Northampton Committee
To Stop the Wars

Peace and Justice Film Series

Films are normally the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room in the basement of Forbes Library, 20 West Street. Films are free. Discussion follows.

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Previous Films
Date	Film
Nov 13	Doumentaries about Rojava We will show short documentaries about Rojava, the northern Kurdish part of Syria. Rojava hosts a utopian community with gender and economic equality and direct democracy. It was abandoned by the US. in Trump's sudden withdrawal earlier this year, which opened it to a renewed attack by Turkey. Kurdish people living in the Valley will speak after the film to kick off a discussion.
Oct 23	A Sense of Wonder Pioneering environmental Rachel Carson’s fight against pesticides and the backlash against her book “Silent Spring.” Carson, struggling with cancer, discusses the attacks by the chemical industry, the government, and the press as she focuses her limited energy to get her message to Congress and the American people.
Sep 25	Plastic China In China, an 11-year-old must work in a plastics recycling factory because school is too expensive. Experts and activists on recycling will kick off the post-film discussion.
Sep 11	Unfinished Business: The Japanese-American Internment Cases The story of three Japanese-Americans who resisted the 1942 internment of Americans of Japanese descent, were imprisoned for it, and in 1986 sought to have their convictions overturned. Discussion with Valley activists who recently visited an immigrant detention camp in Florida.
Aug 28	JANE: An Abortion Service Led by activist Heather Booth, a secret, women-run abortion service flourished in the midwest from the late ‘60s to the 1973 Roe decision - a time when abortions were illegal and dangerous. Discussion with representatives of Tapestry Health and co-sponsor Western Mass. Science for the People.
Aug 14	The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons Nuclear insanity has mostly gotten worse since the monstrous bombings that started the nuclear age, but the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, approved by 122 nations, may be the beginning of a turn for the better.
Jun 26	Bill Moyers: Impeachment of a President With guests Bruce Fein and John Nichols, Bill Moyers examines the history of the process of impeachment.
Apr 24	The People vs. The Politicians Stories of contemporary grassroots resistance to government abuses such as gerrymandering and corporate domination of campaign finance.
Apr 10	Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse Media scholar Sut Jhally argues that we’re not likely to avert the coming climate catastrophe until we confront the cultural power of the advertising industry.
Mar 13	Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice A prominent figure in her time, Ida B. Wells was a black woman writer and activist in the post-bellum period of the South who rallied against lynchings and Jim Crow policies, and also for women's rights.
Feb 27	Death and Taxes War tax resisters and experts explain why and how they do it. Discussion with Malachy Kilbride, an influential Quaker peace activist who advocates the idea that paying taxes for war is a form of participation in war.
Feb 13	Boys Like Us Repeat showing due to a large overflow at the Jan. 9 showing. A Northampton High School senior project explores masculinity in progressive communities and how men participate in gender equality.
2019
Jan 21	Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, the Media and the War on Terror Deepa Kumar, a prominent scholar with a focus on Islamophobia, argues that U.S. news and entertainment media have taught Americans to fear Muslims out of all proportion to reality.
Jan 9	Boys Like Us A Northampton High School senior project explores masculinity in progressive communities and how men participate in gender equality. Three Northampton men interviewed in the film - Tom Weiner, Thomas Schiff, and Bill Dwight - will participate in a post-film panel discussion.
2018 Films
Date	Film
Dec 12	The Great White Hoax: Donald Trump and the politics of race and class in America Race relations expert Tim Wise examines Trump's presence as a demonstration of the engrained racism and white privilege in America.
Nov 28	Harvest of Empire Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez argues that America's burgeoning Latino population is largely the result of U.S. colonialism in Latin America.
Nov 14	Dark Money Film maker Kimberly Reed examines how American elections are bought and sold, especially since the 2010 Citizens United decision that allows corporations to underwrite the candidates who will benefit them the most.
Oct 24	Warning: This Drug May Kill You A 2017 HBO look at the opioid crisis through the stories of four families whose lives were deeply changed by prescriptions to opioids. Discussion with retired Dr. Andrew Larkin.
Oct 10	Two Towns of Jasper In the aftermath of the unprovoked and horrific murder of a black man by three white men in Jasper, Texas, in 1998, two film makers - one black, one white - interviewed black and white people in the town. Discussion with Prof. Linda Tropp, Psychological and Brain Sciences, UMass.
Sep 26	Escape Fire In the American health care system, wellness takes a back seat to profit, with predictable results.
Sep 12	Censored Voices In 1967, a group of young kibbutzniks recorded candid interviews with soldiers returning from the Six-Day War. In 2015, some of the interviewers and soldiers gathered to listen to the recordings. Make-up showing for June 11
Jul 11	Fire at Sea A view of the European Migrant Crisis through everyday life in one of the places many boats landed, the Sicilian island of Lampedusa
Jun 27	Censored Voices In 1967, a group of young kibbutzniks recorded candid interviews with soldiers returning from the Six-Day War. In 2015, some of the interviewers and soldiers gathered to listen to the recordings.
Jun 13	Memory of Forgotten War Korean-American survivors of the Korean War describe the war and its impact on Korean society, which it cleaved into two enemy nations.
May 23	Death and Taxes War tax resisters and experts explain why and how they do it. Discussion with local war tax resisters including Frances Crowe.
May 9	Disturbing the Peace The story of veterans from both sides of the Israel/Palestine conflict who have discarded their belief in war and come together to form the group Combatants for Peace.
2018
Apr 25	The Poor People's Campaign: Then and Now, 1968 - 2018 Martin Luther King's 1968 Poor People’s campaign is being revived by Barber Barbour’s Moral Monday gatherings in North Carolina. We will watch a film (from Eyes on the Prize) on the 1968 campaign, followed by current footage of the ongoing revival of Dr. King's campaign. Discussion with MichaelAnn Bewsee and Tavar Jones of Springfield's Arise for Social Justice, who represented Arise at a recent PPC meeting in North Carolina.
Apr 11	Ferlinghetti: the Rebirth of Wonder Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a radical resister poet who wanted to help other radical writers. In 1953, he opened the landmark City Lights Books in San Francisco, and also began publishing books such as Allen Ginsberg's Howl, for which he was tried on obscenity charges. Discussion with local resistance poets, book store owners, and publishers.
Mar 21	Heather Booth: Changing the World Lessons and inspiration from the life of a tireless and effective activist.
Mar 14	Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and The NRA A 2016 Robert Greenwald film exposes the NRA's real purpose: to protect the wealth of gun executives in spite of their mind-boggling insult to basic principles of public safety.
Feb 28	Countdown to Zero The producer of An Inconvenient Truth takes a 2010 look at the other bullet in the revolver at humanity's head: the ever-increasing danger of a catastrophic nuclear weapons event. Discussion with Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson, activists working to ratify the 2017 UN nuclear weapon prohibition treaty.
Feb 14	Accidental Anarchist When high-ranking British diplomat Carne Ross saw how the West treated Iraq, he testified against Tony Blair, quit his post, and lost his faith in government as it is currently constituted. Searching the world for an alternative vision, he found successful examples of democratic anarchism - including one in Syria, just 8 kilometers from a battle line - that offer a way out of the brutality of capitalism and the dishonesty of the current system. Discussion with UMass anthropology PhD candidate Eleanor Finley.
Jan 24	Heroin(e) Three women - a fire chief, a judge, and a street missionary - battle West Virginia's devastating opioid epidemic.
Jan 10	Anita Hill: Speaking Truth to Power The career of Anita Hill, a black woman who, in a 1991 media circus, testified to a Senate panel of 14 white men about sexual harassment by Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.
2017 Films
Date	Film
Dec 13	The Nun, The Priests, and The Bombs The worldwide Catholic Plowshares movement against nuclear weapons began amid the escalation of the Cold War in the 1980s, when Daniel Barrigan broke into a nuclear warhead plant and took a hammer to nose cones. With the threat of nuclear extinction again dire, Sister Megan Rice, 82, took action in 2012. Armed with only moral courage - and a bolt cutter - she and two priests broke into the nation's uranium stockpile, spray-painted and bannered its walls, and poured out human blood.
Nov 22	No film
Nov 8	The Coming War with China In his 60th TV film, John Pilger exposes the US's long-standing and recently worsening aggressive stance against China. He argues that the saber-rattling is driven by a small class of warmongering policy-makers on both sides, and highlights popular resistance to military bases in Jeju and Okinawa. Discussion with UMass China historian Sigrid Schmalzer.
Oct 25	Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary A teacher at a school with many children of undocumented immigrants films the ramifications of a 1994 California referendum denying education and health care to those children.
Oct 11	Guyland: Where Boys Become Men From our own Media Education Foundation, a film based on sociologist Michael Kimmel's book about how young men are having trouble navigating life because of changes in society's expectations about masculinity and adulthood.
Sep 27	The Age of Consequences Climate change through the eyes of military planners, who see it as an accelerant and catalyst in recent and future conflicts.
Sep 13	Here's to Flint A detailed look at the austerity-driven Flint Water Crisis, when improperly treated, overly corrosive water poisoned thousands and damaged the predominantly African-American city's water infrastructure.
Aug 9	Command and Control In 1980, a worker at a fully-armed Arkansas nuclear missile silo dropped a wrench. After falling 80 feet, it bounced and punctured a fuel tank. Both stages of the missile exploded, and the warhead - a hydrogen bomb 600 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb - was thrown to the ground 100 feet away. Fortunately, safeguards on the warhead prevented it from destroying Arkansas. This film gives a detailed account of the disaster, talks about other near misses, and argues that a real cataclysm is only a matter of time.
Jul 26	Let the Fire Burn In 1985, Philadelphia police conducted an incendiary attack against the black liberation group MOVE's headquarters in a row house. Eleven were killed - including five children - and 65 houses were destroyed.
Jul 12	Fools on the Hill To expose the absurdity of our political system, concerned citizen and filmmaker Jerrol LeBaron tries to get a law on the books in North Dakota to require politicians to certify they have read the bills before they vote on them.
Jun 28	Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point An in-depth look into how our dysfunctional health care system is damaging our economy and our nation's health. The film argues that an improved version of Medicare makes the most sense for both individuals and society.
