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Saturday, November 8, 2003 |
RHINO HERE: Wishin' you all good things for
the week end.
WEEKEND QUOTE
Sometimes the magic works. And sometimes it doesn't"
- - Chief
Dan George (from the movie "Little
Big Man")
WEEKEND HISTORY
November 8th, 1972 -- American Indian Movement "Trail
of Broken Treaties" occupies the Bureau
of Indian Affairs (BIA) Office in Washington,
DC.
November 8th, 1974 --
Lt. William Calley is paroled after
serving just 3 years under house arrest, this for overseeing the murder of as
many as 500 Vietnamese
civilians at My Lai.
November 9th, 1965 -- The biggest power
failure in history
occurs. All of New York State, portions of 7 neighboring states, & parts
of eastern Canada plunge into darkness, affecting
30 million people.
November 9th, 1967 -- First issue of rock oriented magazine "Rolling
Stone" published in San Francisco by Jann Wenner, with John
Lennon on the cover. Each one included a free roach clip.
November 9th, 1969 -- 78 American Indians land on Alcatraz
Island, site of the infamous abandoned
prison in San Francisco Bay. They "hold
the rock" for 6 months.
November 9th, 1989 -- Germany: The Berlin
Wall comes down,
signaling end of half-century-long Cold
War. The hope of a "peace
dividend" is quickly quashed by Ronald Reagan et al.
WEEKEND PHOTO: A.G. At Work
At Work
WEEKEND PARTY: Rex Foundation & the Bill Graham
Foundation
November 8 at 7:00pm, The Fillmore Auditorium, Geary and Fillmore Streets,
San Francisco
Music - The incomparable Mickey Hart and Marley's
Ghost
Afro-Cuban dance beats and rhythms featuring Bobi Cespedes
A mix of Celtic and Grateful Dead music by Wake The Dead
Proceeds to benefit Youth Arts and Music Programs.
For Further Information please go to : http://www.rexfoundation.org
AND http://www.billgrahamfoundation.org
WEEKEND FILM FESTIVAL: The American Indian Film Festival
Awards Ceremony, Saturday, November 8th, 730 PM, Palace of Fine Arts
Theatre, San Francisco
The festival runs through November 13th. "A Seat At The Table",
produced by Mr. & Mrs. Rhino, will screen Tuesday Night, Nov 11th, at The
Galaxy Theatre, 1285
Sutter St (@ Van Ness). Tickets at the door. For more info, GO TO: http://www.aifisf.com/2003fest/index.html
WEEKEND CONCERT TOUR: Common Cause
Common Cause is co-sponsoring a 13-city concert tour featuring acclaimed
musicians Billy Bragg, the Nightwatchman (Tom Morello), Steve Earle and Lester
Chambers of the Chambers Brothers. Mike Mills
of R.E.M., Jill Sobule, and Boots Riley of The Coup will also be joining the
tour on several of the dates. Actress and comedienne Janeane Garofalo will also
join the tour as an emcee and host for the final four dates. The "Tell Us
The Truth" tour makes its first stop in Madison, Wisconsin, on Nov. 7 and
wraps up in Washington, DC on Nov. 24. For more information on the concert,
go to
http://capwiz.com/afr/utr/1/MVMDCGAJXM/LPJDCGAKDB/
WEEKEND BOOK: Dude Where's My Country # 3 Weeks in a Row
Michael Moore, November 6, 2003
I'm back home after visiting 39 cities in 23 days... It took one year
for "Stupid White Men" to sell a million copies in the United States.
It took "Dude, Where's My Country?" just three weeks. That should give
you some indication of the level of concern/frustration/anger in the country
right now over what the Bush administration is up to. All over America, this
is what I saw on the tour: Tens of thousands of average Americans who don't like
their commander-in-chief lying to them in order to start a war...
www.michaelmoore.com http://www.michaelmoore.com
WEEKEND CONTROVERSY: CBS caves into conservatives on The Reagan's
Capping an extraordinary conservative furor over a movie virtually no
one has seen, CBS scrapped plans Tuesday to televise "The Reagan's" and
decided to shunt it off to the Show time cable network instead. Based on snippets
of the script that had leaked out in recent weeks, conservatives, including the
son of the former president, accused CBS of distorting the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
Source: Associated Press, via Miami Herald
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7180006.htm
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Native American Indians Increasingly Produce Own Films
Paul Ingles, VOA News, 27 Oct 2002
For most of the last century, Hollywood tended to stereotype American Indians. They were seen either as the faithful sidekick to the white man, like Tonto in the Lone Ranger films, as a wild savage threatening the white man, as in most early westerns, or as a noble spiritual being inspiring the white man, as in the popular 1990s film Dances with Wolves. More recently, Native Americans have taken control of the scripts and cameras and begun to tell their own stories...
... Cheyenne-Arapaho filmmaker Chris Eyre is seen as an important figure in what some are calling a Native American film movement. "The stories I feel passionate about bringing to the screen are stories about contemporary Native America and they aren't using Indians as vehicles for politics or spirituality," he said. .. his latest feature, Skins, opened nationwide in September. It has an all-native cast and tells the story of brothers on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Eric Schweig plays a tribal policeman, Graham Greene plays his older brother, an alcoholic.
...Mr. (Chris) Eyre is clearly leading a creative surge among native filmmakers but getting those films into theatres is another challenge altogether.
"If people wanted to see Native American movies, distributors would be selling those movies," he said. "It's called capitalism. So there's a disparity somewhere. It's either American audiences don't really care about contemporary Native American movies or the movies aren't that good. I don't know which it is. You can't generalize. Some of the movies are great and don't have distributors. Some of the movies, I don't think are very good and don't deserve to have distributors.
One of this year's biggest native film surprises seems to have the quality, a distributor and a buzz among filmgoers. It's 3 hours long, shot on digital video in the Canadian Arctic by a first time director, with a cast and crew made up almost entirely of Inuit Indians speaking only their native tongue.
The Fast Runner is an epic tale of an ancient native community's struggle with an evil spell, by Inuit director Zac Kunuk. It's won international awards and been universally praised. Some are also praising the Canadian government's policy of earmarking federal funds specifically to help indigenous populations develop media. Without much federal support for native films in the United States and with studios uncertain about their commercial viability, funding Indian projects in this country is a constant challenge...
READ IT ALL AT: http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=3C8D86A1-1F1E-4DA1-83597E1529BE69F9
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