Two documentaries: “Corporate Lockdown” and “Granito de Arena (Grains of Sand)”
Posted by Web Editor on October 20th, 2007
| 16 November 2007 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
Watch and discuss these two documentaries. “Corporate Lockdown” is a 22-minute documentary examining the role of prisons in society as a private corporation enters into the management of an Ontario adult correctional facility. The filmmaker believes the criminal justice system is not making communities safer, nor is it rehabilitating offenders, and that privatizing prisons does not help. “Granito de Arena (Grains of Sand)” is a 60-minute documentary about the many thousands of public schoolteachers who nonviolently resisted global economic forces to protect the integrity of public education. The award-winning filmmaker Jill Freidberg (“This is What Democracy Looks Like”) is from Seattle and spent two years in southern Mexico working on this. The film also provides context for understanding the popular uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2006. 7:00 pm at the Olympia Unitarian-Universalist Congregation (OUUC), 2200 East End St NW, Olympia. This monthly movie series is sponsored by OUUC’s Social Justice Committee and the Alliance for Democracy’s South Puget Sound Chapter. Everyone is welcome. Free, but $5-$25 sliding-scale donations are welcome. Info: Howard Rosenfeld, 360-790-4020 or hrstruggle@comcast.net.