Jun 14	Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota captures world attention through their peaceful resistance against the U.S. government's plan to construct an oil pipeline through their land.
2017
May 24	Censored Voices In 1967, a group of young kibbutzniks recorded candid interviews with soldiers returning from the Six-Day War. In 2015, some of the interviewers and soldiers gather to listen to the recordings.
May 10	National Bird The stories of three drone-war whistleblowers; one travels to Afghanistan to meet some of the maimed victims of attacks she helped coordinate.
Apr 26	The White Helmets Why do some people - rescuers - run into danger when most others run away? A civilian brigade in airstrike-ravaged Syria has taken up that mission, on the belief that "to save one life is to save all humanity."
Apr 12	Tapped A look at the pitfalls of the bottled water industry, a model of waste and of corporate domination of a life-enabling community resource.
Mar 22	Gideon's Army The personal stories of three young public defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South.
Mar 8	Which Way Home The harrowing journey of Mexican immigrants is even scarier for unaccompanied children.
Feb 22	We Need to Talk About Injustice TED talk by Bryan Stevenson, the lawyer whose work ended the death and life-without-parole sentences for children.
Feb 8	White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America From our own Media Education Foundation, an exploration of racism and white privilege in the U.S. argues that by not coming to terms with these problems, we have failed to achieve the ideals of a post-racial society - and that race-based resentments continue to drive our politics.
Jan 25	In Pursuit of Peace Four civilian peacemakers work on the front lines of international peace initiatives in South Sudan, Turkey, Congo and Iraq.
Jan 11	Heir to an Execution Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in the paranoid atmosphere of 1953 for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. Their children and grandchildren continue to argue for their exoneration on that charge. This documentary, by their granddaughter Ivy Meeropol, explores the lives and deaths of her grandparents and its impact on the extended family. Leading the post-film discussion will be the Rosenbergs' son Robert Meeropol (uncle of Ivy), who will also talk about the campaign to have President Obama exonerate Ethel Rosenberg before he leaves office.
2016 Films
Date	Film
Dec 28	The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code A 1493 Papal decree provided the legal framework for the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Dec 14	Rising Voices/Hotȟaŋiŋpi A group works on Lakota Nation reservations in North and South Dakota (including the Standing Rock reservation) to save the Lakota language from extinction.
Oct 26	Paying the Price for Peace: the Story of S. Brian Willson The life of a Vietnam veteran who was struck by a military train he was protesting in connection with U.S. support of the Nicaraguan Contra rebels in the 1980s.
Oct 12	Disobedience Stories and people from the front lines of the new, more aggressive phase of the movement to save the climate.
Sep 28	Nerve Activists in a small Kentucky town where chemical weapons are stored fight to ensure that they are disposed of safely rather than incinerated.
Sep 14	All Guantánamo is Ours The perspective and sentiment of the Cuban people, in particular those living in the towns around Guantanamo, about the occupation of 45 square miles for the naval base.
Jun 22	Salam Neighbor Filmmakers spend a month living alongside displaced Syrian families in the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan.
Jun 8	Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley In response to the 2009 coup in Honduras, campesinos occupied land that had been taken in land grabs by the country's largest landowner.
May 25	Flow: For the Love of Water The world's fresh water supply is very limited, and corporations are buying up the remaining supplies. Should anyone really be allowed to own the world's water? And what are the political and human rights implications of privatization?
May 11	The Occupation of the American Mind A new film from the Media Education Foundation shows that media coverage and public opinion on Israel's policies in Palestine and Gaza have been carefully manipulated to be favorable to Israel - but only in the United States.
Apr 27	Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective A look at the why and how to do permaculture, with many examples of current projects and their ecological and other benefits.
Apr 13	Hacking Democracy A 2006 look at the Diebold electronic voting machine scandal, where machines were shown to be vulnerable to corporate manipulation and outside hacking.
2016
Feb 24	Koch Brothers Exposed Two oil billionaires lavishly fund the most destructive parts of the right-wing agenda.
Feb 10	Good Kill (Drama) When an Air Force pilot (Ethan Hawke) is transferred to pilot drones remotely, his sanity begins to disintegrate. Veteran anti-drone activist Paki Wieland will lead discussion.
Jan 27	The End of the Line Local resistance kills a pipeline project through Kentucky.
Jan 13	The Difference Between Us Part 1 of PBS's 3-part series Race: The Power of an Illusion documents the ample scientific evidence that there is no physical basis for the concept of race.
2015 Films
Date	Film
Dec 28	Inside the Sing-Sing Prison Discussion with participants in the Quakers' Alternatives to Violence project, which runs conflict-resolution workshops in prisons including Sing-Sing.
Dec 14	In the Path of Resistance: Justice Beyond Keystone Hampshire College film maker Alex Leff visits places affected directly by the Keystone XL pipeline. Leff will introduce and discuss the film.
Nov 23	The War Game A graphic 1965 made-for-TV drama about the effects of a nuclear war on ordinary people. The BBC didn't broadcast it until 1985, when the TV films The Day After and Threads were broadcast.
Nov 9	The Story We Tell Part 2 of PBS's series Race: the Power of an Illusion documents the evolution of the idea of white supremacy.
Oct 26	Broken Brotherhood: Vietnam and the Boys from Colgate As a Vietnam veterans memorial is created at Colgate University, interviews tell how the war affected the school's social fabric.
Sep 28	The House We Live In Part 3 of PBS's series Race: The Power of an Illusion
Sep 14	The War You Don't See John Pilger documents the media manipulations that were necessary to whitewash the Iraq War and other conflicts.
Aug 24	The Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? The system behind the erosion of democracy and the middle class in America
Aug 10	In the Land of the Free The story of the Angola 3, who have been held in solitary confinement for more than 40 years. Discussion with Lois Ahrens of the Real Cost of Prisons Project.
Jul 27	Healing a Soldier's Heart Hoping to heal, four Vietnam veterans with severe PTSD return to the sites of their traumas.
Jul 13	Harvest of Grief Indian farmers are being wiped out by debt after being enticed into using Monsanto's expensive GM cotton regimen. Discussion with the film maker, Rasil Basu
Jun 20	Salt of the Earth Saturday 2:00 p.m. In a blacklisted 1954 film, Mexican-American workers strike for equal pay, while the women among them fight for an equal voice.
2015
Apr 13	Where Should the Birds Fly? Life in the Gaza Strip under Israeli attack and siege, told through the lives of the filmmaker and a 10-year-old girl whose family was wiped out in the 2008-9 bombing.
Mar 21	The Economics of Happiness Saturday 2:00 p.m. While corporations build a stressful, alienating world, people are building a better world based on local economies and human values.
Mar 9	On the Beach The last survivors of a nuclear war wait for the radiation to arrive and kill them. (Drama)
Feb 21	Home of the Brave Saturday 2:00 p.m. The convoluted aftermath of the murder of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman killed in the Civil Rights Movement
Feb 9	The Trials of Muhammad Ali Stripped of his first title for his objections to the Vietnam War and his conversion to Islam, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali became a champion of peace, justice and religious freedom.
Jan 24	Roadmap to Apartheid Saturday 2:00 p.m. The comparison between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and South Africa's Apartheid era. Cosponsored with the Western Mass Coalition for Palestine.
Jan 12	The House I Live In Saturday 2:00 p.m. The War on Drugs has brought about a tenfold increase in our incarceration rate, mostly of African Americans. As this film shows, that was exactly what it set out to do.
2014 Films
Date	Film
Sep 6	Fruitvale Station Saturday 2:00 p.m. Drama based on the story of Oscar Grant, who was killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer in 2009.
May 1	American Meltdown Senior Center, 67 Conz Street, Thursday 1:30 p.m. A fictional look at the terrorist takeover of an American nuclear plant
Mar 22	Nuclear Nation Forbes Library Community Room, Saturday 1:00 p.m. Their town leveled by the tsunami then contaminated by the meltdown, the former residents of Futaba, Japan struggle for environmental justice.
Mar 1	Dirty Wars Forbes Library Community Room, Saturday 1:00 p.m. Journalist Jeremy Scahill investigates the netherworld of U.S. covert operations, including the tragic Khataba raid, "kill lists", and warlord alliances.
Feb 15	The Crossing Forbes Library Community Room, Saturday, 2:00 p.m.
Feb 14	Students and Goliath Last film in the Frances Crowe Community Room Young activists at the 5 Colleges, aware that climate change is killing their birthright, fight the fossil fuel industry through divestment campaigns. Discussion with the film maker, Hampshire College student Alex Leff.
Feb 8	Under Rich Earth Saturday 2:00 p.m. Farmers in a remote region of Equador stand off against Canadian mining interests and the paramilitaries who support them.
Feb 7	High Power In India, the problems with nuclear power are compounded by those of colonialism - and darkened by the shadow of the mass destruction at Bhopal. Discussion with the film maker, Pradeep Indulkar.
Feb 1	The Age of Stupid Saturday 2:00 p.m. A documentarian in the year 2055 gathers (real) footage to answer the question of why humanity failed to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Jan 31	Brothers on the Line As the leaders who brought the United Auto Workers union to power, Walter Reuther and his brothers were central to the labor movement.
Jan 25	Quietly into Disaster Saturday 2:00 p.m. Through the actions of its citizens, Germany will phase out nuclear power by 2023.
Jan 24	The Man Who Saved the World In 1983, Soviet computers mistook sun glinting off a cloud formation for five incoming U.S. missiles; meet the level-headed duty officer who squelched the alarm.
2014
Jan 18	Fire in the Blood Saturday 2:00 p.m. The pharmaceutical industry lobbies to keep prices high, leading to millions of deaths, especially in Africa.
Jan 17	NO! A dramatic look at the TV campaign that helped end dictatorship in Chile in 1988.
Jan 11	Dirty Wars Saturday 2:00 p.m. Journalist Jeremy Scahill investigates the netherworld of U.S. covert operations, including the tragic Khataba raid, "kill lists", and warlord alliances.
Jan 10	Living Downstream An ecologist, mother, and cancer survivor looks at the effects of pollution as a social justice issue. Glen Ayers from WXOJ's Enviro Show will speak and lead discussion.
