4000th U.S. Solider death is fast approaching.
UPDATE: As of January 13, 2008, the DOD confirmed death toll of U.S. Soldiers in Iraq is 3,922 Gather for a memorial vigil the day after the newspapers publish this grim milestone.
6pm - Sidewalk in front of Federal Building, 100 South State Street, SLC
Bring signs, battery candles, flashlights
Info: 801-631-2998 or
Info.
Listen to the psa
Tuesday, January 15,2008
Impeachment Call Congress Day! 
When Congress returns to Washington on 1/15, Congressman Robert Wexler plans to present his fellow members of the House Judiciary Committee with the list of signatures on his petition (over 180,000) at
Petition and a request to join him in signing a letter to Chairman John Conyers asking for Cheney impeachment hearings to begin.
Impeachment and Peace organizations around the country are simultaneously asking all the folks in their email lists and members to make January 16th a national call-in day on impeachment. We need everyone to call their member of Congress, especially if their member is on the House Judiciary Committee, and ask for support for Cheney impeachment hearings.
It's an easier ask than signing onto articles of impeachment or introducing new ones, but we'd love for them to do both of those things. It's a harder ask than just more pointless non-impeachment investigations. The investigations have been done. The high crimes and misdemeanors are known and established. What we need is for every member of Congress to ask Chairman John Conyers to begin the Cheney impeachment hearings right away.
Once you've made your phone call, also phone and Email the media to ask for coverage of the impeachment movement.
Tuesday, January 15,2008
Film: THE JEWISH AMERICANS (USA) 7pm, City Library Auditorium, 210 E 400 S
Free and open to the public
This six-hour documentary follows 350 years of Jewish-American history, from the first settlement in the 17th century to the present, and explores the experience of immigration and assimilation. Liev Schreiber narrates. We will screen one 60 minute segment followed by community discussion.
KUED Broadcast Schedule:
January 9th, 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. –Jewish Americans: They Came to Stay
January 16th, 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.—Jewish Americans: The Best of Times
January 23rd , 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. —Jewish Americans: Home
KUED Diverse Voices screening SLC Film Center
Saturday, January 19,2008
Film: THE RETURN (Russia) 3pm,
City Library Auditorium, 210 E 400 S
Free and open to the public
Join us on the third Saturday of the month for free international movie screenings in the Main Library Auditorium. Cosponsored by the City Library, the SLC Film Center and the Salt Lake City Arts Council.
Directed by Andrej Zvjagintsev Not Rated 105 min Rusian w/ English subtitles (2003)
A pair of brothers lives peacefully in a fatherless household in what used to be the Soviet Union. In the midst of an idle summer, their father, a man they know only through a single photograph, resurfaces and starts to reestablish his authority. The three go on holiday to a remote island where the family's battle of wills takes an ominous turn.
SLC Film Center
Sunday, January 20,2008
Film: WALT WHITMAN (USA) 2pm, City Library Auditorium, 210 E 400 S
Free and open to the public
World Premiere!
Screened in partnership with American Experience and WGBH
Special Guests: Filmmakers Mark Zwonitzer and Jamila Wignot and Utah's Poet Laureate Katie Coles
Directed/Written by Mark Zwonitzer Produced/Co-directed by Jamila Wignot
120 min (2007) Not Rated
On a hot summer day in 1855, a 36-year-old writer emerged from anundistinguished printer's shop in Brooklyn, New York, carrying a slim volume of his work. To family, friends, and neighbors, Walter Whitman, Jr., may have been just a too-old bachelor who lived in his parents' attic, but as he walked the city streets that day, he knew something of himself they could not imagine. With his book of a dozen poems, Leaves of Grass, he was about to introduce America to a savior. Ominous events were on the horizon in America, and Walt Whitman offered up his poetry and his persona as a perfect reflection of the America he saw; it was daring, noble, naive, brutish, sexual, frightening and flawed. He hoped his work could heal a fracturing America. But in his own time, his poetry was as contested as the idea of America itself. This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892 at the age of 69.
SLC Film Center
Monday, January 21,2008
"An exhibit that speaks directly to our hearts and reminds us of the human cost of war." Over 20 pairs of empty combat boots – tagged with the names of Utah soldiers who have died in the current Iraq war – will be displayed, together with a visual representation of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have died during the conflict.
Salt Lake Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) Meetinghouse
171 East 4800 South, Murray, Utah
Monday, January 21, 10:00a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
EYES WIDE OPEN is the American Friends Service
Committee's widely acclaimed exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq war.
More information Local contact: Emily Box (801) 486-6883 emilyjbox at msn.com
Co-sponsored by Salt Lake Quakers, Mormons for Equality and Social Justice, Wasatch coalition for Peace and Justice, Whale Center, Utah Democratic Progressive Caucus, Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living, Utah Untied Religious Initiative, Untied Nations Association of Utah, Utah Military Families Speak Out, People for Peace and Justice of Utah, Peace Community Mennonite Church, Starting Point, The Committee for War Criminal Prosecution, Students for Freedom and Democracy
Tuesday, January 22,2008
Class at the City Library: Writing Your Legislator 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
The 2007 Utah Legislative Session starts on January 21. One letter to a legislator represents the opinions of 25 people. Learn how to effectively write to your senators and representatives on Capitol Hill, and make your voice heard! Cost: $10; call 957-4992 to register.
