June 12th, 2013 7:30 PM
TALES OF THE 1% FILM SERIES
The Navigators
A Film by Ken Loach
Discussion with Rust Gilbert & Michael Lardner
Dir. Ken Loach | 96 min | England | 2001

On Saturday, June 15 from 11 AM to 2 PM Peace Action Bay Ridge Interfaith will hold a Peace and Justice Fair at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 7420 4th Ave. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (closest stop 77th St. on the R-third to last stop). From 11 AM to 2 PM there will be tables from Bread for the World, Coalition Against the Rockaway Pipeline, Habitat for Humanity, Food and Water Watch, Mercy for Animals, Military Families Speak Out, Move to Amend, No Drones, Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Power and the Darfur Committee.

Free lunch will be provided, you buy dessert.

In light of the recent tragedies in Bangladesh, the factory collapse on April 24, taking the lives of over 1,100 workers, and the factory fire of November, killing over 200 people - we are raising funds for the victims. These funds will be donated to the victims in solidarity with the Bangladeshi Center for Worker Solidarity.

Artists:
*Brooklyn Shanti
*The Peace Poets
*Neeta Pal
*Golam Sarwar Harun
*Sonny Singh from Red Baraat
*Samita Sinha

Location:
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
Directions: A/B/C/D/F/M TO West 4 ST
1 TRAIN TO Christopher St.

June 6th, 2013 7:30 PM
The New Africa:
Underdevelopment or Liberation?
Samar Al Bulushi, Glen Ford, Wazir Mohamed

Africa is portrayed as a tragedy in the mainstream media, the victim of bad leaders and bad luck. Yet if we scratch the surface, what we perceive as tragic is the result of years of underdevelopment. The legacy of slavery, colonialism and imperialism still effect the continent as many of the riches of Africa are still exploited,overwhelmingly to the benefit of the multi-nationals and the proverbial "Europe."

A Conversation and Book-Signing with Tom Wilber about his new book. Come by Revolution Books this afternoon to talk with Tom Wilber about his ground-breaking book exposing fracking in Pennsylvania and New York state.

Tom Wilber is in town because his book has been nominated for the New York Public Library's Annual Helen Bernstein Book Award For Excellence In Journalism (one of 5 books including Katherine Boo's "Behind The Beautiful Forevers" and "Spillover" by David Quammen).