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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 05:31 PM
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LONG post, events, Dean speech at the end
This will be a long email and for that I apologize, but there is SO much going on.

First, some events:

This is from our forum:
http://www.udpc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=39#39

"This Divided State" at the Tower

My name is Bryan Young, I'm with the documentary film This Divided State. I'm contacting local groups to let them know about our film at that it is showing in a very limited engagement this weekend at the Tower Theatre. I've appended our press release and list of tentative theatres and dates below.

We believe this movie is very important, especially to the local activist community. If there is anything you guys at the UDPC might be able to do to pass this information along, I'm sure you won't regret it.

Thanks
Bryan Young
info@thisdividedstate.com
http://www.thisdividedstate.com
(801) 427-3638

Provo, UT – Minority Films made an official announcement this week that their award winning documentary film, This Divided State, has been slated for a national DVD release and a limited theatrical run. The film, which centers around the controversy that ensued after a small college in the center of the most conservative state in the nation invited liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to speak on campus two weeks before the 2004 presidential election, will premiere theatrically at the historic Tower Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 22nd . Other theatrical screenings have been scheduled across the country, including engagements in San Francisco,California and Portland, Oregon. The DVD of the film, which is being released by Disinformation, will be available on the films website and in other markets across the country September 27th. The distribution company,Disinformation, gained national acclaim last year with their release of Robert Greenwald’s documentary Outfoxed, an expose of the conservative bias of the Fox News Channel. This Divided State gained national notoriety after Campus Progress, an offshoot of the Washington, D.C. based Center for American Progress, sponsored a coast to coast college tour which garnered attention from such respected media outlets as The Washington Post and National Public Radio. Right on the heels of its whirlwind tour, the film was programmed at the 2005 Santa Cruz Film Festival, where it walked away with the Audience Award for Best Documentary. This Divided State has been hailed by audiences on both sides of the political spectrum as a successfully balanced documentary on the hot-button subject of the cultural divide in the nation. One reviewer from the Yale Daily News went so far as to say that This Divided State was “…more important than anything Michael Moore has made to date.” People who wish to see the movie in their local theatres are encouraged to visit the films official website (http://www.thisdividedstate.com) to check a growing list of theatres playing the film as well as stores that will be carrying the DVD.

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Tentative Theatre Dates:
The Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City, UT 7/22/05


JULY 23 3rd Anniversary of the Downing Street Minutes Events!


UDPC and Code Pink will be doing an event at the Farmer's Market - time to be announced soon - we plan on handing out literature on the Downing Street Memo (Minutes).

Downing Street Minutes BBQ - 7 PM

Hello activists and friends,

You're invited to WCPJ's second annual summer BBQ/picnic on Saturday evening July 23 from 7pm . Meg Randle, founder of the Utah Chapter of Doctors and Nurses Against the War, is hosting us again in her backyard at 856 East Sherman Avenue (Sherman Avenue is 1330 South, so Meg's home is a little over a block southeast of Liberty Park in central SLC).
Lemonade and some munchies will be provided. You're invited to bring potluck dishes, not required. If you're so inclined, please bring whatever food you'd like to grill - and your favorite drink if it doesn't happen to be lemonade.
This is a chance to relax and hang out with other WCPJ participants and supporters. And meet some of the young local activists who are going to Venezuela in August for the anti-war World Festival of Youth and Students. Since Uncle Sam thinks Venezuela is in *his* backyard, we face the prospect of U.S. military intervention there.
July 23 will be the anniversary of the 2002 British government meeting which was exposed in the initial "Downing Street memo" http://www.afterdowningstreetmemo.org . As you can see in the excerpts from a UFPJ message below, the national United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition is promoting July 23 events to raise awareness of the Downing Street memos.


Coming Soon to Tower Theater!

Sunday July 31, 2005 @ 3:00 PM

Come in from the heat for a special benefit screening of

Atomic Cafe

and select shorts from the Nuclear Free Great Basin Film Festival!

Atomic Cafe is a documentary collection of 1960s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety. It has beed described as "disturbing", "hilarious" , "stunning"...

This film also has chilling relevance to the position we find ourselves in today, given the nuclear agenda of the current regime in Washington.

The international security climate fostered by the threat of renewed nuclear weapons development and testing in the U.S., as well as nuclear proliferation worldwide, places us here in Utah in a uniquely vulnerable position. All downwind inhabitants of the Great Basin- Utah and elsewhere- need this information.

This is a benefit screening for the Action for Nuclear Abolition campaign- a project of Shundahai Network ( http://www.shundahai.org ).

Admission is $10.00 at the door.

Tower Theater is located at 900 S. 900 E. Salt Lake City, Utah

This event is sponsored by the Salty Bunnies

For more information, call 801-533-0128

More from Shundahai Network:

Dear Friends,

Here is the latest on the proposed Skull Valley Private Fuel Storage high-level nuclear waste dump, on the small Goshute Indian Reservation in Utah.

We still need all the help we can get to resist this project and to maintain the other nuclear resistance/Indigenous Environmental Justice projects still in progress. You can donate online on the upper left hand corner of our website:

http://www.shundahai.org .

Much love,

Pete

U.S. Transportation Dept. prepares for nuke hauls -

http://www.shundahai.org/PFS_USDOT_Approve0718-05 .htm

Nuclear execs tout Yucca, but Curtis says Utah could get the waste -

http://www.shundahai.org/nuke_news_062905.htm

Dear friends,

It has been another beautiful, though very hot, day. The moon right now is fantastic.

Unfortunately, however, we received some bad news in the form of an editorial in Utah's Provo Daily Herald. It seems the US government wants to cut funding for RECA, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which deserves expansion rather than cuts, at the same time as they are trying to secure funding for developing new generations of nuclear weapons and preparing the Nevada Test Site for that testing.