Jan 3	Quietly into Disaster A comprehensive look at the dangers of nuclear power with longtime activist Holger Strom.
2013 Films
Date	Film
Dec 27	No film
Dec 20	Unmanned: America's Drone Wars Dehumanizing both attacker and victim, U.S. remote-control killing machines fan the flames of war.
Dec 13	Gaslands 2 A 2013 follow-up to the highly acclaimed film on the dangers of gas mining by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Dec 6	18 Years of Needle Exchange in Northampton Five short needle exchange films by the American Foundation for AIDS research, a public service announcement by Tapestry, and discussion with Bill Dwight and PSA producer Naftali Beane Rutter.
Nov 29	No film
Nov 22	No film; consider attending Project Unspeakable instead
Nov 15	Shift Change Worker-owned and cooperative businesses in the United States and Mondragon, Spain
Nov 8	My Country, My Country A 2005 look at Iraq under the U.S. Occupation; discussion with local Iraq activist Claudia Lefko
Nov 1	Rosa Luxemburg A farsighted Marxist attempts to lead Germany away from war during the lead-up to World War I and the German Revolution.
Oct 25	The Business of Gold in Guatemala Canadian mining in Guatemala has been rife with violence and economic injustice.
Oct 18	No film, please consider attending the National Priorites Project 30th Anniversary Celebration
Oct 11	Broken Rainbow In 1974, a coal mining company conspires with lawmakers to force the relocation of 10,000 Native Americans.
2013
Oct 4	Rosa Luxemburg A farsighted Marxist attempts to lead Germany away from war during the lead-up to World War I and the German Revolution. Equipment failure; film repeated 11/1/13.
Sep 27	The Gatekeepers Six former heads of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security force, discuss the agency's history.
Sep 20	No film, MEF needs the room.
Sep 13	Under Rich Earth Farmers in a remote region of Equador stand off against Canadian mining interests and the paramilitaries who support them.
Sep 6	A Place at the Table Some 50 million Americans lack food security, including 1 of every 4 children.
Aug 30	AFSC Testimonials A new documentary from the Western Mass. AFSC shows Springfield's robust anti-foreclosure activitism
Aug 23	The Ghosts of Jeju To contain a 1948 Communist insurrection, S. Korea conducts a scorched-earth occupation of Jeju Island.
Aug 16	American Meltdown A fictional look at the terrorist takeover of an American nuclear plant
Aug 9	Hiroshima/Nagasaki Rememberance Speakers at McConnell Hall, Smith College; walk to Paradise Pond for the lantern-floating ceremony
Aug 2	Atomic States of America An anti-nuclear activist recalls growing up in the shadow of a nuclear power plant
Jul 26	John Trudell, Native American Activist The life of Native American Activist John Trudell
Jul 19	Genetic Roulette A roundup of the ways in which GMO food is thought to be harmful to human health and the ecology
2013
Jul 12	Which Way Home The harrowing route of Mexico-to-U.S. immigration through the eyes of unaccompanied child migrants
Jul 5	Cuban Five Five Cuban counter-terrorism agents are convicted of espionage against the United States; four remain in prison.
Jun 28	Bidder 70 An activist interferes with an auction of petroleum leases on public lands
Jun 21	Maxed Out A 2006 look at the practice of predatory lending
Jun 14	The Greatest Movie Ever Sold A documentary about product placement that was funded entirely by product placement
Jun 7	Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War From weapons production, through combat and cleanup, war has a massive environmental impact that is routinely ignored.
May 31	The Ghosts of Jeju To put down a 1948 Communist insurrection, South Korea conducted a brutal, scorched-earth occupation of the island of Jeju.
May 24	Schooling the World: the White Man's Last Burden The Western education system is exported to cultures where it is not appropriate.
May 17	Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry A portrait of dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei
May 10	Doctors of the Dark Side Doctors and psychologists play a critical role in torture.
May 3	The Wobblies A look at the Industrial Workers of the World, one of America's most radical labor unions
Apr 26	The Invisible War A look at shortcomings of the military's response to sexual assault of women within its ranks
2013
Apr 19	Granito Guatemalans piece together the 1982 genocide of 200,000 Mayans.
Apr 12	Slavery by Another Name Make-up showing from 2/8 Black slavery did not end with the Civil War; PBS looks at the phenomenon in the period from 1865-1945.
Apr 5	A Fierce Green Fire An in-depth look at the environmental movement through five important campaigns
Mar 29	The Suzuki Diaries The Nature of Things host David Suzuki and his daughter travel through Europe exploring whether there is hope for a sustainable future, and what it might look like.
Mar 22	Harvest of Empire Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez argues that America's burgeoning Latino population is partly the result of U.S. colonialism in Latin America.
Mar 15	Roadmap to Apartheid A detailed consideration of the comparison between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and South Africa's Apartheid era
Mar 8	Salt of the Earth In a blacklisted 1954 film, Mexican-American workers strike for equal pay, while the women among them fight for an equal voice.
Mar 1	Detropia Once prosperous, Detroit must reinvent its economy.
Feb 22	5 Broken Cameras A Palestinian in the path of Israeli development uses a series of cameras to document the life of his family and the resistance of his community.
Feb 15	A Burning Question The Media Education Foundation looks at how perception management confounds the reality of Global Warming.
Feb 8	Slavery by Another Name Postponed to April 12. Black slavery did not end with the Civil War; PBS looks at the phenomenon in the period from 1865-1945.
Feb 1	Medea Benjamin on Drones Medea Benjamin of Code Pink will speak at the Friends Meeting House, 43 Center Street
2013
Jan 25	Dakota 38 A Native American spiritual leader and Vietnam vet leads a pilgrimage to the site of mass hanging of Dakota Indians in 1862.
Jan 18	Latinos Beyond Reel The Latino population is under-represented and vilified in the film and television media. New from the Media Education Foundation
Jan 11	H<sub>2</sub>Oil Extracting oil from Alberta's tar sands involves surface-mining pristine forests and contaminating vast volumes of water. [Makeup showing for 12/7/12 equipment failure]
Jan 4	The Flaw Reflections on Alan Greenspan's 2008 comment that the economic crash may have been the result of a 'flaw in the model'
2012 Films
Date	Film
Dec 28	The New Great Game Political changes in the Middle East diminish the influence of the West.
Dec 21	The Minister's War In 1939, a Massachusetts minister and his wife go to eastern Europe to help Jews and others escape persecution.
Dec 14	Agrofuels Diverting food to fuel increases hunger and encourages damaging monocropping; pollution from coal is a serious problem affecting the entire nation. Discussion with Coal filmmaker Alexia Prichard.
Dec 7	H<sub>2</sub>Oil Extracting oil from Alberta's tar sands involves surface-mining pristine forests and contaminating vast volumes of water.
Nov 30	Waiting for Mercy: the Case against Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain A closeup of an FBI-manufactured terrorist plot, and the two Albany Muslims who took the fall. Discussion with the filmmaker, Lynn Jackson.
Nov 23	No film
Nov 16	The Thick Dark Fog A Lakota man heals from the childhood repression of his identity and culture at a Native American boarding school.
Nov 9	Witness against Drones Northampton Committee member Paki Wieland will report on an anti-drone action she attended in South Waziristan, Pakistan.
Nov 2	The Welcome Veteran families in a group therapy retreat exemplify courage, honesty, and love as they attempt to work their experience into poetry.
Oct 27	October 2012: Truth and Reconciliation This October we presented four films on Truth and Reconciliation, in collaboration with the UMass History Department's 2012 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series.
Oct 26	Greensboro: Closer to the Truth A Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigates the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, in which Klansmen murdered five activists. Discussion with Marty Nathan, who survived the attack.
Oct 19	Facing the Truth, with Bill Moyers, Part II Bill Moyers documents South Africa's epic Truth and Reconciliation project. Part I will be shown at UMass as part of the Feinberg Lecture Series, Wednesday, october 17, 7:00 p.m., Thompson 106; discussion there will be led by UMass Professor John Higginson.
2012
Oct 12	State of Fear: The Truth about Terrorism Peru looks at its response to internal terrorism, which was to suspend democracy and impose a brutal military occupation on the countryside.
Oct 5	Silent Thunder: The Search for Truth and Reconciliation Canada's ongoing efforts to come to terms with the forcible removal of First Nation children to residential schools
Sep 28	Lives Worth Living Fred Fay turned the misfortune of his spinal cord injury into a passion to help launch the Disability Rights Movement.
Sep 21	The Fruits of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives on Film Ordinary Afghans struggle to address their social and economic needs. Discussion with the film maker.
Sep 14	Monse&ntilde;or: the Last Journey of &Oacute;scar Romero Archbishop Oscar Romero worked tirelessly for social justince in El Salvador until his assassination in 1980.
Aug 31	Controlling Interest: the World of the Multinational Corporation A 1978 look at multinational corporations and the effects of the flow of capital and jobs across borders
Aug 24	Los Deportados en Tijuana Deportees in Tijuana are often desperate; the Casa Refugio Elvira shelters some of them. Discussion with Rosalie Miller, who has been working with the San Diego County Border Angels.
Aug 17	Love Free or Die When New Hampshire Episcopalians elect a gay bishop, the wider Church re-examines its values.
Aug 10	Paper City Holyoke youth talk about their perspective on issues of racial, economic, and social justice. Discussion with the film maker, Akil Gibbons
Aug 3	Knocking at the Devil's Door A comprehensive look at the dangers of nuclear power by anti-nuclear activist Gary Null
Jul 27	Dreamland A candid but compassionate look at gambling's effect on workaday residents of Las Vegas
Jul 20	Deafening Silence A rich and complex inside view of the dictatorship in Burma
2012
Jul 13	Too Big to Fail An HBO dramatization of the 2008 financial meltdown
Jul 6	If a Tree Falls The story of Earth Liberation Front's Daniel McGowan raises questions about environmentalism, activism, and terrorism.
Jun 29	The Koch Brothers Exposed Two oil billionaires bankroll organizations working to further a destructive right-wing agenda.
Jun 22	Towards a Sustainable Future In India, the experimental new-age community of Auroville has prospered for four decades as a model of sustainability. Disucssion with Julian Lines, national director of Auroville International.
