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30th Anniversary of Pan African Film Festival

https://paff.eventive.org/films It's a virtual film festival at first this year because of continued COVID restrictions, as the Omicron spike slowly ebbs, but they are having a phenomenal 30-year anniversary retrospective for Black History Month. They ae planning for a hybrid in-person and on-line festival in late April and early May at the Directors' Guild Theater and the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw mall (including the art display). See details below. https://www.paff.org/ PAN AFRICAN FILM AND [...]

By |2022-02-08T15:49:23-05:00February 8th, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, Calendar, Events, Film & Documentaries, Films, Gentrification/Displacement, Historical, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements, Theater|0 Comments
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THE BIGGEST LIE WE LIVE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES

WHAT MOST AMERICAN PEOPLE DON’T KNOW and DON’T WANT TO KNOW By Frank Dorrel Publisher of ADDICTED To WAR: www.addictedtowar.com My name is Frank Dorrel. Along with AK Press, I publish and distribute the popular anti-war comic book titled: ADDICTED To WAR by Joel Andreas. What is this BIG LIE that I am talking about?  Well, it’s not Donald Trump claiming that he won the 2020 election for President. He got something like seven million fewer votes then Joe [...]

By |2022-02-12T15:33:06-05:00February 3rd, 2022|Activism, Afghanistan, Beyond Capitalism, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Commentary, Drones, Film Reviews, Films, Frank Dorrel, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Iraq, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, National Security, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Protests and Rallies, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, Veterans|0 Comments
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Kiss the Ground: Eco-Optimism on Netflix

Movie Review Optimistic film proposes solutions to climate change by Christine Browning Freedom Socialist newspaper, Vol. 42, No. 1, February-March 2021 www.socialism.com The Kiss the Ground documentary, now screening on Netflix, is a breath of fresh air amongst the constant bad news about climate change. Not only is it highly informative and educational, it also reveals a plausible solution to the global warming crisis. While the film does not recognize capitalism as [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:12:18-05:00January 30th, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Arts, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Film & Documentaries, Film Reviews, Films, Reviews, Socialism|0 Comments
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Incarcerated Women Confront COVID, Forced Sterilizations

PBS recently released a documentary on the forced sterilization of women in CA prisons, as they struggle for accountability by the state and the CA Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation for the consequences of the practice, which went on for years. Although it has now been outlawed, there has been no justice or recompense for the hundreds of women who were affected. the PBS Independent Lens documentary is no longer available for [...]

By |2020-12-31T02:55:19-05:00December 31st, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, California, Film & Documentaries, Girls, Health, Health Care, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, News, People, Politics, Prisons, Solidarity, Whistleblowers, Women|0 Comments
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Aug. 25 Anti-Slavery Cinema Commemoration of 400th Anniversary

400th Anniversary Anti-Slavery Cinema Commemoration On August 20, 1619 the first African captives arrived on continental North America via the transatlantic slave "trade;" some became slaves at the Jamestown colony, Virginia. The 400th Anniversary Anti-Slavery Cinema Commemoration remembers enslavement and resistance to slavery through movies and TV shows. Each work is introduced by film historians, activists, filmmakers, celebrities, scholars, etc., who participate in Q&As after each screening. Film historian/critic Ed Rampell is [...]

By |2019-07-22T21:21:35-05:00July 30th, 2019|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, Events, Film & Documentaries, Films, Historical, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements, Poverty, Prisons, Slavery|0 Comments
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February 2019 Community Calendar

Peace vigils: https://change-links.org/ongoing-peace-vigils-and-community-programs/   Other Calendars: https://ocprogressiveevents.info/, https://la.indymedia.org/calendar/, httpss://www.facebook.com/pg/ieprogressivealliance/events/, https://www.activistsandiego.org/event, httpss://vcpjn.org/calendar/ httpss://echoparkfilmcenter.org   On - Going & Continuing Events   Thru Mar 5 - Voting for KPFK Local Station Board listener delegates. See elections.pacifica.org   Weekends, Crenshaw Farmers Market offers farm fresh produce and artisan goods, featuring locally grown favorites. Ties into the mall’s health initiative promoting wellness in the Crenshaw community. The B Fit program includes weekly Zumba, cardio kick and [...]

