Shorts Night
Thursday December 4, 2008, 5:30pm & 7:30pm

SOA: Guns & Greed (USA: 2000, 20 mins.)
Narrated by Martin Sheen

The School of the Americas (SOA), though recently renamed as “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation," is still the United States' premier training school for Latin American military forces.

Rarely seen footage in this documentary shows how the combat-ready SOA graduates use their guns to protect the interests of large corporations and world financial institutions. Acting on their own or under orders from their governments, the soldiers target labor organizers, human rights advocates, educators, religious leaders and others who speak out against sweatshops and enterprises of greed that exploit the country's people and resources. SOA: Guns & Greed presents powerful statements from students, labor leaders, veterans and church people involved in nonviolent protests to close the School of the Americas.

Producer's Web Site: www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=26

Between Bulls and Mosquitoes (USA: 2008, 30 mins.)
Produced here in Missoula, Montana by Emily Crawford and Solmaz Mohadjer

Mountainous, impoverished, and isolated, Tajikistan faces impediments to social progress that can turn natural phenomena into humanitarian disasters. In this region, advancements in Earth sciences hardly translate into practical geohazards awareness for a citizenry that remains largely oblivious to the scientific explanations of seismic events. A local geosciences student travels to the region to investigate how this can be changed.

Special Guests: Film makers Emily Crawford and Solmaz Mohadjer.

Rosie Revisited:             (USA: 2008, 26 mins.)
A U.S. Led Solution to Global Warming
Produced here in Missoula, Montana by Jane O'Holly Productions
and GlobalWarmingSolution.org.

Rosie Revisited looks at global warming as being every bit as much of a threat as Nazism during World War II, and proposes concrete solutions that are not only good for the environment, but good for the economy as well. With the will of Rosie The Riviter, the WWII icon, America ramped up it's production of weaponry to meet the challenge. Rosie Revisited shows how we can similarly ramp up our production of windmills, solar panels and so forth to meet the challenge of global warming.

Producer's Web Sites: www.GlobalWarmingSolution.org and www.janeoholly.com

Special Guests: Film Makers Holly Schroeder and Jane West will discuss the making of Rosie Revisited, and David Merrill, Executive Director of Global Warming Solution.org will discuss the details of the solutions laid out in Rosie Revisited.

Discussions to Follow Each Screening. Please join us.