Film - IRAN (is not the problem)
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Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
Time: 8:00pm - 9:20pm, followed by Q&A
Doors open at 7:30pm, no advanced tix, $6
Location: Artists Television Access Street:
992 Valencia St. (at 21st St)
City/Town: San Francisco, CA
"After years of working on Iran and Middle East politics, this is perhaps the most engrossing and easily digestible film I've ever come across. A phenomenal educational tool that explains often misunderstood and complex issues in US-Iranian relations." - Sanaz Meshkinpour, Middle East Program Coordinator, Global Exchange
Thanks!
Aaron Newman
aaron@iranisnotthep roblem.
org
Special guest speakers for Q&A at upcoming SF screening:
Antonia Juhasz
Expert on oil, war, and U.S. economic/corporate interests in Iraq and Iran, etc., activism and social change, Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Oil Change International, author of "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time" and "The Tyranny of Oil"
(www.TyrannyofOil. org)
Robert Gould
Expert on nuclear weapons and related health issues, anti-war activism. Former national president and current Bay Area chapter president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Co-author of "Rollback! Rightwing Power in U.S. Foreign Policy", contributing author in "The New World Order and the Third World", "War and Public Health", and many articles on health, environment, nuclear and bioterrorism, and the persistent legacy of global militarism and violence
(www.sfbaypsr. org)
Majid Baradar
Born in 1953 and grew up in Tehran as teenager, received an education in Texas, and has treasured living in the Bay Area since 1980 as a professional Civil/Earthquake Engineering Consultant. He now spends his time as a "Social Entrepreneur" for 12Petals Media Group. This entity strives to be a union of creators and social entrepreneurs of media and visual arts working together to promote and encourage respect for those rights protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and endeavors to enhance the Declaration' s impact on all people and cultures. He believes media projects offer unique and socially penetrating ways to view the world around us.
(www.12petals. org)
Larry Everest
Author of "Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda". He has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 25 years for Revolution newspaper and other publications, reporting from Iraq, Palestine, India, and Iran in 1979 and 1980, shortly after the revolution that toppled the Shah, he interviewed Islamic militants then holding the U.S. Embassy, and reported from Iranian Kurdistan.
(www.larryeverest. com)
Upcoming screenings:
San Francisco CA,
Berkeley CA,
Fremont CA,
Denver CO,
St. Petersberg FL,
Evanstan IL,
Gloucaster, MA,
Cleveland Heights OH,
Tacoma, WA,
London, England (UK premiere)
More to come...
FOR INFO ON ALL SCREENINGS GO TO
http://www.iranisno ttheproblem. org/find_ a_screening
Reviewed/approved by Talieh Shahrokhi.
Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
Time: 8:00pm - 9:20pm, followed by Q&A
Doors open at 7:30pm, no advanced tix, $6
Location: Artists Television Access Street:
992 Valencia St. (at 21st St)
City/Town: San Francisco, CA
"After years of working on Iran and Middle East politics, this is perhaps the most engrossing and easily digestible film I've ever come across. A phenomenal educational tool that explains often misunderstood and complex issues in US-Iranian relations." - Sanaz Meshkinpour, Middle East Program Coordinator, Global Exchange
Thanks!
Aaron Newman
aaron@iranisnotthep roblem.
org
Special guest speakers for Q&A at upcoming SF screening:
Antonia Juhasz
Expert on oil, war, and U.S. economic/corporate interests in Iraq and Iran, etc., activism and social change, Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Oil Change International, author of "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time" and "The Tyranny of Oil"
(www.TyrannyofOil. org)
Robert Gould
Expert on nuclear weapons and related health issues, anti-war activism. Former national president and current Bay Area chapter president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Co-author of "Rollback! Rightwing Power in U.S. Foreign Policy", contributing author in "The New World Order and the Third World", "War and Public Health", and many articles on health, environment, nuclear and bioterrorism, and the persistent legacy of global militarism and violence
(www.sfbaypsr. org)
Majid Baradar
Born in 1953 and grew up in Tehran as teenager, received an education in Texas, and has treasured living in the Bay Area since 1980 as a professional Civil/Earthquake Engineering Consultant. He now spends his time as a "Social Entrepreneur" for 12Petals Media Group. This entity strives to be a union of creators and social entrepreneurs of media and visual arts working together to promote and encourage respect for those rights protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and endeavors to enhance the Declaration' s impact on all people and cultures. He believes media projects offer unique and socially penetrating ways to view the world around us.
(www.12petals. org)
Larry Everest
Author of "Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda". He has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 25 years for Revolution newspaper and other publications, reporting from Iraq, Palestine, India, and Iran in 1979 and 1980, shortly after the revolution that toppled the Shah, he interviewed Islamic militants then holding the U.S. Embassy, and reported from Iranian Kurdistan.
(www.larryeverest. com)
Upcoming screenings:
San Francisco CA,
Berkeley CA,
Fremont CA,
Denver CO,
St. Petersberg FL,
Evanstan IL,
Gloucaster, MA,
Cleveland Heights OH,
Tacoma, WA,
London, England (UK premiere)
More to come...
FOR INFO ON ALL SCREENINGS GO TO
http://www.iranisno ttheproblem. org/find_ a_screening
Reviewed/approved by Talieh Shahrokhi.
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