PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER OF EASTERN MAINE

SUNDAYS SPRING 2005  

The Education Committee has prepared a very exciting Spring 2005 Peace & Justice Center Film Series. Our monthly film series has been one of our most successful offerings ever since the Center was founded in 1988.

Part of Peace & Justice Center's annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, this film on Native Americans in Maine confronts us with continuing racism.

Critical role music played in South African struggle against apartheid from 1948 to 1994.”This documentary is a marvel, an extraordinary achievement. While it is the story of South Africa, the message is universal. Not one person should miss this film. Not one.” (Dave Matthews) Part of Black History Month.

Famed Indian activist Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things and An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, gave this address on war, resistance, and the presidency to the American Sociological Association in August 2004. Part of Women’s History Month.

“World Bank, IMF and Corporate Water’s Pressure on Developing Countries to Commodity Water,” this 2004 film by Tom Jackson focuses on struggles of Nicaraguan people against water “privatization.” Part of Earth Week.

Extraordinary film captures U.S.-backed, attempted coup d'état of elected president Hugo Chavez, the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington’s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba."

Entertaining, hard-hitting film analyzes the very nature of the corporate institution, its impacts on planet, and how people are responding. Features Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, Howard Zinn and Milton Friedman and over 30 other corporate insiders and critics