Welcome to the Fall 2009 Peace & Justice Film Series!

This season we are focusing on Health Care, one of the most important issues of the day. Our major event is September 10 when we will be hosting Health Care Refore: A Panel Discussion. That evening and on September 17 we will be showing several parts of the PBS min-series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making us Sick? Then on November 19 we will be showing Money-Driven Medicine: What's Wrong with America's Healthcare and How to Fix It. We hope you can join us.

Schedule: We will be showing documentary and historical films most Thursdays from September 10th through December 10th., 2009. The films examine many important questions of our time from a variety of perspectives. All events start at 7:00pm.

Admission: By Donation. No one is turned away.

There will be a lively and respectful discussion after each screening of every film. All of these movies are thought provoking, so please stay afterwards and share your thoughts with other members of the community. We encourage participants with all points of view to attend: diversity of opinion leads to richer discussions and deeper understanding.

Change of Time and Venu: In the past we screened each film twice in an evening, and showed all of them in the U.C. Theater. Due to budget cuts, we can only afford to screen each fim once. All events will start at 7:00pm. Due to scheduling conflicts this season, there are long periods when the U.C. Theater is not available to us on a Thursday evening. So, some of our films in September and October will be screened in the Urey Underground Lecture Hall. Please note which venue to attend.

Unnatural Causes (part 1)
Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
(USA: 2008, 58mins.)
Thursday September 10, 2009, U.C. Theater
7:00pm: Unnatural Causes
8:00pm: Panel Discussion

The acclaimed documentary broadcast by PBS and tackles the root causes of our alarming socio-economic and racial inequities in health. How does the distribution of power, wealth and resources shape opportunities for health?

We wil have a lively discussion on Health Care Reform, one of the most important and contentious issues of the day. And you can participate. Come understand what each side stands for and ask each of them the questions that are important to you.

Unnatural Causes (part 2)
Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
(USA: 2008, 58mins.)
Thursday September 17, 2009, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

Last week we showed In Sickness and in Wealth, the first part of Unnatural Causes, as part of our Panel Discussion on Health Care Reform. This week we show the three more parts of this fascinating and timely miniseries:

Have You Ever Wondered Where Money Comes From?
The Money Fix
(USA: 2009, 79 mins.)
Directed by Alan Rosenblith
Thursday September 24, 2009, 7:00pm
Urey Underground Lecture Hall

All money enters the economy as bank debt. And this seemingly innocuous detail is actually at the core of many of the social and environmental problems of today. The Money Fix is a feature-length documentary comparing and contrasting community currencies with federal dollars. This film examines economic patterning in both the human and the natural worlds, and through this lens we learn how we can empower ourselves by redesigning the lifeblood of the economy at the local level.

Thursday October 1, 2009
Thursday October 7, 2009
No Films These Weeks.

When You Are In Wall Street's Casino, You Play By Their Rules
American Casino
(USA: 2009, 89 mins.)
Written by Andrew & Leslie Cockburn
Thursday October 15, 2009, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

The complex, still-molten mortgage meltdown is brilliantly dissected in a tour-de-force that is one part crystal-clear economic primer, and one part revelation of its effect on homeowners who were duped and traumatized by appalling lending practices.

Thursday October 22, 2009
No Film This Week.

Be The Change
(Canada: 2008, 55 mins.)
Directed by David Chernushenko
Thursday October 29, 2009, 7:00pm
Urey Underground Lecture Hall

Be the Change is an inspiring documentary about people living lightly — and loving it! The film explores the motivations for, and the challenges and rewards of, trying to live more lightly.

Thursday October 7, 2009
No Films These Weeks.

Reel Bad Arabs
How Hollywood Vilifies a People
(USA: 2009, 60 mins.)
Narrated by Dr. Jack Shaheen
Thursday November 12, 2009, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

This film exposes a long line of degrading images of Arabs in American cinema. From Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding terrorists. It shows how the persistence of these images over time has served to naturalize prejudicial attitudes toward Arabs and Arab culture.

Money-Driven Medicine
(USA: 2009, 86 mins.)
Directed by Andy Fredericks
Thursday November 19, 2009, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

Frustrated doctors and outraged patients testify to how things can go horribly wrong when the concerns of patients and families are ignored and corporate interests trump patients’ needs for high quality, affordable care. Money-Driven Medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need to become knowledgeable participants in healthcare reform, now and in the years ahead.

Thursday November 26, 2009
Thanksgiving Break! No Film This Week.

Everything is Cool
(USA: 2007, 89 mins.)
Produced & Directed by Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand
Thursday December 3, 2009, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

A “toxic comedy” about the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action — Global Warming. The good news: Americans finally get global warming; the chasm is closing and the debate is over. The bad news: the United States, the country that will determine the fate of the globe, must transform its fossil fuel based economy fast.

The Story of Stuff
The Documentary that Rocked the Missoula County School System!
(USA: 2007, 20 mins.)
With Annie Leonard


A Snowmobile For George
A film with Buffalo, Fish, Cowboys and Firetrucks
(USA: 2008, 94 mins.)
Directed by Todd Darling
Thursday December 3, 2009, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns, with a special focus on the United States.  It is the documentary that rocked the Missoula County Public School System for several weeks earlier this year. Come see for yourself the film at the heart of the controversy.

A Snowmobile for George is a rambunctious road trip that collects the stories of fishermen, cowboys and firemen who have had to face the consequences of environmental deregulation by the Bush Administration. Started by a question about the filmmaker's own used two-stroke snowmobile engine, this trip steadily reveals the political strategy and rationale behind a massive sell-off of public resources.

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