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SUMMARY:"Upstate Girls\," A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Teenage girls from throughout the Capital Region share stories about the challenges in their lives\, gathering with representatives of the institutions with which they are entwined – including the legal\, educational\, healthcare\, and penal systems- in response to award winning photojournalist Brenda Ann Kenneally’s compelling work.  \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary will host a one day workshop to facilitate a dialogue between girls from the Upstate Girls exhibition\, other young women growing up in the Capital Region\, and the many agencies that can influence their efforts to break the cycle of post-industrial marginalization.  \n\n\n\nThe day will begin with a tour of Brenda Ann Kenneally’s award wining photographs and responses to the work. We will continue with a scrapbook workshop facilitated by young women from the neighborhood\, presentations by local change makers and breakout stations. The day will conclude with a final discussion with all participants. \n\n\n\nThis free workshop has been partially funded\, in part\, by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange. \n\n\n\nAPRIL 2nd SCHEDULE: “Upstate Girls’ Conversation”\n\n\n\n12:00- 12:30 Brenda Ann Kenneally and the Upstate Girls: Exhibition Tour \n\n\n\n12:30 Dr. NetterHolistic Doctor\, Nutritional Consultant\, Reiki Master Healer and Teacher\, Certified Professional Life Coach\, presentation: Nutrition\, how to make easy healthy meals and home healing ideas. \n\n\n\n12:50 Jenn ThompsonNon-traditional education at HVCC\, Power and orgasm (SUNY Albany PHD) \n\n\n\n1:10 Mari Shopsis\, Education Director\, Rensselaer County Historical Society: Historical Scrapbooks. *The Upstate Girls Scrapbooks will be entered into the Rensselaer County Historical Society archive! \n\n\n\n1:30 Stations and Informal Conversations \n\n\n\nSmoothies and Trail Mix Stations: Karissa Centanni: Education Coordinator\, Honest Weight Food Coop: Nutrition and Low-budget Tips \n\n\n\nScrapbook Station:                                                                                                                       Dana Aftab and the Upstate Girls \n\n\n\nPress interviews \n\n\n\n2:10 Blue Carreker\, VP of Public Affairs and Marketing\, and Megan Carol\, Sexual Health Educator\, Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood: Reproductive health information \n\n\n\n2:30 Q Diamond\, Program DirectorCapital District Gay and Lesbian Community Council \n\n\n\n2:50 Lisa Frisch\, Executive Director\, The Legal Project: Free and low cost legal services  \n\n\n\n3:10  Alysa Cole\, Family Health Advocates: AdvocacyWhy Upstate Girls voices are important; how they can be heard \n\n\n\n3:30 Wrap up conversation\, Upstate Girls: Moving Forward
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/upstate-girls-a-conversation/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show,Panel Discussion,Workshop
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SUMMARY:"Shoot an Iraqi: Life\, Art and Resistance Under the Gun" with Artist Wafaa Bilal
DESCRIPTION:“Virtual Jihadi” artist returns to Capital Region with new book. Wafaa Bilal braves fear of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Troy censorship to speak again! Iraqi-American digital artist Bilal’s new book Shoot an Iraqi: Life\, Art and Resistance Under the Gun tells the story of the Domestic Tension project that placed him 24/7 on the receiving end of a paintball gun accessible online to a global audience – and what really happened on his infamous visit to Troy last spring.  \n\n\n\nThis presentation is co-sponsored by Women Against War. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPress Release:\n\n\n\nWafaa Bilal has exhibited his art world wide\, and traveled and lectured extensively to inform audiences of the situation of the Iraqi people\, and the importance of peaceful conflict resolution. \n\n\n\nHe will be speaking about\, and signing copies of\, his new book “Shoot an Iraqi: Life\, Art and Resistance Under the Gun” (City Lights)\, about his experiences as an Iraqi-American living in the United States. \n\n\n\nAccording to a review in Publisher’s Weekly\, “Weaving together accounts of Iraq and America\, art and violence\, performance and reality\, past and present\, this gripping account all but shakes the reader by the lapels.” \n\n\n\nBilal’s 2007 dynamic installation “Domestic Tension” placed him on the receiving end of a paintball gun that was accessible online to a worldwide audience\, 24 hours a day. Newsweek called the project “breathtaking” and the Chicago Tribune called the month-long piece “one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time\,” and named Bilal its 2007 Artist of the Year. \n\n\n\nBilal has exhibited worldwide including in Baghdad\, the Netherlands\, Thailand and Croatia; as well as at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago\, the Milwaukee Art Museum and various other US galleries. His residencies have included Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga\, California; Catwalk in New York; and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. \n\n\n\nIn March 2008\, his installation at RPI called “The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi” drew controversy when a few Campus Republicans demanded its closure.  