Jun 15	The Pipe On behalf of Shell Oil, Ireland uses force to take land from unwilling farmers.
Jun 8	Just Do It A year in the secretive world of nonviolent environmental direct actdion
Jun 1	Precious Knowledge: Arizona's battle over Ethnic Studies Arizona's legislature abolishes its acclaimed Mexican-American Studies high-school curriculum. Discussion with Natalia Mu&noz of La Prensa Western Mass.
May 25	The Greening of Southie Builders, developers and environmentalists scramble to complete a Boston deep-green construction project
May 18	Farewell to Factory Towns? MassMOCA's home of North Adams, MA is a case study in the complex issues facing former factory towns. Discussion with the film maker, Maynard Seider.
May 11	The Purity Myth The "virginity movement" dominates women by demonizing the expression of female sexual power.
May 4	Afghanistan 1362 A travelogue by East Germans visiting Afghanistan in 1983, the fourth year of the Soviet occupation
Apr 27	Tejid@s Junt@s: the Alta Gracia Story A hard-won campaign by workers, students, and activists changes a factory in the Dominican Republic from a Nike sweatshop to a respectable workplace. Discussion with Will Delphia, the film maker.
2012
Apr 20	Across Divides: Peacebuilding in Nepal The Amherst-based Karuna Center for Peacebuilding works with the fledgling democracy in Nepal. Discussion with Karuna Center's Paula Green and Olivia Dreier.
Apr 13	Protection In areas where HIV is prevalent, such as sub-Saharan Africa, condoms are the only realistic barrier to HIV spread - and the social and political forces that discourage their use are wildly destructive. Discussion with Hampshire College professor Jill Lewis, who made the film.
Apr 6	Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements An Air Force pilot sours on killing and becomes a rural doctor in the midst of Reagan's dirty war in El Savaldor. Also, the story of labor and civil rights leader César Chavéz.
Mar 30	Donor Opium: The impact of international aid to Palestine Aid to Palestine comes with problematic contingencies; Israelis in an East Jerusalem neighborhood join Palestinians to protest evictions.
Mar 23	Forks over Knives Two nutrition researchers argue that a vegan, whole-food diet reduces one's risk of heart disease, cancer, and other health problems.
Mar 16	Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark With little outside support, Bahrain's pro-democracy movement has faced brutal violence that has contained it for a year. Discussion with Northampton Committee member Paki Wieland, who was part of the Witness Bahrain project.
Mar 9	Dark Circle A 1982 look at the nuclear weapons industry focuses on Rocky Flats, Diablo Canyon (a civilian reactor used to produce weapon ingredients), and the test explosions.
Mar 2	Pray the Devil Back to Hell Liberian women come together to end a civil war.
Feb 24	Hidden Battles Five veterans from different wars - including late local Vietnam veteran George Williams - discuss the pain of having killed and what it has meant in their lives
Feb 17	Blue Gold: World Water Wars As the demand for water grows, corporations and militaries are positioning themselves to control the dwindling supplies.
Feb 10	At the Death House Door Death-row chaplain Carroll Pickett presided at 95 Texas executions, each of which affected him deeply. He is now an activist against capital punishment.
Feb 3	How to Start a Revolution Many modern revolutions have followed the instructions set forth by nonviolence theorist Gene Sharp in his free book From Dictatorship to Democracy (the link is to a PDF of the actual book).
2012
Jan 27	Blood in the Mobile A visit to a tin mine in Congo, where profits fund the Bloodiest War on Earth - and to the headquarters of Nokia, to talk about where they get tin for cell phones.
Jan 20	Maquilopolis One of the ways NAFTA was supposed to help Mexicans was by creating a factory zone at the U.S.-Mexico border. How is that working out?
Jan 13	MLK: "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam" We will watch and discuss one of MLK's most important speeches, in which he introduces to the civil rights movement the connection between racism and war.
Jan 6	Texas Gold A scrappy Texas mother and fisherwoman takes on Dow Chemical for the pollution that is destroying her shrimpery and sickening her neighbors.
2011 Films
Date	Film
Dec 16	El Muro A look at the human end environmental costs of the new border wall between San Diego and Tijuana
Dec 9	A Place Called Chiapas Begun as a response to the disastrous 1994 NAFTA treaty, a Mexican rebellion simmers on.
Dec 2	Poto Mitan The activism of Haitian women shows that change is possible even amid monumental obstacles.
Nov 25	No film Thanksgiving holiday
Nov 18	La Marcha The campaign to pass a strong Living Wage law in Sante Fe, New Mexico
Nov 11	Burning the Future: Coal in America As the world struggles with coal over global warming, West Virginians are fighting to keep their mountains from being blown up.
Nov 4	Recycled Life A huge landfill in Guatemala is home to a community of 50,000 desperate scavengers
Oct 30	October 2011: Mass Incarceration in the U.S. This month we are teaming up with Lois Ahrens and the Real Cost of Prisons Project to bring you four films about the politics and consequences of the abusive system of incarceration in the U.S.
Oct 28	Charisse Shumate: Fighting for Our Lives An activist life-term prisoner champions human rights and inspires others.
Oct 21	Concrete, Steel and Paint: A film about crime, restoration and healing In a complex and subtle story of reconciliation, inmates and victims of their crimes attempt to work together on murals.
Oct 14	Yes, In My Backyard An examination of an economically depressed small town that, like many others, decided to base their economy on new prisons.
Oct 7	Up the Ridge The disturbing example of Kentucky's Wallens Ridge State Prison exposes the politics, money, racism and cruelty of a prison-bound approach to justice.
2011
Sep 30	Gashole Corporate interests work behind the scenes to keep America dependent on oil.
Sep 23	Women in Black A movement started by Israeli women protests the oppression of the Palestinians
Sep 16	Grounds for Resistance A coffee shop near Fort Lewis, WA gives G.I.s a quiet, informative place to contemplate their situation.
Sep 9	King Corn Two friends grow an acre of corn while documenting corn's role in the American experience. With UMass environmental history professor David Glassberg.
Sep 2	Control Room The fascinating chaos of a press room shared by U.S. and Arab journalists, as well as the the U.S. military press liaison, at the start of the Iraq War.
Aug 26	Tears of Gaza The view from the ground of Israel's 2008-9 bombing of the blockaded Gaza Strip. The campaign killed 1,400 civilians in Gaza.
Aug 19	FAIR's 25th Anniversary Conference Video of a March 2011 panel with Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, and Glenn Greenwald. Chomsky's speech, "The U.S. and Its Allies Will Do Anything to Prevent Democracy in the Arab World," was featured on Democracy Now!.
Aug 12	Hot Coffee A woman's lawsuit against McDonald's over burns from overheated coffee is made into a PR stunt by industries attacking consumers' rights through "tort reform."
Aug 5	Forgotten Bomb With the Cold War long over, why is the world still on a footing of nuclear "Mutual Assured Destruction?"
Jul 29	Home Aerial footage from all corners of the world captures diverse human experiences and threats to fragile ecologies.
Jul 22	Freedom Riders PBS takes a 50-year look back at a difficult but pivotal victory in the Civil Rights Movement.
Jul 15	Honduras: Democracy, a Model of National Security Talk by local peacemaker Sherrill Hogan on her recent trip to Honduras
2011
Jul 8	The Real Dirt on Farmer John About to lose his land, a flamboyant Midwest farmer goes organic.
Jul 1	Collapse Director Chris Smith presents a mesmerizing interview with Peak Oil theorist Micheal Ruppert.
Jun 24	Having the Life of Our Times No film. An evening of performances caps a three-day event by the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange. At the Center for the Arts, 17 New South Street
Jun 17	The Take In the wake of Argentina's 2001 economic collapse, workers occupy and restart their idled factories. Discussion with Michele Spring-Moore, a Northampton Committee member who recently traveled to Argentina
Jun 10	Project 798: New Art in New China In honor of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, a look at contemporary art, political resistance, and globalization in China
Jun 3	Budrus The inspiring story and remarkable success of a father-and-daughter peace-building team in Palestine
May 27	A Killer Bargain The work that globalization offers often comes with pollution and life-threatening working conditions.
May 20	The Ordinary Radicals Among young Christians, a revolutionary movement seeks to embody Jesus' views on social justice.
May 13	Returning Fire A new film from MEF takes a critical look at the phenomenon of first-person shooter computer games. Discussion with Media Education Foundation founder and director Sut Jhally.
May 6	Arna's Children Director Juliano Mer-Khamis documents a theater school for Palestinian children affected by the Occupation. Mer-Khamis was assassinated last month.
Apr 29	Inside Job The economic meltdown of 2008 was caused by Wall Street's systematic theft of trillions of dollars.
Apr 22	Earth Days From PBS' American Experience series, a history of the environmental movement.
2011
Apr 15	Islam: Empire of Faith (second half) The conclusion of PBS's miniseries on the history, faith, and practice of Islam.
Apr 8	Islam: Empire of Faith (first half) The first half of PBS's miniseries on the history, faith, and practice of Islam.
Apr 1	The Yes Men Fix the World In their second movie, the Yes Men play "identity-correcting" pranks on Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, HUD, and the notorious U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Mar 25	The Economics of Happiness The Localization Movement decries the miseries of globalization and promotes local models of business.
Mar 18	Open Shutters Iraq Six Iraqi women undertake an ambitious project combining a spiritual journey with photography.
Mar 11	Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq In a 2000 film, John Pilger explores the Iraq Sanctions imposed in 1991 after the First Gulf War, their deadly effects on children, and the politics behind them.
Mar 4	Enemies of Happiness The career of outspoken Afghan politician Malalai Joya, who will visit the Valley later this March.
Feb 25	Ciclovida: Lifecycle A bike trip through South America to gather heirloom seeds and document industrial agriculture's effect on indigenous society; discussion with Loren and Matt Feinstein, the film makers
Feb 18	The End of Poverty Through history, poverty is the result of policies that redistribute wealth to the already-wealthy.
Feb 11	Pax Americana: the Weaponization of Space Orbital warfare is unthinkable, yet our tax dollars go towards planning it.
Feb 4	Not Just a Game: Power, Politics &amp; American Sports A new MEF film explores the political machinations that play out through major sports, and the athlete-activists who buck the system.
