Thoughts on History - Howard Zinn discusses how history is framed by institutional powers to encourage submission to authority, and how knowledge and action can threaten to overthrow tyranny and ignorance
Monday, Sept. 11 5-7PM University Heights North Multipurpose Room
Litigating Disaster - This powerful film explores how Union Carbide successfully manipulated both the US and Indian legal system against each other to avoid having to defend its responsibility in the toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India in 1984
Monday, Oct. 23 5-7PM Memorial Lounge Waterman
In Search of Aztlan - Interweaves dramatized comedy scenes with documentary interviews as it follows a comedy troupe to the original location of the Aztlan, the ancient homeland of the Aztec people who founded the empire of Tenochtitlan in the year 1325A.D. which they suspect is in the Southwestern US.
Tuesday, Sept 19 Noon -1:30p.m. Grace Coolidge, Waterman 501
Teaching Indians to be White - chronicles the attempts to integrate native children into dominant society through educational means.
Cashing in on Cultures explores the potential problems surrounding eco- and ethnic tourism for both indigenous communities and tourists.
Wednesday, Nov. 15 Noon -1:30p.m. Grace Coolidge, Waterman 501
A Video Guide to (Dis)Ability Awareness - Former President Bill Clinton opens and concludes this informative video on (Dis)Ability Awareness. It is an excellent orientation to the human side of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Tuesday, Oct. 3, Noon -1:30p.m. Grace Coolidge, Waterman 501
The Lost Tribes of Israel - South Africa's Lemba people claim to be descendants of Jews and one of the lost tribes of Israel. Anthropologist Tudor Larfitt investigates the Lemba's claim through genetic testing and attempts to retrace their migration.
Friday, Dec. 1 Noon-1:30p.m. Grace Coolidge, Waterman 501