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Don’t miss this timely and informative October 1 event exploring economic instability, current climate change/global warming developments, and the end of cheap oil, including how these critical issues are related and how solutions must be developed in the context of all three.
Transition Whatcom is committed to the goal of significantly reducing community dependence upon fossil fuels. As TW members, please consider inviting your friends and neighbors to attend this timely and informative event. We will present three local speakers who are experts in the fields of economics, climate change science, and energy. The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session and discussion on local action.
Featuring:
Economy: Dan Warner, J.D.
Climate: Juliet Crider, Ph.D.
Energy: John Rawlins, Ph.D.
Thursday, October 1, 7-9pm at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I St.
For more information, email tomxyza@comcast.net, or call (360) 739-1968.
PLEASE RSVP
Start: 7:00 pm
Join us for this FREE, non-ticketed event at Village Books.
Entangled in a distant war, our nation lost sight of its highest values. Men and women who spoke out against the war were punished. Their families were torn apart. In Montana, scores of people were convicted of sedition, merely for criticizing the war effort or for refusing to prove their loyalty by buying war bonds. Some were sent to prison for up to 20 years. This was almost 100 years ago.
This powerful, hour-long documentary traces the dramatic story of Montana's draconian WWI sedition law, the harshest law of its kind in the nation, and the model for a U.S. law passed shortly after. Through interviews with free speech experts, historians, and descendants of the prisoners, the film shows how war hysteria and super-patriotism led to broken lives. Creative re-enactments help tell this compelling human drama, while contemporary footage shows the dramatic conclusion, the pardoning of all sedition prisoners by Montana Govenor Brian Schweitzer in 2006. Framed in the context of our First Amendment guarantee of free speech and free press, this cautionary tale demonstrates in clear and compelling terms what can happen when Americans give up their liberties in return for the promise of greater security. Produced and directed in Montana by acclaimed filmmaker Gita Saedi Kiely and narrated by J.K. Simmons, Jailed For Their Words resonates in today's world and sounds a warning for tomorrow.
Co-sponsored by Amnesty International
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