Monday, April 9, 2007 Orientation and Plans
Here's how we should be approaching people [UPDATED 4/12/07]:
We are going for reaching many thousands and tens of thousands of people with this Special Issue introducing them to Bob Avakian. And involving many many people in this process. What is the difference between reaching thousands and tens of thousands, and dozens and hundreds?
There's a big difference between real saturation – thousands going out in an area, school, workplace, etc. – and getting out dozens or hundreds. It doesn't necessarily take a lot of people to really saturate: you are aiming to get out thousands and tens of thousands in an area, where people will see it all over (along with the promo posters for the special issue, and the promo postcards for the REV DVD and the store itself, also available at the store). People get the effect of seeing this more than once, start hearing Bob Avakian's voice in recorded Talks played on the radio, hear about him in class, etc. etc., and start taking notice of what this is all about and talking with each other about it. We've learned that lots of people can and will participate in doing this right from jump – if we put out that hundreds of thousands of people need to get acquainted with Bob Avakian and the revolution and communism he is all about, and consider and talk about this whole different way with fresh eyes. Through doing this we are finding those who are aching for another way and ready to change the world as they learn more about all of this at the same time. This has been learned from the experience of getting out thousands and tens of thousands, rather than dozens or low hundreds, in targeted areas: putting this Special Issue right into people's hands in the quantities that are commensurate (that is, bundles of 50 to 1000 and more), struggling with them to fund it, and explaining to them in a short and powerful way how this is "how it starts," how they are part of getting ready for the revolutionary solution, by getting these out to thousands more people who need to be learning about and debating and discussing what Bob Avakian is talking about.
Some teams have pointed out that this is very different from sifting through the people we are encountering, having long conversations as if we have to answer everything before people can accept this challenge in the Special Issue itself: "If a different – a better – world is possible, you've got to struggle to understand how and fight to bring it into being."
This challenge means telling those who want a profoundly different world – and there are thousands and thousands of these people – that they and everyone they know should be looking into Bob Avakian and talking about this Special Issue and be part of spreading this to many others. Right now!
Here is a slightly updated orientation that reflects this emphasis on what people are accomplishing by participating in getting out thousands and tens of thousands of the Special Issue right now:
Here's your chance to meet the most radical revolutionary leader that this country has seen. He's putting forward the most radical vision and plan, a vision of no more exploitation, no more of one nationality over another, no more men over women, no more. Bob Avakian says that we can do this.
Here's your chance to meet the most radical revolutionary leader that this country has seen. He's talking about a communist revolution. Not the lies about communism you've probably heard. Bob Avakian has a whole new different vision of what communism is. You need to check this out and be part of thousands of people who spreading 10s and hundreds of 1000s of this newspaper around the city and the whole country, right now. This is how we start bringing forward another way, this is how we are starting to get ready, right now, for when we might be able to make revolution. We should talk and thousands more people need to get this Special Issue and start talking about this revolutionary way in all the neighborhoods, schools, churches, workplaces, colleges, and all over.
Our objective is to be really radical and attract people who are looking for leadership. We should get into the "Conventional Wisdom says..." points, that revolution in a country like the U.S. is impossible, that leadership will sell out, that communism is dead. Get into the crossroads, the leadership we need. There's a lot of content in the newspaper that gets into that. Use the pullout quotes. Have people read what people are saying about Bob Avakian. Give them the paper so they can see it and read it.
We have got to be saying to people - If a different - a better world is possible, you've got to struggle to understand how and fight to bring it into being. Starting now, with getting this Special Issue about Bob Avakian and getting it around to dozens, hundreds and thousands more people.
Monday, April 9
11 AM - Columbia, Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway to get the broadsheets out widely.
11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
7 PM - 9 PM - Minutemen at NYU, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. Pk South. The Republican club that recently had an anti-immigrant event has not invited the Minutemen for a panel. Come take out the broadsheet and Talk #7, the Balance Talk.
7 PM - Anarchists conference ? on anti-war movement. A discussion with Bill Weinberg. T
Tuesday . April 10
10 AM - EVERYONE TO COLUMBIA. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.
7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street
8 PM. Wynton Marsalis Quintet and Dr. John at “Jazz at Lincoln Center”, 60th and Broadway (not the main Lincoln Center complex) which is in the Time Warner building at Columbus Circle. Frederick P. Rose Hall can be accessed using the JAZZ elevators located on the ground floor of The Shops at Columbus Circle across from Hugo Boss. There will be a New Orleans theme to the concert. Sellers should bring the broadsheets and the review of Wynton Marsalis’s recent album by Li Onesto (or printouts if the full paper is not available), the Wanted New Orleans T-shirt or the latest Wanted T-shirt, and a table to put this all on. Be there at 7PM since the concert begins
at 8 PM.
