Friday, January 13, 2012, 6:30 to 9:30 PM
(Note Early Start time)
FILM: “I AM” (77 min, Tom Shadyac, 2011)
TRANSITION FRIDAY!  …An evening focused on resilient community and positive solutions at a local level!
The Transition Focus Will Be On The Concept Of “Heart & Soul”
WITH GUESTS:     
Jun Akutsu with Ions Group Indira's Rainbow
Karen Stocker, Counselor, singer, artist, & storyteller with One Sky Wellness
Cathy Tuttle with Sustainable Wallingford

We are also exceptionally pleased to be able to start the evening with a poem entitled "I AM", read by its author, MARY KELLY GREENE.
I AM is an engaging non-fiction film posing two practical and provocative questions: What’s wrong with our world? And what can we do to make it better?  
Director Tom Shadyac (‘Ace Ventura’, ‘Bruce Almighty’) in contrast to his other films, set out on a twenty-first century quest for enlightenment, meeting with a remarkable variety of men and women from the worlds of science, philosophy, academia, and faith – including such luminaries as David Suzuki, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and others.
I AM takes the audience to places it has never been before, and presents even familiar phenomena in completely new and different ways: The heart, not the brain, may be man’s primary organ of intelligence, and human consciousness and emotions can actually affect the physical world. Contrary to conventional thinking, cooperation and not competition may be nature’s most fundamental operating principle. 
Here consensus decision-making is shown as the norm amongst many species, from insects and birds to deer and primates, and that humans actually function better and remain healthier when expressing positive emotions, such as love, care, compassion, and gratitude, versus their negative counterparts, anxiety, frustration, anger and fear.
I AM isn’t as much about what you can do, as who you can be.  And from that transformation of being, action will naturally follow. The message is as simple as it is significant:  "We are all connected – connected to each other and to everything around us."
Please join us following the film for a facilitated community discussion with our guests.
Download the Flyer HERE.
See the trailer at: iamthedoc.com.
Check out Warren Ethredge's HighBar interview with director, Tom Shadyac: HERE
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, December 9, 2011, 6:30 to 9:30 PM
Film: A SELECTION OF FILM EXCERPTS ON “DIRECT DEMOCRACY” - With a focus on Occupy Seattle. …How Do We Best Connect The Occupy Movement With the Neighborhoods?  
"Transition Friday" : Positive Solutions At a Local Level
The state of the economy, the enormous disparity in wealth and opportunity we experience in this country and rest of the world, and the lack of a government truly responsive to the majority of its citizens are of devastating impact to us individually and as a nation. The Occupy Movement seeks a major transformation to a participatory democracy in the economy as well as in the government that will serve us all.
Tremendously important information is being discussed and developed and there needs to be a way that this can be shared with everyone. But the opportunities to participate in and support this movement are limited to the time and energy individuals struggle to make available.
This evening, we’ll hear about the Occupy Seattle Movement directly from participants, discuss why it’s important to all of us, and explore effective ways we can empower our communities in actively becoming part of this movement.
Facilitated discussion follows with participants from Occupy Seattle, Sustainable Wallingford and Transition Seattle.
More information on Occupy Seattle: http://occupyseattle.org/
Info on Occupy Wall Street: http://occupywallst.org/
Info on Transition Seattle: http://transitionseattle.com/
Info on Sustainable Wallingford: http://greenwallingford.ning.com/
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, December 2, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film:"PLAY AGAIN" (80 min, Tonje Hessen Schei, 2010)
WITH GREG LEMIEUX FROM GROUND PRODUCTIONS, THE FILMMAKER
One generation from now most people in the U.S. will have spent more time in the virtual world than in nature. New media technologies have improved our lives in countless ways. Information now appears with a click. Overseas friends are part of our daily lives. And even grandma loves Wii.
But what are we missing when we are behind screens? And how will this impact our children, our society, and eventually, our planet? At a time when children play more behind screens than outside, PLAY AGAIN explores the changing balance between the virtual and natural worlds. Is our connection to nature disappearing down the digital rabbit hole?
This moving and humorous documentary follows six teenagers who, like the “average American child,” spend five to fifteen hours a day behind screens. PLAY AGAIN unplugs these teens and takes them on their first wilderness adventure – no electricity, no cell phone coverage, no virtual reality.
Through the voices of children and leading experts including journalist Richard Louv, sociologist Juliet Schor, environmental writer Bill McKibben, educators Diane Levin and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, neuroscientist Gary Small, parks advocate Charles Jordan, and geneticist David Suzuki, PLAY AGAIN investigates the consequences of a childhood removed from nature and encourages action for a sustainable future.
As we stand at a turning point in our relationship with earth, we find ourselves immersed in the gray area between the natural and virtual worlds. From a global perspective of wonder and hope, PLAY AGAIN examines this unique point in history.
Join us for this incredible film, followed by a community discussion with the filmmaker. See the trailer and great resources at: http://playagainfilm.com/.
Please help us get the word out! Download the Flyer HERE. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 25, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film:“MOTORCYCLE DIARIES”
(126 min, Walter Salles, 2004)
Beautifully filmed adaptation of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara's journals of the same name, as 23-year-old medical student Guevara travels across the South American continent in pre-revolutionary 1951 and 1952. Guevara travels with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist, on an ailing 500cc Norton motorcycle, which they name ‘La Poderosa’ (The Powerful One).  Che and Alberto set off from Argentina and cross into Chile and Peru in order to take up their medical residency at a leper colony. Along the way, and especially at the colony, Che and Alberto are exposed to the plight of the poor, vulnerable and suffering.
This proves to be formative for Che Guevara, already a young radical. When Che bids farewell to the leper colony, he says: “This journey has only confirmed this belief, that the division of America into unstable and illusory nations is a complete fiction. We are one single mestizo race from Mexico to the Magellan Straits. And so, in an attempt to free ourselves from narrow-minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a united America.”
See the Trailer HERE.
Download the Flyer HERE!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 28, 2011, 6:30 to 9:30 PM
FILM: MOVING BEYOND THE AUTOMOBILE
... AND ADDITIONAL SHORT FEATURES
(60 min, StreetFilms, 2011)
(Short Topical Films at 6:30; Main Film Starts at 7)
FOLLOWED BY A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE FUTURE OF ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC OPEN SPACES IN SEATTLE; AND A DISCUSSION ON SEATTLE’S UPCOMING PROPOSITION 1.

WITH:
MIKE O'BRIEN, Seattle City Council Member
LISA QUINN, Director of Feet First;
CRAIG BENJAMIN, Cascade Bicycle Club’s Policy And Government Affairs Manager;
TIM HARRIS, Executive Director Of Real Change;
CATHY TUTTLE, Spokespeople Coordinator;
REF LINDMARK, Transportation Planner with King County Metro …and others
*6:30 PM: Topical Films
*7:00 PM: Main Feature Begins
*Panel Discussion Follows the Film
MOVING BEYOND THE AUTOMOBILE and the short videos we’ve assembled will explore solutions to the problem of automobile dependency.  These films and this evening's discussion will help guide policy makers, advocacy organizations, teachers, students, and others into a world that values pedestrian plazas over parking lots and train tracks over highways. 
...Cars were then, and this is now.  Welcome to the future.
Join us following the film for a panel discussion on the future of alternative transportation and public open spaces in Seattle!
Download the flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
For more information on the film, go to www.streetfilms.org.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 7, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
FILM: “FORKS OVER KNIVES”
(90 min, Lee Fulkerson, 2011)
With:
-MARY PURDY, MS, Registered Dietitian, and Immediate Past-President of Greater Seattle Dietetics Association
www.NourishingBalance.com,
-CINDY SORENSEN, Registered Dietitian, and Public
Relations Co-Chair of Greater Seattle Dietetics Association
www.EatRightSeattle.org
-MICHELLE BABB, MS, Registered Dietitian specializing in mind-body nutrition, weight loss and food allergies.
-KATIE McKENNA, Certified Nutritionist and Mental Health Counselor
...AND OTHERS!
What has happened to us? Despite the most advanced medical technology in the world, we are sicker than ever by nearly every measure.
Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially amongst our younger population. About half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. Major medical operations have become routine, helping to drive health care costs to astronomical levels. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country’s three leading causes of death, even though billions are spent each year to "battle" these very conditions. Millions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases.
FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods.
Join us after the film for a panel and in-depth discussion with Mary Purdy, Cindy Sorensen, Michelle Babb, Katie McKenna and GSDA.
Download the flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
For more information on the film, go to: www.forksoverknives.com
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, May 27, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “THIS LAND IS OUR LAND - THE FIGHT TO RECLAIM THE COMMONS”
(46 min, Jeremy Earp & Sut Jhally, 2010)
WITH CRAIG SALINS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WASHINGTON PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS
Plus the Short animated Film:
"THEN STORY OF CITIZENS UNITED V. FEC"
(By Annie Leonard, 8 min, 2011)
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land, acclaimed author David Bollier, a leading figure in the global movement to reclaim the commons, bucks the rising tide of anti-government extremism and free market ideology to show how commercial interests are undermining our collective interests. Placing the commons squarely within the American tradition of community engagement and the free exchange of ideas and information, Bollier shows how a bold new international movement steeped in democratic principles is trying to reclaim our common wealth by modeling practical alternatives to the restrictive monopoly powers of corporate elites.
Please join us for a facilitated discussion following the film!
For more information on the Washington Public Campaigns, go to: www.washclean.org
Download the flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out, Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, May 20, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “ON THE EDGE”
(60 min, Diane Nilan and Laura Vazquez, 2011)
...FOLLOWED BY A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH:
DIANE NILAN - THE FILM’S PRODUCER
POLLY TROUT - FOUNDER OF SEATTLE EDUCATION ACCESS
TIM HARRIS - THE FOUNDER OF REAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
BRITTNEY FERARA - EDUCATION ADVOCATE AT SEATTLE EDUCATION ACCESS
Think you know homelessness?  Think again…   Far beyond urban street corners where often-scorned and neglected homeless men and women shuffle, invisible families and teens struggle to survive homelessness and destitution. They stay in a variety of locales, in communities of all sizes and economic compositions. For numerous reasons, this sub-population of homeless denizens have been mostly ignored, and now estimates of their numbers exceeds 2 million, with some experts believing that invisible homeless families could number close to 10 million.
ON THE EDGE, featuring 7 women who lost their housing for a variety of reasons, gives a painfully intimate look at the entwined connection between poverty, housing issues, social problems, addictions, family crises, and gender-related injustices. These compelling and forthcoming experts on homelessness shine a bright, unmitigated light on systemic and personal causes of their struggles, illuminating what has been a dark corner of social inaction and concern.
For more information on Seattle Education Access, go to:
http://www.seattleeducationaccess.org/
for more information on Real Change, go to: http://www.realchangenews.org/
Download the flyer here: Color or B&W. Help us get the word out, Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday  April 1, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “RETURN TO EL SALVADOR ”
(68 min, Jamie Moffett, 2010)
With:
*A SHORT FILM ON GUATEMALA - produced by the Social Justice Travel Program at NOVA High School, here in Seattle.
*THE RAGING GRANNIES! , and
*REPRESENTATIVES FROM C.I.S.P.E.S. (The Committee In Solidarity With The People of El Salvador)
"RETURN TO EL SALVADOR", narrated by Martin Sheen, explores the reconstruction of El Salvador, post-civil war. The 12-year conflict (from 1980 to 1992) killed over 75,000 people and displaced nearly one-fifth of the population. The fighting, which took place between the Salvadoran Army and the leftist guerrilla organization, the FMLN, resulted in a staggering number of civilian deaths as the Salvadoran Army bombed and raided villages thought to be sympathetic to the FMLN. Many of these Salvadoran Army soldiers were trained and supported by the United States military at its School of the Americas (now known as WHINSEC), located in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
"RETURN TO EL SALVADOR" brings the struggles of this beleaguered country back into view and examines what drives over 700 Salvadorans to flee their homeland each day, often risking their lives to illegally enter countries in search of a better life for their families. It represents the power and audacity of solidarity, and challenges North Americans to question the global impact of their government on struggling nations.
Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion with the NOVA Social Justice Travel Program, CISPES, and The Raging Grannies!
For additional info on the NOVA Program: jbsswaja@seattleschools.net or 206-523-3278
For additional information on CISPES: http://seattlecispes.org/lang/en-us/
Download the flyer here: COLOR or B&W
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, March 11, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “SOUTH OF THE BORDER” (78 min, Oliver Stone, 2009) With FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS, FOUNDER OF THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH;
Also with KATE SPELTZ, Director of SOAW - Puget Sound
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner  (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner,  Fernando Lugo  (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro  (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region.
Father Bourgeois has traveled extensively in South America, meeting with leaders and convincing many of them to withdraw support of the US School of the Americas (now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).  
Please join us following the film for a community discussion with Father Roy Bourgeois and members of SOAW - PUGET SOUND.   
Download flyers here: COLOR or B&W
For more information on Schol of Americas Watch, go to: www.soaw.org
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Father Bourgeois will also be speaking on Thursday, March 10th at 7PM at Wallingford United Methodist Church, 2115 N 42nd St. Seattle
"FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS: CONFRONTING MILITARISM IN THE AMERICAS: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY".
For more information this event, go HERE or contact: sgregmare@aol.com; 206 / 632-1523

