Tricounty DFA Update: December Events
Hello Everyone!

The Holiday season after the election is over is a quiet time, politically, without much news locally. However there are some great special events coming up at the Rockhill Bakehouse Cafe. Happy Holidays, everyone!

Larry

FRI DEC 12 7:00 pm DAVID LIPPMAN (aka "THE SINGING C.I.A. AGENT", aka "GEORGE SHRUB") Suggested Donation ($6.00)
Dave Lippman is widely known on many coasts and in some interiors for his sharp send-ups of topical subjects ranging from weapons of mass distraction to SUVs and the wars to defend them. He has toured widely in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Central America in a 35-year musical career. Lippman's notoriety began in 1969 when he was named an unindicted co-conspirator for singing about the "Guatemala sweepstakes" at a rally that preceded the escorting of a recruiter from the United Fruit Company off the campus. After having a song recorded by Country Joe MacDonald, Lippman joined with a San Francisco comedy group to create the 'Reagan for Shah Campaign,' in which he introduced the permanent character George Shrub, Singing CIA Agent. Shrub then toured as security for the 'Ladies Against Women.' In the eighties, Lippman performed in war zones in Central America and toured from Birmingham Alabama to Birmingham England, then on to Belgrade. In Germany he sang for squatters and anti-nuclear activists. Stateside, he joined a caravan of Salvadoran refugees through Texas. Ex-CIA agent John Stockwell declared Lippman prescient for writing a song about the Grenada "rescue" a year before it happened; Lippman declared it manifest destiny, based on the size of the island. "Lippman is a national treasure" - L.A. Herald-Examiner
"Viciously funny" - Guardian (England) "The Dean felt that more harm than good would come from your visit" - student, Skidmore College, New York

SAT DEC 13 7:00 pm SATURDAY SCREENINGS Free.
KING CORN (2006) Aaron Woolf 90 min. RT Rating = 95 %
A feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat — and how we farm.

THU DEC 18 7:00 pm OPEN MIC NIGHT hosted by our very own Cory Avon. Sing, play, read or just watch and listen. Free.

FRI DEC 19 7:00 pm STEPHEN GALLUCCI PIANO MADNESS Free
Our very own, "Madman of the Ivories", Steve Gallucci, is a classically-trained local pianist. He has tuned and set up our new/old piano so that it can be used by kids fooling around at lunch and singer/songwriters playing at the cafe, alike. Little did he know that this piano was basically just an excuse to get him to play publicly for us (he is simply
fantastic!). We have asked him to honor us with the official first piano performance at The Rock and he has graciously agreed. He is preparing an eclectic show for us that no one will want to miss. Come early to get a good seat!

SAT DEC 20 7:00 pm SATURDAY SCREENINGS Free.
WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY (2007) Rob Van Alkemade & Morgan Spurlock 91 min. RT Rating = 70 %
Examines the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) The film also delves into issues such as the role sweatshops play in America’s mass consumerism and Big-Box Culture. From the humble beginnings of preaching at his portable pulpit on New York City subways, to having a congregation of thousands – Bill Talen (aka Rev. Billy) has become the leader of not just a church, but a national movement. Rev. Billy’s epic journey takes us to chilling exorcisms at Wal-Mart headquarters, to retail interventions at the Mall of America, and all the way to the Promised Land on Christmas Day. The Stop Shopping mission reminds us that even though we may be “hypnotized and consumerized,” we still have a chance to save ourselves this Christmas.

Labels: Democracy For America, Democracy For The Greater Glens Falls Area, DFA, Rockhill Bakehouse Cafe

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Tricounty DFA Update: Meeting Reminder, more
Hello Everyone;

In this update for December 1st, 2008:

1. Meeting Wednesday
2. Obama Transition Page
3. Washington County Dem Holiday Party
4. Which Direction Obama?
5. Rockhill Film Fest


1. Meeting Wednesday

Don't forget our monthly Greater Glens Falls DFA meeting this Wednesday, December 3rd, at 7pm at the Rockhill Bakehouse Cafe in downtown Glens Falls. Last month we mainly celebrated and savored, but need to talk a bit more seriously about the future: specifically, we may want to join in nationwide Obama house parties on the 12/12-12/13.

The Cafe is located on the corner of Elm and Exchange Streets and Hudson Avenue, one block east of the roundabout in downtown Glens Falls.

2. Obama Transition Page

In case you haven't seen it, President-Elect Obama has a transition team webpage up at http://change.gov/ with lots of info on new appointments and what the transition is doing.


3. Washington County Dem Holiday Party

The Washington County Democratic Holiday Party is this Thursday, December 4th, at 7:00pm at the Rice Mansion Inn, Cambridge, NY. Food and drinks are included for $30, with catering by Spoonful Catering. Please contact Judy Doonan immediately if you want to go at 692-7215 or judy@judydoonan.com so that they can order enough food and beverages!


4. Which Direction Obama?

There has been considerable discussion of what direction Obama is taking with some of the surprisingly conservative appointments he has been making: there is reason to think he "plans on using conservatives to carry out progressive policies, and cal it pragmatism." A really interesting view by Tom Edsall and worth a read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/29/battle-royale-center-righ_n_147072.html


5. Rockhill Film Fest

The Rockhill Cafe Progressive Saturday Film Fest Continues:

SAT DEC 6 7:00 pm SATURDAY SCREENINGS Free.
THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR (2004) 101 min. RT Rating = N/A
A beautiful, powerful and deeply-moving documentary about the life of Desmond T. Doss, a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for acts of incredible bravery during World War II. Although classified as a conscientious objector for his religious beliefs as a Seventh Day Adventist against carrying a weapon or working on Saturday, he wanted to be called a "conscientious cooperator," not an objector. He refused the automatic deferment available to him since he worked in a naval shipyard. Instead, he signed up to join the military and asked to be put on the frontlines to care for the wounded.

SAT DEC 13 7:00 pm SATURDAY SCREENINGS Free.
KING CORN (2006) Aaron Woolf 90 min. RT Rating = 95 %
A feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat — and how we farm.


Thanks, everyone!

Larry

Labels: Democracy For America, Democracy For The Greater Glens Falls Area, DFA, Obama, Rockhill Bakehouse Cafe

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