8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.
8:15 PM - Laura Flanders and Katrina vanden Heuvel: the “Blue” and the “Red” at 92nd Street Y.
Wednesday, April 11
7-9 AM - High Schools in AM - please check back for more details
11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.
3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street
8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.
Thursday, April 12
7-9 AM - High Schools in AM - please check back for more details
11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.
3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc. Maybe Medgar Evers College during day to night. 7 PM. - The Constitution in Crisis: Bryan Stevenson at New School.
8 PM. Inherit the Wind opening night.
8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.
7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street
Friday, April 13
7-9 AM - High Schools in AM
Washington Heights Day -
7:45am George Washington High School 191st & Audubon, near St. Nicolas
10:00am 181st and St. Nicolas
12 Noon George Washington High School 191st & Audubon
1:30pm 191st & St. Nicolas
2:15pm 180 & St. Nicolas
5:00pm 163rd & Broadway
11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
Columbia
9:15am Conference on Katrina
Jerome Greene Hall
Sponsored by the Columbia University Black Law Students Association
13th Annual Paul Robeson Conference
Hurricane Katrina Revisited: Continuing Obstacles and Hope for the Future
11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.
9:30am-5:00pm
Lang Student Center at 55 West 13th Street
A Realistic Growth Policy for Our Times:
A Conference in Memory of David GordonThe aim is to promote a lively dialogue between scholars focused on labor market regulation, industrial relations, corporate governance, and political and cultural institutions, with scholars of economic growth who see institutions and income distribution as central to their analysis. The hope is to further our understanding of progressive and growth-promoting policies in today’s economic climate
7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street
8PM In Darfur
Public Theater
425 Lafayette StreetNew York, NY 10003
The Public Theater presents a developmental production of Winter Miller's In Darfur, a powerful and timely work that explores the current humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.
8 PM. Inherit the Wind
9 PM - 1 AM - Bus lines to prisons. Meet at 58th Street and 8th Avenue, opposite Duane Reed.
Lower East Side/ Youth Venues & Clubs
Saturday, April 14
Harlem/East Harlem
10:00AM -- SHARP
Adam Clayton Powell Blvd @ 126th Street, look for the truck
by the state office building
Brooklyn - time and place to be announced
Queens - time and place to be announced
Union Square Team
10:30am meet at the Bookstore
11:00am out at Union Square
12 Noon
Sea of People Event
Meet at Bookstore at 10:30am
Demo starts 12 noon, rally followed by people dressed in blue stretching north in 2 columns along projected eastern and western 10foot waterlines that may one day redefine lower Manhattan under the 10 foot sea level rise scenario. Meet at Batter Park (4/5 to Bowling Green, R/W to White hall St, #1 to South Ferry). Sponsors: Step It Up NYC, Code Pink, et al. http://www.seaofpeople.org/
8PM Doors open
Black Rock Coalition
With Pillow Theory, Shaka Zulu Overdrive and others
at Club Midway
25 Avenue B, bet. 2nd & 3rd $10
10:30PM As people leave the theater
THE COAST OF UTOPIA’ Lincoln Center Theater’s brave, gorgeous, sprawling and ultimately exhilarating production of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy about intellectuals errant in 19th-century Russia. A testament to the seductive powers of narrative theater, directed with hot and cool canniness by Jack O’Brien and featuring a starry cast (Brian F. O’Byrne, Jennifer Ehle, Martha Plimpton, Josh Hamilton and Ethan Hawke, among others) in a tasty assortment of roles. Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200.
9:00PM
Amir El Fassar
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver bet. Broadway and Broad
212-967-4318 $15.00
9 PM - 1 AM - Bus lines to prisons. Meet at 58th Street and 8th Avenue, opposite Duane Reed.
Times Square
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Churches: Riverside Church, St. Mary’s Church, Abyssinian Church, House of the Lords Church, The Brooklyn Tabernacle, and Father Barrios’ church.
