Events
ONGOING ACTIVITIES
WEEKLY PEACE VIGIL
Friday 5:30-6PM
50 N Main Street, Logan, UY
PEACE WORKS! FILM SERIES (details below)
Shown at Unitarian Universalist Church
596 E 900 N; Logan Utah
Peace Works! Film Series // Friday September 12
PEACE WORKS! FILM SERIES 08
Presented as a community service for all who want to explore issues of social justice through film and informal discussions led by guest teachers.
Time: 7 p.m.
596 East 900 North; Logan, Utah
Unitarian Universalist Church
Free – (Donations are welcome)
Friday September 12
Why We Fight
Director: Eugene Karecki – 2005 Sundance Grand Jury Documentary Prize – U: Describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex and its fifty-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 Invasion of Iraq. In every decade since World War II, the American public were told a lie, in order for the Government (incumbent Administration) to take them to war, in order to fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world. Interviewed about this matter, are politician John McCain, political scientist and former-CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, politician Richard Perle, reporter William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione. Why We Fight documents the consequences of said foreign policy with the stories of a Vietnam War veteran whose son was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and who then asked the military to write the name of his dead son on any bomb to be dropped in Iraq; an that of a twenty-three-year-old New Yorker who enlists in the United States Army because he is poor and in debt, his decision impelled by his mother’s death; and a military explosives scientist who arrived to the U.S. as a refugee girl from Vietnam in 1975. – Wickipedia Review
Guest: Dr. Michael Sweeney from the USU journalism dept is a historian of wartime censorship and has taught classes on propaganda, persuasion, and censorship.
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TUESDAY MAY 27
STAND UP AGAINST THE IMMORALITY
of the Bush/Cheney administration
SATURDAY April 19
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People
Director: Sut Jhally - 2007 - U - 90 m
This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent film to today’s biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, shows how the persistence of these images over time has served to naturalize prejudicial attitudes toward Arabs and Arab culture, in the process reinforcing a narrow view of individual Arabs and the effects of specific US domestic and international policies on their lives. By inspiring critical thinking about the social, political, and basic human consequences of leaving these Hollywood caricatures unexamined, the film challenges viewers to recognize the urgent need for counter-narratives that do justice to the diversity and humanity of Arab people and the reality and richness of Arab history and culture. Viewer Discretion Advised: Contains graphic violent language & imagery
-Media Education Foundation Review
Guest: Dr Nuri Tinaz, Fulbright Scholar/Visiting Professor, USU Dept of History & Religious Studies. (Turkey/UK)
Friday May 2
Peace One Day
Director: Jeremy Gilley - 2006 - U - 80 m
Have you ever wondered if individuals can make a difference? Then you will be amazed by the drive of Jeremy Gilles who in this documentary puts his life and passion behind his dream to globally establish a day of ceasefire and peace. Jeremy writes to every head of state and Peace Nobel Laureates about his dream. He meets Kofi Annan at the UN, the Dalai Lama and many presidents. If you are somehow interested in a better world then this movie is for you! To see Jeremy’s drive and the ups and downs of this campaign are incredible. –Jurgen Nagler
Guests: Brenda Chung and Pat Easterling of Logan Friends Meeting (Quakers)
Download the complete 2008 film schedule
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PAST EVENTS:
activism: an american heritage – March 21-22, 2008
Cache Valley Peace Works invite you to join us in these following event marking the
5th Anniversary of the Iraq War // Friday, March 21
9AM - 6:30PM, American Friends Service Committee’s Eyes Wide Open Exhibit, Utah: USU Taggart Student Center; International Lounge or plaza outside TSC, weather permitting.
See www.afsc.org/eyes for details on this exhibit
6:30PM-7PM: Closing ceremony of Eyes Wide Open Exhibit, transition from exhibit grounds to movie
7PM: Movie: “A Soldiers Peace”, 7PM, USU Eccles Science Learning Center 130 (the Emert Auditorium). See www.soldierspeace.com for details on this movie.
8:30PM: moderated panel discussion: “Activism, an American Heritage”.
Saturday, March 22 -
1:30PM: Peace Walk starting and ending at grounds of the Historic County Courthouse, 199 N, Main Street
3PM: Movie: “A Soldiers Peace”, Logan City Hall Council Chambers, 255 North Main Street
Sponsors to date:
Cache Valley Peace Works
Logan Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Cache Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Utah State University Departments of Journalism and Communication Department, Political Science, History, Sociology/SocialWork/Athropology, Women & Gender Studies Program, the Honors program, and USU College Democrats. Square One Printing. Advent Creative Marketing Group. Laughing Sangha of Cache Valley. Utah Bioneers. Veterans for Peace (Nikko Schoch Chapter 118)