeffrey Togman and cinematographer Pierre Defendini. On a gang-controlled\, dead end street\, Sheree Farmer is raising her six children alone. With the help of Mary Abernathy\, a former fashion industry executive turned community activist\, Sheree struggles to buy her first home and escape her violent and drug-infested Newark neighborhood. Home follows these two exceptional women in an intimate story that speaks to the future of America’s cities. The film had its world premiere at the SilverDocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival (now AFI Docs)\, where it won a Special Jury Recognition Award. The documentary was an official selection of the Margaret Mead Film Festival. The New York Times called Home a “marvelously revealing documentary about the psychology of poverty.” Jeffrey M. Togman is an American filmmaker and political scientist and a long-time member of the faculty at Seton Hall University\, where he is associate professor of political science and film. Home was co-produced and filmed by Pierre Defendini.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-home-with-filmmakers-jeffrey-togman-and-pierre-defendini/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060208T210000
DTSTAMP:20220302T165656Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: "Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan\," "Children of the Decree"
DESCRIPTION:Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (Petr Lom\, 2005) is the first film to document the custom of bride kidnapping\, an ancient marriage tradition in Kyrgyzstan\, a former Soviet Republic in Central Asia. When a Kyrgyz man decides to marry\, he often abducts the woman he has chosen. Typically\, he and several friends hire a car\, stake out his bride-to-be’s movements\, snatch her off the street\, and take her to the groom’s family home. A delegation is then sent to her family. The abducted woman is held until someone from her family arrives to determine whether they will accept the “proposal” and she will agree to marry her kidnapper. Bride Kidnapping documents in harrowing detail four such abductions\, from the violent seizures on city streets and the tearful protests of the women\, who are physically restrained and persuaded to accept their fate by the women of the groom’s family\, to the often tense negotiations between the respective families\, and either the eventual acquiescence or continued refusal of the young women. \n\n\n\nChildren of the Decree (Florin Iepan\, 2004): “Procreation is the social duty of all fertile women\,” was the political thinking during the 1960s and 1970s in Romania. In 1966\, Ceaucescu issued Decree 770\, in which he forbade abortion for all women unless they were over forty or were already taking care of four children. All forms of contraception were totally banned. The New Romanian Man was born. By 1969\, the country had a million babies more than the previous average. Thousands of kindergartens were built overnight. Romanian society was rapidly changing. By using archival footage and excerpts from old fiction films as well as by interviewing famous persons from that time\, the Iepan revives the period of tremendous oppression. Many deaths were caused by the mere fact that women\, including wives of secret Romanian agents\, famous TV presenters and actresses\, had to undergo illegal abortions. Many women were jailed for having abortions done to them. Some died by using awkward abortion methods\, like injecting mustard or lemon juice into the uterus. Sex life was no fun anymore. Nevertheless\, Romania had a demographic boom and hosted a world conference on population in 1974.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-bride-kidnapping-in-kyrgyzstan-children-of-the-decree/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060201T210000
DTSTAMP:20220302T164155Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival's Kathy Brew Presents: "Ryan\," "Nalini by Day\, Nancy by Night\," "Phantom Limb"
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival co-director Kathy Brew visits The Sanctuary For Independent Media to present a selection of shorts. \n\n\n\nRyan is a 2004 Oscar®-winning animated short by Chris Landreth\, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It is a biography of Ryan Larkin\, former animator for the NFB. Larkin was in his heyday one of the many genius animators who worked for the NFB; his 1968 animated short Walking was nominated for an Oscar\, losing to Disney cartoon It’s Tough to Be a Bird. However\, addictions to alcohol and cocaine cost him his job with the NFB and eventually left him homeless\, begging for spare change on the streets of Montreal. The short consists of Landreth interviewing Larkin at a Montreal homeless shelter. The short is notable for its deeply odd style of 3-D animation. The people appearing in the short\, namely Larkin\, Landreth\, and some of Larkin’s