CODEPINK Int'l Womens' Day Events

CODEPINK is cosponsoring The Nation's panel:
"Meltdown: The Economic Collapse and a People's Plan for Recovery"

Friday, March 6th at 8:00pm,
(doors open at 7:15pm)

New York Society for Ethical Culture,
2 West 64th Street

The panel speakers include Naomi Klein, Joseph Stiglitz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Jr., and Christopher Hayes.

This event is free!

Co-sponsors: The New Society for Ethical Culture, Public Concern Foundation, Democracts.com, Democracy Now!, Haymarket Books, CODEPINK NYC.

This year on International Women's Day CODEPINK will honor Afghan sisters by hosting a film screening, small craft fair and panel
followed by the 2nd annual concert
with NOUR,
(a middle-eastern folk ensemble!)

This is a blessed, beautiful day to honor women around the world- so come out and honor this day with CODEPINK!

MARCH 8,
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY FILM SCREENING,
Afghan Women: A History of Struggle
Panel discussion and benefit concert


12:30pm: doors open; Afghan Craft Sale begins
1:00 pm Film Screening followed by panel discussion with the filmmaker Kathleen Foster, Professor Fawzia Afzal-Khan, and Fahima Vorgetts from Women for Afghan Women

Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, NYU Law School,
40 Washington Square South

RSVP: This is a free event but the seating is limited.
Please RSVP to codepinknyc@gmail.com

Co-sponsors: NYU Law Students for Human Rights, NYU Law Students for Reproductive Justice, NYU Law Women

4:30pm NOUR (MIDDLE EAST FOLK ENSEMBLE CONCERT) "From Irene To Ishtar",

Eisner Lubin Hall in the Kimmel Center, New York University,
60 Washington Square South

Benefit for CODEPINK Women for Peace and Doctors Without Borders http://www.myspace.com/nourmusic

RSVP for Non-NYU (Guests): Guests can purchase tickets at the day of the event at Ticket Central (Kimmel Center, 2nd Floor, 60 Washington Square South) for $10 non-NYU student and $20 guests.
Guest will also have the option to reserve a ticket in advance for $7 non-NYU student and $15 guest.
To reserve guest tickets in advance, please RSVP to codepinknyc@gmail.com

(NYU students and staff can either purchase tickets in person at Ticket Central
(Kimmel Center, 2nd Floor, 60 Washington Square South)
or purchase online through NYU Home/ NYU Life/Ticket Central. NYU student: $5 advance / $7 day of the event, NYU staff : $10 advance /
$15 day of event.

April 17: Free screening: Film about Iraq

Thursday, April 17, 7:30pm
free

A screening of 500 Miles to Babylon, a compelling film about Iraq under U.S. occupation.

Filmmaker David Martinez will be on hand to discuss his experiences in Iraq.

Sarah Husain, a representative of the War Resisters League’s Youth and Counter Militarism Project, will discuss counter-recruitment campaign efforts in New York City.

The Change You Want To See Gallery
http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org
84 Havemeyer St, (at Metropolitan Ave)
Brooklyn NY 11211

500 Miles to Babylon is a one-hour documentary shot in multiple cities in Iraq in 2003-4. Narrated by the filmmaker, using footage shot in Iraq threaded with graphically animated archival sequences to provide historic context, the film addresses the current war not simply as a conflict over petroleum profits or a scheme to fill a company’s coffers, but as part of a larger American imperial project.

Through impromptu interviews, glimpses of daily life, still photographs, and footage of car-bombs, demonstrations, night-time graffiti artists, Sufi rituals, and the celebrations following Saddam’s capture, 500 Miles To Babylon reveals the complex situation in contemporary Iraq through a personal lens. Far from being a simple anti-war movie, 500 Miles illustrates the terrible complexity of a people brutalized by a dictatorship, and the catastrophic results when that system is changed overnight by shortsighted military means.

500 Miles is also the story of director David Martinez, an American independent filmmaker in Iraq, attempting to understand the country and its ever-changing situation. One chapter of the film relates his experience in Fallujah where he temporarily abandoned his camera and was part of an ambulance crew fired on by U.S. snipers, only to be taken prisoner later by mujihadeen fighters in the same city. This is a film not about soldiers, not about governments, but about Iraqi civilians and a handful of independent journalists in a country being turned into hell. A cinema verite narrative of daily life, disintegration, and the humor that ordinary people adapt when living in a warzone.

With a soundtrack of Iraqi Choubi songs compiled by Sublime Frequencies.

David Martinez is a filmmaker and journalist originally from Texas, currently based in San Francisco. He is currently finishing, (along with co-producer Shane Bauer), a documentary entitled Songs To Enemies And Deserts about Darfuri rebel groups, filmed in Western Sudan in Summer 2007. He contributed war footage to films like Fahrenheit 911 by Michael Moore and Iraq For Sale by Robert Greenwald. His reporting on social movements and conflicts has appeared in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Filmmaker Magazine, CounterPunch, and Islam Online. He has worked in feature film production with directors John Sayles and Richard Linklater, and as an actor in the animated feature Waking Life, directed by Linklater. He has also been employed as a school teacher, social worker, bike messenger, and taxi driver.

The War Resisters League’s Youth and Counter Militarism Project, based in New York City, provides young people with the resources and training necessary to agitate against military recruitment in their schools and communities. Their main focus is the Not Your Soldier Project. The long term goal is to bring youth organizers and young veterans together to help build a unified, national anti-war movement. To help accomplish this, they produce materials, conduct trainings, and work in a number of national coalitions.