RPI President Shirley Jackson responded by ordering the art work removed from campus\, leading to accusations of politically-motivated censorship and widespread condemnation. \n\n\n\nThe exhibit was offered sanctuary off-campus at The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, a community-based media center in north Troy. \n\n\n\nRensselaer County Republican Majority Leader Bob Mirch\, who was at the time employed by former State Senate Republican Majority Leader Joseph Bruno\, led a protest against the exhibit surrounded by his employees from the City of Troy’s Department of Public Works.  The next day\, City of Troy code enforcement officials under his supervision ordered the building closed. \n\n\n\nThe resulting public outcry\, which included an angry protest outside Troy City Hall\, resulted in donations of tens of thousands of dollars to support The Sanctuary for Independent Media and an outpouring of volunteers. \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary for Independent Media–whose programming was hosted in exile by supportive local churches\, small businesses and other organizations–re-opened a month later\, in April 2008. \n\n\n\nThe Capital Region branch of the New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a notice of claim against the City of Troy in preparation for a possible lawsuit. \n\n\n\nIn “The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi\,” Bilal casts himself as a suicide-bomber in the game.  After learning of the real-life death of his brother in the war\, he is recruited by Al Qaeda to join the hunt for Bush. \n\n\n\n“Virtual Jihadi” is meant to bring attention to the vulnerability of Iraqi civilians to the travesties of the current war and racist generalizations and stereotypes as exhibited in games such as “Quest for Saddam” along with vulnerability to recruitment by violent groups like Al Qaeda because of the U.S.’s failed strategy in securing Iraq. The work also aims to shed light on groups that traffic in crass and hateful stereotypes of Arab culture with games like Quest for Saddam and other media. \n\n\n\nAccording to Bilal\, “In these difficult times\, when we are at war with another nation\, it is our duty as artists and citizens to improvise strategies of engagement for dialogue. This platform is a piece of fiction that uses the video game format to create alternative narratives and perspectives.” \n\n\n\n“Because we inhabit a comfort zone far from the trauma of conflict zone\, we Americans have become desensitized to the violence of war. We are disconnected\, disengaged while many others do the suffering. The game holds up a mirror that reveals our own propensities for violence\, racism and propaganda. We can close our eyes\, our ears and deny that it exists\, but the issue won’t go away.” \n\n\n\nWafaa Bilal was born in Iraq on June 10\, 1966. Because a member of his family had been accused of disloyalty to his country\, Wafaa was denied the opportunity to pursue his dream of being an artist. Instead\, he was to attend college to major in geography. While in college\, he continued to pursue his art and was arrested and tortured for his political art work against Sadaam Hussein. \n\n\n\nShortly after the Gulf War\, Wafaa was inspired by President Bush’s message to the Iraqi citizens that if they attempted to overthrow Sadaam\, the U.S. would stand behind them. He became involved in organizing opposition to the government and was scheduled for arrest and execution when he escaped into Kuwait. There he was accused of being a spy and was close to being shot when his student ID convinced them he told the truth. \n\n\n\nWafaa was sent to a refugee camp on the Kuwaiti border. In the camp\, people laughed when rather than accept life in a tent he began forming brick that he dried in the sun and fashioned into a home. The adobe served a practical purpose\, for it provided relative safety from abduction by Kuwaiti soldiers who sneaked into tents in the middle of the night to kidnap young people for sale to Iraqi soldiers who tortured\, raped and executed them or the Turkish soldiers themselves would rape and kill them. \n\n\n\nFor two years\, Wafaa lived in limbo not knowing if each day would be his last. Still Wafaa worked to improve his art\, cleaning toilets in the camp to earn the money for art supplies\, buying supplies for children for art therapy to help them to work through the horrors witnessed. His experiences developed within him an abhorrence of violence and oppression and strengthened his inner resolve. \n\n\n\nIn 1992\, Wafaa came to the United States and took classes to learn English. Then\, he began art studies at the University of New Mexico where he excelled. His art is of a political nature that speaks to oppression of the human spirit\, including that of women who are bound by the rules of culture. He has won many awards for his art as well as a scholarship to the Chicago Institute of Art for post graduate study. He is now teaching at New York University in New York City.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/shoot-an-iraqi-life-art-and-resistance-under-the-gun-with-author-wafaa-bilal/
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SUMMARY:The Autobiography of a Black Panther with Robert Hillary King