old acquaintances\, are represented by highly stylized\, mangled versions of themselves\, with pieces missing from each of them as means of representing emotional and artistic trauma. \n\n\n\nNalini by Day\, Nancy by Night (2005) is an insightful documentary by filmmaker Sonali Gulati which explores complex issues of globalization\, capitalism and identity through a witty and personal account of her journey into India’s call centers. Gulati\, herself an Indian immigrant living in the US\, explores the fascinating ramifications of outsourcing telephone service jobs to India—including how native telemarketers take on Western names and accents to take calls from the US\, UK and Australia. A fresh juxtaposition of animation\, archival footage\, live action shots and narrative work highlight the filmmaker’s presence and reveal the performative aspects of her subjects. With fascinating observations on how call centers affect the Indian culture and economy\, Nalini by Day\, Nancy by Night raises important questions about the complicated consequences of globalization.   \n\n\n\nPhantom Limb (2005) director Jay Rosenblatt states: “The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of their child and the entire family experienced indescribable pain. Phantom Limb uses this personal story as a point of departure. Whether it is a loss through death or divorce\, the stages of grieving are the same. Individuals often go through denial\, anger\, bargaining\, depression and\, ultimately\, some kind of acceptance\, in order to heal. The film is loosely structured according to these stages. Interspersed throughout this poetic documentary are interviews with a cemetery owner\, a phantom limb patient and an author of a book about evidence for life after death. Phantom Limb reminds viewers that while grief is painful and isolating\, it is a reminder to each of us that life is impermanent.”
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-with-kathy-brew-ryan-nalini-by-day-nancy-by-night-phantom-limb/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060126T210000
DTSTAMP:20220302T161042Z
CREATED:20220302T161041Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: "Awake Zion"
DESCRIPTION:Awake Zion (Monica Haim) is a documentary that explores the unsuspecting connections between Rasta\, Reggae\, and Judaism\, through one woman’s beat-laden adventure into the meaning of identity. All the way back to the alleged sultry affair between the Jewish King Solomon and the African Queen of Sheba\, Jewish influence is evident in the spiritual history of Ethiopia – turning up subtly in Rastafarian lifestyle and then\, inevitably\, in reggae. Consider that one of the first reggae songs ever broadcast on radio was called “Israelites” – or that Rastas and Orthodox Jews take cues from identical passages of the bible on matters of faith\, prayer\, and dietary and sexual ethics. Most notable\, however\, is the ever-present theme of “Zion” that runs deeply in both cultures – the notion of a common longing for repatriation – be it to a spiritual\, or physical\, homeland. Unravelling the story of this unlikely kinship\, Awake Zion unites Jewish and Jamaican musicians\, scholars\, and historians in a celebration roots and culture – traveling from Crown Heights\, Brooklyn\, where Caribbean and Jewish cultures share a history of adversity – to Jamaica\, the birthplace of reggae – and ultimately to Israel\, where a sizzling reggae scene thrives today. Awake Zion examines the preconceptions of what it means to be Jewish\, what it means to be Rasta\, what it means to be white or black – and\, most importantly\, the universal search for what it means to be “home”.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-awake-zion/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060125T210000
DTSTAMP:20220302T160130Z
CREATED:20220302T160129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T160130Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: "Al Otro Lado"
DESCRIPTION:Thousands of people try to cross the Mexico/U.S. border every year. Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side) directed by Natalia Almada\, tells the human story behind illegal immigration and drug trafficking between the U.S. and Mexico through the eyes of Magdiel\, a 23-year-old fisherman and aspiring composer who dreams of a better life. For people south of the border\, the “other side” is the dream of an impossibly rich United States\, where even menial jobs can support families and whole communities that have been left behind. For people north of the border\, Al Otro Lado sheds light on harsh choices that their neighbors to the south often face because of economic crisis. As movingly chronicled in Al Otro Lado\, Natalia Almada’s debut feature\, the border is a place where one people’s dreams collide with another people’s politics\, and the 200-year-old tradition of corrido music vibrantly chronicles it all. In fact\, if you really want to understand what is happening on the U.S./Mexico border\, listen to the corridos\, troubadour-like ballads that have become the voice of people whose views are rarely heard in mainstream media.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-al-otro-lado/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060123T210000