Friday, March 4th, 2011, 6:30 to 9:30 PM (Film at 7PM)
TRANSITION FRIDAY! (NOTE EARLY START TIME)
"TRANSITION TOWNS REVISITED"
A Collection of Films and a Panel Discussion
…Celebrating a year of Transition Fridays
On this one-year anniversary of Transition Fridays at Meaningful Movies, we’re inviting groups working with the transition initiative from around the Puget Sound area and elsewhere to come share their process, what they value most, and what they see for the future.
W e'll come full circle to review what the Transition Movement is all about, and what actual Transition Initiatives look like throughout  the region, the country, and the world. 
More importantly, we'll begin to imagine what Transition would look like at the scale of our own city, Seattle.
Join us for an evening focused on positive solutions at a local level with Transition Seattle, Sustainable Wallingford and Many Others. 
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, February 11, 2011, 6:30 to 9:30 PM (Film at 7PM)
TRANSITION FRIDAY! (NOTE EARLY START TIME)
An Evening Focused On Positive Solutions at a Local Level!
AND MEANINGFUL MOVIES’ 8th ANNIVERSARY!
Film: "THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS"
(58 min, Helena Norberg-Hodge, 2010)
WITH:
VICKI ROBIN, Author of "Your Money or Your Life"
RICHARD CONLIN, Seattle City Council President
LEO BRODIE, With Transition Seattle,
CATHY TUTTLE, With Sustainable Wallingford,
and others.
Please join us for this newly released documentary film by the International Society for Ecology & Culture (ISEC) about the worldwide movement for economic localization.
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face. For the majority of people on the planet life is becoming increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we face mounting pressures at work.
The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.
FOLLOWED BY A FACILITATED DISCUSSION WITH VICKI ROBIN , RICHARD CONLIN, TRANSITION SEATTLE, SUSTAINABLE WALLINGFORD, AND OTHERS.
And Join Us For Our 8th Anniversary Celebration!
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, January 28, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “WHAT'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY?
(40 min, John de Graaf, 2010)
WITH FILMMAKER JOHN DE GRAAF AND LAURA MUSIKANSKI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - SUSTAINABLE SEATTLE
Is the GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being? Are there workable alternatives? And ...what's happiness got to do with it?
In this film produced by John de Graaf of AFFLUENZA fame and TAKE BACK YOUR TIME, ecological economist Dave Batker presents a humorous, edgy, factual, timely and highly-visual monologue about the American economy today, challenging the ways we measure economic success--especially the Gross Domestic Product--and offering an answer to the question: What's the Economy for, Anyway?
Using Gifford Pinchot's idea that the economy's purpose is "the greatest good for the greatest number over the longest run," Batker compares the performance of the U.S. economy with that of other industrial countries in terms of providing a high quality of life, fairness and ecological sustainability, concluding that when you do the numbers, we come out near the bottom in nearly every category.
Batker shines a humorous light on such economic buzzwords as "productivity," and "consumer sovereignty," while offering ideas for "capitalism with a human face," a new economic paradigm that meets the real needs of people and the planet.
Join us following the film for a community discussion with Filmmaker John de Graaf and Laura Musikanski, Executive Director of Sustainable Seattle, about a meaningful framing of our economy, and a presentation on the recently released Happiness Survey from the Seattle Area Happiness Initiative!
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted). 

(The film. "WikiLeaks: The Documentary", originally announced, will hopefully be shown when screening rights are obtained at a later date.)

Friday, January 21, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “WHICH WAY HOME”
(83 min, Rebecca Cammisa, 2010)
FOLLOWED BY A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE COMPLEX ISSUES OF IMMIGRATION
The Film:
As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the United States.
We are pleased to partner with Exiled Voices for Justice (www.exiledvoicesforjustice.org) and Lutheran Community  Services, Refugee and Immigrant Children’s Program (www.refugeechildren.net) to screen this 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary film, which chronicles the journeys undertaken by unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America and Mexico who risk everything to flee their native land, desperate to secure a brighter future in the United States.  
Director Rebecca Cammisa tracks the stories of Olga and Freddy, nine-year-old Hondurans desperately trying to reach their families in Minnesota. Theirs are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow.
The Panel:
REBEKAH FLETCHER:
Children’s Attorney with Volunteer Advocates for Immigrant Justice (VAIJ)
www.abanet.org/publicserv/immigration/vaij.shtml
SIERRA ROWE:
Social Worker with the Refugee & Immigrant Children’s Program at Lutheran Community Services NW  www.refugeechildren.net
DEANN ADAMS:
Program Manager of Friends of Youth’s El Puente program,
www.friendsofyouth.org/  and,
ROGER VILLALOBOS: Whose journey to the U.S. resembled those of the children in the film;
MODERATED BY JORGE BARON: Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) http://www.nwirp.org/
Following the screening/discussion:
An advocacy fair showcasing the initiatives of non-profits working on behalf of immigrants fleeing poverty, abuse, or persecution in Central America and Mexico will offer attendees a unique opportunity to learn more and find out how to get involved.     
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
To see the trailer, go to: www.whichwayhome.net
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, January 14, 2011, 6:30 to 9:30 PM (Film at 7PM)
TRANSITION FRIDAY! (NOTE EARLY START TIME)
An Evening Focused On Positive Solutions at a Local Level!
Film: “FIXING THE FUTURE”
(58min, Ellen Spiro/PBS-NOW, 2010)
Followed by a Facilitated Discussion, with:
CHRISTINA HANNA
- Director, Seattle Good Business Network
COLLEEN KURKE
- President, Wallingford Chamber of Commerce
BRIAN SURRATT
- Business Development Director, Seattle Office of Economic Development
LEO BRODIE
- Transition Seattle
CATHY TUTTLE
- Sustainable Wallingford Coordinator
AND OTHERS …
The economy does not have to be the way it is right now. If you didn't believe we were in trouble before the financial tornado hit in 2008, you probably do now, regardless of your political leanings. One response is to put a new coat of paint on the old economy, maybe even fumigate it. But who is trying something fresh, experimenting with ways the economy can better serve more people and be less prone to getting destructively out of whack?
FIXING THE FUTURE Interviews leading economists, David Korten and Jane D'Arista, as well as the US Editor of The Economist, Matthew Bishop, to find out how to go about fixing capitalism, rebuilding our economy and creating jobs.
Download the flyer HERE
A few Short Films and informal community discussion at 6:30 PM;
…Film starts at 7:00PM.
Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, January 7, 2011, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “NOT JUST A GAME” (62 min, Jeremy Earp, 2010)
The Politics of Sports …and the Sports of Politics. We've been told again and again that sports and politics don't mix, that games are just games and athletes should just "shut up and play."  Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long been at the center of some of the major political debates and struggles of our time. He first traces how American sports have glamorized militarism, racism, sexism, and homophobia, then excavates a largely forgotten history of rebel athletes who stood up to power and fought for social justice beyond the field of play.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, December 17, 2010, 7-9:30 PM
Film: "JOYEUX NOEL" (116 min, Christian Carion, 2005)
In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood. This film dramatizes one such section as the French, British and German sides partake in the unique event, even though they are aware that their superiors will not tolerate its occurrence.
A great story of both peace and caution for the holiday season.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 26, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “THE HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION RETRACED” (110 min, Lawrence Hott, 2002)
Two scientific expeditions to Alaska, 100 years apart, give us an unparalleled view of environmental damage and the change in society's attitudes.
A century ago, railroad tycoon Edward H. Harriman decided to form of one of the most ambitious scientific expeditions the world had ever seen. He invited the top authorities in the country: geologists, botanists, foresters, ornithologists, paleontologists, zoologists, painters, photographers, writers to join him on a 9000-mile exploration of the coast of Alaska.  Over a century later, Thomas Litwin of Smith College organized an expedition to follow the path of the original one. Again, it was stocked with a constellation of scientific brilliance. THE HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION RETRACED presents a unique look at 100 years of change in Alaska, and in American attitudes towards the environment and indigenous peoples.
Download the flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 5, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “THE HOLLYWOOD LIBRARIAN: A LOOK AT LIBRARIANS THROUGH FILM" (96 MIN, Ann Seidl, 2007)
With LOCAL LIBRARIANS AND LIBRARY UNION REPRESENTATIVES!
They have more cardholders than VISA, more customers than Amazon, and more outlets than McDonald's. Meet America's librarians. THE HOLLYWOOD LIBRARIAN is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject of librarians.
A vivid blend of factual documentary, feature film, and storytelling, it reveals the history and realities of librarianship in the entertaining and appealing context of American movies. Interviews with librarians, intercut with film clips of cinematic librarians, examine such issues as literature, books and reading, censorship, library funding, citizenship and democracy.
For the first time, we see and understand the real lives and real work of American librarians who for decades have been a cultural force hiding in plain sight. - Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion.
Please Download our flyer HERE and help spread the word!  -Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 29, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: THE MOVIE: “PEACE THROUGH MUSIC”
PLAYING FOR CHANGE !!
...a evening of great music!!
(83 min, Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls, 2008)
PEACE THROUGH MUSIC is a story of hope, struggle, perseverance and joy. Musicians from different cultures uniting together for the common purpose of peace through music, is a powerful statement.
The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. No matter whether people come from different geographic, political, economic, spiritual or ideological backgrounds, music has the universal power to transcend and unite us as one human race. And with this truth firmly fixed in their minds, Directors Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls, along with the PLAYING FOR CHANGE team, carrying high-tech portable recording equipment, traveled the globe with a single minded passion: To connect the world through music. Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion.
DOWNLOAD THE FLYER HERE! ...Please help us get the word out! -thanks!
The Playing For Change performance, "Stand By Me": HERE.
See the Movie Trailer: HERE
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