Washington Heights Team
180 & St. Nicholas
and
Stop the Deportations
Immigration Rally
2pm, 165th street & Audubon, la Coalicion Comunidades Immigrates.
African Market
116th & MLK Blvd
Chelsea Team
afternoon
Temple Beth Elohim
Congregation Beth Elohim274 Garfield Place (corner of Eighth Avenue)Brooklyn, NY 11215
Sunday, April 15 2007, 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Join us for the fourth film in the Brooklyn Filmmakers Series. Rory Kennedy will show her film "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" (originally broadcast on HBO). This film looks at how the abuses which occurred in the fall of 2003 at the Iraqi prison still remain etched in our national consciousness. The documentary asks: what do the events that occurred at the prison still say about America? Our government? Our military? Ourselves? The film is built on direct, personal narratives of perpetrators, witnesses, and victims of the abuse to probe the psychology of how typical boys and girls next door can become perpetrators of atrocious acts. It also explores the history of policy decisions dating back to the erosion of the Geneva conventions that contributed to making the abuse a reality.
2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza
Exit south side of Flatbush Avenue. Walk 1 block along Plaza Street West. Turn right at Lincoln Place. Go 1 block, turn left on 8th Avenue and walk to Garfield Place.
Q to 7th Avenue
Walk uphill along Flatbush Avenue. Turn right on 8th Avenue and walk to Garfield Place.
F to 7th Avenue
Exit at 8th Avenue (9th Street). Walk north along 8th Avenue (the numbers descend) to Garfield Place.
Sunday, April 15 7:30pm
92nd St. Y
Lexington Avenue @ 92nd Street
Walter Isaacson with Charlie Rose: On Albert Einstein
Walter Isaacson recently completed the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of the brilliant scientist’s papers were made available to the public, revealing new insights into Einstein’s life, times and genius. Isaacson is president of the Aspen Institute. He has been chairman and CEO of CNN and managing editor of Time magazine. Isaacson is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Kissinger: A Biography.
Next weekend:
Apr 20-22 South Asian Underground Film Festival: Emergences and Emergencies: New South Asian Film-Making from Britain
All films shown at
CANTOR Film Center
36 East 8th St @University Place
*Free & Open to the Public
from 7pm Friday.
We are going for reaching many thousands and tens of thousands of people with this Special Issue introducing them to Bob Avakian. And involving many many people in this process. What is the difference between reaching thousands and tens of thousands, and dozens and hundreds?
There's a big difference between real saturation – thousands going out in an area, school, workplace, etc. – and getting out dozens or hundreds. It doesn't necessarily take a lot of people to really saturate: you are aiming to get out thousands and tens of thousands in an area, where people will see it all over (along with the promo posters for the special issue, and the promo postcards for the REV DVD and the store itself, also available at the store). People get the effect of seeing this more than once, start hearing Bob Avakian's voice in recorded Talks played on the radio, hear about him in class, etc. etc., and start taking notice of what this is all about and talking with each other about it. We've learned that lots of people can and will participate in doing this right from jump – if we put out that hundreds of thousands of people need to get acquainted with Bob Avakian and the revolution and communism he is all about, and consider and talk about this whole different way with fresh eyes. Through doing this we are finding those who are aching for another way and ready to change the world as they learn more about all of this at the same time. This has been learned from the experience of getting out thousands and tens of thousands, rather than dozens or low hundreds, in targeted areas: putting this Special Issue right into people's hands in the quantities that are commensurate (that is, bundles of 50 to 1000 and more), struggling with them to fund it, and explaining to them in a short and powerful way how this is "how it starts," how they are part of getting ready for the revolutionary solution, by getting these out to thousands more people who need to be learning about and debating and discussing what Bob Avakian is talking about.
Some teams have pointed out that this is very different from sifting through the people we are encountering, having long conversations as if we have to answer everything before people can accept this challenge in the Special Issue itself: "If a different – a better – world is possible, you've got to struggle to understand how and fight to bring it into being."
This challenge means telling those who want a profoundly different world – and there are thousands and thousands of these people – that they and everyone they know should be looking into Bob Avakian and talking about this Special Issue and be part of spreading this to many others. Right now!
