36. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, August 25, 2021
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Antiwar Film: All Quiet on the Western Front
Antiwar Peacemakers:
Mohammad Ali
Angie Zelter
ANTIWAR FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front
Sept 21 – A UN Intl Day of Peace and AR Peace Week Event
7:00 pm - Faulkner Performing Arts Center, UA
ADMISSION FREE
Co-Sponsored by the UA Dept of Communications Film Appreciation Society and Omni Center
Live Accompaniment by
The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
All Quiet on the Western Front opened to wide acclaim in the United States 1930. Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made the American Film Institute's first 100 Years...100 Movies list in 1997. A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,501 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh-best American epic film.[6][7] In 1991, the film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[8][9] The film was the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Best Director.
For more information contact: Frank Scheide, Department of Communication 479-575-5961 / fscheide@uark.edu
ANTIWAR PEACEMAKERS
MOHAMMAD ALI
PBS documentary, Independent Lens,“The Trials of Muhammad Ali.”
successfully fought a five year prison sentence for refusing to join the US army during the Vietnam War.
Zelter, Angie. ACTIVISM FOR LIFE: Wake Up, the World is Dying, Now Do Something About It.“ Rev. Leonard Eiger, “Angie Zelter’s New Memoir Activism for Life.” Ground Zero (July 2021). Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. https://www.gzcenter.org Ms. Zelter is one of the tens of thousands of outstanding US peacemakers, and GZC one of the thousands of organizations, resisting our culture of war.
ACTIVISM FOR LIFE: “’Wake Up, the World is Dying,’” Now Do Something About It.” By Leonard Eiger. June 13, 2021.
Longtime activist Angie Zelter, in the preface to her newest book, ACTIVISM FOR LIFE, says “It is 50 years since I left university, started my real education and began thinking how I could help create a better world.” That introduction sets the stage for 50 years of activism for the sake of that world she seeks.
Lest you think ACTIVISM FOR LIFE might be just another memoir, that would be an injustice. Angie not only reflects on the campaigns around the world in which she has been involved – Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, SOS Sarawak, Trident Ploughshares, Save Jeju Now, Extinction Rebellion, and many more – but builds on the practical lessons she has learned along the way, offering insights into mobilizing for effective and sustainable action. MORE https://www.gzcenter.org/activism-for-life-wake-up-the-world-is-dying-now-do-something-about-it/
Tere is much more to discover in ACTIVISM FOR LIFE that I will leave for you to discover. I invite you to read ACTIVISM FOR LIFE, and if you find it worthy, buy additional copies and give them as graduation gifts for young people you know, and help them start their real education and activism for their lives, and for the sake of the world in which they live.
ACTIVISM FOR LIFE is published by Luath Press Ltd., and is available from a number of booksellers. All royalties will go to Trident Ploughshares, a campaign to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a nonviolent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.
Note: The banner photo is of Angie speaking at St. Leo Church, Tacoma, Washington on the eve of the Disarm Now Plowshares trial in December 2010.