ALSO, the PLAYING FOR CHANGE 2010 BAND TOUR will be in Seattle on the following Wednesday, Nov 3rd, at 7:30PM, at the Moore Theater, 1932 Second Avenue, Seattle.
Don’t miss this opportunity to see this amazing collection of world-traveling musicians. For the past four years Playing For Change has traveled the world and created a family of over 100 musicians from all walks of life.  This Band Tour is the next chapter in their story. Come witness first-hand the transformational power of music and love. 
For more information on the Tour, the Band and the Project, go to: www.playingforchange.com. For concert tickets go to: www.stgpresents.org  

Friday, October 22, 2010, 6:45 to 9:30 PM - (NOTE EARLY START TIME)
Film: “THE GREATEST SILENCE:
RAPE IN THE CONGO" (76 min, Lisa F. Jackson, 2008)
In honor of Congo Week (October 17-23). With A Special Panel Discussion on the Current Situation In the Congo.
AND a Preview Slideshow of the Internationally Touring Photo Exhibit: “CONGO/WOMEN”- Meet Our Guests at 6:30; Exhibit Slideshow Begins at 6:45; Film Begins at 7:00.
Winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize in Documentary and inspiration for a U.N. Resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war, “The Greatest Silence” opened the world’s eyes to the epidemic of rape in eastern Congo.
Featuring interviews with survivors, activists, peacekeepers, physicians, and – chillingly – soldiers who unabashedly admit to torturing women, this powerful film shattered the silence surrounding the use of rape as a weapon of war while inspiring viewers with examples of resistance, courage, and resilience.
Mineral-rich eastern Congo is considered the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman or a girl. Competition for control over mineral resources – including coltan, which is used to manufacture electronics – has attracted foreign militias and soldiers from the Congolese Army who use sexual violence to control villagers in mining areas.
Please join us following the screening: Panelists will discuss issues raised by the film and ways in which those issues are being addressed today:
Dick Anderson, Executive Director, HEAL Africa (www.healafrica.org);
Wemba-koy Okonda, President, OkoNGO (www.okongo.org); and
Erika Berg, Refugee and Immigrant Children’s Program
(www.refugeechildren.net).
This event is co-hosted by Lutheran Community Services NW’s Refugee and Immigrant Children’s Program.  For more info: www.exiledvoicesforjustice.org
Download Our Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out.
For more info on the film, click HERE
To learn more about Congo Week: www.congoweek.org
For more info on the Photo Exhibit: CONGO / WOMEN: www.congowomen.org
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 15, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: "SISTERS ON THE PLANET" - and Shorts from
"THE HARDEST HIT SERIES" CO-HOSTED BY OXFAM
...and with REPRESENTATIVES FROM
CONGRESSMAN JIM MCDERMOTT'S OFFICE.
A night with representatives of OXFAM (Oxford Famine Relief) featuring films and shorts on the effect of Climate Change on the Third World and the latest efforts in Aid Reform.  Joining us as well will be staff members from Representative Jim McDermott’s office. Representative McDermott will potentially be in attendance as well. Films will include: “SISTERS ON THE PLANET” - the stories of four women who have become community leaders working on adaptation projects in the wake of climate-related disasters and changing weather conditions. The "HARDEST HIT" series will also be featured: shorts on the effects of climate change on poor communities in Vietnam, Ethiopia, El Salvador, and Louisiana. The evening’s topic will also be expanded to include discussion of efforts to increase Aid Effectiveness.
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out!
For more information on OXFAM, go to: www.oxfam.org
Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 8, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
TRANSITION FRIDAY!
Film: “THE AGE OF STUPID - Why didn’t We save Ourselves When We Had the Chance?”
(92 min, Franny Armstrong, 2009) - And SEATTLE'S KICK OFF FOR 350.ORG 10/10/10 DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION!
Join us with:
SUSAN DAVIS, the founder of the TIPPING POINT NETWORK,
CATHY TUTTLE with 350.ORG & SUSTAINABLE WALLINGFORD,
and LEO BRODIE with TRANSITION SEATTLE
A film about the future we could face if we don't make changes, ...and quickly. This one is not for the fainthearted, because the combination of documentary and a fictionalized "future" as told by the narrator carries double the impact of a purely factual film. That said, the message is conveyed creatively and clearly. Pete Postelwaite is entirely believable as the weary archivist of the future, who is still in disbelief at the facts available to humanity in 2010- and how easy it was for even the most well-intentioned of us to ignore them at times.
SUSAN DAVIS is the founder of the Tipping Point Network, an informal network-of-networks founded in 2006 to catalyze a tipping point in sustainability sectors like organics, renewable energy, green building and integrative medicine. Using the “Key Initiator Network Strategy” she brought together innovators like Van Jones; Alisa Gravitz of Green America; Ray Anderson of Interface Carpet; Ocean Robbins of YES!; Marion Rockefeller Weber of the Flow Fund Circle & many others. Her new book is called A Trojan horse of Love, “the heartfelt story of how, over the last thirty years, 20 tiny groups of leaders have created a powerful new method of innovation to manifest sustainability based on love, trust and generosity.” She is a President of Capital Missions Company, an early pioneer of Socially Responsible Investing with ShoreBank, and a Harvard MBA. 
More information on the Film: http://www.ageofstupid.net/
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 1, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?”
Followed by a facilitated discussion with special guests!
(73 min, Pamela Tanner Boll & Nancy Kennedy, 2008)
Can women follow their artistic instincts and still function as wives and mothers?  WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?, is a riveting documentary by Academy Award-winning producer Pamela Tanner Boll (Born Into Brothels). It features five bold women who navigate some of the most problematic intersections of our time: parenting and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art.
Through their lives Tanner Boll explores what it means to nurture children and family, and keep the creative fire burning within.
Please join us following the film for a facilitated discussion!
For more information on the film, please go to:
www.whodoesshethinksheis.net
Download the flyer here: COLOR or B&W ...Please help us get the word out!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, September 24, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: RUN GRANNY RUN (76 min, Marlo Poras, 2007)
Doris “Granny D” Haddock was the nation's oldest political newcomer.  A former housewife and office assistant, Doris was happily retired for over twenty years – but when her husband died, she needed a reason to live.  So at the age of 90, she laced up her sneakers and walked across America to rally against the influence of big money in elections. 
Her epic journey galvanized popular attention to a political system gone awry, but for Doris the walk was just a warm up.  Still fed up with politics as usual, at age 94 she jumped at an unexpected chance to run for U.S. Senate against incumbent Judd Gregg (an intellectual sparring partner of George W. Bush).  With just four months until Election Day, this great-grandmother of sixteen faced a series of challenges that would be daunting for a candidate of any age.  Doris and her motley crew of political aces and amateurs work against all odds to craft a feisty campaign that personifies her democratic ideals of a government ...of, by and for the people.
Granny D recently died at the age of 100. Michael Lerman with Indiewire recently stated: "Run Granny Run...one of the most inspiring true stories of our time. In a sea of terribly constructed political documentaries...RUN GRANNY RUN is a breath of fresh air."
ALSO, a short teaser for the new film "Citizen Mayor" on the 2009 Seattle Mayor's Election selected for the Local Sightings Film Festival [LSFF] and will be shown at 7 PM on October 3, at the Northwest Film Forum (1515 12th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122; movie line: 206-829-7863). Download their flyer HERE.
More info on Run Granny Run: at: www.marloporas.com/pages/press.html
Download the flyer HERE.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, September 10, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: Chris Martenson’s “CRASH COURSE” Vol 1
(60 min, Chris Martenson, 2009)
The CRASH COURSE seeks to provide us with a baseline understanding of the economy so that we can better appreciate the risks that we all face.  It ties together the Three E's - Economy, Energy and the Environment to help us prepare for a future that will be drastically different from the past. While the topics woven together present some of the extremely serious challenges and risks that our economy and prosperity faces, the goal is to educate ourselves so that we can work to build resilience into our lives and community.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