Here is a slightly updated orientation that reflects this emphasis on what people are accomplishing by participating in getting out thousands and tens of thousands of the Special Issue right now:
Here's your chance to meet the most radical revolutionary leader that this country has seen. He's putting forward the most radical vision and plan, a vision of no more exploitation, no more of one nationality over another, no more men over women, no more. Bob Avakian says that we can do this.
Here's your chance to meet the most radical revolutionary leader that this country has seen. He's talking about a communist revolution. Not the lies about communism you've probably heard. Bob Avakian has a whole new different vision of what communism is. You need to check this out and be part of thousands of people who spreading 10s and hundreds of 1000s of this newspaper around the city and the whole country, right now. This is how we start bringing forward another way, this is how we are starting to get ready, right now, for when we might be able to make revolution. We should talk and thousands more people need to get this Special Issue and start talking about this revolutionary way in all the neighborhoods, schools, churches, workplaces, colleges, and all over.
Our objective is to be really radical and attract people who are looking for leadership. We should get into the "Conventional Wisdom says..." points, that revolution in a country like the U.S. is impossible, that leadership will sell out, that communism is dead. Get into the crossroads, the leadership we need. There's a lot of content in the newspaper that gets into that. Use the pullout quotes. Have people read what people are saying about Bob Avakian. Give them the paper so they can see it and read it.
We have got to be saying to people - If a different - a better world is possible, you've got to struggle to understand how and fight to bring it into being. Starting now, with getting this Special Issue about Bob Avakian and getting it around to dozens, hundreds and thousands more people.
Monday, April 9
11 AM - Columbia, Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway to get the broadsheets out widely.
11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
7 PM - 9 PM - Minutemen at NYU, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. Pk South. The Republican club that recently had an anti-immigrant event has not invited the Minutemen for a panel. Come take out the broadsheet and Talk #7, the Balance Talk.
7 PM - Anarchists conference ? on anti-war movement. A discussion with Bill Weinberg. T
Tuesday . April 10
10 AM - EVERYONE TO COLUMBIA. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.
7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street
8 PM. Wynton Marsalis Quintet and Dr. John at “Jazz at Lincoln Center”, 60th and Broadway (not the main Lincoln Center complex) which is in the Time Warner building at Columbus Circle. Frederick P. Rose Hall can be accessed using the JAZZ elevators located on the ground floor of The Shops at Columbus Circle across from Hugo Boss. There will be a New Orleans theme to the concert. Sellers should bring the broadsheets and the review of Wynton Marsalis’s recent album by Li Onesto (or printouts if the full paper is not available), the Wanted New Orleans T-shirt or the latest Wanted T-shirt, and a table to put this all on. Be there at 7PM since the concert begins
at 8 PM.
8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.
8:15 PM - Laura Flanders and Katrina vanden Heuvel: the “Blue” and the “Red” at 92nd Street Y.
Wednesday, April 11
7-9 AM - High Schools in AM - please check back for more details
11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.
3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street
8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.
Thursday, April 12
7-9 AM - High Schools in AM - please check back for more details
11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.
3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc. Maybe Medgar Evers College during day to night. 7 PM. - The Constitution in Crisis: Bryan Stevenson at New School.
8 PM. Inherit the Wind opening night.
8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.
7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street
Friday, April 13
7-9 AM - High Schools in AM
Washington Heights Day -
7:45am George Washington High School 191st & Audubon, near St. Nicolas
10:00am 181st and St. Nicolas
12 Noon George Washington High School 191st & Audubon
1:30pm 191st & St. Nicolas
2:15pm 180 & St. Nicolas
5:00pm 163rd & Broadway
11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
Columbia
9:15am Conference on Katrina
Jerome Greene Hall
Sponsored by the Columbia University Black Law Students Association
13th Annual Paul Robeson Conference
Hurricane Katrina Revisited: Continuing Obstacles and Hope for the Future
11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.
9:30am-5:00pm
Lang Student Center at 55 West 13th Street
A Realistic Growth Policy for Our Times:
A Conference in Memory of David GordonThe aim is to promote a lively dialogue between scholars focused on labor market regulation, industrial relations, corporate governance, and political and cultural institutions, with scholars of economic growth who see institutions and income distribution as central to their analysis. The hope is to further our understanding of progressive and growth-promoting policies in today’s economic climate
7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street
8PM In Darfur
Public Theater
425 Lafayette StreetNew York, NY 10003
The Public Theater presents a developmental production of Winter Miller's In Darfur, a powerful and timely work that explores the current humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.