Jan 28	To Know is Not Enough Hampshire College Students for Justice in Palestine persuade the college to divest of holdings that profit from the Occupation of Palestine. Discussion with members of the group.
2011
Jan 21	South of the Border Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali look at Latin America's leftward shift and the leaders who focus it
Jan 14	King: Man of Peace in a Time of War A rarely-seen interview with King; his colleagues and admirers reflect on his work.
Jan 7	WikiRebels: The Documentary A Swedish TV program looks at WikiLeaks, the powerful new anti-secrecy organization that has changed the political and military landscape by exposing corruption and war crimes.
2010 Films
Date	Film
Dec 17	This Land Is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons A movement recognizes that shared property and cultural references are essential to democracy, but they are being sold to corporations instead.
Dec 10	Bhopali The suffering and the fight for justice continue today from the 1984 Union Carbide disaster that killed and maimed tens of thousands.
Dec 3	Gasland Natural gas drilling is moving into rural communities irresponsibly, contaminating the groundwater.
Nov 19	China from the Inside: Freedom and Justice PBS looks at China's current state of freedom (e.g., for Tibetans, Catholics, and Falun Gong) and justice (evictions and land grabs, AIDS, and corruption). We will also show parts of The Gate of Heavenly Peace that show imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's role in the 1989 democracy movement.
Nov 12	Life in Occupied Palestine Jewish activist Anna Baltzer's film documenting life under Occupation and the nonviolent efforts to resist it.
Nov 5	To Know is Not Enough Hampshire College Students for Justice in Palestine persuade the college to divest of holdings that profit from the Occupation of Palestine. Discussion with members of the group.
Oct 29	(Astro)Turf Wars How corporate America is faking a grassroots revolution by organizing, financing, and over-reporting the "Tea Party" and popular resistance to healthcare and climate science. Note: The previously scheduled movie, Gasland, will be shown next month.
Oct 22	Farm for the Future Alarmed by the world's energy insecurity and her farm's dependence on cheap oil, a farmer seeks a low-energy future.
Oct 15	The Teacher <i>(El Brigadista)</i> In the days just after the Revolution, a young Cuban is sent to the countryside to teach. This is a 1977 drama by a major Cuban director, Octavio Cortázar. Co-sponsored by the Cuba Solidarity Committee.
Oct 8	First Strike: Portrait of an Activist A non-violent activist is tried for destroying a small part of America's nuclear first-strike capability.
Oct 1	Enemies of Happiness The career of outspoken Afghan politician Malalai Joya
Sep 24	The Road to Guantanamo Captured in Afghanistan, three British men are held and mistreated for years, then released without charge. Discussion with Nancy Talanian of No More Guantanamos.
2010
Sep 17	Anthrax War The frightening world of modern germ warfare research. Special guest, John Bonifaz.
Sep 10	Harvest of Grief Indian farmers are being wiped out by debt after being enticed into using Monsanto's expensive GM cotton regimen. Discussion with Amherst College Professor Amrita Basu, the film maker's daughter.
Sep 3	The Most Dangerous Man in America The story of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. With special guest, Randy Kehler.
Aug 27	Guazapa: Yesterday's Enemies In a former battleground, the years since the Salvadoran Civil War have brought both problems and hope.
Aug 20	Kunstler, Disturbing the Universe The story of controversial civil rights lawyer William Kunstler, as told by his daughters
Aug 13	The End of the Line Global fisheries will disappear soon unless responsible fishing policies are enacted.
Aug 6	Amazing Grace and Chuck A Little-Leaguer leads a campaign for nuclear disarmament.
Jul 30	Seeing Red The history of American Communism
Jul 23	Plunder: the Crime of our Time The sub-prime crisis, and the global downturn that followed, were caused by massive, institutionalized theft.
Jul 16	Dirt! The Movie An underappreciated miracle, soil has a vast impact on our social, political, economic, and geologic climate.
Jul 9	Burma VJ Risking their freedom and their lives, video journalists document the 2007 uprising against the military dictatorship in Burma.
Jul 2	Tough Guise A new film from the Media Education Foundation examines media portrayals of masculinity.
2010
Jun 25	The Money Fix The form our economy takes is largely dictated by the nature of money; alternative monetary systems can solve problems.
Jun 18	Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives From weapons production, through combat and cleanup, war has a massive environmental impact that is routinely ignored.
Jun 11	Under Our Skin The twisted tale of a baffling disease - Lyme - emerging under a broken health care system
Jun 4	Sir, No Sir! Disillusioned with colonial war, Vietnam G.I.s coalesce into a formidable resistance movement.
May 28	Dr. Strangelove Stanley Kubrik's classic fictional look at the horrific possibilities of the nuclear arms race
May 21	the | visitors A weekly charter bus carries visitors to the distant prisons where their loved ones are incarcerated.
May 14	In Transition 1.0: from Oil Dependence to Local Resilience A positive, solutions-focused movement helps retool local communities for a petroleum-free future.
May 7	Pastors for Peace - People to People Films on two forces defying the embargo: the annual Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba, and the ingenuity of the Cuban people
Apr 30	Crude: The Real Price of Oil When Amazonians sue, a trial court examines Chevron's contamination of a swath of rainforest.
Apr 23	Hope Along the Wind The life of radical gay-rights activist Harry Hay
Apr 16	Food, Inc. The corporate model of food production harms workers, animals, consumers, and the environment.
Apr 9	Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai An activist leads a grassroots movement to plant trees and build democracy in Kenya.
2010
Apr 2	Sophie Scholl: The Final Days The last days of Sophie Scholl, member of the White Rose, a nonviolent resistance group in Nazi Germany
Mar 26	Naji Al-Ali: An Artist With a Vision The life and assassination of Palestine's most famous political cartoonist
Mar 19	Outside the Law: Stories from Guant&aacute;namo Lawyers, inmates, and others talk about America's shameful descent into kidnapping and torture.
Mar 12	Rachel A young American woman is killed by an IDF bulldozer while protesting the destruction of a Palestinian home.
Mar 5	The Mean World Syndrome: Media Violence and the Cultivation of Fear A new Media Education Foundation film examines how TV violence makes people more fearful and more likely to accept violent solutions to social problems.
Feb 26	Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train The life of historian Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
Feb 19	Death and Taxes Resisters and experts explain the how and why of War Tax Resistance. Local war tax resisters Randy Kehler and Andrea Ayvazian will attend and discuss.
Feb 12	Haiti: Killing the Dream The 1991 coup and its place in Haiti's long history of colonial meddling
Feb 5	USA vs. Al-Arian A tenured Florida professor is arrested in 2003, charged with terrorism, and acquitted - yet remains in Federal custody. Co-sponsored by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Middle East Peace Coalition, and No More Guantanamos.
Jan 29	The Young Honduran Revolution Thousands of Honduran students protesting the 2009 military coup clash with police.
Jan 22	Afghan Women: A History of Struggle Afghanistan's last quarter-century of war, occupation and repression, as experienced by women activists.
Jan 15	At the River I Stand Details of Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign, the Memphis Sanitation Strike, and the run-up to the assassination.
2010
Jan 8	Fighting the Massachusetts Chainsaw Massacre Presentation by Chris Matera and Dave Gafney of Massachusetts Forest Watch on renewed clear-cutting in Massachusetts and the proposed wood-burning "biomass" power plant
2009 Films
Date	Film
Dec 18	Coal Country The practice of of mountaintop removal and its impact on local communities, residents, and miners.
Dec 11	The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War With the major powers ambivalent about fascism at its outset, socialist and anarchist Americans sneak into Spain to fight the Nazis.
Dec 4	Pray the Devil Back to Hell Liberian women come together to end a civil war.
Nov 27	A Killer Bargain The menial work that globalization brings often comes with pollution and life-threatening working conditions.
Nov 20	The Orange Revolution Taking to the streets, millions of Ukrainians stop an attempt to steal their 2004 presidential election.
Nov 13	638 Ways to Kill Castro The CIA and Cuban exiles have made hundreds of attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Nov 6	Holy Land: Common Ground Israelis and Palestinians work together for peace in their shared homeland.
Oct 30	Fierce Light Spiritual activism around the world; interviews with Alice Walker, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hahn and more
Oct 23	Blind Spot As currently constructed, the global economy will not withstand the changes required to save our ecology.
Oct 16	Consume This Movie Consumerism has become a core part of Americans' lifestyles, but resource depletion, climate change, and social injustice make it unconscionable.
Oct 9	Money-Driven Medicine Because its primary mission is profit rather than health care, our system costs double that of other nations. Co-sponsored by the Hampshire/Franklin Health Care Coalition.
Oct 2	View from a Grain of Sand The last three decades of Afghanistan's history, as lived by three Afghan women.
2009
Sep 25	Swimming Up the Tigris: Real-Life Encounters with Iraq Author Barbara Aziz talks about her recent book documenting the effect of sanctions on the Iraqi people
Sep 18	A Dangerous Business Revisited A follow-up to the story of an iron foundry where weak safety laws failed to protect workers
Sep 11	Tragedy in the Holy Land : The Second Uprising Examining core Palestinian issues of land and identity clarifies the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Peace Coalition.
Sep 4	Communities in Dialogue: Healing the Wounds of War The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding works to prevent and transform religious, ethnic and political conflict. With Karuna Center Director Paula Green.
Aug 28	Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press The story of muckraker George Seldes reveals the limits of journalistic freedom in 20th-century America
Aug 21	Profit motive and the whispering wind A visual meditation on progressive U.S. history inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
Aug 14	Climate of Hope Pitfalls of the nuclear fuel cycle, and the promise of an alternative-energy future
Aug 7	The Strangest Dream The life of Joseph Rotblat, who walked away from the Manhattan Project to work for peace
Jul 31	Rethink Afghanistan Director Robert Greenwald takes a sobering look at the prospects for a military solution in Afghanistan.
Jul 24	Beyond Elections Details of the recent trend towards grassroots democracy in Latin America
Jul 17	Women of Planet Diversity A 2008 gathering explores the future of agriculture, emphasizing the dangers of overly industrial farming.
Jul 10	The Singing Revolution As the totalitarian USSR withers under the light of glasnost, Estonia chooses nonviolence as its path to independence.