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hillary King became a member of the Black Panther Party while in prison for a crime he did not commit\, where he remained in solitary confinement for 29 years as one of the Angola 3. He wrote From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther: Robert Hillary King (2008) after the state admitted his innocence and set him free.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Albany Political Prisoner Support Coalition. \n\n\n\nPress Release\n\n\n\nIn 1970\, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He became a member of the Black Panther Party while in Angola State Penitentiary\, successfully organizing prisoners to improve conditions. In return\, prison authorities beat him\, starved him\, and gave him life without parole after framing him for a second crime. He was thrown into solitary confinement\, where he remained in a six by nine foot cell for 29 years as one of the Angola 3. In 2001\, the state grudgingly acknowledged his innocence and set him free. This is his story. \n\n\n\nIn his recently published autobiography\, “From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King\,” King begins his story at the beginning:  born black\, born poor\, born in Louisiana in 1942\, King journeyed to Chicago as a hobo at the age of 15. He married and had a child\, and briefly pursued a semi-pro boxing career to help provide for his family. Just a teenager when he entered the Louisiana penal system for the first time\, King tells of his attempts to break out of this system\, and his persistent pursuit of justice where there is none. \n\n\n\nYet this remains a story of inspiration and courage\, and the triumph of the human spirit. The conditions in Angola almost defy description\, yet King never gave up his humanity\, or the work towards justice for all prisoners that he continues to do today. “From the Bottom of the Heap\,” so simply and humbly told\, strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society\, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome. \n\n\n\nReviews: \n\n\n\n“For a person to go through 29 years in one of the most brutal prisons in America and still maintain his sanity and humanity\, that’s what makes people want to listen to Robert.”–Malik Rahim Co-Founder of Common Ground Collective \n\n\n\n“As a brush with death sharpens life\, a lifetime of confinement can broaden the vision…”–Austin American Statesman \n\n\n\n“The case of the Angola Three has the potential of laying bare\, exposing the shortcomings\, in the entire US system.”– Kgalema Motlante\, a leader of the African National Congress in South Africa \n\n\n\n“Friendships are forged in strange places. My friendship with Robert King and the other two Angola 3 men Herman Wallace and  Albert Woodfox is based on respect. These men\, as Robert reveals in this stunning account of his life\, have fought tirelessly to redress injustice\, not only for themselves\, but for others. This is a battle Robert is determined to win and we are determined to help him.”–Gordon Roddick\,  Co-founder of The Body Shop and activist \n\n\n\n“When there is a train wreck\, there is a public inquiry\, to try to avoid it recurring. Robert King’s conviction was a train wreck\, and this book is perhaps the only way the world will get to understand why. There are more than 3\,000 people serving life without the possibility of parole in Angola today\, some as young as 14 when they were sent there\, and many of them innocent but without the lawyer to prove it. We owe it to them\, and others in a similar plight around the world\, to read this book.”–Clive Stafford Smith\, Director\, Reprieve
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-autobiography-of-a-black-panther-with-robert-hillary-king/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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SUMMARY:"From the Ground Up" with Filmmaker Su Friedrich
DESCRIPTION:Wake up and smell the global economy with acclaimed filmmaker Su Friedrich as she takes you from Guatemala to South Carolina to New York City to see how her morning cup of coffee has passed through the hands\, and lives of countless people. With few words\, From the Ground Up shows how an ordinary cup of coffee occupies center stage in the world economy.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Honest Weight Food Co-op. \n\n\n\nTraveling with the filmmaker of “From the Ground Up” from Guatemala to South Carolina to New York City and seeing each phase of coffee production unfold—the growing\, picking\, processing\, distribution\, brewing and selling—one comes to understand that most products we use have passed through the hands\, and lives\, of countless people in numerous countries. \n\n\n\nAs the world’s second most traded commodity after oil\, it’s all about the coffee\, and about everything else we consume\, consume\, consume… \n\n\n\n“With deep intelligence and a very light touch\, Friedrich invites you to wake up and smell the global economy.” —Stuart Klawans \n\n\n\n“Hands\, over and over again. The fast hands of women\, children’s hands\, calloused workers’ hands\, the groomed hands of gentlemen\, the manicured hands of ladies: coffee junkies have no idea how many hands the beans pass through\, and how much manual labor goes into that one cup which is supposed to wake you up and bring you pleasure\, or which you carelessly spill… Friedrich seems to allow her camera to simply observe\, even while she juxtaposes the under-age coffee pickers and their hundred-pound baskets with the plantation owner’s thoroughbred horse\, or counterposes the many bare-footed little children with the large mansion. But her mostly unimpeded view lets the spectator think independently.” —Magdalena Miedl\, BIORAMA \n\n\n\nSu Friedrich has produced and directed eighteen 16mm films and digital videos\, including From the Ground Up (2007)\, Seeing Red (2005)\, The Head of a Pin (2004)\, The Odds of Recovery (2002)\, Hide and Seek (1996)\, Rules of the Road (1993)\, First Comes Love (1991)\, Sink or Swim (1990)\, Damned If You Don’t (1987)\, The Ties That Bind (1984)\, Gently Down the Stream (1981)\, and Cool Hands\, Warm Heart (1979). With the exception of Hide and Seek\, Friedrich