INFO FROM SCREENING ON 9/10/10:
A few of the website resources discussed:
>>Chris Martenson's website: http://www.chrismartenson.com/
>>See Crash Corse in it's entirety online: http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
>>The 45-min version of Crash Course: http://www.chrismartenson.com/page/crash-course-one-year-anniversary
>>Stoneleigh (Nicole Foss) at 2010 Transition Conference: http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/06/453356.html
>>Automatic Earth website: http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/
>>The concluding Short Film we screened interviewing Rob Hopkins & Peter Lipman: http://transitionculture.org/2010/06/22/final-film-from-transition-network-conference-2010-reflections-on-stoneleighs-talk/
>>More info on the Transition Movement: http://transitionculture.org/

Friday, JULY 30, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “THE IRATE BIRDWATCHER”
(54 min, Robert and Kathy Chrestensen, 2009)
...JOIN US FOR THE LAST FILM OF A GREAT SEASON!
It's all about wilderness preservation … told in the inspiring words of Harvey Manning – the irate birdwatcher. Follow the legendary Northwest writer and conservationist as he discovers the beauty of Washington’s wildest places, and the need to stand up and fight for their very survival. This is Harvey’s story about this state’s unique wilderness … his deep passion for it, his years of ramblings as an avid backpacker and climber, and his own personal crusade to preserve and protect it for future generations.
Honorable Mention for Creative Approach, 6th Annual Montana CINE International Film Festival .
Guests for the evening will include TOM HAMMOND, from the American Alps Legacy Project: www.americanalps.org
JOE BRESKIN and JOHN NELSON, will be playing guitar music from the film, before the film starts this evening.
Download the flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, JUNE 25, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: "BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER"
(106 min, Chris Bell, 2008)
In America, we define ourselves in the superlative: we are the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world. We reward speed, size and above all else: winning – at sport, at business and at war. Metaphorically we are a nation on steroids. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? Blending comedy and pathos, Bigger, Stronger, Faster is a collision of pop culture and first-person narrative, with a diverse cast including US Congressmen, professional athletes, medical experts and everyday gym rats. At its heart, this is the story of director Christopher Bell and his two brothers, who grew up idolizing muscular giants like Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and who went on to become members of the steroid-subculture in an effort to realize their American dream. When you discover that your heroes have all broken the rules, do you follow the rules, or do you follow your heroes? 
Download the Flyer here: COLOR or B&W - Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, MAY 28, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “AN UNREASONABLE MAN – RALPH NADER”
(122 minutes, Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan, 2006)         
Ralph Nader is without a doubt one of the most passionate and determined personalities of our time. Loved, hated, respected and feared. Nader has had more impact on our daily lives than most presidents. Now, this first-hand account takes you behind his groundbreaking consumer advocacy campaigns and contested presidential runs. An Unreasonable man shows why Nader continues to be one of the most unique and important American political figures of our time.
Download the flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, MAY 14, 2010, 6:30 to 9:30 PM (Note special Start Time)
“TRANSITION FRIDAY”!
TOPIC: A TRANSITION FOCUS ON ENERGY - PART 2
A Series of Great Short Films on Energy Descent and Meaningful Energy Alternatives: Chris Martenson's "CRASH COURSE", "THE POWER DOWN SHOW", and others.
With:
Leo Brodie: TRANSITION SEATTLE
Cathy Tuttle: SUSTAINABLE WALLINGFORD
Christy Nordstrom: SEATTLE RENEWABLE ENERGY MEET-UP
SEATTLE CITY LIGHT
SALISH SEA MARITIME EXCHANGE
WALLINGFORD SOLAR
EOS ALLIANCE
...and numerous other guests!
Take a hard look at the inevitable intersection of Peak Oil, Global Climate Change, and an Unsustainable Economy. It's not all bad. In fact, it's a golden opportunity!
Please come early (6:30PM), for informal conversation with groups currently working on local alternative energy solutions!
... Film begins at 7:00 PM. Join us for a facilitated Community Discussion following the film.
Please help us get the word out: - download the flyer here: Color or B&W. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, April 23, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “GONZO – LIFE OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON”
(2008 min, Alex Gibney, 120 min)
From the producer of “Taxi to the Dark Side”, “Enron: the smartest guys in the room”, and “Money-Driven Medicine” comes a bio of the eccentric “Gonzo Journalist”. In examining Thompsons amazing life the film covers his career from sixties counterculture to the dirty tricks behind the ’72 presidential election and his “Battle of Aspen” Freak Power campaign for Sheriff in a parochial small town . We hear from a wide range of his acquaintances including Sonny Barger, Jimmy Carter, Ed Muskie, Pat Buchanan, Tom Wolfe and many more.
Please join us for a facilitated conversation following the film!
Download the flyer HERE. -Please help us get the word out! Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, April 9, 2010, 6:30 to 9:30 PM
“TRANSITION FRIDAY”!
FILM: "COAL COUNTRY"
85 min, Phylis Geller and Mari-Lynn Evans, 2009
A TRANSITION FOCUS ON ENERGY - PART 1 …with COOLMOM.ORG, THE SIERRA CLUB, & EARTH MINISTRY;
and: TRANSITION SEATTLE, & SUSTAINABLE WALLINGFORD! 
Come early at 6:30 PM for informal conversation with our guests!
(Film starts promptly at 7:00 PM).
“TRANSITION FRIDAYS”: COME JOIN US FOR AN EVENING FOCUSED ON POSITIVE SOLUTIONS AT A VERY LOCAL LEVEL - EVERY 2ND FRIDAY!   
TRANSITION ENERGY POINTS FOR THE EVENING:
1) We're addicted to fossil fuels, our source is drying up, and we need to kick the habit. We are close to or already past peaks for all fossil fuels.
2) We need to employ the energy we have left to build a Transition bridge to a clean energy future.
The documentary film, COAL COUNTRY, is a dramatic look at modern coal mining. We get to know working miners along with activists who are battling coal companies in Appalachia. We hear from miners and coal company officials, who are concerned about jobs and the economy and believe they are acting responsibly in bringing power to the American people. Both sides in this conflict claim that history is on their side.
But what are the real issues re: energy. We need to understand the meaning behind promises of “cheap energy” and “clean coal.” Are they achievable? At what cost? And what are the true alternatives for our energy future?
FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED IN A POSITIVE, LOCAL ENERGY FUTURE! JOIN US in an open discussion on building a bridge to a clean energy future: solar, wind, geothermal, local Community Supported Energy collectives, and more.
Come learn about the campaign by THE SIERRA CLUB, in partnership with COOLMOM.ORG, to put pressure on Governor Gregoire to close the TransAlta Coal Power Plant in Chehalis. This plant produces 20% of Washington's electricity and is our state’s single biggest source of carbon dioxide, mercury and nitrogen oxide emissions.
A TRANSITION FOCUS ON ENERGY - PART 2 will be on Friday, May 11
Download flyers here: Color B&W - Please help us get the word out! Thanks!
More information at:
Sustainable Wallingford: http://greenwallingford.ning.com/
Transition Seattle: http://transitionseattle.com/
CoolMom: http://www.coolmom.org/coalfreeWA
The Sierra Club : www.coalfreewashington.org
Earth Ministry: http://earthministry.org/
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, April 2, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: "SHOVELING WATER: WAR ON DRUGS, WAR ON PEOPLE" (24 min, WFP, 2009)
With representatives from WITNESS FOR PEACE,
And A Report Back From Recent Colombia Delegations
“SHOVELING WATER” is a journey to the heart of coca country in Colombia where U.S. tax dollars have financed chemical spraying of the Amazon for the past nine years in the ‘War On Drugs’.
Hear first hand testimony from people on the ground about the impacts and learn new ideas about how to solve this deadly problem.  
PLUS A SHORT FEATURE (13 min) examining extrajudicial killings at the hands of the U.S.-funded Colombian military.  Since 2000, the U.S. government has provided nearly $5 billion in military and police funding to Colombia. Despite claims of an improved human rights record, thousands of civilians have been killed by this U.S.-funded military in recent years. Typical of human rights abuses in Colombia, there are astoundingly high rates of impunity for these killings.
DISPLACEMENT IN COLOMBIA: With nearly five million Colombians forcibly displaced from their homes by a debilitating war, Colombia is now the second worst internal displacement crisis in the world.  Between now and April 30, tens of thousands across the U.S. and Colombia will participate in this year’s National Days of Action for Colombia to call for a much-needed shift in U.S. policies toward the war-torn country. 
NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION FOR COLOMBIA: Forty displaced Colombians have shared with us their powerful photos and harrowing stories of what it means to be displaced.  Student, church, and community groups are coming together as part of the National Days of Action for Colombia to assemble the photos and statements into poignant portraits.
REGIONAL ORGANIZER, COLETTE COSNER, will facilitate a "FACE THE DISPLACED" gathering at Meaningful Movies, and attendees will take part in the creation of these powerful displays to be displaced later this month.
For more information on what Witness for Peace is doing, and how to get involved, please go to: www.witnessforpeace.org/northwest
Join us for a discussion with WFP on the real story in Colombia.
Download the Flyer: Color or B&W. Please help us get the word out. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, March 26, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: "HAITI: KILLING THE DREAM"
(52 min, Babeth,Katherine Kean, Hart Perry, & Rudy Stern, 1993)
Also featured will be a recent segment from Democracy Now! that showcases the film and discusses the current situation.
The film starts with a background on Haiti's tragic history from the original Slave uprising in 1791 and focuses on the election of President Jean Bertrand Aristide and subsequent military coup of September 30, 1991 under suspicion of U.S. involvement. The program is narrated by Ossie Davis and along with local scenery and music includes interviews with the exiled Aristide, his cabinet, dissident clergy, underground resistance leaders, U.S. State Department officials, and a cross-section of Haitian people. 
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, March 19, 2010, 6:30 to 9:30 PM
Film: “JANG AUR AMAN” (WAR AND PEACE)
(Anand Patwardhan, 2002) - Doors open at 6:30PM with delicious homemade food from India and Pakistan. Film starts at 7.
Our guests this evening are Prashant Nema, Srijan Chakraborty, Srinivas Akula, Rajeswari Harikrishnan from India, and Mona Akmal from Pakistan. Mona is the cocreator of Dreamfly, a non-profit organization that builds schools in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.