We have linked the editorial to our website for you to review. Please feel free to browse and check the latest on the other issues we're working on.

http://www.shundahai.org/Downwinders_editorial_072005 .htm

Also please donate! We are in serious need of funds to keep our 11 years of operations running. We have major projects in motion on the issues of nuclear waste, weapons, and environmental justice on Native land.

As with many other progressive organizations, we are currently experiencing a funding shortfall that is putting our survival at risk. Every donation helps!

You can donate on-line from our website by clicking on the link provided on the top left hand of our home page.

Also checks can be mailed to

Shundahai Network

PO Box 1115

Salt Lake City, UT 84110

Donations to Shundahai Network are tax-deductible.

Please continue to check our website http://www.shundahai.org for updates on nuclear issues here in Indian country, throughout the West and beyond. With your help we will continue to provide the information and organizing resources you need to secure an environmentally just and nuclear free-future for all of us, the future generations, and all life.

Thank you for your support.

In peace,

Shundahai Network

The following note was sent by D4U:

THE FIGHT GOES ON to keep DRE voting machines out of our elections! From Utah Count Votes:

Utahns,
We are now fighting a battle to keep counties from adopting the most flawed voting equipment in America that the Lt. Governor selected for Utah.
The Utah Count Votes web site was updated yesterday (Sorry I don't have time for more work on it.)
http://utahcountvotes.org/
Thank you to the volunteer editor who helped update the first nine pages of the comprehensive paper on Utah's current situation for voting machine selections and solutions.
Please check out the newly revised version:
http://uscountvotes.net/docs_other/dopp/AdviceReDiebolds.pdf
Supposedly Nevada did a hand audit of their paper rolls in November, but, of the two counties I called, one claimed never to have opened any of its paper rolls which were sealed after the election, and the other
election official gave a detailed description of printing out ballots from the voting machines and then counting the printouts (i.e. testing to see if the printing software was printing the machine count correctly - which apparently it was). This election official claimed that they also audited the paper rolls but was unable to give any detailed
description of how it was done. So, I am unsure yet whether Nevada really conducted the audit of their voter verifiable paper rolls that they claimed to have done.
I just spoke with a PA. election official who attended a demonstration of the Diebold DREs with paper rolls and said that the demonstrators had to use magnifying sheets to read them, and that they were nearly impossible for her to read and verify while casting a ballot because the printing is so tiny and the ink smudged sometimes.
Surely there cannot be a worse system for Utah to consider purchase, or a more expensive one.
Best Regards,
Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org
--------------------------------

From Lorna Vogt:
The Utah Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (UCCIR) is a bipartisan group of Utahans working with a nation wide coalition of human and civil rights organizations. We are calling for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and ask that you join us. Links to helpful websites on immigration reform are at the bottom of this email. We are committed to the belief that reform must:

* Be Comprehensive

* Provide a Path to Citizenship

* Protect Workers

* Reunite Families

* Restore the Rule of Law and Enhance Security

* Promote Citizenship and Civic Participation and Help

Local Communities

Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA) along with House Representatives Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL ) have introduced comprehensive immigration reform bills that respond to the current deplorable realities of our immigration system. Utahans can play an important role by encouraging Senator Hatch, a key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to pass The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005.

We are asking you to join us by signing on to this letter as an individual or organizational member. Please send us ( uccir@yahoo.com ) your contact information (or if an organization, send us your organization name and contact person) -- email, mailing and phone number-- and we will forward you a letter that you can send to Senator Hatch and Congressman Cannon. We also encourage you to write you own letter and ask your members and constituents to send in letters as well.

UCCIR is committed to working for fair immigration reform because we cannot have a just, democratic society if millions of people live in the shadows as second class citizens.

We hope you will join us in this campaign. Senator Hatch and Congressmen Cannon need to hear from the people who are on the front lines of so many issues affected by our dysfunctional immigration system. Please contact us at uccir@yahoo.com , Karen Kwan 587-9568, or Lorna Vogt 466-0955 for more information.

Sincerely,

Utah Organization of Chinese Americans

UPNet

Utah Republican Hispanic Assembly

Utah Hispanic Democrat Caucus

Salt Lake County Democrat Caucus

Utah Issues

The Utah Coalition of La Raza

Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Asian American Student Association, University of Utah

National Tongan American Society of Utah

Links:

A PDF copy of the letter to Senator Hatch and Congressmen Cannon: http://www.upnet.org/fair2005.pdf

New American Opportunity Campaign: http://www.cirnow.org

Fair Immigration Reform Movement: http://www.communitychange.org

PCUN (Farmworkers Union in OR): http://www.pcun.org materials in Spanish

National Immigration Law Center: http://www.nilc.org


TRANSCRIPT AND AUDIO OF DEAN'S SPEECH - From D4U


Me and Dean!

If you missed Howard Dean's speech on Saturday at Westminster College (or just want to hear it again), KCPW radio has audio files available for download at the following links (part 1 is 4.5 MB, part 2 is 6.5 MB). Also, D4U member Carole Burns wrote a great diary at Daily Kos that covers most of the points Dean made.

Part 1 - http://www.kcpw.org/download.php?file=071805s3.mp3

Part 2 - http://www.kcpw.org/download.php?file=071805s4.mp3

Diary - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/19/02652/1644


Thank you for all you do!

Clarity

Clarity Sanderson, UDPC Internet Outreach
Utah Democratic Progressive Caucus
Office: 801 485-4076
clarity@udpc.org
http://www.udpc.org
Democratic Action Through Individual Participation
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