Calendar of Events - 2004
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Friday and Saturday, June 18 and 20 - Balseros
9:15 PM on June 18, 7:30 on June 20, Willard Straight Theater
The story of Cubans who risked their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States, and what life is like for those who succeed.
June 18 - June 25
Reception on Saturday, June 19, 5:00 - 8:00 PM
Cuban Art exhibit at Wessex-Bristol Gallery and photography exhibit at See Spot Gallery, both on the Ithaca Commons. For more info: http://www.mezcla.org/cubafriendshipweek#arts.
June 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 - Night Cinema
9:00 - 11:00 PM, Ithaca Commons Amphitheater
Documentary films and Cuban music videos! Films include Hazlo por Cuba (David Ellworth, 2002), Jazz de Cuba (Rolando Almirante, 2003), "Why?" (Rolando Almirante), The Cuban Five (National Committee to Free the Five) The Greening of Cuba (Jaime Kibben), Who's Afraid of the Little Yellow School Bus?, Un Encuentro en San Francisco por una música sin fronteras (Cuban ensemble Mezcla joined by Carlos Santana and other Bay Area musicians - Pablo Menéndez, 1993). For more info: http://www.mezcla.org/cubafriendshipweek/#videos.
Monday, June 21
2:00 - 8:30 PM, Borg Warner Room, Ithaca Public Library
Documentary films and Cuban music videos.
Friday, June 25 - Rally and Press Conference
12:00 - 1:30 PM, Center Pavilion, Ithaca Commons.
Arrival of the Pastors for Peace Friendship Caravan to Cuba. Speakers include former New York State assemblyman and current city attorney Marty Luster, congressional aide Dan Lamb, former Ithaca mayor Ben Nichols, a representative of Pastors for Peace, and more!
Friday, June 25 - Cuba Friendship Dinner
6:30 PM, First Baptist Church, DeWitt Park
Cuban cuisine! Main dishes provided. Bring a dish to pass if you can. $10 suggested donation (will go towards purchasing humanitarian aid that the caravan will deliver).
July 3-5 - Third Annual Spanish for Activists Camp
Truxton, New York
Join us for this fun-filled weekend of Spanish lessons, workshops, networking, good food, great people, music, dance, and beautiful surroundings. This year's schedule and registration information are posted at: www.rso.cornell.edu/cuslar/SpanishCamp.htm.
August 15-23 - Delegation to our sister city Cajibío
Cajibío, Cauca, Colombia
Join us for our first ever delegation to our new sister community in southern Colombia. For more
information, or to join the delegation, contact the Colombia Support Network at: csn@igc.org, (608) 257-8753.
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Wednesday, Sept. 8 - The Island of Music (la isla de la música)
50 min, 1998, Cuba
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
"The last work of legendary Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez, The Island of Music treats the powerful and diverse musics of Cuba. The multi-faceted character of Cuban music is explained through the incredible ability of musicians to borrow from a variety of sources without losing the essentially Cuban character of their own music."
Tuesday, Sept. 14 - Zapatistas at Ten Plus
4:15 PM, Kaufman Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall
Lecture by John Ross, author/activist/poet/correspondent. Reflections on the "shakedown in the Indian heart of the Americas" from Ross' recent tour through Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador.
Wednesday, Sept. 15 - Murdered by Capitalism
6:00 PM, Autumn Leaves, 115 The Commons, second floor
John Ross. Dish-to-pass dinner with the author, 6:00 PM. Reading and book signing from his new book, Murdered by Capitalism: a Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left, 7:00 PM. At Autumn Leaves on the Commons.
Wednesday, Sept. 22 - The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt
76 min, 2003, Colombia
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
"In February 2002, in the midst of her controversial campaign for president, Senator Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and became one of thousands of victims of Colombiaís 40-year-old civil war. Her impassioned calls to end corruption had made her ... a dangerous instigator to many within the political machine. This remarkable film follows Betancourt up to her disappearance and tells the riveting story of her familyís desperate quest to free her and keep her campaign alive."
