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Screening of "Iraq for Sale"
Sunday, November 5, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Performance Works NorthWest, 4625 SE 67th Ave.
Phone Contact: (503) 233-0512
Sponsor North Pacific Music, Agnieszka Laska Dancers
Ticket price: $2. Donate what you can; this screening benefits the US premiere of "The Fall '01". Refreshments (non-alcoholic) and cookies!
"Lost Boys of Sudan" free film & discussion
Tuesday, November 7, 6:15pm
Hollywood Theatre, 4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd.
Wednesday, November 8, 6:15pm
Portland Community College, Cascade Campus, Moriarty Arts & Humanities Building, Room 104, 705 N. Killingsworth St.
Speakers: Megan Mylan, Isaac Chol
Phone Contact: (503) 988-5728 (Jennifer May, Central Library)
Sponsors: Multnomah Library and the World Affairs Council of Oregon
Documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees' journey from Africa to America. More information on the film: www.lostboysfilm.com. More information on the event, go to www.multcolib.org/events/lostboys.html
NW RAGE Public Meeting/Video Night
Wednesday, November 8, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
3347 SE Belmont St. Office #5
Sponsor NW RAGE (503) 239-6841
Come watch a video dealing with issues surrounding Genetic Engineering and learn how you can help put an end to it.
"Military Families Speak Out - Oregon" film premier
Saturday, November 11, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd.
Sponsor: MFSO--Oregon 503 631-2507
Join members of the MFSO/Oregon chapter at the first showing of this film. MFSO Oregon hopes this video will help our Oregon neighbors understand the true cost of the war through the stories of our loved ones. Admission free, donations accepted. www.mfso-oregon.org
"Sacred Space Denied"
Witness from the Holy Land
Sunday, November 12, 9:00am - 10:00am
Central Lutheran Church, 1820 NE 21st Ave
Speaker: Esther Nelson, moderator
Sponsor Lutherans for Justice in the Holy Land and Friends of Sabeel - North America (503) 284-2331
Video documenting the effects of Israel's illegal separation barrier on Bethlehem will be shown and followed by a group discussion.
"Behind the Mask" Screening
Thursday, November 16. 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd
Speaker Shannon Keith (503) 233-3910
Sponsors: Food Fight Grocery, Herbivore Magazine, Veganopolis, Progressive Counseling, SweetPea Baking Company, Scapegoat Tattoo, and Proper Eats
Tickets $5 available at the door or in advance at
http://www.hollywoodtheatre.org/. After spending nearly 11 years in prison for breaking into an animal experimentation laboratory to expose animal cruelty, a young man is finally released and risks it all again to save more animals. More info, contact Chad Miller: chad@foodfightgrocery or call (503) 358-5483 http:// |
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2007 G8 Benefit with Riot Cop and MDC
Thursday, November 16, 6:00 pm
Laughing Horse Books, 12 NE 10th St.
Local activists are planning to attend the 2007 G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, and seek help for their airfare to Germany in May of next year. This evening will be full of footage from previous G8 summits, music from local bands Riot Cop and MDC, and history on the G8 presented by some of the attendees and comrades. We ask for a $5 donation at the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Vegan snacks will be sold on a sliding scale donation.
Better World Nepal Benefit Concert
Friday, November 17, 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Clinton Street Theater 2522 SE Clinton St.
Speaker: outPost
Phone Contact: James Smalley 503-871-8398
Sponsor: Better World Family
Benefit and Documentary screening to fund the Better World Nepal Scholarship and Women's Literacy Program. Watch a revolution caught on film. Great local music from outPost, The Rest, Radio Vision. For $10 you can send children orphaned by political conflict to school, teach women to read, and hear great tunes.
lakota hemp doc pre-advance screening
Friday, November 17, 7:00pm
Saturday, November 18, 3:00pm
Hollywood Theatre. 4122 NE Sandy Blvd.
Speaker: Prairie Dust Films Sponsor: Film Action Oregon
Standing Silent Nation is a one-hour documentary about Alex White Plume's struggle to create an industrial hemp economy on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Suggested donation: $5 (youth) $10-$20 (adult)
For more information about the film: www.prairiedustfilms.com
Better World Nepal Fundraiser
Banquet, Documentary Screening, and Concert
Saturday, November 18, 4:00pm - 12:00am
Forest Grove, UCC and Milky Way
Speakers: outPost, The Rest, Conscious Army
Phone: James Smalley (503) 871-8398 Sponsor: Better World Family
Great Nepalese food. Help send children to private school in Nepal and help teach women to read. Great concert and a revolution caught on film.
$20 for both dinner and concert. $10 for just concert for non-students.
Please RSVP to James @ jestertf09@yahoo.com or (503) 871-8398
ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of 2006
Friday-Saturday, November 17-18; 7:30pm (also 10th and 11th)
Fifth Avenue Cinemas, 510 SW Hall Blvd
Sponsor: Portland State University Deparment of Anthropology and Archaeological Legacy Institute
Showcasing the best films from the 2006 edition of the Archaeology Channel Festival held every year in Eugene. Friday's films are: "Viking Voyages" and "The Truth of Troy." Saturday's films are films are: "The Secrets of the Karakoum" and "Queen of the Mountain."
Third Friday Live Irish Ceili Music and Dance
Friday, November 17, 8:00pm - 12:30am
P.P.A.A, 618 SE Alder (SE 6th Street)
12 years and older enjoy these great monthly events
Contact: Sam Keator (503) 691-2078 sam.keator@verizon.net
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