Nuclear Tipping Point is a conversation with four men intimately involved in American diplomacy and national security over the last four decades. Former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry and former Senator Sam Nunn share the personal experiences that led them to write two Wall Street Journal op-eds, in support of a world free of nuclear weapons and the steps needed to get there. Their efforts have reframed the global debate on nuclear issues and, according to the New York Times, “sent waves through the global policy establishment.”

“Nuclear weapons today present tremendous dangers, but also an historic opportunity. U.S. leadership will be required to take the world to the next stage — to a solid consensus for reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as a vital contribution to preventing their proliferation into potentially dangerous hands, and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world.” From The Wall Street Journal Op-ed by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn, January, 2007

The film is introduced by General Colin Powell, narrated by Michael Douglas and includes interviews with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Nuclear Tipping Point was written and directed by Ben Goddard and produced by the Nuclear Security Project in an effort to raise awareness about nuclear threats and to help build support for the urgent actions needed to reduce nuclear dangers. It was produced with support from NTI’s Nuclear Security Project in cooperation with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Anderson, Phineas Anderson and Stephen Stranahan.

Co-sponsored by Peace Action of CNY - FREE to the public

For more information on the Nuclear Security Project, please visit www.nuclearsecurityproject.org.

This is a call for the government of the United States to seize BP and freeze its assets. The funds should be placed in trust to begin providing immediate relief to the working people throughout the Gulf states whose jobs, communities, homes and businesses are being harmed or destroyed by the criminally negligent actions of the CEO, Board of Directors and senior management of BP.

200,000 gallons of oil a day, or more, are gushing into the Gulf of Mexico with the flow of oil growing. The poisonous devastation to human beings, wildlife, natural habitat and fragile ecosystems will go on for decades. It constitutes an act of environmental violence, the consequences of which will be catastrophic.

For about $500,000, BP could have installed a back-up valve, which would have prevented the disaster and saved the lives of the 11 workers onboard the oil rig. In the first 3 months of this year, BP made that much in pure profits every 8 minutes.

BP is hoping to ride out the wave of bad publicity and return to business as usual — and the government is doing what it can to speed this process up. Join us in organizing to make sure this doesn’t happen, and to fight for the thousands of workers who have lost their jobs and livelihoods and who now have to compete for low-wage, hazardous clean-up jobs.

Take Action Now! Visit www.seizeBP.org

FREE to the public.  Sponsored by the ANSWER Coalition.

Directed by Jean Cocteau

Surreal, visually opulent take on the famed French fairy tale pitting the virtues of inner beauty against the evils of greed.

“One of the most magical films ever made” – Film as Art.com

$5 Suggested Donation

The photographs of Ruth Putter & Mima Cataldo

photo by Ruth Putter

Opening Reception – Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 7pm

This exhibit by two of Central New York’s leading feminist photographers, Ruth Putter and Mima Cataldo, is an inspiration to present social activists, reminding us that it is critical to understand that the freedoms we enjoy in the USA were not given but rather won by constant struggle, resistance and organizing.

photo by Mima Cataldo

The exhibit covers 35 years of resistance in CNY, including photographs from their time with the women at the Seneca Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in 1982 and new work by both artists.

photo by Ruth Putter

photo by Mima Cataldo

Ellen M. Blalock, a Central New York artist, has produced a 45-minute documentary: Beyond Boundaries in Ghana. In 2006 she traveled two weeks with BB. They first traveled north to Bolgatanga. Over the years BB has built small partnerships with CENSUDI and the Single Mothers Association. BB funds several CENSUDI scholarships every year to educate girls.  BB experiences the country from Mole National Park to Cape Coast. This documentary is about how BB travels and how people are changed and moved because of their involvement with this grassroots organization.

Beyond Boundaries, founded in 1993, is a grassroots group based in Syracuse, New York, which encourages cross-cultural understanding and self-awareness. Beyond Boundaries hopes to build – in New Central New York, in the United States and abroad – modest but lasting and just relationships across cultural and class boundaries.

Ellen M. Blalock has worked on several project, The Fathers Project (young African American fathers), CNY Pride Families, and The Quilt Project, to name a few.

The $5 suggested donation will be put toward the scholarship fund.