Saturday, Oct. 2 - Cornell Concert Series - Michael Camilo Trio
8:00 PM, State Theatre, 107 West State Street
In 2004, pianist and composer Michel Camilo's Telarc release, Live at the Blue Note, took the Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album. His 2000 Verve release, Spain, won Best Latin Jazz Album in the first-ever Latin Grammy Awards. These honors spotlight a career that has soared since Camilo's Carnegie Hall debut in 1985. Joined by Charles Flores on bass and Dafnis Prieto on drums, Michel Camilo promises to be a powerhouse performance to delight both aficionados of jazz, and those who simply love great music.
Wednesday, Oct. 6 - The World Stopped Watching
56 min, 2003, Nicaragua
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
"A sequel to the award-winning The World is Watching ... a cinema verité look at foreign news coverage of a climactic moment in the U.S.-financed Contra War against Nicaragua's revolutionary government. 14 years later, filmmakers Peter Raymont and Harold Crooks return to Nicaragua with 2 American journalists who were in the orginal film - and a Canadian journalist from La Presse - to discover what became of the first revolution to be conducted in the glare of the world media. Traveling throughout the impoverished country, we encounter Nicaraguans from every level of society - What has happened to their lives since 1987? What of the Nicaraguans left behind? What of the democracy they now live in?"
Thursday, Oct. 14 - Volunteer Bolivia
4:30 PM, 316 Anabel Taylor Hall
Lee Cridland, director of Volunteer Bolivia and resident of Cochabamba, will update us on the current situation in Bolivia and her program Volunteer Bolivia.
Saturday, Oct. 16 - CNY Non-violence/Direct Action Training
2:00 - 6:00 PM, Catholic Charities, 324 West Buffalo Street
Regional non-violence training in preparation for SOA/WHISC vigil/demonstration. Prepare for this November's vigil and direct action at Fort Benning, Georgia. Dinner to follow.
Tuesday, Oct. 19 - Seeds vs. Greed - Free Trade and the Future of Sustainable Agriculture
4:30 PM, G08 Uris Hall
7:00 PM, Borg Warner Room, Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street
7:00 PM, Borg Warner Room, Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street
Two events with Guatemalan agronomist Carlos Humberto Muralles, of Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). Carlos will address the themes of sustainable agriculture, the effects on free trade on small farmers in Guatemala, and CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement).
Wednesday, Oct. 20 - One People (Wan Pipal)
90 min, 1976, Netherlands/Surinam
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
"The first film produced in Surinam in the year after it gained independence from Holland, One People tells a hopeful national allegory through the character of Roy, a young Creole student in the Netherlands who is called back to Surinam to tend to his dying mother. Initially reluctant to leave his Dutch girlfriend, Roy gradually discovers that his homeland holds more complexity than he ever imagined, especially when he falls in love with Rubia, an Indian Surinamese girl. As the outraged parents conspire to separate the racially mixed pair, Roy embarks on a journey to understand his newly free country, and the camera follows him from a fruit-eating orgy at the central market to a sweaty midday meringue party to the Amazonian jungles."
Thursday, Oct. 21 - New York CISPES
4:30 PM, 316 Anabel Taylor Hall
Alessandra De Almeida, director of NY CISPES (NY chapter of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) will speak about CISPES' current work against CAFTA and will screen CISPES' new film, a documentary on this year's presidential elections in El Salvador.
Pacifistas sin Fronteras (Pacifists without Borders)
Moved from October 21, 2004 to February 2005
Photograph exhibit and audio/visual recording of testimonies of displaced persons in Colombia. Also, CNY-Cajibío August 2004 delegation presentation.
Saturday, Oct. 23 - La Fiesta Grande
6:30 PM, St. Paul's Methodist Church, 402 North Aurora Street
Gourmet Latino dinner with music. All proceeds go to the Border Fund, supporting shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Wednesday, Oct. 27 - Movimento Sem Terra (MST) at 20
4:00 PM, G08 Uris Hall
Vanderly Scarabeli, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), from Mato Grosso. MST is the largest social movement in Latin America today with an estimated 1.5 million landless members who have organized in 23 of Brazil's 27 states. The MST carries out long-overdue land reform in a country mired by extremely unjust land distribution. In Brazil, less than 3% of the population owns two-thirds of the country's farmable land.