8 PM. Inherit the Wind
9 PM - 1 AM - Bus lines to prisons. Meet at 58th Street and 8th Avenue, opposite Duane Reed.
Lower East Side/ Youth Venues & Clubs
Saturday, April 14
Harlem/East Harlem
10:00AM -- SHARP
Adam Clayton Powell Blvd @ 126th Street, look for the truck
by the state office building
Brooklyn - time and place to be announced
Queens - time and place to be announced
Union Square Team
10:30am meet at the Bookstore
11:00am out at Union Square
12 Noon
Sea of People Event
Meet at Bookstore at 10:30am
Demo starts 12 noon, rally followed by people dressed in blue stretching north in 2 columns along projected eastern and western 10foot waterlines that may one day redefine lower Manhattan under the 10 foot sea level rise scenario. Meet at Batter Park (4/5 to Bowling Green, R/W to White hall St, #1 to South Ferry). Sponsors: Step It Up NYC, Code Pink, et al. http://www.seaofpeople.org/
8PM Doors open
Black Rock Coalition
With Pillow Theory, Shaka Zulu Overdrive and others
at Club Midway
25 Avenue B, bet. 2nd & 3rd $10
10:30PM As people leave the theater
THE COAST OF UTOPIA’ Lincoln Center Theater’s brave, gorgeous, sprawling and ultimately exhilarating production of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy about intellectuals errant in 19th-century Russia. A testament to the seductive powers of narrative theater, directed with hot and cool canniness by Jack O’Brien and featuring a starry cast (Brian F. O’Byrne, Jennifer Ehle, Martha Plimpton, Josh Hamilton and Ethan Hawke, among others) in a tasty assortment of roles. Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200.
9:00PM
Amir El Fassar
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver bet. Broadway and Broad
212-967-4318 $15.00
9 PM - 1 AM - Bus lines to prisons. Meet at 58th Street and 8th Avenue, opposite Duane Reed.
Times Square
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Churches: Riverside Church, St. Mary’s Church, Abyssinian Church, House of the Lords Church, The Brooklyn Tabernacle, and Father Barrios’ church.
Washington Heights Team
180 & St. Nicholas
and
Stop the Deportations
Immigration Rally
2pm, 165th street & Audubon, la Coalicion Comunidades Immigrates.
African Market
116th & MLK Blvd
Chelsea Team
afternoon
Temple Beth Elohim
Congregation Beth Elohim274 Garfield Place (corner of Eighth Avenue)Brooklyn, NY 11215
Sunday, April 15 2007, 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Join us for the fourth film in the Brooklyn Filmmakers Series. Rory Kennedy will show her film "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" (originally broadcast on HBO). This film looks at how the abuses which occurred in the fall of 2003 at the Iraqi prison still remain etched in our national consciousness. The documentary asks: what do the events that occurred at the prison still say about America? Our government? Our military? Ourselves? The film is built on direct, personal narratives of perpetrators, witnesses, and victims of the abuse to probe the psychology of how typical boys and girls next door can become perpetrators of atrocious acts. It also explores the history of policy decisions dating back to the erosion of the Geneva conventions that contributed to making the abuse a reality.
2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza
Exit south side of Flatbush Avenue. Walk 1 block along Plaza Street West. Turn right at Lincoln Place. Go 1 block, turn left on 8th Avenue and walk to Garfield Place.
Q to 7th Avenue
Walk uphill along Flatbush Avenue. Turn right on 8th Avenue and walk to Garfield Place.
F to 7th Avenue
Exit at 8th Avenue (9th Street). Walk north along 8th Avenue (the numbers descend) to Garfield Place.
Sunday, April 15 7:30pm
92nd St. Y
Lexington Avenue @ 92nd Street
Walter Isaacson with Charlie Rose: On Albert Einstein
Walter Isaacson recently completed the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of the brilliant scientist’s papers were made available to the public, revealing new insights into Einstein’s life, times and genius. Isaacson is president of the Aspen Institute. He has been chairman and CEO of CNN and managing editor of Time magazine. Isaacson is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Kissinger: A Biography.
Next weekend:
Apr 20-22 South Asian Underground Film Festival: Emergences and Emergencies: New South Asian Film-Making from Britain
All films shown at
CANTOR Film Center
36 East 8th St @University Place
*Free & Open to the Public
from 7pm Friday.
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