Tricounty DFA Update: Vigil Saturday, Meeting Next Week, more
Hello Everyone;

In This Update:


1. Vigil Saturday 11am For Peace & To Bring Our Troops Home
2. May DFA-Linkup Meeting Next Week
3. Dean, Obama, Clinton On Sunday Morning
4. What Day Is It?
5. Friday Night Progressive Film Festival


1. Vigil Saturday 11am For Peace & To Bring Our Troops Home


We will be holding another one hour vigil for peace and to bring our troops home Saturday, May 3rd, at 11am at the corner of Bay, Glen and South Streets by the Civil War monument in downtown Glens Falls. Bring a sign and a friend! With Iraq falling apart, it's time to start showing our opposition to that debacle again.

Last week we doubled our attendance over the previous week-- let's see if we can do that again! Again, 11am Saturday in front of the Civil War monument.


2. May DFA-Linkup Meeting Next Week

We'll be holding our May meeting of Democracy For The Greater Glens Falls Area next Wednesday, May 7th, at 7pm at the Rockhill Bakehouse Cafe in downtown Glens Falls, one block west from the roundabout.

On the agenda will be a DVD prepared by our comrades at TakeNY: "The True Sad Story Of The New York State Senate." New York University's Brennan Center For Justice had declared that New York has the most dysfunctional legislature in the nation, with the Republican controlled State Senate leading the way. The DVD features former State Senate candidate Brian Keeler talking about the lack of democracy in New York, and who really runs NY-- the infamous "three men in a room."

The war issue is also hearing up again and I am hearing from many of you about this. so we may be discussing that as well.


3. Dean, Obama, Clinton On Sunday Morning

There's a big line-up on the Sunday morning talk shows: first Governor Dean will be on Fox News with Chris Wallace. Hillary Clinton will be on This Week With George Stephanpoulous, and Barack Obama will be on Meet The Press with Tim Russert.


4. What Day Is It?

Hope you all had a good May 1st which is International Labor Day. It's also Mission Accomplished Day for George Bush: it's five years ago today that he declared the war in Iraq was won. That was roughly 4,000 American deaths ago, tens of thousands wounded and an unknown number of Iraqi dead, but very possible over a million.


5. Friday Night Progressive Film Festival

The Rockhill Bakehouse Cafe's Progressive Friday Night Film Festival continues with:

Fri May 2 7:30 pm Progressive Film Forum
THE INNER TOUR (2002) Ra'anan Alexandrowicz 94 min. RT Rating = 100 %
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s THE INNER TOUR is a deeply affecting documentary that addresses the Middle Eastern conflict with a penetrating eye. The film follows a group of Palestinians as they embark on a three-day bus tour through Israel in 2000, just months before the historical Arab-Israeli war recommenced. What at first appears to be a diverse group of men, women, and children, with a wide range of experiences and backgrounds, quickly gels into a tight unit of countrymen who are living under the shadow of the wealthy, more powerful Israel. Every one of these visitors’ lives has been in some way affected by Israel, yet it isn't until a trip to a museum--in which Arabs are presented as cold-blooded murderers--that their anger begins to show. As the journey unfolds, the tourists are forced to confront emotions they didn't know they had in them. The burdensome weight of these feelings turns the trip into more than just a relaxing vacation; it becomes an emotionally draining experience tat they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. Alexandrowicz uses this rare opportunity to his advantage by showing just how hopelessly convoluted the Middle Eastern conflict actually is. This film was included in the 31st New Directors/New Films 2002 series presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Department of Film and Media of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Thanks Everyone! Hope you can make it Saturday. An in honor of May Day, ¡Hasta La VIctoria Siempre!


Larry

Labels: Democracy For America, Democracy For New York, Democracy For The Greater Glens Falls Area, DFA, Iraq War, vigil

- posted by Larry Dudley @ 12:04 AM