Since 1985 the landless workers of the MST have nonviolently occupied unused land where they have established cooperative farms, constructed houses and clinics, created schools for children and adults, and promoted indigenous culture, gender equality, and a healthy and sustainable environment. The MST has won land titles for more than 250,000 families in 1,600 settlements and 70,000 encamped families currently await government recognition.
Vanderly Scarabeli is a member of the MSTís National Leadership Committee from the state of Mato Grosso in Brazilís west central region. He has been active in the MST since 1992. Before that, he was involved with Christian base communities (CEBs) and the Worker's Party (PT). Vanderly will speak about the history, goals, and achievements of the MST over the last 20 years. He will discuss the challenges of the Lula administration, agrarian reform in Brazil, and the MST's recent alliances with other Brazilian and international social movements.
Wednesday, Oct. 27 - Inti-Illimani Concert
8:00 PM, State Theatre, 107 West State Street
Now in its 35th season, Inti-Illimani remains South America's ambassadors of human expression. Their unique sound, forged with passion and poetry, is a mantra for peace in the world and within us.
Wednesday, Oct. 27 - Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival - Sin Embargo
49 min, 2003, Cuba
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
"After the revolution of 1959 and the U.S. embargo that followed, the people of Cuba were left to fend for themselves. Deprived of even the most basic goods, they scavenged the alleys and scrap heaps, giving new vitality to the discarded. Their recycled products are often remarkably ingenious and creative. For Andres the sculptor, Tomas the canary breeder, and the other subjects of Sin Embargo, even under the greatest pressure - whether levied by government or circumstance - cannot crush the spirit nor quash the desire to forge a better life for themselves and their families. Shot entirely in Cuba, Sin Embargo is a look into the hearts and dreams of struggling peoples and a tribute to their optimistic and resourceful determination to survive."
Wednesday, Nov. 3 - Death Squadrons: The French School
60 min, 2003, France
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
"...convincingly reveals French veterans of the wars in Indochina and Algeria provided the inspiration, the training, and some of the intelligence that allowed Latin Americaís dictators to torture and kill thousands of their own citizens. Death squadrons also shows how, during the 1960s the French were instrumental in training U.S. officers at Fort Briggs on counter-insurgency techniques that were later used by the U.S. military in Vietnam."
Tuesday, Nov. 16 - Book Sale
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Memorial Room in Willard Straight Hall
Huge book sale to benefit CUSLAR. Thousands of books of various topics and genres will be available for purchase. Come help CUSLAR continue its mission while starting your own international library!
Wednesday, Nov. 17 - Venezuela Bolivariana
76 min, 2003, Venezuela
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
"This documentary examines the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela as connected to the world-wide movement against capitalist globalization. The film shows the revolution of the popular movement in Venezuela from the "Caracazo" riots of 1989 to the massive actions that brought revolutionary president Hugo Chávez back to power, 48 hours after a U.S.-led military coup in 2002."
Friday-Sunday, Nov. 19-21
Fort Benning, Georgia
Annual vigil and demonstration to close the SOA/WHISC! - www.soaw.org
Wednesday, Dec. 1 - Señorita Extraviada
74 min, 2003, Mexico
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
8:00 PM, Uris Auditorium
"Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman tells the haunting story of the more than 300 kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico. Visually poetic, yet unflinching in its gaze, this compelling investigation unravels the layers of complicity that have allowed for the brutal murders of women living along the Mexico-U.S. border. ... Señorita Extraviada documents the ongoing search for the truth in the underbelly of the new global economy."
Saturday, Dec. 11 - Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, First Unitarian Church, 208 East Buffalo Street
Shop from a diverse collection of local, national and international organizations with established track records of helping people and the environment. Gift-giving opportunities range from donations to local and national organizations, to items specifically targeted to people in need. CUSLAR's gift giving opportunities will include Seeds of Solidarity certificates to support small farmers in Ithaca's sister community in Colombia, and Sponsor-a-Bike for Chiapas tags to send a bike and the tools that go with it to the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. Alternative gifts are all tax deductible. Shoppers will also find live music and yummy treats at the fair.
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