By |2019-02-18T01:24:24-05:00February 4th, 2019|Activism, Black Lives Matter, Calendar, California, California, Events, Film & Documentaries, Gentrification/Displacement, Human Rights, Independent Media, Indigenous, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Police Brutality, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity, Theater, Unions, Venues|0 Comments
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Paying the Price for Peace Wins Film Award

Movie Paying The Price For Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson Wins Award   by Greg Foisie The film Paying The Price For Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson has won The Grand Jury Documentary Feature Award from the 2017 Awareness Film Festival.  The film festival was recently held in Los Angeles, California between October 5th and 15th, 2017.  The film was produced by Bo Boudart of Bo Boudart Productions [...]

By |2017-10-28T00:20:07-05:00October 28th, 2017|Constitution, Film & Documentaries, Films, Greg Foisie, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Justice/Injustice, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, People, Veterans, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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American Sniper: Two Views (Excerpts)

by Chris Hedges American Sniper lionizes the most despicable aspects of U.S. society, the gun culture, blind adoration of the military, the belief we have a right as a Christian nation to exterminate the lesser breeds, a hyper-masculinity that banishes compassion, a denial of inconvenient facts. Many, especially white Americans trapped in a stagnant economy and a dysfunctional political system, yearn for the "moral renewal" and militarized control the movie venerates. The [...]

By |2015-03-02T03:55:36-05:00March 2nd, 2015|Chris Hedges, Film Reviews, Lila Garrett|0 Comments
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Film Reviews by Dancing Owl

The Theory of Everything: Inspiring biopic on life of Stephen Hawking. Rosewater: Gael Garcia Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries, Science of Sleep) plays true story of Iranian-Canadian journalist Bahari who was arrested and tortured in 2009 for reporting on unrest during re-election of Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad. Dir. by Jon Stewart Interstellar: Dir. Christopher Nolan attempts to reawaken the thrilling dream of finding and colonizing a new world, rather than figure out how not [...]

By |2014-10-31T20:12:43-05:00October 31st, 2014|Film Reviews|0 Comments
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Capsule Reviews by Dancing Owl, AKA Chas. Fredricks

FILMS-upcoming, in current release or worthy of catching on the rebound: Mission Blue: Gripping documentary about humanity's global destruction of our oceans, and the effort to stop it. Dolphin Tale 2: In this PR counterattack by the aquarium industry, we get to feel cute and cuddly while imprisoning an animal that has a bigger brain than we do and force it to perform for our amusement. Then we get to pretend we [...]

By |2014-09-23T17:16:03-05:00August 29th, 2014|Dancing Owl, Film Reviews, Reviews|0 Comments
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March 2014 Calendar

Pussy Riot Being Followed by the Moscow Police Change Links March 2014 Calendar Volunteer: Change-Links Change-Links needs a VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR to assist John in bringing together people to determine the necessary resources for continuing CL with the permanent, reliable status it enjoyed for over 20 years. The VC and all other positions are unpaid due to CL’s low budget and the fact that the newspaper is available free citywide and to subscribers [...]

By |2014-03-04T11:51:44-05:00March 4th, 2014|Banking Reform, Big Business, Calendar, Democracy, Economy, Events, Film & Documentaries, Films, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Media, Los Angeles, News, Peace and War, People, Politics, United States, Wall Street|0 Comments
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The Growing Global Movement Against Austerity

The Growing Global Movement Against Austerity by Amy Goodman Amaia Engana didn’t wait to be evicted from her home. On Nov. 9, in the town of Barakaldo, a suburb of Bilbao in Spain’s Basque Country, officials from the local judiciary were on their way to serve her eviction papers. Amaia stood on a chair and threw herself out of her fifth-floor apartment window, dying instantly on impact on the sidewalk below. She [...]

By |2012-12-05T19:07:27-05:00December 5th, 2012|Amy Goodman, Banking Reform, Big Business, Commentary, Democracy, Economy, Editorial, Film & Documentaries, Human Rights, Politics, United States, Wall Street|0 Comments
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