anti-war

Get ready for the Fall 2009 production season at The Sanctuary for Independent Media!

Featuring a wide-ranging schedule of activist writers and poets, photographers and filmmakers, multi-media artists and musicians, join diverse communities networking through creative action!  Share in the fun with Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men!, get inspired with Kathy Kelly and Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and join in the critical discourse...

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Join us before this event, at 6:00 p.m., for a potluck! We'll share food, stories, and information!

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Nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize, peace activist Kathy Kelly offers an eye witness account and a message of hope through creative non-violence. 

Built around tangible community responses to the casualties of war, this multi-media event networks members of the local peace, justice, Iraqi refugee, veteran, and artist communities.

During the event, Kathy Kelly and the audience will view a screening premiere of local digital stories, and then have a dialogue with their creators.  Groups featured include:

--the Iraqi refugee immigrant young women with Iraqi Children's Art Exchange and Iraqi Family Project

--Women Against War

--Schenectady Unitarians Social Action group

--Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace

We will also be introduced to the Fort Drum Soldiers Billboard project, and artist Suzanne Opton.

This coalition-building program is part of the nationwide Peaceable Assembly Campaign, which seeks an end to the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

6:30- 7:00  Nina Berman Artist Reception (sponsored by the Honest Weight Food Coop)

Join us during this artist's reception, and have an opportunity to view this great exhibition and meet Nina personally before the event begins!

7:00- 9:00 Nina Berman multi-media presentation and conversation with Kathy Kelly, followed by a poetry reading by Albany Veterans for Peace

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Acclaimed photo-journalist Nina Berman, internationally known for her photographs of wounded American military, will share a multi-media presentation and discuss her exhibit "Evidence and Fantasy: Militarism in American Life" with legendary peace activist Kathy Kelly. Berman will discuss work from her series "Purple Hearts," "Marine Wedding," and "Homeland."

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

Author, anti-war activist, prisoner of conscience and chairman of the board of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Camilo Mejia will speak about his experiences and his book "Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejía" at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7 PM. Admission is by donation ($10 suggested, $5 student/low income). The Sanctuary for Independent Media is located at 3361 6th Avenue in north Troy (at 101st Street). Call (518) 272-2390, email info@MediaSanctuary.org, or visit www.MediaSanctuary.org for directions and more information.