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Thursday November 8 at 7:30 PM LOS ULTIMOS ZAPATISTAS, FORGOTTEN HEROES Is a documental film that made a research among the survivors of the Mexican revolution for land and freedom. Please, come and share the comments of this testimonial film that highlight the present of THE ZAPATISTAS. Save the Date! 
MACHUCA See you there The event was a success! Over 400 people in attendance, 35 groups collaborating, a good time had by all. Video is 11 minutes long. Produced by Worcester Roots Project. Saturday, August 25, 4–8pm  More info on the block party below. The $400-billion-a-year American war machine is often characterized as overwhelming firepower supported by overwhelming logistics. Not to mention an overwhelming number of taxpayer dollars funneled into an imperialistic battle plan. Eugene Jarecki’s stirring anti-war documentary takes its cue from President Dwight Eisenhower’s profound 1961 farewell address that touched on themes of the calamitous rise of misplaced power and the acquisition of unwarranted influence. We are an incredibly militant nation, according to the talking heads of Jarecki’s urgent dirge: the “United States of Amnesia,” who conveniently manage to forget bungled corruption, mass manipulation and fractured government policy from one war to the next. Despite the changes wrought by the events of 9/11, there is still a vast disconnect between unrelenting patriotism and the basis on which we send our sons and daughters to war. War-profiteering and economic colonialism rear their ugly heads. The film asks, “To what end?” U.S. Sen. John McCain, Gore Vidal, ex-CIA operative Chalmers Johnson and retired Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski among others, attempt to unravel the core of our national detachment amidst colorful theories of corporate greed and the relentless responsibility to spread democracy and freedom. Jarecki’s path to deciphering 50 years of military misadventure is generally bipartisan, and intermittently without focus. But his journey’s end is clear: why do we fight, and when are we going to stand up and say we’re not doing this anymore?  on king st between shepard and main Saturday, August 25, 4–8pm
crazy after party starting at 9pm –Looking for Booth Coordinators for YOUR culture (cultures already confirmed: Puerto Rico, Brazil, Kenya, Bike Culture… more) –Looking for Talent Show acts! Sign-up sheet here: English Flyer here: Spanish one here: Held by the Toxic Soil Busters and Stone Soup. More info: Our next movie is: Buterfly ” La lengua de las mariposas” (the tongue of butterflies) is the story of an extraordinary relationship between Moncho, a young boy beginning school and the compassionate school master who teaches him courage and exposes him to the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Placed in a Spanish pre-civil war scenario. This Thursday 26 at 7 PM: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown The movie is a great introduction to Almodóvar’s world: an outsized, farcical, candy-colored swirl where manic lovers, terrorists, and druggies all implode in on one another and drag us along for the laughs. Our traditional Thursday film series present this July 19 at 7 PM: Children of Heaven (Persian: بچه‌های آسمان) is a 1997 Iranian film. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998. It deals with a brother and sister and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes, while also touching upon the more serious subject of the political situation in Iran as well as class differences between the rich and the poor and daily urban life. |
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