Below is information on a fundraiser that will benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War. The film will be shown tomorrow at 7:30 at the Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe in Glens Falls.
Wed Mar 19
7:30 pm
** FILM FUNDRAISER **
Donations will be taken, 100 % of which will go to Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)
Suggested donation is $5.00 dollars. We will pass along every cent to aid the IVAW in its current "Winter Soldier" hearings in Washington.
WINTER SOLDIER (1972)
Vietnam Veterans Against The War
96 min.
RT Rating = 100 %
In 1971, with the My Lai massacre still vivid in the public consciousness, 109 Vietnam War veterans gathered in a hotel in Detroit and, in front of news journalists and a collective of young filmmakers, spoke frankly about their experiences in Vietnam. They called themselves the Winter Soldiers and their testimonials are devastating: women raped and disemboweled, children murdered, prisoners thrown from helicopters, ears severed, villages burned, and families slaughtered.
Almost instantaneously, a pro-war backlash set out to discredit the veterans and their stories, and though their brave confessions were hailed by many senators and congressman, the news media never aired any of the footage. The filmmakers who were present, including Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A.), masterfully edited the three days of interviews into a single 96-minute presentation.
Almost as harrowing as the accounts themselves are the haunted looks and the trembling voices of the young men as they speak openly of becoming debased monsters who were willing to commit atrocities. Though the film seemed to be inexorable evidence that Vietnam war crimes were commonplace rather than anomalous, the film received scant screenings, and the stories never reached the majority of the American public.
During the 2004 presidential election, the Winter Soldier Investigation resurfaced in regards to John Kerry's involvement with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and his role as a pivotal organizer of the event. A group of veterans, indignant over any supposed defamation of soldiers and their actions, set out to attack Kerry's wartime credentials, and to paint the Winter Soldier stories as spurious and fabricated.
In 2005, more than 30 years after it was made, WINTER SOLDIER received general distribution, and the film remained as unsettling and pertinent than ever. The charges that the men were imposters seem ludicrous in the face of these blistering and self-crucifying descriptions.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
March meeting postponed
The March meeting of the Tri-County Greens, originally scheduled for Wednesday March 19, has been postponed and will be rescheduled shortly.
Friday, February 15, 2008
David Doonan for mayor of Greenwich
The Tri-County Greens are pleased to announce the candidacy of David Doonan for mayor of the village of Greenwich.
Visit Dave's campaign site at www.daviddoonan.com. There, you can learn about his platform and running mates and even make suggestions.
Visit Dave's campaign site at www.daviddoonan.com. There, you can learn about his platform and running mates and even make suggestions.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Author of bio on German Greens leader to appear in Glens Falls
Author and journalist Paul Hockenos will be in Glens Falls next Tuesday. He will read from, discuss and sign his latest book: "JOSCHKA FISCHER AND THE MAKING OF THE BERLIN REPUBLIC: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany."
The event will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 PM at the Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe in Glens Falls.
Bio: Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based journalist and author who has written about South Eastern Europe since 1989. He joined ESI as a Berlin-based analyst November 2002 to December 2003. His articles and commentaries have appeared in World Policy Journal, The New Statesman and Society, The Nation, Christian Science Monitor, as well as many other periodicals in Europe and North America.
Hockenos is the author of "Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (Routledge, '93). From 1997-99 he worked with the OSCE in Bosnia on press and media issues. Since then, Paul has been a visiting fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the European Journalism College at the Free University Berlin.
He received a fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the US to research and write Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkans Wars (Cornell University Press, 2003). He is currently working on ESI's migration and development project within the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit (LLA), concentrating on Kosovo.
About the book: Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical--a firebrand street activist--into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights of German politics. In the 1980s he was one of the first elected Greens and went on to becomeGermany's foreign minister from 1998 to 2005.
His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfeld's case for invading Iraq--"Excuse me, I am not convinced"--won him worldwide recognition, and the Bush administration's contempt. Here is both a lively biography of Joschka Fischer and a gripping history 'from below' of postwar Germany.
Paul Hockenos begins in the ruins of postwar Germany and guides us through the flashpoints of the late sixties and seventies, from the student protests and the terrorism of the Baader-Meinhof group to the evolution of Europe's premier Green party, and brings us up to the present in the united Germany.
He shows how the grassroots movements that became the German Greens challenged and changed the republic's status quo, making postwar Germany more democratic, liberal and worldly along theway. Despite the ideological twists and turns of Fischer and his peers, the lessons of the Holocaust and the Nazi terror remained their constant coordinates.
Hockenos traces that political journey, providing readers with unique insight into the impact that these movements and the Greens have had on Germany. Informed by hundreds of interviews with key figures and fellow travelers, Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic presents readers with one of the most intriguing personalities on the European scene, and paints a rich picture of the rebellious generation of 1968 that became the political elite of modern Germany.
The event will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 PM at the Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe in Glens Falls.
Bio: Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based journalist and author who has written about South Eastern Europe since 1989. He joined ESI as a Berlin-based analyst November 2002 to December 2003. His articles and commentaries have appeared in World Policy Journal, The New Statesman and Society, The Nation, Christian Science Monitor, as well as many other periodicals in Europe and North America.
Hockenos is the author of "Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (Routledge, '93). From 1997-99 he worked with the OSCE in Bosnia on press and media issues. Since then, Paul has been a visiting fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the European Journalism College at the Free University Berlin.
He received a fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the US to research and write Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkans Wars (Cornell University Press, 2003). He is currently working on ESI's migration and development project within the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit (LLA), concentrating on Kosovo.
About the book: Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical--a firebrand street activist--into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights of German politics. In the 1980s he was one of the first elected Greens and went on to becomeGermany's foreign minister from 1998 to 2005.
His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfeld's case for invading Iraq--"Excuse me, I am not convinced"--won him worldwide recognition, and the Bush administration's contempt. Here is both a lively biography of Joschka Fischer and a gripping history 'from below' of postwar Germany.
Paul Hockenos begins in the ruins of postwar Germany and guides us through the flashpoints of the late sixties and seventies, from the student protests and the terrorism of the Baader-Meinhof group to the evolution of Europe's premier Green party, and brings us up to the present in the united Germany.
He shows how the grassroots movements that became the German Greens challenged and changed the republic's status quo, making postwar Germany more democratic, liberal and worldly along theway. Despite the ideological twists and turns of Fischer and his peers, the lessons of the Holocaust and the Nazi terror remained their constant coordinates.
Hockenos traces that political journey, providing readers with unique insight into the impact that these movements and the Greens have had on Germany. Informed by hundreds of interviews with key figures and fellow travelers, Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic presents readers with one of the most intriguing personalities on the European scene, and paints a rich picture of the rebellious generation of 1968 that became the political elite of modern Germany.
Monday, December 17, 2007
'An Unreasonable Man' on PBS tomorrow
The PBS series Independent Lens is airing An Unreasonable Man, a well-received documentary on the life and career of citizen activist Ralph Nader.
Both WMHT in Albany, NY and Vermont Public Television will air the program on Tuesday, December 18 at 9:00 PM. Other local listings can be found at PBS.org.
Note: Interestingly, a poll on the site asks if Nader's 2000 candidacy was the reason George W. Bush won the presidency. 93 percent of respondents voted No.
Both WMHT in Albany, NY and Vermont Public Television will air the program on Tuesday, December 18 at 9:00 PM. Other local listings can be found at PBS.org.
Note: Interestingly, a poll on the site asks if Nader's 2000 candidacy was the reason George W. Bush won the presidency. 93 percent of respondents voted No.
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