WORLD PEACE MARCH
The World March for Peace and Nonviolence began in New Zealand on October 2, Gandhi’s birthday, will travel through six continents and 90 countries and
will conclude in Argentina on January 2, 2010
THE MOST DANGEROUS
MAN IN AMERICA:
Daniel Ellsberg and The Pentagon Papers
“Riveting! A story of moral courage that changed the world.”- New York Magazine
“Detailed, clearly told, persuasive.”- The New York Times
Wednesday, December 2
5pm: Food / 6pm: Music & Poetry / 7pm: Film & Dicussion
Performers: Singer/song writer Sonny Meadows
The Last Internationals • Poet Maxwell Wheat
Speakers Via Live Webcast: Daniel Ellsberg or Filmmaker Rick Goldsmith
 All Tickets: $15
No Refunds • Advance Registration Recommended
Tickets also available at the CAC Box Officen or by calling 800-838-3006
Daniel Ellsberg risked his career and imprisonment to bring truth to the American people. In 1971, as a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, Ellsberg concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaked 7000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world. This is a riveting story of how one man’s profound change of heart created a landmark struggle involving America’s newspapers, its president and Supreme Court. This is a political thriller whose events lead directly toWatergate, Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.
USA, 2009, 92 min., color • Directors: Rick Goldsmith & Judith Ehrlich
To celebrate the World March for Peace, CAC & Long Island peace groups present music, poetry, & the award-winning new documentary about Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.
Events will happen in every state in the US on the same day in celebration of the March
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PUBLIC FORUM
Co-presented with the Huntington League of Women Voters
THE AGE OF STUPID
A FILM ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE – GLOBAL WARMING
Wednesday, December 9 at 7pm
Speakers: Sarah Newkirk, Nature Conservancy; and a representative from NYPIRG
$9 Members (CAC & League of Women Voters) • $12 Public
No Refunds • Includes Reception
Tickets also available at the CAC Box Officen or by calling 800-838-3006
“Why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?” asks the main character of Franny Armstrong’s new film The Age of Stupid. Living in a world of climate catastrophe, this solitary character played by Oscar-nominee Pete Postlethwaite, serves as humanity’s moral hindsight from the year 2055. He scans video archives of events unfolding between 2004 and 2008, shocked that the world at that time knew it was flushing its future down the drain. Humankind’s stubborn refusal to act on climate compels him to dub contemporary times “the age of stupid.” Shot in seven countries over a period of three years, the film features six documentary stories. The film was “crowd funded” with the money raised by selling shares to 223 individuals and groups that range from a hockey team to a women’s health center which allowed the filmmakers to have complete editorial control. Armstrong’s wide-ranging film pulls together a disparage collection of witnesses, including a robustly unrepentant oil executive in New Orleans, who is nonetheless shown becoming reflective after Katrina destroyed everything he owned. Armstrong’s next mission (her film McLibel documented the giant corporation McDonald which sued a group of protestors for claiming their food was unhealthy) is to show The Age of Stupid to 250 million people around the world through cinemas, DVDs, screenings at schools and community centers. Her ultimate aim is not just to get viewers to change their lifestyles, but to persuade them to lobby their leaders for stricter laws to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
UK, 2009, 92 min.
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