JANG AUR AMAN begins and ends with the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi. While exposing the danger of nuclear war on the Indian subcontinent it derives power and emotional appeal from the growing movement for peace both in India and in Pakistan.
"The film itself is a tour de force, beautifully shot and often darkly funny and much more riveting than the dry subject matter might suggest."
-The Guardian, UK
"War and Peace" has a riveting intelligence all its own and earns its epic title. -The New York Times
“We should listen to our voices of dissent for our own sake and for the sake of our children and their children. War and Peace is that voiceʼs most eloquent expression. Which is why it should be seen by everyone everywhere. In schools, in colleges, in factories, on television”
-The Times of India
"Perhaps the most important film in this year's Berlin Film Festival" -Reuters

A LITTLE ABOUT THE FILMMAKER, ANAND PATWARDHAN...
“To put it simply, Patwardhan, who turns sixty this February, is India's best-known and most respected documentary filmmaker. It has taken him an acute intelligence, an exceptional social conscience and more than three decades of solid hard work on several fronts to reach that position. But he is admired across the subcontinent and beyond also as a fearless and indefatigable activist; a whistle-blower who spends a large part of his time writing and speaking and organizing protest. -- Vidyarthy Chatterjee IMDb February 2010
Download the Flyer HERE!
More on the film and filmmaker: Here
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Friday, March 12, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
“TRANSITION FRIDAY”!
Film: "IN TRANSITION 1.0 - FROM OIL DEPENDENCE TO LOCAL RESILIENCE" (49 min, Emma Goude, 2009), and a few short films
…WITH LEO BRODIE FROM TRANSITION SEATTLE, AND CATHY TUTTLE FROM SUSTAINABLE WALLINGFORD. 
“TRANSITION FRIDAYS”: COME JOIN US FOR AN EVENING FOCUSED ON POSITIVE SOLUTIONS AT A VERY LOCAL LEVEL - EVERY 2ND FRIDAY!   
IN TRANSITION is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humor, and setting about rebuilding their local economies and communities.  It is positive, solutions focused, viral and fun.
We live at a fascinating point in history. The convergence of challenges, most particularly global warming and peak oil, have brought us to a point where we are profoundly challenged to act. The scale of the challenge is huge, and the obstacles are plenty.  But something very powerful is stirring and is taking root the world over.  There is an emerging energy to succeed, a sense of quickening, and an exhilaration in talking and listening to each other once again, to visioning what we want and then rolling up our sleeves and starting to co-create it. People are choosing life and are manifesting that in their lives and their communities.
Facilitated discussion on the Transition Initiative forllowing the film.
Download the Flyer HERE! (Black & White HERE)
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted

Friday, March 5, 2010, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “ON PAPER WINGS” (67 min, Ilana Sol, , 2008)
...With the Filmmaker, ILANA SOL!
In the spring of 1945, a Japanese balloon bomb claimed the lives of the only people killed on the continental U.S. as the result of enemy action during WWII. Forty years later, the decision to fold a thousand paper cranes would unite the Japanese and American civilians who were involved in and affected by this incident. “On Paper Wings“ is the story of four Japanese women who worked on balloon bombs, the families of those killed in the U.S., and the man whose actions brought them all together forty years after WWII, and the balloon bomb project.
jOIN US FOR A FASCINATING DISCUSSION FOLLOWING THE FILM!
Download the Flyer HERE!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted)

Sunday, FEBRUARY 14, 2:00 to 4:00 PM
Followup Special Event To Start: SENIOR COHOUSING, AND OTHER OPTIONS FOR AGING IN YOUR COMMUNITY - STUDY SESSION #1 BEGINS
LOCATION: Northeast Library, 35th Ave NE & NE 68th Street, Seattle
INTRODUCTION WAS HELD JANUARY 31st. BUT YOU CAN STILL JOIN THE FIRST WORK SESSION. THIS WILL CONTINUE EVERY 2 WEEKS FOR A TOTAL OF 10 SESSIONS. ...Please Come Join Us!
Envision your future lifestyle; discover the right solution for you!  Join this newly formed, self-directed study group for ongoing exploration and discussion. FREE!  Presented by: SEATTLE AIC.  
Study Sessions Include:
SESSION ONE: What is your Aging Scenario? - Are we in denial? - Sun, Feb14
SESSION TWO: Group Process: Working Together - Sun, Feb 28
SESSION THREE: The Realities of Getting Older - Sun, Mar 14
SESSION FOUR: Co-care and Outside Care - Sun, Mar 28
SESSION FIVE: Staying Healthy through Community - To Be Scheduled
SESSION SIX: The Economics of Getting Older
SESSION SEVEN: Philosophy, Spirituality, and Mortality
SESSION EIGHT: What do we have to offer the world? Growing into elderhood.
SESSION NINE: Risk and Responsibility
SESSION TEN: Case studies, fieldtrips: Looking at Communities
SEATTLE AGING IN COMMUNITY is an independent group of Seattle area individuals exploring possibilities for active, enriching community based aging.  
Download the flyer HERE
For More Info: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleAIC

SESSION 1 STARTS
FEB 14th

Friday, January 22, 2009, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “MAGGIE GROWLS”
(56 min, Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, 2003)
“Speak your mind - even if your voice shakes, for well aimed slingshots can topple giants.”  - Maggie Kuhn.
MAGGIE GROWLS is a documentary film portrait of the amazing, canny, lusty, charming and unstoppable Maggie Kuhn (1905-1995), who founded the Gray Panthers in 1970 after being forced to retire from a job she loved. Her outrage and determination fueled a political chain reaction that forever changed the lives of older Americans, repealing mandatory retirement laws and proving that "old" is not a dirty word.
With a disarming mixture of humor, shock value and common sense, Maggie went on to champion universal health care, nursing home reform, shared housing and consumer protection.  Out of what political activist Ralph Nader called "the most significant retirement in modern American history," Maggie created one of the most potent social movements of the century - one that was committed to justice, peace and fairness to all, regardless of age.
Join us following the film for a community discussion on active, vivacious aging; intergenerational connections and future living options such as Co-Housing: both Senior & Intergenerational.
download the flyer HERE!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted

Today through Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7:00PM and again at 9:00PM
...continuing at Northwest Film Forum
“THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD”
(NOTE: These screenings will NOT BE AT KEYSTONE)
Location: The Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave (between Pike & Pine).
The Meaningful Movies Project will be helping support this screening for The 10th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of WTO SEATTLE 1999 , along with Northwest Film Forum (www.nwfilmforum.org), KBCS 91.3fm (www.kbcs.fm), Reclaim The Media (www.reclaimthemedia.org) and the Seattle+10 Organizing Committee (www.seattleplus10.org).
the Yes Men ...Crusaders For Justice Against the Cult of Corporate Greed!  
Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun?
“THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD” (87 min, Andy Bichlbaum & Mike Bonanno, 2009) follows the political prankster group through a number of hilarious impersonations of some of the world's biggest corporations. In addition to covering the Yes Men's daring hoaxes, the film investigates and attacks the worship of the free market that has led so many corporations and government agencies to put profits above people. It ends with a rousing call to action, to give Obama the pressure he'll need to do what we've elected him for.
While the absurdity of their actions may amuse, THE YES MEN have a serious point to make: ...business as usual is no longer acceptable.
“Comedic vigilante justice… Media savvy pie-to-the-face.” -USA Today.
Friday’s event is a fundraiser to help support the Seattle+10 Week of Action.
For more information on the WTO 10th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, go to:
http://seattleplus10.org/
DOWNLOAD THE FLYER HERE.
For tickets: www.nwfilmforum.org or www.brownpapertickets.org
CHECK OUT THE YES MEN'S LATEST ACTION!:
"The Yes Men Pull Off Prank Claiming US Chamber of Commerce Had Changed Its Stance on Climate Change":
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/20/yes_men_pull_off_prank_claiming
Also: AN AFTERPARTY at Hidmo, 2000 S Jackson St (20th and Jackson)

