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After
Innocence After Innocence tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated - innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. The film focuses on the gripping story of seven men and their emotional journey back into society and efforts to rebuild their lives. Included are a police officer, an army sergeant and a young father sent to prison and even death row for decades for crimes they did not commit. The
men are thrust back into society with little or no support from
the system that put them behind bars. While the public views
exonerations as success stories - wrongs that have been righted – After
Innocence shows that the human toll of wrongful imprisonment
can last far longer than the sentences served. Artistide
and the Endless Revolution One hour away from Miami the elected President of the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation was twice removed from office with the complicity of the international community. “Aristide and the Endless Revolution” is a feature documentary that explores through investigative lenses the events that led to the removal of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected President of Haiti. Filmmaker Nicolas Rossier takes the viewer into a journey of political intrigues, armed criminals posing as freedom fighters and economic fiascos. What emerges is a young democracy being constantly tested and ultimately destroyed. The film features renown physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer,
President Aristide himself, actor and UN goodwill ambassador Danny
Glover, Political commentator and linguist Noam Chomsky, Assistant
Secretary of State Roger Noriega, Congresswoman Maxine Waters,
Expert James Dobbins, John Shattuck and many Haitian Voices. The
Dream of Sparrows
Darfur
Diaries: Message
from Home
Director
Arturo Perez Torres' harrowing film examines the paradox of
the so-called "wetback" worker: the closer they get
to the elusive "free world," the less free they are
and the more "illegal" they become. Following many
immigrants from Central America and Mexico, on often extremely
dangerous journeys to North America, Torres catalogs the complexities
of the issues that affect people on both sides of the border.
From the U.S. patrol guarding the border to the immigrants
risking their lives to cross it, Wetback focuses on the many
obstacles in their way, including gangs and vigilantes, to
expose the larger problems behind immigration rhetoric. this
black soil
Winter
Soldier
Winter Soldier
is a documentary chronicle of the extraordinary Winter Soldier
Investigation conducted by Vietnam Veterans Against the War
(VVAW) in Detroit during the winter of 1971. Veterans from
all branches of the US military came from across the country
to speak out about the atrocities they had committed and witnessed
while stationed in Vietnam. |
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showing: Thursday, 2/9/06 at the Pickford
showing:
Friday, 2/10/06 - 7pm Fairhaven College 
A
Closer Walk, details a broad spectrum of the global AIDS
experience and includes people with HIV/AIDS from all walks
of life. The film discusses the underlying causes of AIDS;
the relationship between health, dignity, and human 
rights; and the universal need for action, compassion,
and commitment to counter what has become the worst plague
in human history.
A filmmakers
search for the truth takes him through all walks of life in
Iraq, into the arts and culture of Baghdad, drawing the viewer
into powerful encounters with Iraqi painters, writers, and
filmmakers. As the film continues, the interviews veer towards
the politics of occupation and resistance, concluding with
the battle over Falluja and the devastating death of one of
the crew members. In somber self interviews made following
the production, the filmmakers reveal the dramatic changes
in their beliefs caused not only by the situation in Iraq,
but also by the process of documenting it.
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early 2002, a group of reserve officers and soldiers in the Israel Defense
Forces issued a
public statement declaring that, although they were willing to serve in
Israel's defense, they would no longer participate in the "War of
the Settlements," which they felt aimed only to perpetuate Israel's
control over the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories. Contending
that the Occupation was corrupting Israeli society, they announced their
refusal to fight
beyond the 1967 borders in order to "dominate, expel, starve and humiliate
an entire people."
this
black soil, cronicles the sucessful struggle of a small and severly
impoverished rural African-American community. Catalyzed by
the state’s plans to build a maximum-security prison
in their backyard, the residents come together as a community
to form a non-profit, purchased the land that was the site
of the proposed prison, and are building a new community from
the ground up. 
In February 1971, one month after the revelations of the My Lai massacre, a public
inquiry into war crimes committed by American forces in Vietnam was held
at a Howard Johnson motel in Detroit. Vietnam Veterans Against the War organized
this event called the Winter Soldier Investigation with support from Jane
Fonda and Mark Lane. More than 125 veterans spoke of atrocities they had
witnessed and committed.