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»Since 2004 - Omaha's Longest Continually Running Independent Film Festival!
»Held Wednesday Evenings at 7pm
»At McFoster's Natural Kind Cafe (38th & Farnam)
»Free Admission / Dinner and a Movie

The People's Movie Festival is the only place where you can see exclusive Omaha showings of such films as The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Bitter Cane, OutFoxed, Unconstitutional, and classics like Salt of the Earth, The Battle of Algiers, and Reefer Madness.

We have been asked if we could make some of these films available for showings at house parties, churches, labor union and community meetings, etc. We believe that discussion of these and other films can help in building a progressive community here in Omaha, so we are beginning a modest lending library for the films that are not easily available otherwise.

The films we have available to lend so far are: American Dream, Battle of Algiers, Bush's Brain, Iraq Uncovered, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Unprecedented, Daughters of the Dust and Zapatista.


March 10
Title: Palestine Blues (rescheduled from snow cancellation date)
Time: 72 Minutes

DVD box - Palestine
Blues "In 1923 Ze'ev Jabotinsky, one of the founding fathers of Zionism wrote an essay in which he outlined the means for establishing a state of Israel in the whole of historic Palestine. That essay was called The Iron Wall.

"In June of 2002 the construction of a 400-mile barrier began in the Occupied West Bank. Though it is referred to as a 'security fence' by Israel, its form changes along the route, and near large cities it is a concrete wall twice as high as the Berlin Wall. Construction began in the northwest part of the West Bank. With its large, unspoiled aquifer, this land provides nearly 65% of the fruits and vegetables produced in the region. The wells along the aquifer provide essential water for drinking, agriculture and sanitation. All of this prime land and its water supply will fall on the Israeli side of the wall.

"Palestine Blues follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Instead of focusing on the Wall as an object, Palestine Blues examines the grassroots resistance movement that has sprung up against it. Palestine Blues is not a 'traditional' political reportage but rather an interminable road trip across hard and liquid borders, across a terrain that is being erased as it is being traversed." - N. Sinnokrot.

>>Discussion Leader: Safana Makhdoom, M.D., member of Nebraskans for Peace Palestine Task Force and I am peaceful change.


March 17
Title: The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky & His Legacy
Time: 60 Minutes

photo of Saul Alinsky The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky & His Legacy, narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, examines the life and legacy of the controversial community organizer Alinsky and his modern-day legacy.

The first half of the program chronicles the Chicago-based organizer Saul Alinsky and three key Alinsky organizations to show how his techniques developed over time including The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, in Chicago's blighted stockyards in the 1930's. By forming an unprecedented coalition between the Catholic Church and the Meatpackers Union, Alinsky was able to force several landmark concessions from the meatpacking industry. These three organizations show how Alinsky's ideas, in turn, influenced the civil rights movement, the farmworkers struggle and many Vietnam era political protests.

The second half of the program jumps forward to the late 1990's and examines two contemporary 'peoples organizations' that are part of the Industrial Areas Foundation-a national network. -- Amazon.com

>>Discussion To Follow