Friday, November 27, 2009, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: "MALL R US" (78 min, Helene Klodawsky, 2009)
(This will be screened at our regular venue at Keystone.)
In recognition of BUY NOTHING DAY.
Combining nostalgia, dazzling architecture, pop culture, economics and politics, MALLS R US examines North America's most popular and profitable suburban destination-the enclosed shopping center-and how for consumers they function as a communal, even ceremonial experience and, for retailers, sites where their idealism, passion and greed merge.
MALLS R US discusses the psychological appeal of malls to consumers, how architects design their environments to combine consumerism with nature and spectacle, how suburban shopping centers impart social values, how malls are transforming the traditional notions of community, social space and human interaction, and shows nostalgic mall fans who commemorate the closing of older malls.
DOWNLOAD THE FLYER HERE.
November 27th is “BUY NOTHING DAY.”
For more info: http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 20, 2009, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Double Feature:
“NO LOGO - BRANDS, GLOBALIZATION & RESISTANCE”
(40 min, Sut Jhally, 2003)
Coming up on November 27th, is the heaviest shopping day of the year. It's also "Buy Nothing Day" (celebrated on the 28th in the UK) ...a moratorium against consumerism. A 24 hour detox!
In the age of the brand, logos are everywhere. But why do some of the world's best-known brands find themselves on the wrong end of the spray paint can -- the targets of anti-corporate campaigns by activists and protesters?
Based on the best-selling book by Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein, reveals the reasons behind the backlash against the increasing economic and cultural reach of multinational companies. Analyzing how brands like Nike, The Gap, and Tommy Hilfiger became revered symbols worldwide, Klein argues that globalization is a process whereby corporations discovered that profits lay not in making products (outsourced to low-wage workers in developing countries), but in creating branded identities people adopt in their lifestyles.
...AND:
“ADVERTISING AND THE END OF THE WORLD”
(46 min, Sut Jhally, 1997)
Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, the film asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this market-based view of the world: Do our present arrangements deliver what they claim -- happiness and satisfaction? Can we think about our collective as well as our private interests? And, can we think long-term as well as short-term?
Making the connection between society's high-consumption lifestyle and the coming environmental crisis, Jhally forces us to evaluate the physical and material costs of the consumer society and how long we can maintain our present level of production.
Download the flyer HERE
More info on "Buy Nothing Day" on Nov 27th: http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/ and https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, November 6, 2009, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “MONEY AS DEBT II …Promises Unleashed ”
(77 min, Paul Grignon, 2008)
The sequel to Money as Debt, the animated exposé of our debt-money system. Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt, where will it all end? How did we get into a situation where there has never been more material wealth & productivity and yet everyone is in debt to bankers? And now, all of a sudden, the bankers have no money and we the taxpayers, have to rescue them by going even further into debt! Money as Debt II Explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing DEBT...and how w might evolve beyond it into a new era.
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(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, October 30, 2009, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “RETHINK AFGHANISTAN”
(81 min, Robert Greenwald, 2009)
RETHINK AFGHANISTAN focuses on the key issues surrounding this war. Diverse testimony, including a segment presenting many women of Afghanistan, covers both problems and solutions, while graphic footage of civilian casualties from U.S. air strikes illustrates why military force is ineffective at solving Afghanistan's many problems. Hear from veterans of the war as they testify to Congress about facts on the ground.
Download the flyer HERE.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Saturday, October 10, 2009, 7:00 PM
SPECIAL EVENT!! ...Please Support This
BENEFIT SHOWING OF THE FILM: "BROKEN RAINBOW" for the BIG MOUNTAIN 18TH ANNUAL FOOD DRIVE
LOCATION: Keystone Church 5019 Keystone Place North, Wallingford
Film: “BROKEN RAINBOW” (70 minutes, Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd, 1985, with a 2006 update)
BROKEN RAINBOW presents a moving account of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajo Indians that is currently taking place in Northern Arizona.  The United States government claims that by moving the Navajo off the land, it is settling a long standing territorial dispute between the Navajo and the Hope Tribes.  To the traditional Navajo and Hopi, there is no dispute.  They believe relocation was designed to facilitate energy development.
Beautifully photographed and scored, Broken Rainbow captures the majesty of sacred Indian lands, and the devastating effect that mining, forced relocation and stock reduction has had on the land and its people.  Broken Rainbow speaks for all indigenous people who are struggling  to survive as individuals and as distinct cultures in the face of the Earth herself, as it has become impossible in America today to separate environment issues from Native American survival.
$10 Suggested Donation - Refreshments Served.
This is a benefit show to support the 18th annual food supply run providing aid to families resisting forced relocation from their ancestral homelands on Black Mesa and Big Mountain, Arizona.
DOWNLOAD THE FLYER: HERE
MORE INFO ON BIG MESA: HERE
...MEANINGFUL MOVIES will be assisting with the screening.

Friday, September 18, 2009, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE”
(54 min, Gary Weimberg, Catherine Ryan, 2007)
AN EVENING DEDICATED TO THE REALITIES OF MILITARY RECRUITING - With representatives from Washington Truth In Recruiting (WATiR) 
…Could you kill another human being?  for your nation? …even if your life depended on it?    SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE is a dramatic window on the dilemma of individual U.S. soldiers in the current Iraq War – when their finger is on the trigger and another human being is in their gun-sight.  Made with cooperation from the U.S. Army and narrated by Peter Coyote, the film profiles eight American soldiers, including four who decide not to kill, and become conscientious objectors; and four who believe in their duty to kill if necessary. The film reveals all of them wrestling with the morality of killing in war, not as a philosophical problem, but as soldiers experience it - a split-second decision in combat that can never be forgotten or undone. In SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE, filmmakers Weimberg and Ryan present an unflinching portrait of the mental and emotional burdens carried by soldiers through their own personal stories. 
Please join us for an informative evening with Washington Truth in Recruiting on current recruiting practices in our high schools.  WATiR provides factual information to school personnel, parents, students, and members of the community regarding issues of recruiter access to students, deceptive recruiting practices, military contracts and their limitations, the use of military materials including aptitude tests in the schools, and the rights of students and parents to limit recruiter access to personal information, what recruiters don't tell you about military service, and the broader issues of militarization of our public schools.
…ALSO: The Short Film: “BEFORE YOU ENLIST”
(14 min, AFSC, 2006)          
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. - Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

FOLLOWUP:
COUNTER-RECRUITING RESOURCES
AFSC Youth & Militarism Campaign - www.afsc.org/Youth&Militarism/
Before You Enlist (video) - www.beforeyouenlist.org
IVAW Truth In Recruiting Campaign - www.ivaw.org/truth
Leave My Child Alone - www.leavemychildalone.org
Shut Down the Army Experience! - www.shutdowntheaec.net
The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth - www.nnomy.org

Saturday, September 12, 2009, 6:30 PM
SPECIAL EVENT!!
LETTUCE LINK OUTDOOR MOVIE
AT MARRA FARM: “WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE?”
Marra Farm 9026 4th Avenue S (South Park Neighborhood) Bus Routes #: 60, 131, 132 & 134. (<<NOTE LOCATION)
Help support Lettuce Link projects - Giving Garden & Children’s gardening education at Marra Farm, city-wide Fruit Tree Harvesting, Urban Growing and Giving - and watch a cool new flick about kids and food politics.
6:30 PM: Welcome, tour of farm & light refreshments. Dusk: Movie begins.
Price: $15 ticket price includes tour of farm, refreshments and movie.  BONUS: First 20 people to purchase their ticket will get a Lettuce Link canvas tote bag. Come early, bring blankets and enjoy the show.  
The film: “WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE?” - The documentary film about kids and food politics… We are, for the first time in our history, at the unenviable moment when our unhealthy diet and lack of education surrounding our food supply, has combined to foment the perfect storm that is taking us toward extinction. If we do not change what we feed our children and teach them about their food supply and the symbiotic relationship between a healthy planet, healthy food and healthy bodies - this path will become a reality.
It's an 11-year-old's take of Omnivore's Dilemma in a film for people to really be able to take it in bite sized pieces and understand it. – Debra Eschmeyer, of the National Farm to School Network and the Center for Food & Justice
Questions contact: Teresa Mares – tmares@u.washington.edu or Anna Ramos - annar@solid-ground.org
To purchase tickets & for more information: www.solid-ground.org/News/OutdoorMovie
...MEANINGFUL MOVIES will be assisting with the screening
FLYER AVAILABLE HERE! - Bring your friends! - Go To the MAP HERE!

Friday, September 11, 2009, 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Film: “HEROES FRAGILES” (87 min, Emilio Pacull, 2007) …CHILE’S 9/11. With special guests COMITÉ DE JUSTICIA Y SOLIDARIDAD EN CHILE   
Through historic footage and amazingly candid modern day interviews with principals on both sides of the issue at the time, HEROES FRAGILES presents the events of the Chilean Military Coup d’état that removed democratically elected Socialist President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973, and installed dictator Augusto Pinochet.  The event is a classic illustration of the extreme difficulty of maintaining a democratic system in the face of wealthy and powerful forces exerting influence on military and media. 
The Chilean Coup was also an iconic expose: of US foreign policy driving covert intervention that resulted in the destruction of a fledgling democracy, and how the motivations behind that policy were a mix of the fear of Communist expansion and the promotion of US corporate interests in the third world.   Please join us following the film for a facilitated community discussion with The Seattle Committee of Solidarity and Justice in Chile, a group of Chilean individuals that came to the U.S. as political exiles in the late 70's. Their main goal now is to inform, educate, and create awareness among the community, and assure that people's rights are respected.   
Download the Flyer HERE. Please help us get the word out. - Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

FOLLOWUP: If you would like to get involved with Human Rights issues in Chile, please contact The Seattle Committee of Solidarity and Justice in Chile at: bmendoza52@hotmail.com

Friday, July 24, 7:00-9:30 PM
Film: “BACK TO THE GARDEN, FLOWER POWER COMES FULL CIRCLE” (70 min, Kevin Tomlinson, 2009)
WITH THE DIRECTOR, KEVIN TOLINSON
...Where have all the flower children gone?
In 1988, Kevin Tomlinson asked himself that question. At a large “Healing Gathering” in rural Washington State, he interviewed a group of back-to-the-land Hippies who were thriving in the eighties—independent of the culture
that had forgotten them.
Almost 20 years later, in 2006, Tomlinson sought out his subjects again to find out what had become of their off-grid, backcountry families, searching for environmental utopia while living out their sixties’ ideals.  Most of all, he wanted to find out whether their country dreams of a better life had held together—or did they return to the mainstream as many had in the nineties?  The adventure that followed speaks to all of us who were affected by the counterculture. These aging back-to-the-land hippies and their tribal families, firmly insulated from global economic shocks and living a lifestyle emphasizing sustainability, simplicity and community, heralded a resurrection of alternative values which presage today’s green movement, and now seems wiser than ever. More info on the film: http://www.backtothegardenfilm.com/
Join us in a facilitated discussion with the Director, Kevin Tomlinson!
Please download the flyer and distribute if you can:
http://meaningfulmovies.org/images/Flyers/Back_To_The_Garden_Flyer.pdf
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

SATURDAY, July 18, 11:00 AMto 4:00 PMPM
2009 SHORELINE SOLAR FILM FESTIVAL
...JOIN MEANINGFUL MOVIES at the 6th ANNUAL SHORELINE SOLARFEST
On the campus of Meridian Park School, 17077 Meridian Ave N, Shoreline WA 98133, (Corner of N 175th and Meridian Avenue N, just one block West of I-5 exit #176)  More info on the Festival: http://www.shorelinesolar.org/
DOWNLOAD OUR FLYER HERE.
Please help us get the word out.

