activism
IVAW co-founder Jimmy Massey and filmmaker Joe Stillman w/ "From Mills River to Babylon and Back"
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."
Former Staff Sergeant Jimmy 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 frickin’ 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
The Autobiography of a Black Panther w/ Robert Hillary King
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” after the state admitted his innocence and set him free.
Admission by Donation.
Submedia & Lost Film Fest: Guerilla Media Screening
On Wednesday December 3, , we welcome video/web artist and all-around culture jammer Frank Lopez of Submedia.TV (coming to us from Vancouver, BC)! His work includes the post- Katrina music video "George Bush Don't Like Black People" (downloaded over one million times and counting) and the vlog "It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine" (which highlighted the Wafaa Bilal incident last spring). He'll be presenting "Ground Noise & Static," a powerful documentary filmed in the midst of the protests at last summer's 2008 political conventions.
7PM Show - followed by a Q&A discussion
Admission by donation ($10 suggested)
PLUS.....BYOB Bye Bye Bush afterparty with best of the Anti-Bush Era Videos
wear some anti-bush clothing
About Ground Noise & Static
Eliza Gilkyson and Bob Jensen
Eliza Gilkyson has built a reputation as one of the most original and influential folk artists of our time over the course of 13 albums (most recently, "Beautiful World" on Red House Records).
Robert Jensen, whose book “All My Bones Shake: Radical Politics in the Prophetic Voice” is forthcoming on Soft Skull Press, is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin who has written extensively about foreign policy and U.S. power, as well as race and gender.
After a successful series of community events in Austin to raise these crucial issues, the two are performing and speaking in a few cities this year. $10.
