Stone Soup Worcester

Saturday, August 25, 4–8pm
crazy after party starting at 9pm
on king st between shepard and main

More info on the block party below.

Why we fight?

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
come kick off the last block party of the summer!
rep your heritage / culture !!!

Saturday, August 25, 4–8pm
Rain date: Sunday August 26

• Games
• Prizes
• Food
• Circus
• Talent show
• Much more!

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:
http://worcesterroots.org/docs/TalentShowSignUp.doc

English Flyer here:
http://worcesterroots.org/docs/flyer4.pdf

Spanish one here:
http://worcesterroots.org/docs/flyeresp2.pdf

Held by the Toxic Soil Busters and Stone Soup. More info:
http://www.WorcesterRoots.org - (508) 335-7783

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.