2009
Jul 3	Flow: for the Love of Water Corporations can't own the air; should they own the water? With water-rights activist Maude Barlow.
Jun 26	Addicted to Plastic The startling scope of the plastics pollution problem; includes a visit to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Jun 19	Afghan Women: A History of Struggle Afghanistan's last quarter-century of war, occupation and repression, as experienced by women activists.
Jun 12	F.T.A. A comedy troupe featuring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland speaks to the G.I. Resistance movement during the Vietnam war.
Jun 5	No Secret Anymore LGBT rights pioneers Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, who founded America's first lesbian rights group
May 29	The Battle of the Bag Plastic supermarket bags have become a serious pollution problem. Co-sponsored by The BagShare Project.
May 22	Consuming Kids A multi-billion dollar marketing machine uses the latest advances in psychology and neuroscience to target your children. A Media Education Foundation film.
May 15	View from a Grain of Sand The last three decades of Afghanistan's history, as lived by three Afghan women.
May 8	Sick Around the World How health care coverage works in five other capitalist democracies
May 1	Capitalism Hits the Fan An MEF film of a presentation by UMass economics professor Rick Wolff on the roots of the economic crisis.
Apr 24	Suite Habana A day in the life of thirteen ordinary Cubans. Co-sponsored by the Pioneer Valley Cuba Solidarity Committee.
Apr 17	Progressives in the Age of Obama Northampton activists discuss single-payer health care and other issues with Nation correspondent John Nichols in March 2009. Filmed by MEF founder Sut Jhally. Co-sponsored by the Single Payer Health Care Committee.
2009
Apr 10	Disarm A documentary on the global effort to ban and clean up land mines
Apr 7	Robbing the Cradle of Civilization Special Tuesday showing of a film on the looting of the Baghdad Museum and other sites at the start of the war. Discussion with Iraqi Children's Art Exchange director Claudia Lefko and antiquarian Jill Bierly.
Apr 3	Film moved to Tuesday, April 7
Mar 27	I Remember 1948 Palestinian elders share memories of the year they became refugees.
Mar 20	Why We Fight America's aggressive military policy since World War II has been largely driven by the industries that support it.
Mar 13	The Ground Truth Iraq veterans talk about the realities of recruitment, war, and the psychological aftermath.
Mar 6	The Conscientious Objector The story of Desmond Doss, whose heroism in the Battle of Okinawa made him the first conscientious objector to win the Medal of Honor.
Feb 27	Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land The American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee heavily censors U.S. media in their portrayal of the Occupation.
Feb 20	Up the Yangtze A "Farewell Cruise" highlights the social context and consequences of the Three Gorges Dam.
Feb 13	The Secret Pain The practice and aftermath of female genital mutilation; discussion with Kate Kendal, the film's subject
Feb 6	Constantine's Sword Ex-priest and Boston Globe columnist James Carroll explores the roots of violence and intolerance in religion, especially Catholicism.
Jan 30	The Dhamma Brothers Inmates at a maximum-security prison undertake the rigorous ten-day Vipassana meditation program.
2009
Jan 23	Body of War Gravely wounded in an unnecessary war, an Iraq veteran turns to the peace movement. Second showing, with Iraq Veterans Against the War
Jan 16	Blood and Oil A new movie from MEF, starring Five Colleges Professor and Nation correspondent Michael Klare, argues that America uses its military as its energy policy. Prof. Klare will be on hand to lead discussion.
Jan 9	Mountaintop Removal A primary cause of global warming, the coal industry also gruesomely destroys some of America's most beautiful hill country.
Jan 2	Body of War Gravely wounded in an unnecessary war, an Iraq veteran turns to the peace movement. Also showing January 23.
2008 Films
Date	Film
Dec 26	No film
Dec 19	The U.S. vs. John Lennon When the former Beatle becomes politically active in the U.S., Nixon seeks to have him deported.
Dec 12	Palestine: Normal Life, Resistance, and Endless Occupation Slide show and talk by daring activist Sherrill Hogan on her recent nine weeks in Palestine. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Peace Coalition.
Dec 5	The Forest for the Trees The story of EarthFirst! activist Judi Bari, who was framed by the FBI for an attack that nearly killed her. The film maker, Bernadine Mellis, will be on hand to lead discussion.
Nov 28	No film
Nov 21	Garbage Warrior Eco-visionaries fight for the right to build energy-independent housing using reclaimed materials
Nov 14	Bloqueo: Looking at the U.S. Embargo Against Cuba The U.S. embargo unfairly hurts Cubans, but helps keep the country's socialism pure.
Nov 7	On the Line A look at the people behind the movement to close the School of the Americas, which trains Latin American soldiers to help the U.S. dominate Latin America.
Oct 31	<b>Halloween party!</b> Join us for cider, cookies, and recent political comedy videos. Costume optional.
Oct 24	Aristide and the Endless Revolution The 2004 kidnapping of Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide continues a long history of colonial domination over the impoverished nation. Discussion will include the recent hurricanes, the effects of which were amplified by the country's poverty.
Oct 17	The Internationale The story of The Internationale, the anthem of the left that has been translated into dozens of languages.
Oct 10	Finding our Voices A passionate look at the U.S. anti-war movement since 9/11. The film maker, Holly Stadtler, will be on hand to lead discussion.
2008
Oct 3	Bus Rider's Union In Los Angeles, bus riders unionize to change a political climate that neglects public transportation.
Sep 26	Climate of Hope Australian anti-nuclear activists present and lead discussion of a short film on climate change, the hazards of nuclear power, and alternatives.
Sep 19	Considering Democracy An examination of the core issues that affect us and our identity as a nation; discussion with the film maker, Keya Lea Horiuchi.
Sep 12	Step by Step: Keeping the Arts Alive A ballroom-dancing program for youth in inner-city Springfield. Discussion with the film maker, Julie Akeret, and the film's subjects, program founders Allyson and George Gouzounis.
Sep 5	The Take Amid economic collapse, workers take over and restart their idle factories. AnnaMarie Russo will lead a discussion of the principles of anarchy demonstrated in the film.
Aug 29	Iran is not the Problem A thoughtful examination of the political and historical context of the current saber-rattling with Iran.
Aug 22	The World According to Monsanto Aggressive and unscrupulous, agricultural giant Monsanto does far more harm than good in the fight against world hunger. Note: The originally advertised Garbage Warrior will not be shown this week.
Aug 15	The Shape of Water Five women activists in far-flung situations work for peace and justice.
Aug 8	Iraq's Lost Generation The BBC investigates the Iraqi refugee crisis, where 4 million - 20 percent of Iraq's population - have been displaced.
Jul 25	The Century of the Self An intense BBC documentary looks at the the psychological basis of consumerism and how it has been used to engineer a selfish, complacent society. Shown over two Fridays.
Jul 18	Rush to War Another look at the deceptions and propaganda that led us into Iraq.
Jul 11	The 11th Hour Leonardo DiCaprio's follow-up to "An Inconvenient Truth" looks at the current state of the environment. Sponsored by GreenNorthampton.org.
2008
Jul 4	No film
Jun 27	F.O.R. Iran Report Rudy Perkins reports on his recent trip to Iran with the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Jun 20	Made in L.A. Three Latina immigrants organize to win basic workers' rights from a clothing retailer.
Jun 13	Freedom of Expression A new film from MEF details how copyright law is being abused to limit free speech.
Jun 6	Encounter Point Bereaved Palestinians and Israelis work together to end the bloodshed in the Occupied Territories.
May 30	Occupation 101 A comprehensive rundown of the situation in the Occupied Territories
May 23	Pete Seeger: The Power of Song The career of folk-music legend Pete Seeger, author of such peace-and-justice anthems as "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," and "Turn! Turn! Turn!"
May 16	Two Angry Moms Two women take on the problem of nutritionally worthless food in schools. Co-sponsored with Food Bank Farm in support of the Proper School Nutrition Bill being considered on Beacon Hill.
May 9	Chocolate Country A cooperative in the Dominican Republic helps redefine global trade from the bottom up. With the film makers.
May 2	The Diamond Empire How an advertising campaign made a worthless type of rock precious. An MEF film.
Apr 25	Talking Trash Waste management in a surreal Texas town; an overview of the many problems of consumerism.
Apr 18	Another Way to Be Indigenous wisdom from the Amazon basin points the way to an all-important societal change: presentation by Susan Lantz, with video from The Pachamama Alliance.
2008
Apr 11	Echando Raices/Taking Root From the AFSC, a candid look at immigration in the U.S.
Apr 4	What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire Parts 3 and 4 of a series examining global capitalism as a collapsing empire.
Mar 28	Mission Against Terror The story of the Cuban 5, Cuban anti-terror agents who were arrested and given long prison terms in the U.S - and examples of the U.S. terrorism they were trying to stop.
Mar 21	In Search of Gandhi A filmmaker follows the route of Gandhi's Salt March to see whether his hopes for social justice and democracy in India have been fulfilled.
Mar 14	Union Maids Three rank-and-file union organizers tell uplifting stories of class and gender struggle at the height of the labor movement in the 1930's.
Mar 7	Winter Soldier The story of the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation, a public hearing put together by Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. Iraq Veterans Against the War has organized similar hearings for March 13-16 in Washington to publicize today's version of that inhumanity in Iraq and Afghanistan. See our page for local viewing opportunities.
Feb 29	No End in Sight Insiders expose the incompetence and hubris with which the Iraq war was prosecuted.
Feb 22	In Search of Gandhi A filmmaker follows the route of Gandhi's Salt March to see what grows there today.
Feb 15	Bam 6.6 The humanity of Iranian people shines against the backdrop of a tragic earthquake.
Feb 8	Uncounted Details of fraud in the 2004 and 2006 elections, and a call to action to avoid a repeat.
Feb 1	The Water Front The declining industrial city of Highland Park, Michigan finds it can no longer pay for water.