FILM 1: “THE HISTORY OF OIL” - 11:00 AM
(46 min, Robert Newman, 2007)
Everything you need to know about war, peace, propaganda, the origins of WWI, WWII, Peak Oil, The War on Iraq, The War on Iran and the Western Crusade for Middle Eastern Democracy, all delivered at locomotive speed by British stand-up comic/sage Robert Newman. Filmed live on the bicycle-powered stage in London, Mr. Newman delivers a rapid-fire  political-historical enema that lets you laugh as you learn the truth about everything. Mr. Newman is highly praised producer of the CDs “Apoclypso Now”, “From Caliban to the Taliban” and “Resistance is Fertile”. His critically acclaimed best-selling third novel, “The Fountain at the Center of the Universe”, is about loss and hope, identity and belief, assassination and passport-theft, set around the world from refugee detention centers to a Welsh trawler to tropical disease hospitals to the Seattle WTO protests, tear gas and rubber bullets. The NY Times has described Robert Newman as Tom Wolfe inside the head of Noam Chomsky. “Newman's is a kind of Revolutionary Renaissance stand-up and it is absolutely wonderful. His comedy probably has more constituent parts than any other comic's, and the whole is still greater than the sum of those parts. Firstly he is very, very funny. He can be witty, satirical and surreal in turn, and every so often will pull out a brilliant impression, just to remind us that he has more strings to his comedic bow than are attached to a World Bank loan.” - FIVE STARS The Scotsman Monday 8/15/05 (commenting on “Apocolypso Now”).
FILM 2: “KILOWATT OURS” - 12:30 PM
(65 min, Jeff Barrie, 2004)
KILOWATT OURS reveals the underreported side effects resulting from America’s voracious appetite for coal-generated electricity, and alternatives that give hope for the future.
Q: What would you find if you traced the wires from your light switch to the energy source?
A: Mountain top removal? global warming? childhood asthma? … or hope?
Vice President Dick Cheney, in his well-known energy policy speech of April 30, 2001, claimed that America must build 1900 new power plants by 2020. That is one new power plant per week for the next two decades in order to meet projected electricity demands. “KILOWATT OURS” challenges this assertion by presenting hope filled alternatives based on conservation, efficiency and renewable power.
FILM 3: “BLIND SPOT” - 2:00 PM
(86 min, Adolfo Doring,  2008)
BLIND SPOT is a documentary that investigates the causes behind the reasons for the current crisis we find ourselves in. It establishes the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy and the effect it has had on our environment. It takes as a starting point the inevitable energy depletion scenario know as Peak Oil to inform us that by whatever measure of greed, wishful thinking, neglect or ignorance, we are at a crossroad which offers two paths, both with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels our ecology will collapse and if we don’t, our economy will. Either path we choose to take will have a profound effect on our way of life.
"Blind Spot is a fascinating documentary, it draws on some of the most impressive scientific minds to warn us about the dangers of our dependence on oil and educate us about our role in saving the earth and the lives of our children. I was transfixed by it."  -Howard Zinn

