Civil & Human Rights

LUNAFEST (films by, for, about Women) at the Loft

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March is  Women’s History (“Herstory”) Month. Check out this annual event at the Loft Cinema in celebration of women during the entire month. It’s also Girls’ Day today in my Japanese culture, when we honor the girls in our families (Carolyn’s note).

Tuesday, March 4 at 7:00pm

General Admission: $10 • Students: $5, www.lunafest.org, spencerl@email.arizona.edu

 To purchase tickets in advance call WOSAC at (520) 621-5656. Advance tickets are not available at The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd.

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Human Rights Watch Film Festival continues in Tucson

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Don’t despair is you missed the first 3 films from this provocative film series on Feb. 8, 18, 24. See listings below for the remaining 6 films through April 7. The first one was a documentary about the work being done in the “Deep South”(Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana) for those diagnosed positive with HIV, with limited resources, which my husband and I viewed at Casa Libre en la Solana.

From Loft Cinema website (note that only the last film is at the Loft, be sure to note the locales around town):
MONDAY FEBRUARY 8 – MONDAY, APRIL 7 | FREE SCREENINGS!
THIS PROGRAM IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE ARIZONA HUMANITIES COUNCIL

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival bears witness to human rights violations and creates a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference. The film festival brings to life human rights abuses through storytelling in a way that challenges each individual to empathize and demand justice for all people.
Each year’s traveling festival showcases films from the London and New York Human Rights Watch Film Festivals. The Loft is proud to present 9 of these films to audiences in Southern Arizona.

Additional funding provided by Ventana Charitable Foundation, The Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding, University of Arizona School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and The Aurora Foundation of Southern Arizona.
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Tall as a Baobab Tree
• One showing only! Monday, Mar 3rd 2014 at Boys & Girls Club, Holmes Tuttle Club house, Pueblo Gardens Park, 2585 E. 36th St.
Tall as the Baobab Tree poignantly depicts a family struggling to find its footing on the edge of the modern world fraught with tensions between tradition and modernity.

 

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Post SB1062: Arizona’s Christian Extremists Make Headlines with More Legislation

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cross27-colored-sig-sm72Arizona’s anti-gay “religious freedom” bill (SB1062) met with a swift and forceful negative response in the streets, on social media, and on national television. Responding to pressure by business interests and worried about losing Super Bowl 2015, Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the bill.

Now that the tide of religious extremism has been thwarted, everyone can relax, right? Not hardly. SB1062 was only one of several bills designed to take away someone’s rights and backed by the fundamentalist ChristianCenter for Arizona Policy (CAP). 

The Huffington Post published a brief but comprehensive report (excerpted below) detailing the scurrilous collection of bills backed by the CAP and founder Cathi Herrod.

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Arizona can do better than the contemptible Kavanagh – vote for Paula Pennypacker

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Arizona can do better than the contemptible John Kavanagh, an acolyte of “King” Russell Pearce and Crazy Uncle Joe Arpaio.

Rep. Kavanagh championed Arizona’s “show me your papers” law, SB 1070.

Rep. Kavanagh championed Cathi Herrod’s “show me your papers to pee” bill last year that thankfully failed.

Rep. Kavanagh championed Arizona’s Religious Bigotry bill, SB 1062, vetoed this week by Governor Brewer.

For those of us who follow committee hearings and floor debates, Rep. Kavanagh frequently seeks to offend and to insult, and regularly displays a lack of respect and contempt for Arizona citizens, and even his fellow legislators.

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