Jan 25	A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, Part II Danish resistance to Nazi occupation; Polish Solidarity; the nonviolent ouster of Chilean dictator Pinochet
2008
Jan 18	A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, Part I Nashville desegregation; Gandhi; the end of Apartheid
Jan 11	Ghosts of Abu Ghraib The policy and the psychology that led to the outing of America as a nation that practices torture
Jan 4	Bolivia Presentation Presentation by Marty Nathan and Elliot Fratkin on Bolivia, currently a flashpoint in the struggle for Latin American democracy.
2007 Films
Date	Film
Dec 14	Little Birds From Japan, an unabashed look at the devastation of the Iraq War.
Dec 7	Greensboro: Closer to the Truth A truth and reconciliation commission helps heal the wounds of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre. With Marty Nathan, massacre survivor and former director of the Greensboro Justice Fund.
Nov 30	The Refusal The story of Franz Jägerstätter, whose conscientious objection to serving as a Nazi cost him his life.
Nov 23	The Great Energy Revolution Optimist Guy Dauncey looks past the calamities of our fossil fuel dependence.
Nov 16	Five New Short Films from Iraq Five recent short films from the Baghdad Independent Film and Television College
Nov 9	Child Soldiers Smith Professor Joanne Corbin talks about the tragedy of child soldiers, specifically in Uganda.
Nov 2	Inside Burma John Pilger's look at the brutal history of one of the world's most repressive regimes provides a clear context for events unfolding today.
Oct 26	Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World In countries where homosexuality is illegal, the struggle for acceptance has high stakes.
Oct 19	War Made Easy Free repeat showing of a new film from the Media Education Foundation shows how the U.S. war machine is greased with government deception and media collusion.
Oct 12	The War on Democracy U.S. interference in Venezuela's transition from oligarchy to socialism is part of a deadly pattern that has been repeated time and again in Latin America.
Oct 5	Theologians Under Hitler The German Christian Church generally aligned itself with the Nazis. How could this happen? Could it happen again?
Sep 28	War Made Easy A new film from the Media Education Foundation shows how the U.S. war machine is greased with government deception and media collusion. Non-free, sponsored by MEF, at Academy of Music.
2007
Sep 21	Ghosts of Abu Ghraib The policy and the psychology that led to the outing of America as a torture nation.
Sep 14	Local Iranians' Views and Experiences A special educational forum and Q-and-A with local Iranians. Special location: Room 106, Seelye Hall, Smith College
Sep 7	About Baghdad Interviews with ordinary Baghdad residents show mixed feelings shortly after the 2003 invasion.
Aug 31	Stolen Childhoods Children around the world are forced to work, and activists work to expose the practice.
Aug 24	Dorothy Day: Don't Call Me a Saint The life of pacifist and social justice activist Dorothy Day, who founded the Catholic Worker movement.
Aug 17	The Trial of the Catonsville Nine Catholic Worker activists are sent to prison for destroying draft records during the Vietnam war. Special guest: Catonsville Niner Tom Lewis.
Aug 10	Zabelka: The Reluctant Prophet The chaplain to the atomic-bomb aircrews has a dramatic change of heart.
Aug 3	Original Child Bomb Declassified footage, photographs, drawings and testimonies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki show the human cost of nuclear weapons and connect this painful history to current U.S. militarism.
Jul 27	Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin The life of openly gay African-American activist Bayard Rustin, a central figure in the nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the 1960s.
Jul 20	Broken Rainbow A 1974 law continues the genocide by forcing 10,000 Navajo from their ancestral land.
Jul 13	The White Rose The story of a nonviolent student resistance group within Nazi Germany.
Jul 6	An Unreasonable Man The life and career of American gadfly Ralph Nader.
2007
Jun 29	Jesus Camp At a summer camp in North Dakota, children learn the fundamentals of fundamentalism.
Jun 22	Clean Transportation in the Valley A discussion with MassBike's James Lowenthal about alternatives to the endless grind of automobile traffic.
Jun 15	Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People The Media Education Foundation documents unflattering portrayals of Arabs in movies and on TV.
Jun 8	Combatants for Peace Former soldiers from opposite sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict turn toward discussion and peace. This is a video of a January event in Amherst.
Jun 1	Iraq in Fragments Beautifully filmed portraits of unremarkable Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish Iraqis.
May 25	Talking of Power Grassroots participants in the Venezuelan revolution talk about their experiences.
May 18	Out of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change ExxonMobil's misinformation campaign against climate change is part of a pattern of anti-social behavior. With the film's creator, Tom Jackson.
May 11	Dying to Live: A Migrant's Journey A heartfelt look at Mexican immigrants, their motivations, and the hatred they endure at the hands of the country that employs them.
May 4	China Blue Did cheap Chinese labor make the bluejeans you're wearing? "China Blue" takes you inside the factory for a candid look at the workers, the bosses, and the conditions that power the American way of life. Today is also the 88th anniversary of China's May 4 Movement.
Apr 27	Chernobyl Heart Consequences of the 1986 reactor fire include displacement, disease, and fear.
Apr 20	The Iron Wall Isreal's settlements, and now the Separation Wall, work against a vision for peace.
Apr 13	The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community A positive view of humanity's prospects as it outgrows its ability to ignore its problems.
2007
Apr 6	Crude Impact Humanity's appetite for oil collides with local cultures, other species, and the planet itself.
Mar 30	Iron-Jawed Angels Young activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns risk their lives leading the U.S. women's suffrage movement to victory. (Drama)
Mar 23	&iexcl;Salud! Cuba's powerhouse health-care system, a source of revolutionary pride, fans out around the world to help.
Mar 16	China Blue Did cheap Chinese labor make the bluejeans you're wearing? "China Blue" takes you inside the factory for a candid look at the workers, the bosses, and the conditions that power the American way of life.
Mar 9	Buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Product Certification Globalization too often takes the form of exploitation. Can fair-trade certification programs bring some justice to the picture? "Buyer Be Fair" takes the viewer around the world to examine the prospects, focusing on successes in the coffee and timber industries.
Mar 2	Up the Ridge The disturbing example of Kentucky's Wallens Ridge State Prison exposes the politics, money, racism and cruelty of a prison-bound approach to justice.
Feb 23	When the Levees Broke Parts 3 & 4 of Spike Lee's four-part documentary on Katrina
Feb 16	When the Levees Broke Parts 1 & 2 of Spike Lee's four-part documentary on Katrina
Feb 9	The Murder of Fred Hampton FBI and Chicago Police raid the apartment of a Black Panther leader.
Feb 2	The Road to Guant&aacute;namo Three British men are detained for three years in a U.S. prison that practices torture.
Jan 26	This Is What Democracy Looks Like A detailed look at the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, and how they awakened a new generation of activists.
Jan 19	We Arundhati Roy's classic Come September speech set to a stunning montage of music and images of war.
2007
Jan 12	The Ground Truth Iraq veterans talk about the realities of recruitment, war, and the psychological aftermath.
Jan 5	Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the 'War on Terror' The stories of Khaled El-Masri and Binyam Mohamed, survivors of secret detention and torture by the United States. Also, a short video of a conversation with Guantánamo detainee Moazzem Begg.
2006 Films
Date	Film
Dec 29	Advertising and the End of the World The implications of advertising on sustainability: a presentation by UMass professor and Media Education Foundation executive director Sut Jhally.
Dec 22	No film
Dec 15	The Words of Rachel Corrie A play based on a series of e-mails to her family from 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while defending a Palestinian family's home.
Dec 8	Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land Northampton's own Media Education Foundation exposes the stunning level of censorship in U.S. coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Dec 1	American Blackout Rep. Cynthia McKinney and others investigate cheating during the 2000 and 2004 elections.
Nov 24	No film
Nov 17	Transgender Teens The story of two male-to-female teenagers: one has the support of her family and the other is forced to fend for herself on the streets. A discussion with trans teens will follow the film. Co-sponsored with UMass Generation Q.
Nov 10	No film: Northampton Independent Film Festival
Nov 3	Iraq for Sale: the War Profiteers Robert Greenwald shows how U.S. corporations conspire with the Bush administration to make billions off war and reconstruction.
Oct 27	Urban Homesteading: Building Small-Scale Community Economies Off the grid in the heart of Springfield, homesteaders Kristin Brennan and Daniel Staub will explain how we can take steps in our daily lives towards creating self-sufficient community economies.
Oct 20	Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders The role of ordinary women in the Civil Rights Movement.
Oct 13	The Color of Fear Eight men of various ethnicities gather to have "the dialog that most of us fear, but hope will happen in our lifetime."
2006
Oct 6	Race: The Power of an Illusion, Part 3 Race is real, but it's a political concept, not a scientific one. Part 3 of this PBS series examines institutional advantages of being "white."
Sep 29	Palestine is Still the Issue John Pilger's followup to his 1977 film of the same name asks why there has been no progress in 25 years.
Sep 22	The Camden 28 The 1971 trial and acquittal of anti-war activists who had raided Selective Service offices to destroy draft records.
Sep 15	Sir, No Sir! The G.I. resistance movement to the Vietnam War.
Sep 8	A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict The last three parts of the six-part PBS documentary on case studies of successful nonviolence.
Sep 1	A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict The first three parts of the six-part PBS documentary on case studies of successful nonviolence.
Aug 25	Lawn Pesticides: An Unacceptable Risk The risk of lawn pesticides to children and pets, organic alternatives, and community efforts to end the use of pesticides in public landscaping.
Aug 18	Divided Highways: The Interstates and the Transformation of American Life The forces behind Americas lack of intercity rail transit, its car culture, and its oil dependence.
Aug 11	Grain of Sand The history of Mexico's National Education Workers Union and its annual strike in Oaxaca, which was violently repressed this year.
Aug 4	The Future of Food An in-depth investigation of the pitfalls of industrial agriculture and corporate control of food production, and a look at the alternatives of organic and sustainable practices.
Jul 28	Plan Columbia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure A look at the complex issues of drug-trafficking and civil struggle in Columbia.
Jul 21	Kabul in Winter: Afghanistan Without Peace Journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones, who spent three years in Kabul after the U.S. bombing, will talk about the ongoing struggle of women in Afghanistan and the failure of the U.S. invasion to deliver on its promises of improved conditions.
2006
Jul 14	The Big Buy: Tom Delay's Stolen Congress Robert Greenwald's new look at the extensive corruption of our current congress. Cosponsored by Social Workers for Peace and Justice.