is the writer\, director\, cinematographer\, sound recordist and editor of all her films. \n\n\n\nFriedrich’s films have won many awards\, including BEST NARRATIVE FILM AWARD at the Athens International Film Festival\, OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY FEATURE at Outfest in Los Angeles\, SPECIAL JURY AWARD at the New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival\, GRAND PRIX at the Melbourne Film Festival\, the GOLDEN GATE AWARD at the San Francisco Film Festival and BEST EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE AWARD at the Atlanta Film Festival. Her work is widely screened in the United States\, Canada and Europe and has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Rotterdam International Film Festival\, The London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival\, The Stadtkino in Vienna\, the Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver\, the National Film Theater in London\, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln\, Nebraska\, the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema\, the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival\, the First Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Film Festival\, the Cork Film Festival in Ireland\, the Wellington Film Festival in New Zealand\, The Bios Art Center in Athens\, Greece\, and the Anthology Film Archives in New York. \n\n\n\nFriedrich is the recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts (1996)\, an Independent Television Service production grant (1994)\, an NEA Fellowship (1994)\, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1990)\, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1989)\, a DAAD grant as artist-in-residence in Berlin (1984)\, as well as multiple grants from the New York State Council on the Arts\, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation \n\n\n\nHer work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art\, the Art Institute of Chicago\, the Royal Film Archive of Belgium\, the Centre Pompidou in Paris\, the National Library of Australia\, as well as many university libraries. The films are distributed by The Museum of Modern Art\, Outcast Films\, Canyon Cinema\, The Canadian Filmmaker’s Distribution Center\, Light Cone in Paris and the Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek in Berlin. \n\n\n\nThe films have been reviewed in numerous publications\, including Variety\, Premiere\, The Village Voice\, Artforum\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, Film Quarterly\, The Millennium Film Journal\, Sight and Sound\, Flash Art\, Cineaste\, The Independent\, Heresies Art Journal\, Afterimage\, and The L.A. Weekly. Essays on her work as well as excerpts from her scripts have appeared in numerous books\, including Women’s Experimental Cinema (2007)\, 501 Movie Directors (2007)\, Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream (2005)\,Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde\, 1943-2000 (2002)\, Left In the Dark (2002)\,  The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (2002)\, Girl Director: A How-To Guide (2001)\, Collecting Visible Evidence (1999)\, Experimental Ethnography (1999)\, The New American Cinema (1998)\, Play It Again\, Sam (1998)\, Film Fatales (1998)\, Cinematernity (1996)\,  Screen Writings (1994)\, Women’s Films (1994)\, Queer Looks (1993)\, Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies (1993)\, Vampires and Violets (1992)\, and Critical Cinema: Volume Two (1992). \n\n\n\nHer DVD collection is distributed by Outcast Films.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/from-the-ground-up-with-filmmaker-su-friedrich/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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SUMMARY:"Two Wheels Good" Bike Movie Screening
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate bike month with “Two Wheels Good\,” an evening of short bicycle-themed movies curated by Andrew Lynn and members of the Troy Bike Rescue collective to make you laugh\, cry\, think\, and-most importantly – get out and ride! Featuring Shooting Stars (Jee Udell); Ski Boys (Benny Zenga); DIY Emancipation 101 (Lynn Robinson); B.C. Clettes vs. SexyBack (B.C. Clettes); Millar’s Tale (Nigel Dick); and The Pies of March (Pete Shapiro).  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Troy Bike Rescue and the New York Bicycling Coalition. Valet bike parking available. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPress Release\n\n\n\nFrom competitive mountain biking\, to urban “alleycat” racing\, to daily commuting\, bike polo\, and Critical Mass\, the program includes videos from a variety of makers\, and spans genres from documentary to narrative to animation to sports films to art and music videos. \n\n\n\nSome of the featured films and videos include: \n\n\n\nShooting Stars by Jeff UdellA snapshot of the high-energy lives of female downhill bike racers as they competed on the 2004 North American race circuit. The 2003 and 2004 US National Champion\, Marla Streb\, narrates this short film. \n\n\n\nSki Boys by Benny ZengaThe lost reels of the Cow Town Ski Boys\, which document their inventive exploits during the early 70’s. For the first time ever\, this film reveals the footage of these “folk stunt” artists to the public\, despite the implications of rewriting history and blowing your mind. \n\n\n\nDIY Emancipation 101 by Lynn RobinsonAn animated short about bicycles and women’s liberation. \n\n\n\nB.C. Clettes vs. SexyBack by B.C. ClettesHelmets are in and the B:C:Clettes\, make them sexier than ever! \n\n\n\nMillar’s Tale by Nigel DickDavid Millar\, one time prologue winner of the Tour de France\, talks about his fight against doping and his future with Slipstream Sports. \n\n\n\nThe Pies of March by Pete ShapiroThe Time’s Up! Bicycle Clown Brigade went out once again to liberate the new bike lanes throughout downtown Manhattan…. this time armed with pies! \n\n\n\nThe idea for a bicycle film night was inspired by the recent success of ongoing festivals like Filmed By Bike\, in Portland OR and the Bicycle Film Festival\, which has grown from an annual show in NYC to a global event in over 17 cities around the world.  