Shorts Night Thursday March 18, 2010, 7:00pm
U.C. Theater

In the Background of The Iraq War Is an Ivisible Army
Someone Else's War (USA: 2007, 25 mins.)
Produced & Directed by Lee Wang

In the background of the war in Iraq is an invisible army made up of more than 30,000 low-wage workers from South and Southeast Asia. Working for a fraction of what American contractors earn in Iraq, these Asian workers do the dirty work on U.S. military bases—cleaning toilets, serving food and driving some of the most dangerous roads in the country. Yet few Americans outside of Iraq have ever seen or heard of these workers. Third world workers in Iraq typically earn a tiny fraction of what Americans earn, work without health or life insurance, and live in segregated camps on base comparable to indentured servitude. Told through the eyes of the Filipinos and their families, Someone Else's War is the first documentary to investigate this little known side of the war. This film provides an intimate look into the forces of poverty and desperation that persuade workers to risk their lives for the chance at a better life in Iraq. By tracing the journey of these workers from their communities in the Philippines to the slums of Kuwait and finally onto U.S. military bases in Iraq, Someone Else’s War provides a unique take on globalization in a time of war.

Producer's Web Site: www.SomeoneElsesWar.com

Why the US Government Spends Millions Prosecuting Two Shoshone Elders
American Outrage (USA: 2008, 33 mins.)
Directed by George and Beth Gage

Carrie and Mary Dann are feisty Western Shoshone sisters who have endured five terrifying livestock roundups by armed federal marshals in which more than a thousand of their horses and cattle were confiscated — for grazing their livestock on the open range outside their private ranch.

That range is part of 60 million acres recognized as Western Shoshone land by the United States in the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley, but in 1974 the U.S. sued the Dann sisters for trespassing. That set off a dispute that swept to the United States Supreme Court and eventually to the Organization of American States and the United Nations.  American Outrage asks why the United States government has spent millions persecuting and prosecuting two elderly women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert? The United States Bureau of Land Management insists the sisters are degrading the land. The Dann sisters say the real reason is the resources hidden below this seemingly barren land, their Mother Earth. Western Shoshone land is the second largest gold producing area in the world.

Producer's Web Site: www.BullfrogFilms.com/catalog/amout.html

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Producer's Web Site: www.SomeoneElsesWar.com

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