Friday, July 17, 7:00-9:30 PM
Film: "FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: RESISTANCE & REPRESSION IN AN AGE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" (Kembrew McLeod & Jeremy Smith, 60 min, 2007)
WITH STEVEN REISLER, CHAIR OF THE SEATTLE CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD
In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression" - a startling comment on the way that intellectual property law restricts creativity and expression of ideas. This provocative and amusing documentary explores the battles being waged in courts, classrooms, museums, film studios, and the Internet over control of our cultural commons. "This smartly-made and seriously funny documentary provides an aerial view of the battleground that is today's copyright landscape. Illustrating the comments of many well-known critics of runaway copyright & trademark law with apt audiovisual examples, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION succeeds as an engaging and concrete presentation." - Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law.
Download the flyer HERE! Please post if you can.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, June 26, 2009, 7:00-9:30 PM
Film: “THE GREAT SQUEEZE”
(67 min, Christophe Fauchere, 2009)
And a Special Film Short: “GLOBAL WARMING”
With the film's producer and director, Damon O’Grady
THE GREAT SQUEEZE explores our current ecological and economic crisis stemming from our dependence on cheap and abundant energy. Although our actions for the past 150 years have lifted our civilization to new heights, it has come at a tremen`dous price. We are now at a point where humanity's demands for natural resources far exceed the earth's capacity to sustain us. The extraction and the consumption of these resources in the past two centuries have changed our climate and ecosystems so significantly, that a new geological era had to be created.
Download the Flyer HERE
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, May 1, 2009, 7:00-9:30 PM
“UN POQUITO DE TANTA VERDAD” (93 MIN, Jill Irene Freidberg, 2007) With the Filmmaker, Jill Freidberg
From the producer of “Granita de Arena” &  “This Is What Democracy Looks Like." When the people of Oaxaca decided they’d had enough of bad government, they didn’t take their story to the media...they TOOK the media.
In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century. But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. A 90-minute documentary, A LITTLE BIT OF SO MUCH TRUTH captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice. After spending two years in Oaxaca, producing her previous film, Granito de Arena, Freidberg returned to Oaxaca, in 2006, to tell the story of the people who put their lives on the line to give a voice to their struggle. Narrated almost entirely with recordings from the occupied media outlets, A LITTLE BIT OF SO MUCH TRUTH delivers a breathtaking, intimate account of the revolution that WAS televised. More information at: www.corrugate.org.
Join us in a conversation with filmmaker, Jill Freidberg.
Download the flyer HERE.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, April 24, 2009, 7:00-9:30 PM
“BOOGIEMAN - THE LEE ATWATER STORY”
(86 min, Stefan Forbes, 2008)
WITH SPECIAL GUEST, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST, BEV HARRIS
BOOGIEMAN is the compelling story of Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a household name. Without Atwater, neither Ronald Reagan nor George H.W. Bush might have been elected. Atwater mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush while making the GOP a Southern party, expertly advancing the culture wars, transforming the way the American media covers elections, and becoming seen as the godfather of modern negative campaigning.  This is a very timely examination of how Atwater’s ghost looms over modern American politics.
Please join us in a facilitated discussion with Bev Harris of Black Box Voting, www.blackboxvoting.org
Download the flyer HERE. Please post and distribute if you can.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:00-9:30 PM
Film: “THE INLAND SEA: WHERE HAVE ALL THE ORCAS GONE?" (45 min, Michael Harris, People for Puget Sound & Outpost Media, 2001)
And the Short Film: “SHIFTING BASELINES” (6 min, Randy Olson & Puget Sound Partnership, 2008)
With: People For Puget Sound
The great orca pods of the Northwest are disappearing fast, and the exact cause is a mystery. What's killing the killer whale? 
Join underwater explorer and activist Jean-Michel Cousteau as he examines the health of Puget Sound’s Southern Resident orcas and the causes of their population decline. Decimated by captures for aquariums and marine parks in the 1960s, the orcas gained strength in numbers after gaining protected under federal law and becoming symbols of Puget Sound’s magnificence. But declines in numbers of their principal food, Chinook salmon, and their ingestion of toxic chemicals from our modern culture, and even the prevalence of large ships and whale watching boats may be factors in their declining health. What are these magnificent creatures telling us about the health of Puget Sound and our future— and what can we do about it? 
Join us for a facilitated discussion with folks from People for Puget Sound
Download the flyer HERE.Please post and distribute if you can.
For info on People for Puget Sound: www.pugetsound.org
For more info on Puget Sound Partnership: www.psp.wa.gov
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, April 10, 2009, 7:00-9:30 PM
Film: "CAPITALISM HITS THE FAN"
(57 min, Sut Jhally, 2008)
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. 
Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing and debt that ultimately exploded in the mortgage meltdown. By placing the crisis within this larger historical and systemic frame, Wolff argues convincingly that the proposed government "bailouts," stimulus packages, and calls for increased market regulation will not be enough to address the real causes of the crisis, in the end suggesting that far more fundamental change will be necessary to avoid future catastrophes. 
Download the flyer HERE. Please help get the word out. Thanks!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, March 27, 2009, 7:00-9:30 PM
Film: "THE NUCLEAR COMEBACK" (58 min, Justin Pemberton, 2007) ... IS NUCLEAR ENERGY THE ANSWER?
With Dr. Dave Hall from Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (WPSR)
In a world living in fear of climate change, the nuclear industry is now proposing itself as a solution. It claims that nuclear power generation produces zero carbon emissions... and people are listening. The result is the beginning of a global nuclear renaissance, with 27 nuclear power stations under construction, and another 136 to be commenced within the next decade. THE NUCLEAR COMEBACK poses the question: Is this the answer to our energy needs? Or by seriously considering the renewed development of nuclear power, may we now be gambling with the survival of our planet?
The new documentary THE NUCLEAR COMEBACK goes on a worldwide tour of the nuclear industry in search of answers. Presented is a balanced array of viewpoints and information which allows the viewer to draw their own conclusion. Please join us following the film in a facilitated discussion with Dave Hall from Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (www.wpsr.org).
Download the flyer HERE. Please post if you can.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ...but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, February 27, 2009, 7:00-9:30 PM
Film: “CONSUME THIS MOVIE”
(80min, Gene Brockhoff, 2008)
...a shop-u-mentary - With CECILE ANDREWS
AND OUR 6th ANNIVERSARY!
Are Americans too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the planetary ecology in order to serve the desires and drives of the ego? And what, or who could be driving this powerful force of seduction?
Americans are finally beginning to challenge our culture of greed and materialism. CONSUME THIS MOVIE stars Cecile Andrews, Juliet Schor, Peter Whybrow and others; and takes a critical look at social injustice, peak oil, resource depletion and our deep need to feel connected to each other through what we choose to consume.
Join us for this brand new film and discussion with Cecile Andrews, followed by our 6th Anniversary celebration! Cecile is author of Slow is Beautiful and Circle of Simplicity. More at www.cecileandrews.com, www.phinneyecovillage.net   
Trailer at: http://www.consumethismovie.com/files/preview.html
"See this movie when you're happy to be alive." - Ed Begley Jr.    
DOWNLOAD OUR ANNIVERSARY FLYER HERE!
Pass on to friends & neighbors!
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, February 6, 2009, 7:00-9:30 PM
FILM: “THE IRON WALL” (60 min, Mohammed Alatar, 2006) 
With JUDITH KOLOKOFF and ZIYAD ZAITOUN, and AMIN ODEH  
ALSO: Cindy and Craig Corrie, parents of Rachel Corrie will be in attendance.
Also: At 6:30PM, just before the film, please join the speakers for informal discussion.
The Iron Wall features interviews with prominent Israeli and Palestinian peace activists and political analysts, including Jeff Halper, Akiva Eldar, Hind Khoury, and others. Also included are eye-opening interviews with Israeli settlers and soldiers, and Palestinian farmers.  "The Iron Wall is a highly recommended film for anyone concerned with the quest for a just and peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - a film that takes a clear stand while showing genuine empathy for both sides." -- Hillel Schenker, Co-Editor for Palestine-Israel Journal.
The film will be followed by a facilitated discussion with guest speakers this evening:
JUDITH KOLOKOFF was instrumental in organizing Jewish Voice for Peace/Seattle and is a founding member of the national organization American Jews for a Just Peace, and the local organization, Seattle Jewish Voices Against the Occupation of Palestine.  She has worked as Tour Coordinator for the Refuser Solidarity Network - a national organization supporting the anti-occupation work of the Israeli refusniks.  (Refusniks are soldiers, conscripts, reservists, pilots etc. who refuse to serve in the territories.)In the past 15 years her activity has been strongly focused around working for Middle peace and justice in Israel/Palestine. During that period she has visited Israel/Palestine five times, the last in March/April 2005.
AMIN ODEH was born in a refugee camp near Bethlehem in the WestBank. He was detained many times by the Israeli army and spent months in Israeli military prisons. After coming to the U.S he continued to advocate on behalf of the Palestinian people. In the year 2000 he and other Palestinian activists founded the group Voices of Palestine. The group's main objective is to educate the public about the Palestinian struggle for freedom and Justice. Amin is also a board member with the Arab American Community Coalition in Seattle. "
ZIYAD ZAITOUN was born in 1954 in the occupied city of Hebron (El-Khalil), and was raised in Amman, Jordan. He attended the Arab University of Beirut until the civil unrest in Lebanon occurred in 1975.  He then decided to start his new adventure in the USA, where he attended the University of Washington and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering. In 1984, Ziyad with his wife and daughter packed their suitcases and move to Jordan. After working and living in Amman for three years, the family decided to move back to Seattle. Ziyad is a founding member of the Arab American Community Coalition, a civil and human right local organization with a global reach. 
More info on the film: www.theironwall.ps    
Download the flyer HERE
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, January 30, 2009, 7:00-9:30 PM
FILM: “GARBAGE WARRIOR” (86 min, Oliver Hodge, 2008)
With JIM BURTON, from the NW ECOBUILDING GUILD; & and KINLEY DELLER from THE KING COUNTY GREEN TOOLS PROGRAM
Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power source. And now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by anyone, out of the things society throws away.
Thirty years ago, architect Michael Reynolds imagined just such a home - then set out to build it. A visionary in the classic American mode, Reynolds has been fighting ever since to bring his concept to the public. He believes that in an age of ecological instability and impending natural disaster, his buildings can - and will - change the way we live.
Shot over three years in the USA, India and Mexico, Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick architect Michael Reynolds, his crew of renegade house builders from New Mexico, and their fight to introduce radically different ways of living. A snapshot of contemporary geo-politics and an inspirational tale of triumph over bureaucracy, GARBAGE WARRIOR is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world.
Join us following the film in a conversation with Jim Burton, President of the Seattle Chapter of the Northwest Eco-Building Guild; and Kinley Deller, Waste Reduction Specialist for the King County Green Tools Program about sustainable building in the Seattle area.
Jim is an architect with BLIP Design, specializing in Green Remodels and Additions. He's a member of the American Institute of Architects, the US Green Building Council, Built Green, and Solar Washington.  The Northwest Eco-Building Guild is an association of builders, designers, homeowners, trades people, manufacturers, suppliers and others interested in ecologically sustainable building. More info at: http://ecobuilding.org/. 
Kinley provides construction related waste reduction and recycling assistance to construction project managers, contractors, architects, and developers within King County. He has been working tirelessly over the past several years to promote deconstruction as a key waste reduction option. King County's GreenTools program helps users create and sustain "green" buildings and developments with technical assistance, grants, hands-on training, and the information to find locally-produced, high quality sustainable building materials and resources. More info at: www.greentools.us.
Download Flyer HERE.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, January 23, 2008, 7-9:30 PM
FILM: “THE ORANGE REVOLUTION”
(106 min, Steve York, 2007) 
Orange Revolution provides an in-depth look at Ukraine’s
historic nonviolent revolution of 2004. In freezing temperatures, over one million citizens poured into the streets of Kyiv and took up residence there. They marched in protest and formed human barricades around government buildings, paralyzing all state functions. Restaurants donated food, businessmen sent tents, and individuals brought blankets, clothing, and money. At night, rock bands energized the protesters.
For 17 days, a group of ordinary citizens engaged in extraordinary acts of political protest. Capturing the songs and spirit of this moment in history, Orange Revolution tells the story of a people united, not by one leader or one party, but by one idea: to defend their vote.
Followed by facilitated discussion. Download Flyer HERE.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).

Friday, January 16, 2008, 7-9:30 PM
FILM: “DR. STRANGELOVE” or: “HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB”
(94 min, Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
DR. STRANGELOVE is a 1964 black comedy film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens. Loosely based by screenwriter Terry Southern on Peter George's Cold War thriller novel Red Alert (aka Two Hours to Doom), Dr. Strangelove satirizes the Cold War and the doctrine of mutual assured destruction.
The story concerns a mentally unstable US Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, as well as the crew of one B-52 as they attempt to deliver their payload.
In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).
...also:
SUPPORT GROUND ZERO on MLK DAY:
ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS - ABOLISH TRIDENT
Monday, January 19, 2009, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
RESTORING THE BELOVED COMMUNITY: GROUND ZERO CENTER FOR NONVIOLENT ACTION VIGIL AND DIRECT ACTION AT BANGOR
Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 19, by standing against nuclear weapons and war!  Join the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (GZ) in a vigil at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds MLK Day event in the morning, and a vigil and direct action at the gates of the Bangor Trident nuclear submarine base in the afternoon.
The day begins at 8:30 a.m. at GZ, 16159 Clear Creek Rd. NW, Poulsbo, WA 98370.  At 9:15 we will carpool to the Fairgrounds, 1200 NW Fairgrounds Rd., Bremerton, WA 98311, and meet at 9:30 at the NE corner of the Fairgrounds parking lot, in front of the main entrance to the auditorium, where we will vigil for one hour, and then return to GZ.  From 11:00 to 3:15 at GZ there will be nonviolence training and action planning.  At 3:15 we will head for the Bangor gate(s) for vigiling and nonviolent direct action, returning to GZ at 4:30 to await the return of arrestees. Bring sack lunch, snacks, drinking water, umbrella, warm, waterproof clothes, flashlight, sign-making materials, money to donate, peaceful spirit.  For directions or more information, go to www.gzcenter.org, or contact Jackie or Sue at 360-377-2586.
MLK Day 2009 Flyer -front
MLK Day 2009 Flyer -schedule

Friday, January 9, 2008, 7-9:30 PM
FILM: “SHARKWATER”  (89 min, Rob Stewart, 2008)  
WITH SCOTT WEST AND SEA SHEPHERD
With an Opening Short Film:
"SHARK ANGLES"
Driven by passion fed from a lifelong fascination with sharks, filmmaker Rob Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.
Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, SHARKWATER takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
In an effort to protect sharks, Stewart teams up with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Their unbelievable adventure together starts with a battle between the Sea Shepherd and shark poachers in Guatemala, resulting in pirate boat rammings, gunboat chases, mafia espionage, corrupt court systems and attempted murder charges, forcing them to flee for their lives.
Through it all, Stewart discovers these magnificent creatures have gone from predator to prey, and how despite surviving the earth's history of mass extinctions, they could easily be wiped out within a few years due to human greed.
Stewart's remarkable journey of courage and determination changes from a mission to save the world's sharks, into a fight for his life, and that of humankind.
Join us in a conversation with Scott West, a retired federal agent, who now works with the Sea Shepherd. One of Scott's primary duties is to protect sharks.
(Also, come early at 6:30 PM for informal discussion with Scott West from Sea Shepherd)
For more info on "SHARKWATER": www.sharkwater.com
For more info on Sea Shepherd: www.seashepherd.org
Download the Flyer: HERE

Opening Short Film:
"SHARK ANGLES" (20 Minutes Produced by Shawn Heinrichs)
Shark Angles is the story of three powerful and passionate adventurers - a scientist, a grassroots activist and an eco-warrior – unite their unique strengths to create a formidable trio of shark defenders. Horrified by the rate man is destroying the creatures they have dedicated their lives to saving, the Shark Angels decide to take matters Into their own capable hands. http://www.sharkangels.org/
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).