By showcasing art about bicycles\, the organizers hope to promote bicycling as a form of environmentally friendly transportation\, build the local cycling community\, and simply get people excited about getting out and riding.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/two-wheels-good-bike-movie-screening/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:"Race Course Against White Supremacy\," with Authors Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn
DESCRIPTION:Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers\, the former Weatherman-turned-professor (at the University of Illinois in Chicago)\, was best known for his lifelong commitment to social justice before being drawn into a Republican smear campaign directed at presidential candidate Barack Obama. Race Course Against White Supremacy\, the new book he wrote with wife Bernardine Dohrn (noted Northwestern law professor\, head of the Children and Family Justice Center in Chicago\, and also a former leader of the Weatherman)\, should cement their reputation as two of the country’s preeminent progressive thinkers.  \n\n\n\nAs pundits ponder the Obama presidency’s impact on racism\, the veteran political activists argue that white supremacy is alive and well in the United States. The two will discuss how systemic racial inequality in the criminal justice system\, education\, and housing illustrate the powerful pull of bigotry in our country. \n\n\n\nArguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days—and that it is still very much with us—their new book draws upon the authors’ own confrontations with authorities during the Vietnam era\, reasserts their belief that racism and war are interwoven issues\, and offers personal stories about their lives today as parents\, teachers\, and reformers. \n\n\n\nSays Ayers and Dohrn: “This book is the result of a provocation and an invitation. Our neighbor\, the poet Haki Madhubuti\, said to us over dinner one evening\, ‘As people who’ve worried and wondered about racism most of your lives\, you really ought to write it up and write it down.’ Write it up\, write it down—that sounded almost perfect. Our imperfect understanding of racism and white supremacy\, of oppression and exploitation\, of resistance and liberation\, has been a roller-coaster affair\, off-road and cross-country\, a racecourse and demanding endurance. We’ve experienced moments of clarity as well as long patches of uncertainty\, folly\, and ignorance. We’ve encountered obstacles\, made choices—not always good ones…” \n\n\n\n“Having made an extraordinary journey together from Sixties militants to accomplished scholars\, Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers bring to the subject of race a special sensibility.  If you think\, as a liberal or radical\, that you are sophisticated about race\, you will be surprised\, as I was\, at how much you can learn from this important book. The authors intertwine their own experiences as community organizers with a brilliant analysis—both historical and contemporary—of the edifice of white supremacy in the United States. Their work is a troubling challenge to white people to examine\, not only the world round them\, but their own psyche\, their own behavior\, and to act accordingly.” – Howard Zinn\, author of “The New Abolitionists” and “A People’s History of the United States” \n\n\n\n“I’m glad this book exists. It’s a unique blend of personal memoir\, historical analysis of race in America\, and polemic\, and if race matters\, and if personal commitment to overcoming racism matters\, then this book matters. Future historians of the evolution and stubborn persistence of anti-racist\, anti-imperialist radicalism in America from the late ’60s to the early 21st century will have to read Race Course.” – Russell Banks \n\n\n\n“At a time when Americans are congratulating themselves on electing the first African American president\, this is an important book that traces the history of endemic racism here and its current manifestations not in airy generalizations but in concrete stories\, episodes\, facts.  Anyone who believes we have become colorblind ought to read this.  It is a vehement call to change the way we think\, speak and act about race in America\, with many specific suggestions–for instance how to improve our schools and deal with juvenile offenders.” – Marge Piercy\, poet and novelist \n\n\n\nBill Ayers\n\n\n\nWilliam Ayers\, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)\, and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society\, teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research\, urban school change\, and teaching and the modern predicament. A graduate of the University of Michigan\, the Bank Street College of Education\, Bennington College\, and Teachers College\, Columbia University\, Ayers has written extensively about social justice\, democracy and education\, the cultural contexts of schooling\, and teaching as an essentially intellectual\, ethical\, and political enterprise. \n\n\n\nAyers worked with Mayor Richard M. Daley