Jul 7	Michael Franti: I Know I'm Not Alone Activist and musician Michael Franti of Spearhead travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his guitar.
Jun 30	The Yes Men An outrageous band of political pranksters takes aim at the World Trade Organization.
Jun 23	The Real Cost of the War on Drugs for Western Massachusetts Lois Ahrens, Director of the Real Cost of Prisons Project, will present Tulia, Texa s: Scenes from the Drug War, a documentary about a town that suddenly arrested 15% of its black population on made-up drug charges.
Jun 16	Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disesase and Pushing Drugs The world premiere of the Media Education Foundation's latest film on how our understanding of our health is warped by the pharmaceutical industry's intense marketing efforts.
Jun 9	The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil As the world faces the end of affordable oil, it can look to Cuba, for whom cheap oil ended 15 years ago when the Soviet Union collapsed. The country survived through a crash program of community-based organic agriculture. Special guest, Paige Bridgens of the Montview Neighborhood Farm, will lead discussion.
Jun 2	Fidel Film maker Estela Bravo presents a biography of the remarkable Cuban leader with a positive slant rather than the negative bias usually found in U.S. media portrayals. This is the first of two films about Cuba, timed to elicit support for the 2006 Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba, which will stop in Northampton on June 20.
May 26	An Act of Conscience War tax resisters in Colrain, Massachusetts must fight to keep their home.
May 19	Lovejoy's Nuclear War An activist destroys a 500-foot tower to help stop a major power plant from being located in Montague.
May 12	Rebels with a Cause The 1960s through the eyes of the influential group Students for a Democratic Society; special guest, SDS President Carl Oglesby.
May 5	A Shotgun Wedding: Terrorism, Fundamentalism and War in Afghanistan Local human rights investigator Keith Harmon Snow, fresh from Afghanistan, will share his pictures and his impressions.
Apr 28	Arna's Children A West Bank woman starts a theater group for children affected by the Israeli occupation.
2006
Apr 21	The Letter The mayor of Lewiston, Maine ignites a firestorm of racism against the city's Somali immigrant population.
Apr 14	Turtles Can Fly A group of children cling to their humanity in a Kurdish refugee camp at the start of the Iraq war. (Drama.)
Apr 7	Abbas Goes to Japan A six-year-old Iraqi who contracts leukemia is sent to Japan for months of treatment. Discussion with Claudia Lefko of the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange Project, which works with pediatric cancer patients in Iraq.
Mar 31	In their Own Words: Iraqi Perspectives on Occupation Film maker Brian Conley of the Alive in Baghdad Project, a group working to counter the collusive and sloppy coverage of the Occupation by mainstream Western news media, will present his latest video of interviews with ordinary Iraqis.
Mar 24	Two Short Films Featuring Local Activists The Case for Impeachment with John C. Bonifaz, and We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For, featuring the Rev. Lennox Yearwood
Mar 17	Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class World premiere! A brand-new film by our own Media Education Foundation examines TV's lowbrow stereotypes about working-class people.
Mar 10	Haiti: Harvest of Hope Haiti's turbulent course towards democracy during the early 1990's.
Mar 3	Ancient Futures - Learning from Ladakh A remote land's modernization highlights the root causes of social problems.
Feb 24	The Weather Underground Amid Vietnam-era turbulence, a band of political bombers sets a vivid counter-example for the peace movement. Special guest, SDS President Carl Oglesby.
Feb 17	Winter Soldier The 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation, a veterans' group hearing to publicize U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. Special guest, Vietnam veteran Al Miller of the Veterans Education Project.
Feb 10	Long Night's Journey Into Day South Africa's attempt to treat the wounds of apartheid through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Feb 3	Paul Robeson: Here I Stand The life of blacklisted activist/entertainer Paul Robeson. From the PBS American Masters series.
2006
Jan 27	EDSA II: People Power in 2001 The 2001 People Power movement in the Philippines, which took on President Jose Estrada. Discussion with UMass Asian History Professor Richard Chu.
Jan 20	Vieques: Worth Every Bit of Struggle Islanders struggle to reclaim their land from U.S. Navy occupation and bombing. With special guest, the film's producer, Mary Patierno.
Jan 13	Worlds Apart: 9/11 First Responders Against the War A group of 9/11 first responders visits their counterparts in Afghanistan.
Jan 6	Breakdown Political and military insiders discuss the disastrous direction of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
2005 Films
Date	Film
Dec 16	The Historic Emergence of Nonviolent Struggle A classic lecture by nonviolence theoretician Gene Sharp
Dec 9	Favela Rising A drug dealer in the slums of Rio becomes a social activist, with music as his vehicle.
Dec 2	Weapons of the Spirit The amazing story of Le Chambon, a French village that hid 5,000 Jews during the Nazi occupation.
Nov 25	No film
Nov 18	People Power: The Philippine Experience The forces of nonviolence in the run-up to the ouster of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Nov 11	Film cancelled
Nov 4	Haiti: The Untold Story Human rights abuses in Haiti since the 2004 coup, including a 2005 massacre of civilians by the U.N.
Oct 28	The Argentina Autonomista Project A multimedia presentation on women in grassroots activism. Special guest: AAP Coordinator Graciela Monteagudo.
Oct 21	The Forest for the Trees The story of EarthFirst! activist Judi Bari, who was framed by the FBI for an attack that nearly killed her.
Oct 14	Someone Sang for Me Local filmmaker Julie Akeret will present her documentary on Springfield gospel singer and community-based music educator Jane Sapp.
Oct 7	The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children A team of DU experts visit contaminated Iraqi battlefields and civilian areas, as well as a Basra cancer ward. (Repeat showing.)
Sep 30	Voices in Wartime Poets, journalists, soldiers and others offer diverse perspectives on war's effects on soldiers, civilians and society. Also known as Poetry in Wartime.
2005
Sep 9	Truth and Politics: Unanswered Questions about 9/11 David Ray Griffin discusses his book "The 9/11 Commission Report Omissions and Distortions"
Aug 5	Hiroshima: The Forgotten Secret Footage Forgotten Japanese archival footage of the devastation; Peter Jennings questions the military necessity of the bombs.
Jul 29	Refusing to Kill: Refuseniks from Around the World Speak Out Against Murder, Rape, and Other Torture Refusers' stories, and the reasons they refuse, in a new film from the Global Women's Strike.
Jul 22	The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children DU investigators visit contaminated Iraqi battlefields and civilian areas, as well as a Basra cancer ward.
Jul 15	<u>9/11 and American Empire: How Should Religious People Respond?</u> Academic-theologist-turned-9/11-researcher David Ray Griffin outlines current thinking of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
Jul 8	The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear Parts 3 and 4.
Jul 1	The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear Parts 1 and 2.
Jun 24	Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear, and the Selling of American Empire The full theatrical version of the classic documentary by our very own Media Education Foundation. With special guest, film producer and MEF executive director Sut Jhally.
Jun 17	Orwell Rolls in His Grave Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth?
Jun 10	Uncovered: The War on Iraq Filmmaker Robert Greenwald's point-by-point recapitulation of the Administration's case for war.
Jun 3	Control Room A candid view inside the Iraq war bureau of Al Jazeera at the start of the war.
May 27	Drowned Out India's Narmada River Project; Telephone Support Outsourcing
2005
May 20	The Corporation Corporate insiders shed light on the "pathological pursuit of profit and power." Special guest speaker Ward Morehouse, co-founder of POCLAD.
May 13	The Take Amid Argentina's 2001 economic collapse, workers take over their idle factory to restart the machines.
May 6	Bloqueo: Looking at the U.S. Embargo Against Cuba Cuba through Cuban eyes; the Pastors for Peace Caravan; and the largest-ever conversion to organic farming.
Apr 29	Venezuela: A 21st Century Revolution How Venezuela's "Bolivarian revolution" is empowering women and women are powering the revolution.
Apr 22	You Got To Move The story of Tennessee's influential and bigot-beleaguered Highlander Folk School.
Apr 15	The Agronomist Feature film maker Jonathan Demme tells the story of Haitian activist Jean L. Dominique.
Apr 8	Eyes On the Prize, Parts 5 and 6 The definitive film account of the American Civil Rights Movement. "Mississippi: Is This America?" and "Bridge to Freedom" (1963-1965)
Apr 1	Eyes On the Prize, Parts 3 and 4 The definitive film account of the American Civil Rights Movement. "Ain't Scared of Your Jails" and "No Easy Walk" (1960-1962)
Mar 25	Eyes On the Prize, Parts 1 and 2 The definitive film account of the American Civil Rights Movement. "Awakenings" and "Fighting Back" (1954-1962)
Mar 19	Shocking and Awful Special marathon screening of all 13 half-hour episodes on the anniversary of the Iraq war.
Mar 18	The Power of Nightmares, Parts 3 and 4 The science of manipulating fear at the societal level
Mar 11	The Power of Nightmares, Parts 1 and 2 The science of manipulating fear at the societal level
2005
Mar 4	The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Part 2 A detailed look at the 1989 Tiananmen protests.
Feb 25	The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Part 1 A detailed look at the 1989 Tiananmen protests.
Feb 18	The Water Is Ours, Damn It! Bolivia's water rebellion against Bechtel.
Feb 11	No Film
Feb 4	About Baghdad Interviews with ordinary folks in Baghdad in the summer of 2003 show complex attitudes towards the U.S.
Jan 28	A Force More Powerful: Bringing Down a Dictator The overthrow of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic
Jan 21	A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, Part II Danish resistance to Nazi occupation; Polish Solidarity; the nonviolent ouster of Chilean dictator Pinochet
Jan 14	A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, Part I Nashville desegregation; Gandhi; the end of Apartheid
Jan 7	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised The 2002 Venezuelan coup that failed to topple popular socialist President Hugo Chavez.
2004 Films
Date	Film
Dec 3	Bush's Brain: A Documentary about Karl Rove
Nov 19	Hidden in Plain Sight U.S. policy in Latin America through the prism of the School of the Americas
Nov 12	The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
Nov 7	Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train Special paid showing
Oct 29	The Fourth World War
Oct 22	No film
Oct 15	Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Oct 8	The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream