Directed by Linda Hattendorf

Th3 Thursday After-Party

Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy’s painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of friendship and art, this documentary won the Audience Award at its premiere in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. This event is made possible from the collaboration between roji tea lounge and Syracuse Japanese Meetup group.

$5 suggested donation

Celebrating LGBTQ Pride…

Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

(The Celluloid Closet & The Times of Harvey Milk)

Narrated by Rupert Everett. Documentary on the 10-15,000 German men imprisoned by the Third Reich for being gay; about 4,000 survived.  Rare interviews with seven of only nine living survivors.

“…admirable and deeply unsettling.” – NY Times

$5 Suggested Donation

The PeaCe eNCaMPMenT HeRSToRy PRoJeCT presents:

photo copyright Ruth C. Putter

Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice

The Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice·was an all-women’s community of protest and challenge to violence and militarism housed on 52 acres bordering the Seneca Army Depot in upstate New York. WEFPJ was an all-women’s community of protest and challenge to violence and militarism housed on 52 acres bordering the Seneca Army Depot in upstate New York. Commonly known as the Seneca Women’s Peace Camp or Seneca, the encampment was modeled after the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in England (1981-2000) where hundreds of British sisters were creating nonviolent protest in the face of the scheduled deployment of U.S. Cruise missiles.

In the summer of 1983, 12,000 women from around the world participated in nonviolence trainings, direct actions and civil disobedience at Seneca resulting in 950 arrests. In 1994 the encampment transitioned into Women’s PeaceLand, an intentional community whose purpose was to promote and implement the principles of peace, nonviolence and anti-oppression. This is their story.

“Every Woman Here is eminently watchable” – Nancy Keefe Rhodes

$5 suggested donation

Celebrating LGBTQ Pride…

Directed by Patricia Rozema

Antic mishaps of a gay girl in love with an uppity lady art dealer make this “a soaring anthem to the world’s unsung.” - Washington Post.

Cannes: Youth Award

$5 Suggested Donation

A Cuban Film Festival (A Benefit for Pastors for Peace)

For over 20 years Pastors for Peace has challenged US policy toward Cuba by traveling to Cuba with material aid and promoting people to people contact. These films are not easily available and provide a range of perspectives on Cuba.

Film Schedule:

2 pm •   The Man of Two Havanas (Cuba and Miami) (2008) With a childhood filled with bombings and assassination attempts on her father, the filmmaker explores her relationship with him and the Cuba he left behind. Top Pick, Tribeca Film Festival.

4 pm •   Alicia Alonso – profile of a Cuban dance legend. One of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century has headed the Cuban National Ballet since the Revolution. See her dance in Cuba as well as a profile.  Also a 60 Minutes interview.

6 pm •   Mission Against Terror – The Cuban Five; they gathered information on violent anti-Cuban groups in Miami and presented it to the FBI, who instead of prosecuting the violent, arrested them!

7 pm •   Comandante. Oliver Stone interviewed Fidel Castro for 30 hours, in preparation for this HBO film which has never been shown.

8:45 pm • Pastors for Peace – shorts of past Cuba Caravans.

9:30 pm• Memories of Underdevelopment. A Cuban film classic by the director of “Strawberry and Chocolate.”

Join us again on July 8th,2010 when the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba comes to Syracuse!
May Memorial UU Society, 3800 East Genesee St.
6:30 PM: dessert, refreshments and conversation.
7:15 PM: Presentation by Pastors for Peace with:
Jim Bowman, a 67-year-old retired Juvenile Probation Officer, developed an interest in the Cuban Revolution as a high school student.  A caravanista in 2006, Jim speaks about the philosophy of Pastors for Peace: community organization, non-violent resistance to unjust laws, civil disobedience, the importance of people-to-people relationships, and sharing our time and material goods with those who lead lives of considerable deprivation due to the unjust policies of the US Government vis-a-vis the Cuban people.

Sponsored by the May Memorial Social Justice Committee
For more information, contact Doug: digelsrud@twcny.rr.com
For more information on the Caravan: www.ifconews.org