and a wide range of activists and civic leaders in shaping Chicago’s school reform agenda\, and was one of three co-authors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge\, a 1995 initiative that brought $49.2 million over five years for public school reform; and in 1997 he was named Citizen of the Year in Chicago. Since 1999 he has served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago\, an anti-poverty\, philanthropic foundation established as the Woods Charitable Fund in 1941\, and was chair of the board for three years. He is vice-president of the curriculum division of the American Educational Research Association\, and a member of the executive committee of the UIC Faculty Senate. \n\n\n\nAyers’ articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review\, the Journal of Teacher Education\, Teachers College Record\, Rethinking Schools\, The Nation\, Educational Leadership\, the New York Times and the Cambridge Journal of Education. His books include A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press\, 1997)\, Fugitive Days: A Memoir (Beacon Press\, 2001\, 2008)\, The Good Preschool Teacher: Six Teachers Reflect on Their Lives\, (Teachers College Press\, 1989)\, and To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher\, (Teachers College Press\, 1993) which was named Book of the Year in 1993 by Kappa Delta Pi\, and won the Witten Award for Distinguished Work in Biography and Autobiography in 1995. On the Side of the Child: Summerhill Revisited (Teachers College Press\, 2003)\, Teaching the Personal and the Political: Essays on Hope and Justice (Teachers College Press\, 2004)\, and Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom (Beacon Press\, 2004); with Gloria Ladson-Billings\, Pedro Noguera\, and Gregory Michie\, City Kids/City Schools: More Reports From the Front Row (The New Press\, 2008); and with Bernardine Dohrn\, Race Course: Against White Supremacy  (Third World Press\, 2009). He lives in Hyde Park\, Chicago\, with his wife\, Bernardine Dohrn. \n\n\n\nBernardine Dohrn\n\n\n\nBernardine Dohrn\, activist\, academic and child advocate\, is Director of the Children and Family Justice Center and Clinical Associate Professor of the Northwestern University School Law\, Bluhm Legal Clinic. Dohrn was a national leader of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and the Weather Underground\, and was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List for over a decade. \n\n\n\nShe is co-author\, with Bill Ayers\, of Race Course: Against White Supremacy and co-editor of Sing A Battle Song: Documents of the Weather Underground\, and wrote the introduction to Letters from Young Activists. She is an author and co-editor of two books: A Century of Juvenile Justice (2002) and Resisting Zero Tolerance:  A Handbook for Parents\, Teachers and Students  (2001) and the author of I’ll Try Anything Once: Using the Conceptual Framework of Children’s Human Rights Norms in the U.S.\, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (forthcoming); Something’s Happening Here: Children and Human Rights Jurisprudence in Two International Courts\, UNLV L. Rev. (Summer 2006); “The Cultivation of Fear and Criminalization” in Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire (2004); “All Ellas: Girls Locked Up” in Feminist Studies (Summer 2004); and “Look Out Kid/It’s Something You Did! Zero Tolerance for Children” in The Public Assault on America’s Children: Poverty\, Violence\, and Juvenile Injustice (2000). \n\n\n\nDohrn teaches children’s rights and international human rights law at Northwestern and is a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and Leiden University faculty of law in the Netherlands.  She writes and lectures on international human rights law\, war and peace\, racism and justice\, children in conflict with the law\, extreme sentencing of young people\, torture\, family violence and school law.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/race-course-against-white-supremacy-with-authors-bill-ayers-and-bernardine-dohrn/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090523T210000
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SUMMARY:Live from Lock One with Taína Asili y la Bande Rebelde\, plus The Ameros
DESCRIPTION:This show is the first of a regular series called “Live From Lock One\,” documenting some of the most creative local artists on the live music scene. Each of the performances will be recorded with a studio audience and streamed live. “Live From Lock One” takes its name from the Federal Dam in Troy\, a structure built across the Hudson River a block from The Sanctuary for Independent Media. The location of the dam marks the northern end of the Hudson River estuary; it is the first lock encountered by vessels passing from the Hudson River into the Great Lakes by way of the Barge Canal. The inaugural concert features Taína Asili y la Bande Rebelde and The Ameros. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTaína Assili y la Bande Rebelde \n\n\n\nTaína Asili y La Banda Rebelde features soulful vocals laid over a unique infusion of rock\, neo-soul\, reggae\, hip hop\, and Afro-Caribbean sounds. The band’s eclectic style represents the diversity of its band members\, who have origins in Puerto Rico\, Sicily\, Greece\, Brazil and Tanzania. Taína Asili carries a fire breathing voice of profound passion and uncompromising spirit\, seeking to inspire personal and political transformation through her words and music! \n\n\n\nTaina Asili – VocalistGaetano Vaccaro – Guitar/SaxaphoneKiki Vassilakis – DrumsSean Muniz – Bass \n\n\n\nThe Ameros \n\n\n\nThe Ameros are an Albany-based rock band\, not to be confused with the “Amero” coins allegedly being minted by the government for use by a secret economic union of the U.S.\, Mexico and Canada! \n\n\n\nJesse Calhoun – Lead Vocals / Rhythm GuitarKawari – Lead Guitar / Back up VocalsSean Muniz – Bass/VocalsKiki Vassilakis – Percussion \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Live From Lock One” takes its name from the Federal Dam in Troy\, a structure built across the Hudson River a block from The Sanctuary for Independent Media.  The location of the dam marks the northern end of the Hudson River estuary; it is the first lock encountered by vessels passing from the Hudson River into the Great Lakes by way of the Barge Canal.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/live-from-lock-one-with-taina-asili-y-la-bande-rebelde-plus-the-ameros/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Rock Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090606T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090606T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T175518Z
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SUMMARY:"From Mills River to Babylon and Back" with Filmmaker Joe Stillman and IVAW co-founder Jimmy Massey
DESCRIPTION:The Sanctuary for Independent Media and Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace welcome filmmaker Joe Stillman and Iraq Veterans Against the War co-founder Jimmy Massey for a screening of the new documentary\, From Mills River to Babylon and Back… The Jimmy Massey Story. This film chronicles the life of former Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey and examines the political\, legal\, moral\, and human rights implications of the war. Massey\, a 12-year Marine veteran\, served in Iraq in 2003. He witnessed and in some cases participated in the killing of innocent civilians. The Iraqis were just doing their normal routines he says\, and they were getting blasted for it. He began to speak out to his superiors and was eventually diagnosed with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. He won an honorable discharge in December 2003.  \n\n\n\nThis film chronicles the life of Jimmy Massey and examines the political\, legal\, moral\, and human rights implications of the war. It was shot in fourteen different states from 2005-2009.  \n\n\n\nThe documentary features Martin Sheen (actor/human rights activist)\, Ramsey Clark (former U.S. Attorney General)\, Cindy Sheehan (founder of the Gold Star Families)\, Congressman Dennis Kucinich \, Father Roy Bourgeois (founder of the School of the Americas Watch)\, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter\, Kelley Dougherty (Executive Director of Iraq Veterans Against the War)\, Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright\, Dr. Ed Tick (post-traumatic stress disorder expert)\, and Congresswoman Maxine Waters. \n\n\n\nThe film shows Jimmy’s early life and the tragic death of his father\, his decision to enlist in the marines due to economic conscript\, illicit recruiting tactics that target single parent families by recruiters (Massey was a Marine recruiter)\, weapons of mass deception\, depleted uranium use and its effects on soldiers and civilians\, the administration’s rush to war and taking back our democracy are some of the topics which are discussed in the documentary. \n\n\n\n“Jimmy Massey has paid an incredible price to tell the truth about the real war in Iraq but he would do it again in a heartbeat. I believe it’s particularly important for parents and young people especially\, to understand the tactics military recruiters will use to fill their quotas at the expense of the youth in our communities. This project has opened my eyes to many of the facts that Jimmy has raised and the tragedy of an ongoing war that didn’t have to be fought. I sadly learned\, for instance\, that the U.S. has dropped massive amounts of depleted uranium\, used in ammunition and bombs\, in Iraq and Afghanistan since the first Gulf War and that it is presently having disastrous effects on our returning military personnel and especially on the civilian populations in those countries.  This documentary offers a critical perspective by a veteran which helps the world understand the real implications of what our soldiers are up against in Iraq and Afghanistan and how those conflicts have affected innocent civilians.” – Joseph C. Stillman Producer/Director
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/from-mills-river-to-babylon-and-back-with-filmmaker-joe-stillman-and-ivaw-co-founder-jimmy-massey/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090926T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091212T235959
DTSTAMP:20220313T181757Z
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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:20090926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090926T230000
DTSTAMP:20230705T180900Z
CREATED:20090926T175000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T180900Z
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SUMMARY:Kombucha Tea Party\, Screening of "Where Are You Go\," and Live Music