DTSTAMP:20220302T154828Z
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SUMMARY:Journalist Dahr Jamail of Iraq Dispatches
DESCRIPTION:In late 2003\, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people\, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself\, where he has spent more than one year in Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr has also reported from Syria\, Lebanon\, Turkey and Jordan. He has also reported extensively on veterans’ resistance against US foreign policy\, and is now focussing on anthropogenic climate disruption and the environment. Dahr’s stories have been published with Truthout\, Inter Press Service\, Tom Dispatch\, The Sunday Herald in Scotland\, The Guardian\, Foreign Policy in Focus\, Le Monde\, Le Monde Diplomatique\, The Huffington Post\, The Nation\, The Independent\, Al Jazeera\, and The New York Times\, among others. Dahr’s stories have been published with Truthout\, Inter Press Service\, Tom Dispatch\, The Sunday Herald in Scotland\, The Guardian\, Foreign Policy in Focus\, Le Monde\, Le Monde Diplomatique\, The Huffington Post\, The Nation\, The Independent\, Al Jazeera\, and The New York Times\, among others.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/journalist-dahr-jamail-of-iraq-dispatches/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060119T210000
DTSTAMP:20220302T154053Z
CREATED:20220302T154053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T154053Z
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SUMMARY:"Aftershock: American Voices\," Presented with Members of SUNY Albany’s Campus Greens and Campus Action
DESCRIPTION:Shot in Washington DC on January 20\, 2005\, Aftershock: American Voices (Bob Grey\, Anne Derwent) chronicles counter inaugural events. It is an inspirational piece featuring such anti-war notables as Celeste Zappala\, of the Gold Star Families For Peace and independent journalist Amy Goodman. The film also features performance pieces by Billionaires For Bush and the Raging Grannies and music by Sweet Honey In The Rock and Addek\, with all artists lending their unique social perspectives. These segments are interwoven with quotes from founding fathers and prominent US citizens. While much has transpired since the inauguration\, not much has changed.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/aftershock-american-voices-presented-with-members-of-suny-albanys-campus-greens-and-campus-action/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20051208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20051208T210000
DTSTAMP:20230109T023542Z
CREATED:20220228T234436Z
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SUMMARY:"Operation: Dreamland" with Filmmaker Garrett Scott
DESCRIPTION:Occupation: Dreamland is an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Fallujah during the winter of 2004. A collective study of the soldiers unfolds as they patrol an environment of low-intensity conflict creeping steadily towards catastrophe. Filmmakers Garrett Scott and Ian Olds were given access to all operations of the Army’s 82nd Air- borne. They lived with the unit 24/7\, giving voice to soldiers held under a strict code of authority as they cope with an ambiguous\, often lethal environment. The result is a revealing\, sometimes surprising look at Army life\, operations and the complexity of American war in the 21st century.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/operation-dreamland-with-filmmaker-garrett-scott/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20051201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20051201T210000
DTSTAMP:20230109T023550Z
CREATED:20220301T143730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T023550Z
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SUMMARY:Gringo-thon: The Films of Greg Berger
DESCRIPTION:Greg Berger’s award-winning films and lectures address critical social and political issues concerning grassroots movements in Mexico\, as well as relations between the United States and Mexico.  His films include serious\, raw documentaries from the front lines  of Mexico’s radical progressive movements as well as humorous fiction satirizing transnational political issues characterized by “Gringotón\,” Berger’s absurd “revolutionary tourist” alter-ego (Gringo-thon). A benefit the Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/gringo-thon-the-films-of-greg-berger/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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