Monday, January 28,2008
Film: A WALK TO BEAUTIFUL (Ethiopia) 7pm, City Library Auditorium, 210 E 400 S
Free and open to the public
Directed by Mary Olive Smith and Amy Bucher
85 min (2007) Not Rated English/Amharic with Subtitles
Awards: Won - 2007 San Francisco International Film Festival, Audience Award; Won - 2007 St. Louis International Film Festival, Audience Choice Award; Won – 2007 Denver Starz Film Festival, People's Choice Award; Won – 2007 DOCUPOLIS International Film Festival, Human Rights Award
A story of hope and transformation, this beautiful documentary tells the stories of five Ethiopian women who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries and embark on a journey to reclaim their lost dignity. The film follows each of these women on their journey to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, where they find solace for the first time in years. The founder of the hospital, Dr. Hamlin, and her extraordinary work have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, on the "Oprah" show and on "Profiles in Caring" by Salt Lake City's own Kimberly Perkins Klintworth.
Presented with IVUmed
New Face of Africa Series
SLC Film Center
Tuesday, January 29 and Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Film: LIVE AND BECOME (France) 6pm, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, SLC
Free and open to the public
Screening followed by discussion with Professor Lawrence Loeb, U of U Department of Anthropology
Directed by: Radu Mihaileanu 140 min (2005) Not Rated
Hebrew/French with English subtitles
Awards: 2006 Aspen Filmfest, Won - Audience Award; 2005 Berlin International Film Festival, Won – Label Europa Cinemas, Audience Award; 2005 Copenhagen International Film Festival, Won – Best Film
Award-winning LIVE AND BECOME is a beautifully crafted epic story of migration, assimilation and identity that begins In a Sudanese refugee camp sheltering Ethiopians displaced by civil war and famine. In 1984, the Israeli secret service has begun Operation Moses, airlifting thousands of Falashas, or Ethiopian Jews, to Israel. A non-Jewish Ethiopian woman persuades a Falasha woman whose own son has just died, to allow her son to assume his identity. Renamed Schlomo, the boy is adopted by a loving, liberal Israeli family, however Israel, rather than being the promised land, turns out to be rife with racism. Although it is Schlomo we follow, this is a universal story.
Presented with the U of U's Middle East Center and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Series: Islam and the West
SLC Film Center
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Film: EVER AGAIN (USA) 7pm, Westminster College, Vieve Gore Concert Hall, 1840 S 1300 E (northwest corner of campus)
Free and open to the public
Westminster College Film and Lecture Series, sponsored by the Office of the President of Westminster College and the A.S.W.C. and curated by the SLC Film Center
DOGMA and DOUBT: Exploring Faith and Fundamentalism through Film Special Guest: Rabbi Aron Hier, Director of Campus Outreach at the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Directed by Richard Trank Narrated by Kevin Costner
75 min (2006) Not Rated
EVER AGAIN examines the resurgence of violent anti-Semitism and terrorism that threatens Europe and all of Western civilization. It exposes the dangerous Islamic extremism and culture of death being preached from the mosques of Europe's major cities and its impact on the recent attacks in Madrid and London. It examines the new Neo-Nazism in Germany and the shifts from the traditional anti-Semitism of the right to the anti-Semitism of the extreme left, and it raises disturbing questions about our future. The film's conclusion echoes Edmund Burke's warning, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Presented with Hadassah, Jewish Community Center, United Jewish Federation of Utah, Westminster College
SLC Film Center
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Friday, February 8 and Saturday February 9,2008
The Progressive Agenda for 2008 Conference Free and open to the public
Based on ending U.S. military intervention in Iraq, environmentally sustainable energy policies and national healthcare reform according to organizers of the upcoming February 8 and 9 conference at the University of Utah.
The conference includes a variety of forums and workshops. Additional topics will include the crisis in Pakistan, Latino community issues, progressive Mormon activist concerns, and industrial farming. The conference concludes with a plenary session to discuss and decide on future political action.
Friday 7pm:"U.S. out of Iraq" with the film
>"Meeting Resistance" screened in partnership with the SLC Film Center at 7pm in the Orson Spencer Hall auditorium. Filmmakers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors will be present to discuss their film.
Saturday 9am: screening of the Al Gore film "An Inconvenient Truth".
Larry Lohmann, internationally known environmental activist and author from England, will speak on "Carbon Trading or Carbon Reduction?" after the film at 10:45.
2pm: Screening of Michael Moore's "Sicko."
Donna Smith who appears in the film and is participating in the national "Sicko Tour" organized by
Healthcare-NOW, and the
California Nurses Association will speak following the film.
More information here.