DESCRIPTION:The Sanctuary kicks off its Fall 2009 season with a permaculture project opening with tea party\, a great new film\, and three live bands!  \n\n\n\nBeginning at 6 PM\, a Kombucha tea party will celebrate the opening of our new outdoor Vertical Mushroom Garden\, a permaculture exhibit designed by Sara Worden and installed with help from Jack Magai. At 7 PM there will be a screening of Where Are You Go\, a new film from directors Benny Zenga and Brian Vernor about their four-month\, 7\,000 mile bicycle adventure between Cairo and Cape Town with the Tour d’Afrique\, one of the world’s longest bicycle races and expeditions.  \n\n\n\nCo-Sponsored by Troy Bike Rescue and the New York Bicycling Coalition. \n\n\n\nFour months on a bicycle between Cairo\, Egypt and Cape Town\, South Africa is not your typical African safari.  En route with the Tour d’Afrique\, one of the world’s longest bicycle races and expeditions\, the Zenga Brothers (Canada) and Brian Vernor (USA) make light of this physically daunting trip by sharing a universal love of the bicycle with Africa’s roadside mechanics\, sporting racers\, and innumerable curious strangers.  \n\n\n\nTraveling more than 70 miles per day\, 50 racers and expedition riders experienced the boundless Nubian desert of Sudan\, the great majesty of Victoria Falls\, and finally the cold rush of the Atlantic Ocean.  \n\n\n\nWhere Are You Go captures the 7\,000 mile expedition as a constant adventure full of playfulness and mysterious beauty\, and is a testament to the endurance of human curiosity \n\n\n\nFollowing the screening will be live music by Restys\, My Survival Kit\, and Charlie Don’t Surf.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/kombucha-tea-party-screening-of-where-are-you-go-and-live-music/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091002T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091002T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T181138Z
CREATED:20091002T173400Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091004T170000
DTSTAMP:20230705T181401Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091006T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091006T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091017T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091018T235959
DTSTAMP:20230705T182307Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091017T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T182140Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091022T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T182524Z
CREATED:20091022T161800Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091025T170000
DTSTAMP:20220708T150359Z
CREATED:20091025T160200Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091030T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T183331Z
CREATED:20091030T152400Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091107T220000
DTSTAMP:20230705T183547Z
CREATED:20091107T231100Z
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SUMMARY:Indymedia 10th Anniversary Film Festival: Where Do We Go from Here?
DESCRIPTION:Ten years after the Battle of Seattle and the explosion of global grassroots citizen journalism\, known as Indymedia\, the legacy reverberates in villages\, cities\, and countrysides around the world.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for a retrospective screening of seminal Indymedia films\, including\, This is What Democracy Looks Like\, Indymedia Showcase\, Fourth World War\, A Tribute to Brad Will and plenty of others. The film festival will go all day on Saturday November 7\, 2009\, will include a potluck dinner with Indymedia guests\, and will end with Iranian-American singer Haale’s psychedelic Sufi trance rock!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/indymedia-10th-anniversary-film-festival-where-do-we-go-from-here/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Performance,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091107T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091107T220000
DTSTAMP:20230705T184001Z
CREATED:20091107T233000Z
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SUMMARY:Haale: Psychedelic Sufi Trance Rock
DESCRIPTION:Psychedelic Sufi Trance rock returns to the Sanctuary! To conclude the 10th Anniversary Indymedia Film Festival\, the Persian-American poet/singer/songwriter will perform at 9 pm. Drawing on Persian mystical and American folk traditions\, Haale weaves engaging lyrics and trance-inducing melodies in a rare solo acoustic set.  She will sing new songs as well as songs from her album No Ceiling\, hailed by the Boston Globe as “one of the most memorable releases of 2008.” \n\n\n\nDrawing on Persian mystical and American folk traditions\, Haale weaves engaging lyrics and trance-inducing melodies in a rare solo acoustic set.  She will sing new songs as well as songs from her album No Ceiling. \n\n\n\n“Haale is… a star on the rise… her raw sound owes as much to ’60s psychedelic rock as it does to the ancient Middle East…” WASHINGTON POST \n\n\n\n“[Haale] sings with a supple\, blissful Persian flair and the intensity of an arena rocker.” BOSTON GLOBE \n\n\n\nHaale (as in halle-lujah or jalepeno)\, is a Bronx-born woman of Iranian descent whose name means the “halo around the moon.” \n\n\n\nShe released two mesmerizing EPs in January 2007: Morning and Paratrooper– and spent the year touring across the country and in Europe\, at venues such as the Bonnaroo Festival\, SXSW\, and the Mimi Festival in France. She performed at David Byrne’s Nonesuch-sponsored series at Carnegie Hall\, recorded with Sean Lennon (on Before the Skies)\, and shared the stage with such diverse artists as the legendary Hugh Masekela and Odetta. \n\n\n\nOn the breathtaking full-length debut\, No Ceiling Haale explores themes of transformation and evolution\, singing in English and Persian through a riveting soundscape of percussion\, psychedelic guitars\, and soaring strings.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/haale-psychedelic-sufi-trance-rock/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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